I’ve read most of Hobb’s stuff (and even some Megan Lindhom stuff) but I can’t recall if I read her last trilogy “Fitz and the Fool Trilogy” I’ll have to check my bookshelf because the Rain Wild Chronicles is the last I recall reading. I think the Live Ships might still be my favorite of her trilogies. Though I did also like the Rain Wild Chronicles a lot even if that trilogy became 4 books and couple short stories in anthologies.
I even like her Soldier Son Trilogy and was disappointed she didn’t explore that world more after that trilogy but I guess it didn’t sell as well and she went back to the world more of her readers were familar with.
I just finished first book of series by Scott Lynch. It is call The Lies of Locke Lamora. He leads a gang of thieves called the Gentlemen Bastards in a fictional world. Really enjoyed it. On to the next one.
I started this series after plowing through all Gemmell Rigante and Drenai series.
Very enjoyable series, but fair warning: there are 7 books scheduled for the series. The 3rd was published in 2013. He allegedly finished a draft of the 4th in 2019, and there was speculation about publication at the end of 2021 (supposedly was even listed on Amazon for release in Aug '21), but still nothing.
I usually read one book at a time, but for whatever reason just started The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Men Without Women (short stories) by Murakami and Golden Fool (book 2 of the Tawny Man trilogy) by Robin Hobb. Not sure yet if I’ll keep flipping between them or focus on 1 at a time.
I’ll read multiple books, but when I do I have them in different places
House
Car (audio)
Work
Beach
Now that I WFH, I am down to two in the summer, one otherwise
Will finish the Beach book when beach season is over,
but have also have a library book that was on hold, so that has to come first
Next genre up - True Crime - the only one I need to use the library for
The Journalist and the Murderer - Malcolm
oddly, starting this, I don’t think it is an actual true crime book, as it is more about ethics in journalism in covering horrific crimes. But it was on True Crime lists and fits better here than anywhere else,
I picked up the Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe. It is dark fantasy, I guess. Mostly it’s nice reading someone who is able to slip in some dense intellectual prose without sounding like an idiot, while also maintaining a fun story/setting.
Last night one of my groups had a speaker who is an author, mostly westerns, tries to incorporate Jewish characters. Local guy. Does some YA and Mystical realism under other names. Will probably never be a known name, but I got myself a signed first addition. Put it next to my signed Neil Gaiman.
Will post again when genre moves to historical fiction.
This would be the fifth book I have read where I know (I can call or text and they would know who I am) the author.