I’ve been watching a lot of booktubers lately and have heard huge praise for The Sword of Kaigen (standalone fantasy book) and The Will of the Many (book 2 of the trilogy comes out next week). Both of those are on my list for next year.
I’m not as huge on sci-fi, but people keep raving about the Red Rising and Sun Eater series that I eventually want to check out.
The first book is definitely the best. The next 2 are entertaining as well, and no more-or-less age-appropriate than the first. My son read them when he was 16 or so.
As i don’t have any true crime on my shelves, last time i ordered from the library inactually ordered two. Anyway, moved True Crime drama up a bit on the genre list.
Zodiac - Graysmith
Finished The Dark Forest, which is the sequel to The Three-Body Problem. The last section was amazing, but the first 2/3 were a bit of a slog. Not sure if I’ll complete the trilogy as book 3 is even longer and I’ve heard complaints of sloginess.
Just started The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. I plan on taking a break from Sci-Fi afterwords and am eager to start some classics I bought a couple weeks ago at the used bookstore.
Just finished reading this book. I have read all his others but somehow missed this one. The Monk of Mokha is incredible! Hard to believe it is a true story but it is. It was exciting but also laced with Eggers’ humour. Highly recommend it. The coffee history was an added reason to read it.
his true stories can be incredible. Zeitoun? omfg that was something.
eta - i think a week after I finished the houthi’s closed the canal and well…I don’t think the coffee industry exists anymore
Eggers is an incredible writer. I would put this book up with Zeitoun and What is the What as my favourites. However I have enjoyed all his books.
Was disappointed with The Left Hand of Darkness given how many “best sci-fi books of all time” lists it was on. I can see why some of the topics were groundbreaking for their time, but just wasn’t what I was looking for.
Next up is A Gentleman in Moscow.
Louise Penny’s The Black Wolf” has debuted at number 1 on the NY Times best seller list despite cancelling her US publicity tour. It has been receiving better reviews than The Grey Wolf so I may break down and buy a copy rather than go on an 8 month library waiting list.
Although the book was written before Trump’s 2024 Presidential win it is apparently eerily prescient of 2025 developments in the US-Canada relationship.
Yeah, but Grey Wolf had the annoyance, at least for me, of not exactly making sense until I finally realized it was not meant to be the entire story and was a setup for Black Wolf. I’d think it would be easy to be better just because of that. Still, I’m looking forward to it, of course. I may have to re-read Grey Wolf first.
I’m only #6 on the library’s list for Black Wolf, although they don’t actually have a copy yet.
I listened to Grey Wolf on audiobook and was thinking I might get into a timing issue with reading a it before Black Wolf arrived. But I see I was smart enough to think I might want to re-read it before Black Wolf and saved a copy for just that purpose.
next genre is Historical Fiction - The Boy In The Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
Oof, hard one.
next genre is Literary/Contemporary Fiction.
The Celebrant- Steve Rowley
I was getting bored with Jade City, so switched my audiobook over to Hyperion. Was listening to it last night as I fell asleep and it’s actually pretty scary. I dig it so far though.
Finished “James.” Looking forward to Part 2.
Got a little dark at the end, though.
Just started reading Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Giuffre
I don’t get why there wasn’t one person in her life who saved her from her father’s abuse… Maybe she never told anyone at first? She had a mother, aunts, uncles, an older brother, she went to school where I assume there were teachers who could have acted, it just is really sad that no one saved her from ever having to see her father again.
If someone would have taught her early on that she has a right to no one touching her body, and that men who do that without her consent or when she’s a child are evil and should be punished, and it’s not her fault if that happens, she would have had so much of a better life.
Maybe that should be mandatory education in schools.
next genre Woman’s Fiction, whatever that means.
Not sure it fits, but The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
I finished Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King. That was my first short story collection I’ve read by him. It took me longer than expected to finish. There was definitely a range in quality in my opinion. Some stories were great, others less so.
Now I’m reading The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman (the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series)
Just finished “Becoming” by Michelle Obama.