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Alright, so I finally finished The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands. Still struggling my way through The Night Land.

Nearly finished with Poor Man's Fight by Elliott Kay. An entertaining military sci-fi. Mostly focused on a kid who joins the local space navy so he can get his student loans taken care of and ends up fighting against pirates.

Just today I started The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control and the Manson Family Mythos by Adam Gorightly. Can't yet comment on the material of the book; but it's probably the first Manson book I've read to include as many photos.
 
I'm reading Blazing Ambition by EB Hauk, which has been a lot of fun! It's on it's own world but it's very much Western steampunk styled with some strange tech from leftover civilizations to make things interesting on top of radical technological innovation courtesy of one of our main characters. The events all play out from different points of view along the story too, giving it a feel of moral ambiguity in a way. All these folks are just trying to live and do their thing, though it puts them on a collision course in one way or another.
 
Couple weeks ago I started reading Gideon the Ninth, which was advertised to me as lesbian necromancers exploring a haunted house in space. Over all I really enjoyed the book right up tell the end. I'm not saying that it's bad but the ending feels a little out of place in terms of action when most of the book has been pretty sedate in exploring the world. I am curious to learn more and continue reading the series.
 
Started reading The Iliad by Homer, I've a big love for mythology and have been dying to sink my teeth into it. Another book I'm reading on the side is more well spicy romance called Escaping the Friendzone by Emily Antoinette basically that one's centered on a minotaur and human friends to lovers situation. We'll see how it goes haha.
 
Just finished the ASOIAF series, and I just picked up Berserk but I’m like 200+ chapters into it. I’m looking to buy the first volume of the LSWW series soon. Shoutout danmei fans o7
 
I'm a "multiple book, multiple format" at one time kinda gal, so, currently:

Audiobook: Love and Other Conspiracies by Mallory Marlowe (Paused Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI because my brain needed a brain break)

Print: Swing that Music by Louis Armstrong and Happily Never After by Lynn Painter
 
Library of the Unwritten. It's proving to be a bit more slow than I had anticipated, I'm having trouble getting through it. But I did also purchase the book so I feel more of an obligation to finish it than I would a library book :')
 
Lymond Chronicles
House of Niccolo
A couple of Ming and Song dynasty transmigration novels
 
Audiobook-wise, I just finished Get Honest or Die Lying (Charlamagne Tha God) and am now listening to Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined (Stephen Fry).

Print-wise, I just started I'm Worried About This Black Box of Doom (Jason Pargin).
 
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My current reads are:
  1. Sunstone series by Stjepan Sejic (A comic series: I am on volume 3)
  2. Dungeons Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (litRPG via Kindle Unlimited: I am on book 4)
  3. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette (a non-fiction softcover)
  4. X-Crawl Classics by Brendan J, Lasalle (A TTRPG manual hardcover)
I am a bibliophile! We have a reading room dedicated to books and comics with no electronics allowed. Also my office has a library that is overflowing with my favorite novels and my graphic novel collection and our living room is full also full of gaming books and story based board games. As such I find myself reading multiple book at once. Needless to say the TVs get very little attention :)
 
I'm currently reading The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo - her other novels include The Ghost Bride and The Night Tiger, both of which I highly recommend.
 
I just finished The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden last night and I will be starting The Night Country by Melissa Albert sometime this weekend, hopefully!
 
Alright so I finally finished up The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control and the Manson Family Mythos by Adam Gorightly. Was an interesting primer into the different conspiracy theories around the Manson murders and provided just as much details about the gangs activities before and after.

Also read a strange little sci-fi novel, The Falling Torch by Algis Budrys. Earth has been invaded and under alien occupation for 20 years, the then earth government fled to one of the human colonies and maintained a government in exile that was just allowed to exist as nothing tell the host country thought they could make use of them by creating a guerilla war situation on earth by supplying weapon shipments. The book spends quite a bit of time detailing the start of this whole process and then just jumps to the end which was a bit jarring; but over all I found it interesting. Author drew upon his own family experience with government in exile.

Lastly for books that currently have my focus beyond previous ones mentioned I've not finished is is Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, sequel to Gideon the Ninth and so far a very interesting book as part of it is re-contextualizing the last novel from a different perspective while showing more sci-fi elements for this gothic necromancer sci-fi for the remainder of the book.
 
Currently reading Empire of the Vampire and it's really scratching that daker itch. I was told it was very edgy and from what i've read so far I have to agree, but I'm intrigued enough by the bleakness of it all so i'm enjoying it.
 
Just started reading Laird Barron's short story collection, Not A Speck of Light. I want to finish reading more books this year and short form horror feels easier to get things started than all the long fantasy novels on my TBR list.
 
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

Plays on the romanticism of bookstores and Hemingway's Paris.

But it heavily leans into the romance book theme that new love is the greatest thing, but the only more horrible think than a long term relationship is being married. A common enough theme. But by moving between three POV characters the book has played that theme out four times so far. So it's just very pronounced.
 
Currently reading through the Horus Heresy. On 'Fallen Angels' by Gareth Armstrong. Pretty interesting so far, drawing a line between Nemiel and Zabriel. That said 'READING' is a bit of a misnomer. I've been listening to them on Audible. Last BOOKS that I've been reading were the Discworld books, in release order. I was up to Wyrd Sisters, though it's been a while since I've picked it up.
 
Finished another book not too long ago, American Serial Killers: The Deadliest Years 1950-2000 by Peter Vronsky. I do not recommend this book, first a lot of folks would be turned away by his method of being chronological in covering cases so you can jump back and forth between some killers that had longer periods of activity. Second, this guy is just a step away from saying comic books made serial killers, like how violent video games make people violent. If you already agree with that premise you might enjoy the book because despite the author's tangents and editorializing he's a competent writer.
 
Lancaster Men - Peter Rees did this and retells of the bravery that were the men who put their lives on the line to fly the Avro Lancaster Bomber. This book has at times had such an impact, I needed moments and keep my emotions in check.

That's doesn't happen often.
 
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