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What are you reading?

Nihilistic_Impact said:
In the past BMR has attempted to do a book club, well this thread isn't for that as it's difficult to get people to read the same book in the same time period. Instead just state what you're reading and what your thoughts on it are, if you like. If you just read a book, share, and if you're about to start a new one, share that too.

To begin.

I'm currently in the middle of a number of books so I'll just list the ones I've been reading most frequently.

Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny. I like it, it's a giant omnibus of all his Amber books which are a fantastical mind fuck. Our world is just a shadow of another, patterned upon the great City Amber. Corwin, one of many heirs, fights to take the throne. Very intrigue heavy.

Ultramarines Omnibus by Graham McNeill. I'm really just reading it to read, it's alright. Decent smurf action, a chapter I've never really enjoyed, and not too heavy on the thinking. My bathroom book.

Enforcer by Matt Farrer, a 40k omnibus about the Arbitrator Calpurnia. Not a good place for anyone to start with 40k as it's rather densely written; but a good source of inspiration for my Dark Heresy campaign I'm intending to run for my TTRPG group.

So folks, what are you reading?
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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!
 
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