what are you reading?

[MattyP]

I've been reading this recently:-



Interesting read. I've been adopting a few bits and bats into my life over time (the other book I read before this was Goodbye Things - about de-cluttering your life of objects).

Just trying to get some balance in my life on get some focus back into it...

[zip accident]

I was lent/given a couple of books at Easter:



I didn't like that.



I'm about half way through but so far it reads like it's setting up:

Obama/Robinson + Clinton/Rodman 2020.

[guythp]

I'm re-reading the discworld novels and I'm absolutely loving it. I realised last year that it's been years since I read the early ones (pretty much when they came out), so having caught up with the last one (yes, I cried) I've started at the beginning again - Currently reading 'Pyramids' and I'm having to MAKE myself put these books down when it gets too late or It's early and I need a cuppa. I forgot just how good Pratchett is.

[WiteWulf]

Just finished the latest Expanse novel, Tiamat's Wrath, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It almost made up for the treading-water plot set up of the previous volume, which I found to be very unfulfilling.

Now I'm on Anne Leckie's latest, The Raven Tower. She's branching out into fantasy and I'm enjoying it so far, which is a relief after her last one, Provenance, was such a disappointment. I can highly recommend her Imperial Radch trilogy if you want a very different space-opera series with some really clever ideas thrown in.

[WiteWulf]

Zip Accident: I quite enjoyed La Bella Sauvage and I'm looking forward to where he takes it with the next volume. Have you read the original His Dark Materials series?

[zip accident]

Zip Accident: I quite enjoyed La Bella Sauvage and I'm looking forward to where he takes it with the next volume. Have you read the original His Dark Materials series?

That's the first of his I've read, I didn't like the first half particularly, kid protagonists aren't wonderful, but the second half turned into complete rubbish.

Spoiler: show

A flood? okay, I've seen one, it went down after about 12 hours, took out a bridge, and a garage, got below the floorboards of a couple of houses with stinky stuff that had to be totally extracted, so expensive, and destructive, and powerful, but that was it for our street.

This starts a bit like a flood, but turns biblical halfway through, suddenly all of the land is underwater, then there's a random bad fairy chapter, then it's back to the high seas.

If you want sense, skip this guy I'm saying. It may be that this is his worst, but it would have to be a lot better than this to be good in my view.

[WiteWulf]

Lol, okay, so although it's a prequel to His Dark Materials it won't make the slightest bit of sense without having read those books first. Almost *everything* is biblical allegory, but in an anti-religion kind of way. That makes no sense, I know, but like I say, you need to have read HDM first.

[zip accident]

Lol, okay, so although it's a prequel to His Dark Materials it won't make the slightest bit of sense without having read those books first. Almost *everything* is biblical allegory, but in an anti-religion kind of way. That makes no sense, I know, but like I say, you need to have read HDM first.

Anti religion is one thing, anti physics and anti sense is another.

Spoiler: show

This is a flood over England so deep only some hills show up. A cubic metre of water weighs one tonne, this is at the very least quadrillions of tonnes. That much water will run out to sea very fast, it might get up to 50 mph, possibly a lot faster than that.

[Mat]

Yeah Wulf, I loved Tiamat's Wrath too

Spoiler: show

Still upset about Bobby mind you, and I was almost going to write stern words on the internet about Amos until little hints started dropping that he might not be dead. Then he was, and still as kick-ass as ever

I then read the latest Sandman Slim novel, "Hollywood Dead", which was stonkingly good, and Stark actually felt more interesting as a character this time, less whiney and easier to believe as a bad ass.

I followed that up with another Richard Kadrey book, "The Everything Box", which was another good urban fantasy romp.

And I've just startewd on Chris Beckett's latest, "Beneath the World, a Sea". Promising so far, and a nice set-up of alternate history weirdness.

[merman]

Helen McDonald - H is for Hawk

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year and the Samuel Johnson Award for Non-fiction.

When Helen's father dies, her grief turns to determination to train and fly a goshawk, a notoriously difficult bird for falconers. Falconry had been a hobby and obsession as a child, including reading T H White's The Goshawk. McDonald refers back to that book and many others, showing how her approach is different. As the hawk (Mabel) starts to fly for her, she struggles to cope with her grief and the memorial service for her father.

I found this fascinating, even if the grief over my father's death made some passages feel very raw and difficult.

[PFVA]

Because of the Cover

And no, i did not by it because there is a cat on the cover but that's probably why i noticed it right away in middle of 20 others in the display.

I just started it, i'm in the first pages, so far is quite interesting.

[gilesgoat]

At the moment almost finished to read all of this :



It's a very ok book for start but I wish they'd spent a bit more time on certain other things, still it's a bit "hard to digest" because the subject is really complex.

Said that this is one of the few physical books I bought in quite some time ( but I wanted it physical ) otherwise I read tons of tech docs almost every day.

Can't even remember last time I read anything non-tech, non-sw, non-electronics apart if I exclude the occasional look into some cooking recipes book.

In terms of "anything else non tech" I am really zero .. "I am into tech all the time... " ..

[edit] - just saying "don't even bother giving me some non-tech book" I am probably never going to read it ...

[Deckard]

Because of the Cover

And no, i did not by it because there is a cat on the cover but that's probably why i noticed it right away in middle of 20 others in the display.

I just started it, i'm in the first pages, so far is quite interesting.

I loved it from start to finish - i loved his style and the way he brought his shop and town to life and the oddities of him and the customers.

A place is not really a place without a bookstore

[gilesgoat]

Obligatory : https://customerservicewolf.com/

[merman]

Commodore: The Final Years by Brian Bagnall

The third book in Brian's series covering the history of Commodore (with an eBook on the early years to come soon), dealing with 1987 to the bankruptcy in 1994. A sorry tale of engineering brilliance and misguided management.