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Whatcha reading? Anything you've fallen in love with recently?

I just started reading The Black Opera by Mary Gentle. I checked out a couple other things by her from the library as well as the first Earthsea book by LeGuin. I want to do some fantasy reading.

I've also currently got the tv tropes pages for dark fantasy, scifi horror, and science fantasy open in the hopes of finding some more interesting things to read.

I just got finished reading The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson. It was a really, really funny book. I didn't realize non-fiction that isn't biographical could be like that! I am going to read some more of his books eventually.

Tonight I am going to start Strange Weather by Joe Hill. I liked his book NOS4A2 but disliked The Fireman, so we shall see how this goes.

I want to read that, my girlfriend has been recommending it to me, but I really struggle with Jon Ronson. He's too gonzo. I think he'd be a fine journalist, if he wanted to do journalism on anything other than himself, you know?

That is what I liked about him. D:

To each their own, I guess.

I am reading Too Like The Lightning by Ada Palmer and it's very good so far. Science fiction, semi-utopian far future, tons of really interesting characters and ideas. The setting and also the writing style and ideas are really influenced by 18th-century Europe and the Enlightenment, which is really interesting. It's cool.

I really like All the King's Men. Oh, and I'm re-reading Bill Bryson's Shakespeare biography for fun, even though I've probably read it through 6 or 7 times. I just like it.

I love Bill Bryson's books. I have a lot of them and I've met him! :)

Right now I'm reading a book called A Killer's Role, which is the first in a series about a criminal psychology professor who's the son of a serial killer (and has some murder-y tendencies himself, although he hasn't actually killed anyone yet), who teams up with a cliche "doesn't play by the rules" cop to solve crimes. There's a ton of spelling, grammar and punctuation errors and I'm not 100% sure if I'm going to read the next book, but there's some slash potential so I might give it a shot. Is that a bad reason to read something? IDK.

Then once I finish it (probably tonight, it's a really quick read) I'm going to read The Alienist, because I want to read the book before the show starts next week.

Read what you want. Don't shame yourself for not reading "literature."

Last week I read "How to Hang a Witch," a contemporary-ish YA by a descendant of Cotton Mather, which was a fun, breezy read, and "The Hollow Girl, which was not fun or breezy and needs ALL the trigger warnings, but was really good in a horribly painful way.

Fallen in Love with:

JY Yang: Black Tides of Heaven and Red Threads of Fortune. Twin novellas of queer, asian-themed fantasy involving twins! Fantasy that acknowledges Newtonian physics!

Yoon Ha Lee: Ninefox Gambit. I'll admit that Yoon Ha Lee is a love or hate author stylistically. I've loved him since his short stories.

Max Gladstone: Full Fathom Five. My current lunch reading. I feel it's getting to the point of the series where characters from previous volumes start appearing in a different context.

Kinda weird on re-read:
A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door. I don't think L'Engle is nearly as bad at Lewis when it comes to putting apologetics into the mouths of fantasy characters. More I'm bothered by entire chapters of Meg not getting it for pages until she does.

Mixed:
City of Brass is a story I want to get into but am struggling to really get hooked. The same is true of Winter Tide. I have one of the Witcher collections where I'm really trying to find the hook.

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. It's...okay. It's not my favorite Atwood book. Like I don't know there is just something really tedious about the book for me. I'm nearly done which is kinda a relief. I guess the best explanation I can come up with is that it's one of those books where the content is interesting but the execution is tedious so I still want to finish the book.

Next book on my list is Vicious by V.E. Schwab. I hope I like it.

I read all of 'The Expanse' that's currently published last year and really, really, really enjoyed it. Waiting to get the newest book this spring.

The most interesting book I've read recently is "Gather the Daughters." Not sure if I'd say I love it because wow did it have a messed up premise. But it was something different and I would say I enjoyed it.

Also reading a manga called "The Girl from the Other Side" which I really like.

I'm about to start the Raven Cycle, because I'm trash, but most recently I finished A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge and HNNNNNNG, that book coulda gone on for fucking GENERATIONS and I would've eaten it up like the finest feast.

Re reading Pratchett's Night Watch for like the 10th time. Gets better every re read.

Rereading The Paths of the Dead by Steven Brust and adoring it.

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