Currently reading Tom Clancy - Debt of Honour, although I’m struggling to keep motivated as the writing is so damn small with tiny line spacing!
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Leviathan Wakes by James S A Corey
I’ve watched The Expanse TV series a few times now so it’s about time I got round to reading the books. It’s no surprise that I’m really enjoying it so far, though it’s the first novel I’ve read in years.
I’m so jealous that you’re getting to read it for the first time! The Expanse series is my favourite TV show and the books are brilliant! The general plot remains roughly the same but there are some differences with subplots and characters. Enjoy!
Finally started reading dune. Loving it so far.
I’m reading Ken Follet - Triple. It’s pretty good so far. It’s been a while since I’ve read a paper book.
Ken Follet - Triple
Oh that sounds right up my street! I’d admittedly never heard of Ken Follet until recently when I impulsively picked up “Never” in the supermarket but really enjoyed it.
Yeah it’s my first book I’ve read of theirs, but it’s been good so far. I would recommend.
The Reprieve by Sartre. It has an intense writing style which takes some getting used to; locations, characters, character speech shifts around erratically, sometimes even mid-sentence. I am really enjoying trying to wrap my head around what’s going on, who’s speaking and where I am at any given moment.
I can’t hack books that do that, I just lose interest too easily! For some reason I found The Handmaids Tale jumped about a lot very quickly and I got bored of it!
I have to admit I’ve put it down a few times for so long that I’ve had to backtrack a number of times to remember what I was reading, but I do really like the style and am adamant to finish it this summer.
I haven’t read The Handmaid’s Tale, but am enjoying the show! I’ll have to check it out at some point too.
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter 👀
I’m currently going through Dungeon Crawler Carl. An amazingly hilarious story!
I’m reading The Blacktongue Thief. It’s not bad but it’s no Joe Abercrombie.
The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole. Very interesting if very Guardian-y bit of British lore I’d never even heard about before, and it very much makes me want to take a trip west to see the remnants of our rainforests.
My big read is Finnegans Wake - which I am reading through the year along with others on a reddit sub - obout the only thing that keeps me there at the moment. It continues to be fascinatingly incomprehensible.
As well as that I am reading Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time, which has some thoughtful worldbuilding and an intriguing plot.
I am also reading through a series of Doctor Who novels from the '90s - the ‘wilderness years’ - when the novels became a lot more interesting and experimental, with little requirement for accessibility for mainstream audiences any more. Death and Diplomacy at the moment, which has some good character beat for the Doctor, but is a bit slow overall and I am losing momentum.
And I am reading one of Robert Brightwell’s Flashman prequels Flashman and Madison’s War - which, although still entertaining, is the weakest and most disjointed of this series so far. The author had not found a particularly strong thread to overcome the scattered and episodic nature of the historical event it features.
I am also dipping into a collection of Neil Munro’s Para Handy tales from time to time, which are not exactly demanding.
Children of Time is an amazing book. The way it tracks the parallel development of two societies in different environments is brilliant. Managing to make the non-human one believable and relatable was a touch.
Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It by Paul Donald
A collection of philip k dick stories. Im into it.
Finally got around to downloading an epub version of worm onto the kindle so I’m reading that. Good story so far and lots to go it’s a huge body of text.
The Burning God by RF Kuang.
There’s war, there’s a girl who spits fire, there’s dirty jokes. What more could I want?
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
Wow.
