Had a pretty busy work week, hardly got time to read anything. So still on The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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  • Algleymir@lemmy.world
    7·
    4 months ago

    Picked up:

    Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History

    while traveling recently. Haven’t gotten far yet but it seems like a good, fun science based read.

  • TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world
    9·
    4 months ago

    Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America.

    My best friend was recently diagnosed with breast cancer (very treatable and likely curable), and we both have the type of personality where it helps to deep dive/learn a lot about scary stuff. I picked out a few books for us to nerd out together on, and this is the first one. It’s super good so far, as frustrating as some of the aspects of the US healthcare system are.

  • lavendertea@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    5·
    4 months ago

    Currently reading:

    Richard Schwartz - No Bad Parts. It’s an introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy.

    Michael Cisco - Antisocieties. A short stories collection about loneliness and isolation, definitely in the weird literature area, gives Ligotti vibes.

  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
    7·
    4 months ago

    Still on book 1 of the Farseer series and still really liking it. She creates a warm and comfortable world that I enjoy being in.

  • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    I just finished Eye of the World by Robert Jordan about two weeks back.

    Been slowly working my way through Great Hunt (next in the Wheel of Time) but haven’t been able to dedicate as much time to it recently.

    It’s good so far. It’s definitely hooked me more than the first book.

  • misericordiae@literature.cafe
    5·
    4 months ago

    Reading Vita Nostra by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko, along with Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz when I need a break from Vita Nostra’s slow pacing.

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    Finished:

    No One Will Come Back for Us by Premee Mohamed (fantasy and cosmic-y horror short stories) | bingo: minority author, alliterative, short HM

    I don’t really have a description for this one. A few of the stories have a shared setting; a few others have a war/revolution theme.

    None of the stories in this were bad, they just didn’t all appeal to me; the shared-setting ones were coincidentally my favorite. I’ve realized that part of my issue with collections/anthologies is that I’m stuck diving in blind for every single story, hoping that the author/theme is enough to carry my interest.

  • Pulptastic@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    The LOTR series read by Andy Serkis. Beautiful Narrator. I started with the Silmarilion and am now almost finished with The Hobbit.

    • dresden@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I have started and stopped Silmarilion multiple times. How did you find the experience of listening to it?

      • Pulptastic@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Serkis is a gem, I could listen to him read anything. The story was OK, seemed like a high level history of the realm from creation to after the LOTR books. I wish there was more on the origin of Sauron, it seems like he just kinda shows up one day.

        I just finished the hobbit and recognized a few connections but I’ll probably have to read the Silmarilion again once I finish LOTR to piece more of it together.

  • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    Reading the “Ender’s Shadow” series after finishing Ender’s Game.

    Card is… something else. I’m on Shadow Puppets now, and while the previous books were good, his Mormonism is seriously showing in this one, with Petra being all baby crazy despite the fact they’re literally young teenagers.

    It was weird to me finding out about Card’s anti-gay and Mormon views considering there were some rather homoerotic undertones to portions of Ender’s Game (or maybe I’m reading too much into it). Plus all the IVF and genetic manipulation stuff in the Shadow series. Though admittedly, the later Ender books (Children of the Mind, Xenocide) are utterly batshit, like he was having a mental wank.

    I grew up in a boarding school and Ender’s Game really resonated with me when I was younger. Shame the author is an asshole. “Never meet your heroes” and all that.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
      71·
      4 months ago

      Yeah, I can’t read Card’s stuff anymore. The 3rd and 4th Game books got real weird, and I only finished them because I didn’t have much else to read. The first Shadow book about Bean was pretty decent, but it was mostly a retelling of Game from another perspective instead of a new story.

      • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        The Shadow series covers what happens on Earth after the events at battle school as all kinds of conflict breaks out globally, but it mostly centers on Bean , Petra, and Achilles, along with Peter Wiggin taking on a leadership role.

        But a lot of it is just weird, and much like how the later Ender books go batshit, the later Shadow books involve Bean’s gigantism and sending his descendants into space.