Still reading Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson. Book 2 of second era of Mistborn.

Just a few pages remaining now, would’ve finished it, but kid got a book from his school library, and wanted me to read it too, so reading Gangsta Granny by David Williams.

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

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  • atomic@programming.devEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Alternating between fiction and non-fiction, I finished N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy and I’m currently reading Memory for Forgetfulness by Mahmoud Darwish.

  • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Just started Cormyr: a Novel as research for a D&D setting I’m building. It’s the history of the nation Cormyr, told in the format of a novel, bouncing back and forth through time. The first chapter is from the eyes of the black dragon that rules the Great Forest, and then chapter 2 starts in the modern day, with the king of Cormyr, standing where the Great Forest used to be

  • TheBiFrost@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m currently listening to Educated by Tara Westover. I’ve also been reading The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August but I’ve put that on hold because I realized I’m not good at reading more that one book at the same time haha.

  • Patch@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    Just finished Authority by Jeff VanderMeer. Although not quite as big a mindfuck as the first novel in the series, it was still a gloriously unnerving, tense novel, and still deeply strange. Loved it.

    Just started Babylon’s Ashes in the Expanse series. So far a little slow to start; but then they often seem to be. I have faith that I’ll get into it when it gets going.

  • statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’m rereading Malazan Book of the Fallen this year, but adding in some of the Bauchelain & Broach short stories and maybe a few Esslemont books too. This’ll be the third go round for the first 5 books and the second reread for the last 5. It’s amazing how many tiny details are planted in the first books that pay off by the end of the series. The references, foreshadowing, and thematic follow throughs are insane and I pick up more each time.

    I’m in House of Chains right now.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Busy week. Only managed to finish up Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System after World War II, which I started a bit ago.