Have been pretty busy last couple of weeks, so still reading Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson. Book 2 of second era of Mistborn.

Also started Wandering Inn, have read a few chapters, and while interesting, I am not a big fan of the main character. Maybe I have read too many (web) novels that I can’t understand when people don’t act like typical isekai protagonist, but still…

The world building is interesting, want to know more about what’s happening. Will probably try to read at least the first volume and then decide whether I want to continue or not.

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

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  • straightjorkin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I just finished Bunny by Mona Awad. What a trip, it was the closest a book could come to watching a David Lynch movie, right down to the “creature does intense satire of industry thing they’ve clearly experienced” trope.

    Just started Left Hand of Darkness. So far it’s fun.

  • pancake@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    I finished Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredunle Voyage by Alfred Lansing. It was a well written account but the story really made me dislike Shackleton.

    I also read Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson, a novella in the Stormlight Archive universe. Now I’m on Oathbringer (Stormlight book 3). Only just started but already enjoying it immensely. I feel like with where book 2 left off, this will be the book where I really start to see payoff of everything that’s been built up.

  • porompopmpom@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I’m lately trying to learn more about European history. Currently I’m reading Weimar, by Heinrich August Winkler

      • porompopmpom@lemmy.ml
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        5 months ago

        I read Blood and Iron by Katja Hoyer before I started Weimar, which is a very brief beginner friendly account of the years before the first world war and the Weimar republic. It’s a good introduction to set the stage for the ultimately failed first German republic.

        The Weimar book is much more thorough, going into a lot more detail and nuance, which I feel is worth it for one of the most interesting and defining times in modern history. Definitely worth a read, though I’m not sure if it’s been translated to English.