What Are You Reading #2

Cohen said:
loved the third. As a finale to a trilogy, it really does a great job!
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I didn't realise it was the final of a trilogy until I got to the end. I knew there were more books so I wasnt expecting it to be sorted with a neat little bow. I like the story, but expected it to end with
rhys dead, or at least Cassian as Elain predicted. Couldn't care less about Amren

I loved the first book, the intro to the world. I always love that stuff. So now I'll read everything the author has ever written. Happy endings are my kind of thing.
 
Now on to a court of silver flames. Finding it really hard to get in to. I've read the first two chapters twice now and stalled. The last book really sapped my enthusiasm for this series. Im sure I will get hooked if any action actually happens in this one.
 
Fairy Tale by Stephen King.

Is it me or do his books got larger and larger over the years?
 
NotASlayer said:
Fairy Tale by Stephen King.

Is it me or do his books got larger and larger over the years?
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I've got that one on my kindle, but yes the length of it has put me off starting it.
 
NotASlayer
NotASlayer
I have the physical book, which I find easier for long books, but 577 pages is quite a few.
Started the Cresent City series House of Earth and Blood. Hopefully it gets into the action soon. I'm not really sure about the setting of this one being appealing for me. The front page said it was Buffy X Game of Thrones, so I guess it will be action packed soon enough.
 
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett. Third book in a series about faeries. I'd recommend them to anyone who likes fantasy.
 
November
November
Yay fairies! I shall look this one up.
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The Red Wheel: March 17, node III. Book 1. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Listening to it. 34 hours. I hesitated at first, but then remembered that I once listened to The Fountainhead (approx 39 hours). 34 hours, you don’t scare me!

Reading:

The cat who saved books - Sosuke Natsukawa
Very sweet story dealing with loss, friendship, society and of course books!
 
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. I didn't like this one as well as other Hunger Games books, partly because it moved a little slowly, and partly because we know the outcome already.

Taake said:
The cat who saved books - Sosuke Natsukawa
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I put this one on my to-read list! I love those short, gentle Japanese books.
 
Plasma
Plasma
Oh hey I’m reading this now
Night Terrors: Scare Street Vol. 13 (Various authors)

Picked this up because a friend of my has a story in it. Its a really good and easy to read, with a nice range of subgenres, and some stories are really dark. Out of 14 stories there are only 2 maybe 3 I didn't get into at all. My friend's story The Scent of Decay is a good, darkly funny relationship story. There's a really good one set in Sucide Forest called Aokigahara. You can get the book from Amazon.
 
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. A gentle, pleasant book, cleverly written. It takes place partly during the COVID shutdown, without ever making that explicit, so I wonder what future readers will make of it, if it becomes a classic.
 
Reading Paul of Dune now. Not that many Dune novels left to go.

Novels Read:
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse: Dune
Hunters of Dune
Sandworms of Dune
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
Dune: The Machine Crusade
Dune: The Battle of Corrin
Sisterhood of Dune
Mentats of Dune
Navigators of Dune
Dune: House Atreides
Dune: House Harkonnen
Dune: House Corrino

Reading or yet to read:
Paul of Dune
Winds of Dune
Princess of Dune
Dune: The Duke of Caladan
Dune: The Lady of Caladan
Dune: The Heir of Caladan

Short stories read:
The Road to Dune
Hunting Harkonnens
Whipping Mek
The Faces of a Martyr
Red Plague
Imperial Court
The Edge of a Crysknife
Sea Child
Treasure in the Sand

Short stories left to read:
Wedding Silk
Blood of the Sardaukar
A Whisper of the Caladan Seas
The Waters of Kanly

We'll see if they release anything new before I get through it all. If not, I'll still have season 2 of Dune: Prophecy and Denis Villeneuve's Dune Messiah adaptation to look forward to. And I have all the graphic novels to read, but they're all just adaptations of the novels, short stories, and films themselves. So far no original storytelling.
 
The Poisonwood Bible, I'm hoping I get into it fast as its a long one.
 
A Better World by Sarah Langan. It takes place in a near-future world where the best places to live are towns owned by corporations. It has a sense of slow-roll horror that didn't quite hold up to the end.
 
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

I was initially planning to start reading again with a trilogy set that I had seen online, but I went out book shopping the other day and found some books that looked better.

Decided to start reading August 1, so here we are. Im one chapter deep and so far the book has caught my interest, whether or not it can hold it to finish the book is the bigger question.
 
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