Finished Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore. It was a fine book, enjoyed reading it, at least the latter half.
Started The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson. Third and final book the of Mistborn series, well the first era anyway. This is quite a dreary book, but it concludes everything so that’s good.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Currently reading two books at the same time, which is very rare for me.
The first is Somewhere Beyond the Sea, the sequel to House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. While I really enjoyed the first book, the second one is too schmaltzy. Every little thing that happens is so meaningful, and everyone is so sweet and kind and caring and thoughtful. Every character is LGBTQ+. There is no real conflict, just external drama. Other books by the author have had all of these things at realistic levels, and the stories were good and characters well developed. This book doesn’t turns everything up to 11 without a good story or believable characters.
The second book is me experimenting with an e-reader. I’ve always hated reading on a screen of any kind, but I’ve finally given in to accepting that e-books are just better for the environment. I hate that I have to pay the same amount for some 1s and 0s as for a physical book and hate that I don’t get that warm feel of holding a sold book and turning pages. But it doesn’t require chopping down a tree for paper, shipping of a heavy book around the country to a book store, me driving out to the bookstore to buy it, then me finding a place to store it in my small house. I got the Nook GlowLight 4 Plus, since I refuse to give any money to Amazon (been boycotting them since 1999). It’s pretty nice, and I’m getting used to reading on it. I’m currently reading Moon Over Soho, the second book in the Rivers of London fantasy series by Ben Aaronovitch. It’s light, fun reading.
I need to hurry up and finish those books so I can start on Wind and Truth by Sanderson.