What are you guys currently reading?
I just finished Sebastian De Castell’s The Malevolent Seven and damn it was good, although in the first quarter I wondered if I really wanted to be reading it. Wish the next was already out, but thankfully the author is quite prolific.
About to start Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary based on a blind recommendation. Never read The Martian, I’m not so much into scifi usually, mostly into fantasy and historical fiction but there are exceptions so I’m gonna give it a go.
Brandon Sanderson’s Warbreaker :) The book is so long, but it’s a tightly plotted book, so am enjoying it.
Warbreaker’s my first Sanderson book! It’s still my favourite of his.
Have you read Elantris? That was good too 😁
Yep, I’m a pretty big fantasy fan so I’m no stranger to Sanderson haha. Besides those two, I also finished Mistborn Era 1, but haven’t kept up with the more recent series.
Oh Project Hail Mary is such a good book! I read it a while ago. If you’re into sci-fi at all, you’ll love the book. Check out The Martian if you haven’t already, same author
I just finished Bangkit by Appy Mohd Hapizan, a Fixi Novel Sarawak 2016 contest winner. It honestly took a long time, and this was my second try.
The cool thing about it is that the dialogue is in Bahasa Sarawak. I’m torn about the use of real world places (actual business were used as a setting and not shown in a negative light); it helps a Kuching resident picture exactly where the story takes place. Even mentions the multiple roundabouts and the notorious traffic jam heading to Samarahan (most of the roundabouts no longer exist as of this year).
Interesting use of popular local folklore in the plot, although I felt that the book could have started at the 2/3 point of the novel and expanded on the alternate universe a little.
Not sure what my next read is going to be yet. I just scored a luxury edition of 'X: The Erotic Treasury" edited by Susie Bright and it’s lying around within arms reach because I can’t get over how beautiful the edition is.
Need to pick up Normal People again, but haven’t had the mood to do so yet
Flipping through short stories from a couple of best-of anthologies at the moment, though I’m planning to start The Coral Bones by E. J. Swift sometime soon. Been on a kick of reading marine-adjacent fiction lately.
Just recently (re)started Quiet by Susan Cain, have had this for long and had started reading before but stopped halfway.
Previous book was Inverting the Pyramid: A History of Football Tactics by Jonathan Wilson.
I do prefer nonfiction to fiction.
I’m reading Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin (in Chinese). Reading book 3 by now. The author isn’t exactly good at writing characters and dialogue & loves lengthy exposition and I also don’t really agree with the cynical themes of the book but admittedly, it’s a fun and mostly engaging read especially with the science fiction parts, the plot is full of interesting twists, and the themes are quite interesting to chew on.
“The Dead Zone” by Stephen King. His older books from this era really do pack a punch compared to his newer stories.
Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary is absolutely fantastic. Even if you don’t really appreciate his sci fi stuff, it’s got a great plot, charming character development, a firecracker of a plot twist, and a really well done up ending that’s quite atypical.
