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I've put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It's mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I'm going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading.
Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (July 2023)
At any rate, what are you currently reading or plan to read in August?
Just started reading "To Sleep in a Sea of Stars". (Christopher Paolini)
It's huge, but so far the pacing moves quickly enough to keep from getting bogged down.
Just finished reading an older series: Nine Princes in Amber. Doesn't age as well as I'd like.
Yeah, I enjoyed them when I was a college student but on later re-reading Corwin just comes across as a two-dimensional good-hearted wise guy who can take care of himself. Kind of a fantasy version of early-generation science fiction a la Asimov or Heinlein.
I´m reading select texts about what is grassroots-community action. It has been quite nice. The book is in Portuguese though.
a world without visa by ean Malaquais
https://libcom.org/article/world-without-visa
tough to get into but worth every page, but far from accessible if you are not known to french and russian names en masse
I've been reading a thrift store find as of late, "The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF 11", a short story collection first published in 1998, ed. Gardner Dozois by Robinson Publishing.
In general I've been reading different sci fi short story collections of as of late, while waiting for the next Final Architecture -book to drop.
I don't normally plan my reading much ahead of time but August is an exception on a few counts.
Firstly, Whalefall by Daniel Kraus comes out on August 8th. It's such a goofy idea for a story (think Jonah and the Whale meets The Martian) and I have been so pumped, I've been talking people's ear off about it for months. It's like scientifically accurate Pinocchio.
Secondly, one of the bookclub picks for the Discord server affiliated with !bookclub@lemmy.world is The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin
And then it's Tropeical Readathon (a semiannual reading challenge thing) again so I have a couple dozen books picked out to cover that, but the only other sci-fi one apart from the above is Under This Forgetful Sky by Lauren Yero.
I just finished Season of Skulls by Charles Stross. 3rd book of the New Management series... a sort of sequel series to the Laundry Files.
I'm re-reading the red rising series right now to be up to date for the new book that just released. Very excited to get to it
Currently working through Stephen King's dark tower series, on book 4 so getting through them quick. First time I've read any of his stuff but I'm hooked.
Pride and Prejudice. Finishing soon.. another classic down.
Reading through Book of the New Sun. Definitely an underrated sci fi series.
I'm starting Woken Furies by Richard Morgan. I watched the Netflix Altered Carbon series and figured the books would be worth a read, and so far they have been!
I loved the first book but the other two were... Meh. It was like Morgan had given everything he had in the first book of the series.
I enjoyed The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois until his passing. I just discovered its spiritual successor, The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Neil Clarke, and am catching up now.
Just finished Frugal Wizards Guide, by Sanderson.
It wasn't what I was expecting, but found it weird and fun. As per most of Sanderson's books, I fell down the sanderlanch, and read it in 2 days.
Oh crap! Potty training by Jamie Glowacki
Right now I'm listening to Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny. It's probably an interesting story, but the narrator is awful. Sometimes he reads without any pauses so it feels like you are listening to a wall of text. There is also very little inflection in his voice as he reads so it is hard to stay engaged. I'm going to stick with it if I can, but I'm not holding much hope.
I'm currently resuming my read through of "John Carter of Mars", with "Warlords of Mars", and continuing through Glynn Stewart's Duchy of Terra series with "Shield of Terra".
I can't help compare Glynn Stewart with Edgar Rice Burroughs, in that they both write such reliably entertaining series.
Though I suppose Stewart is aiming for Asimov in the volume category. As a big reader, I sure appreciate that.