It’s Wednesday again! So here’s the usual check-in. You can go to Taking On A World Of Words to chat with everyone else who has posted what they’re reading right now!
What are you currently reading?
Actively, I think it’s pretty much just Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch — my loan got renewed from the library even though there were people in the queue, which is weird but I’m not arguing, because it lets me take my time and let it sink in a bit more — and Invasive Aliens, by Dan Eatherley, which I will probably sit down and finish as soon as I get done with this post.
Invasive Aliens is okay, but it feels a bit scattered; there are themes to the chapters, but it starts becoming a bit “and ANOTHER thing” after a while.
What have you recently finished reading?
I read Aliette de Bodard’s Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders yesterday in a hot bath, and narrowly resisted the urge to arise dripping and covered in bubbles to read bits to my wife, since Asmodeus is definitely her sort of thing. Instead I took photos of the relevant pages and sent them to her via chat, circling the good bits in red. It was rather nice.
(And yes, she’s convinced and plans to read it.)
What will you be reading next?
Book club reads this month are Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo and The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu, and I’ve been meaning to read both more or less since they came out, so that’s probably something I’ll do soon. I’m probably in the mood for a palate-cleansing murder mystery from the British Library Crime Classics series first, and maybe an installment of the Whyborne & Griffin series by Jordan L. Hawk as well. I also have a wicked bad urge to reread John Scalzi’s Lock In, and I might just listen to it.
So basically, as usual, it’s anyone’s guess.
What are you currently reading?
I’ll be reading Ninth House very soon myself. I hope we’ll both enjoy it. 🙂
Oh boy, how is it a week later already? Yipes, sorry. I need to pick it up and get started — have you?!
I must really finish the Dominion of the Fallen series! I had forgotten all about it until the other day…
I tried to read The Grace of Kings a few years ago and just couldn’t get into it. I might go back to it at some point but I’m definitely not there yet!
I need to read the third book! But I think I might need a refresher on the first two, at this point…
I first read the House of Shattered Wings after seeing Aliette de Bodard at a book festival in 2015 – I most definitely need a catch up XD
I’m currently reading Of Dragons… Haven’t read the rest of the series, which I really must remedy! I’m also battling with Andrej Sapowski’s newest – it’s not bad, just… hmm. And A Study in Scarlet for a Habitica readalong – surprisingly, had never read it before!
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Oh, interesting (sorry this reply is late) — how did you find it? My wife is interested in reading it, but hasn’t read the series either.