It has been a while. I have been pretty, and haven’t been around much.

As for the books, I am still in the same place, reading Book 2 of Confederation The Better Part of Valour by Tanya Huff. Though I did spend some time reading a web novel, Book Eater, author is 메켄로 and translator is RainbowTurtle.

What about all of you? Which books have you been reading or listening lately?

  • @[email protected]
    4•9 months ago

    Welcome back friend! I was actually thinking of you the other day - I haven’t seen a books thread in awhile (it probably has more to do with my sporadic Lemmy attendance)

    Since Jan, I read some more of the expanse (just started book 4) and its been good.

    I read book 1 of “The Bear and the Nightingale” and likely won’t read the rest. Immediately afterwards I read the book “Uprooted” and it was So good. It was everything I wanted the bear to be.

    Finally got around to Legends and Lattes, and I listened to (and laughed my ass off) to Seth Rogan’s book.

    I also read “Between the World and Me”. It took me awhile as I don’t generally like. Non-fiction (especially reading vs listening) but I wanted to give it a crack as I saw it was on the news for some book ban thing in the USA.

    All in all, if anyone cares, check out Uprooted by Naomi Novik. It’s a standalone novel and only around 400 pages. Moves and progresses nicely and the characters are good.

    • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      Thanks! I was actually pretty regular, but then I disappeared for about 3 weeks, which is why there wasn’t any thread for a while. A bit sad to see that no one posted anything in 3 weeks I wasn’t around though. Anyways, It should be back to normal now.

      That’s lots of books. I haven’t read much this year, have been super busy with other stuff, but that’s just life.

      What didn’t you like about The Bear and the Nightingale? And how did you like Legends and Lattes? Same question about “Between the World and Me”.

      Thanks for the recommendation. Uprooted is already on my wishlist, but will prioritise it now.

      • @[email protected]
        2•9 months ago

        I found the Bear and the Nightingale slow and probably needed to pay better attention to the characters as sometimes they would use nicknames that were close to names. I’m sure its some people’s cup of tea but it wasn’t for me. I found Uprooted to be everything I wanted it to be. Bear is based on Russian folklore and Uprooted on Polish. So there were some similarities in styles but I found it just moved quicker and I found myself liking the characters more.

        Lattes was fun. Nothing over the top but since it’s supposed to be a story that takes place AFTER the sword is hung up it makes sense. It was enjoyable and it helped me completely understand the “cozy fantasy” sub genre that spawned from it.

        “Between the world and me” was one of my 3-6 non-fiction reads of the year. I try to grab some that push me outside my norm/comfort zone (Swords, wizards, space lasers, etc). As a white man, not from the USA, it was interesting to read his perspective. On the flip side, I’m not sure why a teacher was almost fired over it (or at least that’s why it was in the news)

        I’m a dad for 3 littles so I have lots of down time to knock off books. Before them I had way less time for reading because I wasn’t home bound everyday by 7:30pm haha