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  • I'm listening to The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson. Written by an older, crankier Bryson than I'm used to, but still a decent "read".

    Reading The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler. I like the book, but so far I'm finding the world-building and backstories more interesting than the main plot.

  • Currently knee deep in The Way of Kings, I took a massive break from it when I originally started as I was a little overwhelmed but I’m flying through the pages now, just started part 3 ^^

  • The Far Reaches which is a new collection of SciFi short stories from various authors. I just read #1 by James SA Corey, the duo behind The Expanse books and TV series. I thought it was excellent, great life lessons.

  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

    Somewhat randomly I read The Remains of the Day a little while back and loved it, even though it's entirely unlike the stories I usually read.

    I'm really enjoying Klara and the Sun too - in-particular I'm enjoying how the story has these quite sharp shifts in where you think the story is going, but they're just dropped casually, almost as a throw-away line, and you're left thinking about the huge implications of so few words.

    I also just love Ishiguro's writing style and creativity - it's like he's painting a picture with black on white, and that picture is great - but the white space forms a picture too, and with that he adds so much more.

    With each story he's setting out to take you on a specific emotional journey, but he's not holding your hand and showing you so much as guiding you with as little effort as possible such that when you get there, you feel like you got there on your own, and so it hits so much harder as a result - even though he very carefully led you. It's hard to describe! But it's amazing, I'd be surprised if I've not read everything of his soon!

  • Number Ones by Tom Breihan

    A history of the songs that made it to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 list. I'm really enjoying it!

  • I just now finished "The Dawn of Everything" by Graeber and Wengrow, which was an excellent investigation into early civilizations and a nod to their cultural implications for modern society. Looking to steal ideas for my queue in this thread!

  • Currently making my way through The Guns of August. It's pretty dense compared to what I usually read but something about the writing style makes each chapter fly by faster than expected!

  • I'm reading:

    • 50 Years of text Games by Aaron Read
    • More Boot Sector Games by Oscar Toledo

  • The Spy and the Traitor [Non Fiction] by Ben MacIntyre. It's the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a kgb agent who was working with MI6 during the height of the cold War.

    I took a chance on it and was pleasantly surprised.

  • Currently reading The Light on Farallon Island by Jen Wheeler. It's a novel that follows the story of a young woman in the 19th century who takes a job as teacher for the few children of the lighthouse keepers on remote Farallon Island. As you read, you slowly learn about the life she has run away from.

  • Exhalation by Ted Chiang. About 3/4 through so far and really enjoying it. The scifi concepts are great and I like that it doesn't always have a black mirror, technology is going to kill us ending.

  • The Knights of Erador (The Echoes Saga: Book 7) by Philip C. Quaintrell (Kindle Edition)

  • SS by Barış Pehlivan and Barış Terkoğlu. It's basically a book about Süleyman Soylu's crimes. It's indeed a heavy read, but I think the book does a good job with shedding light on who Soylu really is, so far (I'm at Chapter 5).

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