Books

1\2 way through Catch-22

Currently, A Gentleman In Moscow. A fictional story about a royalty-adjacent man confined to live in a hotel in Moscow during and around the Bolshevik revolution. Excellent storytelling, the author is very talented as a writer.

I am on book 2 of the Expanse series (James Corey) and enjoying it!

I just started Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb. So far a delight! By a therapist about therapy, and just the kind of humor I like in non fiction :)

"The fisherman" by John Langan. I am liking it.

"How to keep house while drowning" by KC Davis

Finishing both The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin, on my e-reader, and The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Diniman, listening to the audiobook.

Running The Light by Sam Tallent. Novel about a fictional stand up comedian, old road dog that was once huge but his career has taken a nose dive since the late 80s early 90s. Huge fan of the real author's real stand up so I picked it up, and it's funny and sad and "real" and goddamn this guy can write.

That and comics as always, as you well know I'm sure haha.

Btw for anyone here so far unaware, I'm going to plug Bookwyrm real fast. It's basically goodreads but federated and private and not owned by scamazon. Pick you an instance and sign on up! There's not really a good app for it but I use it in the browser and it works just fine. It's neat, just needs to grow a bit!

Significant Digits, the fan sequel to the only fanfic I actually enjoyed (HPMOR).

Just finished The The Body Problem trilogy by Cixin Liu and I'm restarting The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

The Chronicles of St Mary’s, just finished the fourth book. Fun stuff.

As for me, I'm reading "E" Is For Evidence by Sue Grafton.

I may have commented about this author before.

I recently finished a classic sci-fi book, Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov. It is part of The Foundation book series. I started the original first book about 7 years ago and have come back to the series every few years. They're pretty interesting and can see why they are considered classics.

Fiction: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Haruku Murakami
Non-fiction: The Way Of Chuang Tzu, Chuang Tzu

The Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie. The final book in what has become one of my favorite fantasy series.

This month was a wacky selection for no good reason:

Pastoral Approach to Atheism; Pastoral Theology; Concilium Volume 23

Silver Canyon, Louis L'Amour

Compassionate Satanism: An Introduction to Modern Satanic Practice

Gateway, Frederik Pohl

Ethics 101: What Every Leader Needs To Know

Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns, Victor Dover

Babel, Kuang, R.F.