What are you reading in 2026?

[Brendan Byrd]

Pratchett:
Monstrous Regiment
Soul Music

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Pratchett:
Monstrous Regiment
Soul Music

Bangers

 

[Eyes of Nine]

3 volumes left of River's of London. Most recent volume, Lies Sleeping, had some stuff advance the plot (that's understatement...).

Like many series, around book 3-4 the thing takes off (imho). And the world building gets fun. I still can't decipher Peter Grant's Sierra Leonean mother's creole (is that the right term?) as represented on the page.

Also read a graphic novel this evening called "Cemetery Kids Don't Die" which is a chilling reflection on virtual reality/social media. Overall though I won't continue. I'm kind of done with stories of high school age kids. Call me old, but that's how it is for me now.

Another series that I think I'm done with is Under Ninja, I finished vol 5 last week. While the protagonist, a ninja, is an adult (barely); the book has veered into being set in a high school. There are SO FREAKING MANY manga set in japanese high schools that I imagine non-Japanese manga/anime fans are as familiar with the japanese manga high school tropes as american high school clichés. Anyway, my decision to stop after vol 5 is aided and abetted by the fact that I think vol 6 is well nigh impossible to get in dead tree anyway.

Still enjoying Versus, Kagurabachi, and Tower Dungeon; but unfortunately my FLGS is having trouble getting their hands on the new volumes

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I think probably not? The translation is very clear throughout. I think I probably just missed something (and have now returned the book on Libby and so can’t check). It does seem like the sort of thing that my players would have called bullsh*t on for deliberately obscuring the plot.

Even good translations miss things. It maybe that in the original sense “koto string” referred to the type of string used to string a koto. Not an actual string from a koto.

NB Google Translate translate’s koto as “thing”.