What are you reading in 2023?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Just finished Just When You Thought It Was Safe: A Jaws Companion. A little too fawning (we don't have to pretend Steven Spielberg's "The War of the Worlds" was great art), but full of fun trivia.

 

[Zaukrie]

I wonder why reading has been on teh back burner for me lately.....I've been reading/skimming every copy of dragon and dungeon I have in PDF looking for articles, and that's taking time....but still, just can't seem to read or write lately.

 

[dragoner]

Finished Galactic Diplomat (Retief) and have moved on to Invaders From Space by Leinster, both are used bookstore finds of original paperbacks. I have to say that I had totally forgotten parts of Snow Crash, except a lot of it just screams 90's.

 

[Zaukrie]

wrong thread....oops

 

[Clint_L]

I just finished Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architect trilogy, as the final book was recently released. He's a fantastic writer; this was more conventional space opera than some of his other recent stuff, and a complete page-turner.

I'm about to start African Samurai because one of my students is doing it for his IB extended essay.

 

[Richards]

I was on a two-day business trip that inadvertently became a three-day business trip (when the first leg of your two flights home ends up with a flat tire on the plane after everyone's already boarded, forcing everyone to get off again (with their luggage) so they can jack up the plane and swap tires, that'll pretty much make you miss your connecting flight, and too bad if that was the last available flight taking you home that night), so as a result I managed to start and finish a 552-page book within 48 hours. It was Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks, about the brilliant son of an evil genius being sent to a special school where "evil" is taught - kind of a world domination college, where you learn about forgery, explosives, infiltration, extortion, computer crimes, poisons, and so on. As might be expected, there are all kinds of back-stabbing and various manipulations going on all throughout the novel. And the whole thing takes place in Australia, which was a bit of a surprise. Anyway, good book, but I wish it had been another hundred pages longer (to pad out the rest of my final plane trip, which occurred a day later than it was supposed to.)

Johnathan

 

[Ulfgeir]

Just finished Moon over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch. It is book 2 in the Rivers of London series. It starts slow. The writing has improved though since the first book. Here the protagonist is investigating the death of a jazz musician.

I prefer the writing from Dresden Files or The Laundy Files though. Might get the next book later though.

 

[Richards]

I'm now several chapters into Nobody Loves a Centurion by John Maddox Roberts. It's a day-in-the-life novel of a Roman centurion circa 70 BC and is apparently the sixth in the "SPQR" series, none of which I've ever read before. But this seems fairly self-contained and I like Roman historical fiction, so this is looking to be pretty good. The author has an irreverent writing style, which I'm also enjoying in its own right.

Johnathan

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Just finished Moon over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch. It is book 2 in the Rivers of London series. It starts slow. The writing has improved though since the first book. Here the protagonist is investigating the death of a jazz musician.

I prefer the writing from Dresden Files or The Laundy Files though. Might get the next book later though.

The Rivers of London books are very good -- I find them vastly better written than Sandman Slim or the Dresden Files -- but they become incredibly serialized without warning when what I was hoping for were cool British magical detective stuff, not a comic book without pictures.

 

[Mistwell]

Working my way through the LitRPG books "He Who Fights With Monsters" and they are darn good. I listen to the audio books on my daily walk.