What are you reading in 2023?

[Ralif Redhammer]

Very bittersweet, true. I am glad he was able to end his work on a strong point, and that the series went past the finish line in a satisfactory manner. I had loat hope that could happen, but it did.

We think we have all the time in the world, until we don't, I guess.

I started reading the series many years ago and tapped out. I didn't come back to it until it was complete, and then it took me about a year (with short breaks) to read the whole thing from start to finish.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

We think we have all the time in the world, until we don't, I guess.

The Discworld novels are an interesting point of comparison. Pratchett famously knew his time was running out years in advance, and you can see the quality of his work change, as it was harder and harder for him to write layered, clever works as Alzheimer's consumed him. He apparently left several unfinished books his daughter destroyed at his request, but he was able to pick one of the Discworld lines (Tiffany Aching) and use it to put a button on Discworld and his writing.

 

[Parmandur]

The Discworld novels are an interesting point of comparison. Pratchett famously knew his time was running out years in advance, and you can see the quality of his work change, as it was harder and harder for him to write layered, clever works as Alzheimer's consumed him. He apparently left several unfinished books his daughter destroyed at his request, but he was able to pick one of the Discworld lines (Tiffany Aching) and use it to put a button on Discworld and his writing.

I still haven't read the Tiffany Aching books. Emotionally difficult to bring myself to finish with Discworld.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

The Discworld novels are an interesting point of comparison. Pratchett famously knew his time was running out years in advance, and you can see the quality of his work change, as it was harder and harder for him to write layered, clever works as Alzheimer's consumed him. He apparently left several unfinished books his daughter destroyed at his request, but he was able to pick one of the Discworld lines (Tiffany Aching) and use it to put a button on Discworld and his writing.

I Shall Wear Midnight has some deep and heavy thoughts about life and death, that's for sure.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I Shall Wear Midnight has some deep and heavy thoughts about life and death, that's for sure.

True to Sir Terry's nature, though, I wouldn't say one walks away from the book depressed. Of all the characters in Discworld -- even more than Death -- the Lancre Witches know that the wheel keeps on turning, whether one is there to see it or not.

 

[Richards]

I'm just about finished with The Mask of Atreus by A. J. Hartley, an author I'd never tried before. But this has been an excellent book, about a murder and a missing Mycanaean artifact that ends up with some really interesting plot twists along the way. The protagonist is a tall, gangly female museum curator, which was a nice change of pace for an action-based novel as well.

Johnathan

 

[Zaukrie]

Someone left Use of Weapons by Iain Banks in my little library today. Looking forward to this.

 

[ichabod]

Rereading all my Martha Wells, starting with City of Bones.

 

[Nellisir]

Rereading all my Martha Wells, starting with City of Bones.

I did that recently. Worth it.

 

[dragoner]

Finished Anathem, and have started KSR's 2312.