What are you reading in 2025?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I picked up the audio book of Book and Dagger. The On The Media segment on the book sold me hard. I love me some WW2 espionage.

Librarian spies was a concept I didn't know I'd love until I heard that.

 

[Reynard]

Librarian spies was a concept I didn't know I'd love until I heard that.

Right!?!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm currently listening to the audiobook of Underland and I gotta say, this might need to be on everyone's Appendix N.

It's an evocative look at the world beneath our feet and our relationship to it, including some harrowing descriptions of caving that will make your skin crawl and discussions of beautiful Neanderthal communal graves deep underground.

I think it'd be hard to read/listen to this book and not come away with a lot of ideas on how to make your fantasy game underworlds more evocative and more compelling, all while pulling from history and science, without ever getting bogged down in the dry details some simulationist approaches can.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Been going back to a book called the Remarkable Life of Charles Murray Spear. He was a minister and abolitionist in Boston, who got into spiritualism and started communing with a group of spirits called the Electricizers, who instructed him to create a machine called the New Motive Power (a kind of messianic perpetual motion machine that would usher in a new spiritual age).

Also reading the Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila, HP Lovecraft's Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge and Anne Tillery Renshaw, and Ghosts: A Haunted History

 

[Reynard]

I'm currently listening to the audiobook of Underland and I gotta say, this might need to be on everyone's Appendix N.

It's an evocative look at the world beneath our feet and our relationship to it, including some harrowing descriptions of caving that will make your skin crawl and discussions of beautiful Neanderthal communal graves deep underground.

I think it'd be hard to read/listen to this book and not come away with a lot of ideas on how to make your fantasy game underworlds more evocative and more compelling, all while pulling from history and science, without ever getting bogged down in the dry details some simulationist approaches can.

Oh, and it is Plus Catalog. Yoink!

 

[Eyes of Nine]

John Scalzi: Writing For Audio Made Me A Better Writer, Period

Cut dialogue tags and consider the narrator — tips from the Hugo Award-winning author of Audible Studios' "The Dispatcher."

www.audible.com

OH! For a split second I thought this was the In Remembrance thread and saw Scalzi's name and felt that "this year can't get any worse can it? Oh wait, yes it can" feeling.

Phew that this is the Books channel...

 

[Older Beholder]

That cover and title lead me to ask, is this a romance novel in part?

I certainly hope so.
This ship has been sailing for a while now.

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

I'm currently listening to the audiobook of Underland and I gotta say, this might need to be on everyone's Appendix N.

I LOVE this book for D&D inspiration.

Robert Macfarlane’s writing is positively magical.

 

[prabe]

I picked up the audio book of Book and Dagger. The On The Media segment on the book sold me hard. I love me some WW2 espionage.

My wife read this one recently. Alas, I think it had to go back to the library, but I can always find it and check it out myself.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I LOVE this book for D&D inspiration.

Robert Macfarlane’s writing is positively magical.

I just got to ponies brought down into the darkness to be fed, worked and die there and then their bodies left underground. Combine that with mining equipment having salt flow over it over time, and you can have adventurers discovering pony skeletons barely visible through a wall of salt and completely freaking out your players.