What are you reading in 2025?

[jian]

You can borrow some of mine!!

But what if I’ve read them?

 

[Nellisir]

But what if I’ve read them?

I have others.
So many others.
<sigh>

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished Tiptree & McIntyre's The Girl Who Was Plugged In / Screwtop. The Girl Who Was Plugged in is so ahead of its time - if PKD is the grandfather of cyberpunk, Tiptree deserves to be named the grandmother. Screwtop isn’t as prescient, but rather it shows how little the penal system has changed.

Now I'm reading William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive. Somehow, I never got around to reading the final Sprawl Trilogy novel before.

 

[Cadence]

I'm 30-some pages into Elliot Paul's "Waylaid in Boston: A Homer Evans Mystery" from 1953 (go, go inter-library loan!).

It is mentioned in Stout's autobiography because it is by a friend of Stout's and has a page ripping on how easy tailing someone to find out vast information about them iis made to look in various detective novels (including the Nero Wolfe ones).

The first few pages were really painful (including some huge run on sentences), but it turned around enough that I am going on with it.