What are you reading in 2025?
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Old Fezziwig
hell yes bro
Definitely. I don't know that I'll be in country long enough to get tons of perspective (about 10 days after removing travel days), but I'll have a lot more than I have now!
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
Too bad you won't be there for a sumo tournament. Catching one of those live and in person is definitely on my bucket list.
Old Fezziwig
hell yes bro
It looks like we will be, but we won't be in Osaka. That would be neat to see. I had thoughts about catching some baseball, but we'll be too early for the regular season and much too far away from the spring training sites. I'm not at all worried about filling out our schedule, but we will have to go back and try and catch some of the things we'll miss.
Ralif Redhammer
Legend
I finished reading Bradbury's The October Country. Positively loved it, and I've no idea how it's taken me this long to get to reading it. There's loss and yearning and orange October leaves spilling from the pages. The story Homecoming in particular hit me hard.
The more Bradbury I read, the more I realize how great his influence is, how even before I read my first Bradbury book, I had felt his influence in the other books I read.
Now I'm reading Kaden Love's Toothsucker.
The more Bradbury I read, the more I realize how great his influence is, how even before I read my first Bradbury book, I had felt his influence in the other books I read.
Now I'm reading Kaden Love's Toothsucker.
Reading Bradbury makes my heart ache, in ways nostalgic, sad, and the thrill of fear when you see movement out of the corner of your eye, and realize phew! it was just a leaf falling or a squirrel jumping - or was it?
All of those are in a good way; but also I'm not sure I'm in a head-place right now to read him. Even reading the words "October Country" is bringing up some feels from when I read it so many years ago. Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine... most of us I'm sure could go on with adding to their favorites. Bradbury was one of the best.
Nellisir
Hero
Finished John Crowley's The Deep. I really like Mr Crowley - Little, Big is one of my three "test cases" for how good a "Best Fantasy Books" list really is - and while I'm hard pressed to say what it's about - hope, or change, or big shifts occurring through little things without anyone realizing it, or discovering your own self, maybe - but I like it.
The Starving Saints, by Caitlin Starling. Oh, wow. Okay, let me expand on that.
This is medieval fantasy horror in the vein of C.L. Moore’s Jirel of Joiry and Clark Ashton Smits Averoigne: medieval culture but its own religion and history, and there’s magic. The characters are trapped in a castle under siege. Starvation is a couple weeks away as the story starts, unless there’s relief to be had from outside help or mysterious and unreliable sorcery within. Miraculous intervention occurs, but of course it’s too good to be true.
Things spiral into chaos and misery, and the protagonists have to face the things about themselves they’ve been hiding from themselves as part of the struggle to survive. What are they prepared to sacrifice for escape? What’s driven them to those points?
I started off enjoying it. The further I read, the more more my admiration and respect grew. In the afterword, Starling says this book began in the midst of COVID isolation and the wake of the first of multiple miscarriages nom not surprised. It’s a very deep-diving story, using the microcosm of the siege to examine a whole world of losses and survivals. It’s the most impressive, most satisfying fantasy I’ve read in some time.
This is medieval fantasy horror in the vein of C.L. Moore’s Jirel of Joiry and Clark Ashton Smits Averoigne: medieval culture but its own religion and history, and there’s magic. The characters are trapped in a castle under siege. Starvation is a couple weeks away as the story starts, unless there’s relief to be had from outside help or mysterious and unreliable sorcery within. Miraculous intervention occurs, but of course it’s too good to be true.
Things spiral into chaos and misery, and the protagonists have to face the things about themselves they’ve been hiding from themselves as part of the struggle to survive. What are they prepared to sacrifice for escape? What’s driven them to those points?
I started off enjoying it. The further I read, the more more my admiration and respect grew. In the afterword, Starling says this book began in the midst of COVID isolation and the wake of the first of multiple miscarriages nom not surprised. It’s a very deep-diving story, using the microcosm of the siege to examine a whole world of losses and survivals. It’s the most impressive, most satisfying fantasy I’ve read in some time.
Let’s see.
My current audiobook is Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures. Read by the author, Merlin Sheldrake, who happens to sound a lot like I imagined someone with that name ought to sound.
I am reading Charlie Martz And Other Stories by Elmore Leonard.
My current audiobook is Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures. Read by the author, Merlin Sheldrake, who happens to sound a lot like I imagined someone with that name ought to sound.
I am reading Charlie Martz And Other Stories by Elmore Leonard.
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