Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9695960" data-attributes="member: 6671663">It’s been a hell of a month between the US in general, problems with Mom’s care, and my health doing some strange things. My reading has been kind of weird by my own standards. Let’s see if I can get anywhere within hailing distance of brevity. For my 100-book challenge:8. Liminal Spaces, edited by Kevin Lucia. A horror anthology on the title’s theme. Nearly 50/50 split between C-grade stories and A-grade ones. Well worth it, and new names for my list of authors to watch out for. 9. Kingdoms of Death, by Christopher Ruocchio. Sun Eater #4. More epicness, including the narrator spending a bunch of time as a Cielcin prisoner. Someday I’ll wrist a post comparing Ruocchio’s handling of this with some sequences in the Malazan Book of the Fallen and why preferred this so much. A whole bunch of surprises, once again keeping up the excellent pace. A three-hanky job in the best way. 10. The Prince of This World, by Adam Kotsko. Evolving ideas of God and his principal adversary in Jewish and Christian thought, and ways they linger in secular thought and politics. Fascinating. 11. Ashes of Man, by Christopher Ruocchio. Sun Eater #5. Nobody as young as Ruocchio has any business writing so well about grief. He also keeps excelling at the flow of a galaxy where it can take decades and centuries for events happening about as fast as they can. 12. Late Revelations: Rediscovering the Gospels in the Second Century CE, by Adam Litwa. A short book - 95 pp - arguing for late dates of composition for the canonical gospels (and Marcion’s), distinctive for a fresh look at what composition within a community of shared belief means in practice. Worth reading if you want to, say, include stuff being transformed from oral to written tradition in a fantasy setting. 13. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower, by Adrian Goldsworthy. If you haven’t read much written this century about the subject, this’d be a fine book to read. It covers the. Empire from the 200s to the 600s, and is very current on archeology and history. Less uniform me because of been on something of a late antiquity jag in recent years,  but I’m an outlier. And that’s it for June. July is starting off with more Ruocchio and with Robin Hobb.</blockquote>

Verification