This was a nice week for book reading. Don’t usually get this much time generally.

Finished The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid. I didn’t like the writing style initially but got used to as I read along. It’s a small book, just a little more than 100 pages. An umm… interesting read.

Got my copy of The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson. Really liked the book. It was a fun, light book. There was much less action than I was expecting, after reading the announcement of the book, but that didn’t make book any less enjoyable. Finished the book in two days, which I rarely get to do now.

Grave Peril by Jim Butcher. Book 3 of Dresden Files. I have just started it, but it’s the same Dresden Files. Nothing to say about that.

What have you been reading?

  • PDFuego@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Halfway through a reread of Blood Rites (also Dresden Files), halfway through The Way of Kings by Sanderson & Thankless in Death by JD Robb, just finished book 3 of Seanen McGuire’s Incryptid series but I’ll start 4 tomorrow and should have it finished by Sunday, I sprinkle in the Incryptid short stories whenever I have half an hour to spare, and I just started the first of the Resident Evil novelisations but that one’s going to be a pretty low priority and will probably take months. I have a very slow job.

    This is my first Sanderson book and I’m really enjoying his style so far, I’ve had him on my reading list for years and should have gotten started sooner.

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      1 year ago

      Wow, that’s a lots of books.

      Blood Rites is the book that made me stop reading Dresden Files, because I couldn’t get the book, and I didn’t want to miss one book and read the next ones. Stared the re-read after getting the book (and about a decade after I stopped).

      Have you read rest of the books in “in Death” series? I have read couple of romance novels by Nora Roberts a while back, but haven’t read her crime novels, or well any crime series at all (except couple of novels in Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike). Would you recommend her in Death series a good starting point for crime novels?

      Seanen McGuire’s October Daye and Wayword Children has been recommended to me many time, but haven’t gotten around to them yet. Maybe after Dresden Files. How are you enjoying the series?

      I didn’t know Resident Evil novels exist, but with such a big franchise, it makes sense. Any idea, if they are any good?

      Last but not least, welcome to Cosmere! Brandon Sanderson is currently my favourite fantasy writer, so glad you got to start reading him!