What are you reading?

[Sim]

A Christian Syrian co-worker of mine insisted on me reading "The Shell" by Mustafa Khalifa, the report of a Syrian Christian who got imprisoned into one of the death and torture prisons of the Syrian Assad Regime.

I've read half of it and find it equally disturbing and intriguing. It's a powerful statement against dictatorship that's bitterly needed in a time when the West forgets its commitment to freedom and turns to far-right movements that want to drag us back down into the abyss of tyranny.

 

[Kraig]

Just finished The Expanse: Book 8, Tiamat's Wrath and starting Book 9, Leviathan Falls.

 

[Alexander Corrino]

I'm currently waiting for a small bunch of Dune books I ordered. Most notably the House Corrino book. That's gonna be the one I'll read first.

 

[Velocity]

I'm reading The Paranormal Ranger, a Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained by Stanley Milford, Jr.
Mr. Milford is a Native American with parents of both Navajo and Cherokee descent. His Native American worldview is addressed in the book as well as his training in the law enforcement branch of the Navajo Nation who are equal parts police officers, archaeological conservationists, and historians. This book has been very interesting and I have learned a little about Navajo history along the way.

 

[Kraig]

I'm reading The Paranormal Ranger, a Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained by Stanley Milford, Jr.
Mr. Milford is a Native American with parents of both Navajo and Cherokee descent. His Native American worldview is addressed in the book as well as his training in the law enforcement branch of the Navajo Nation who are equal parts police officers, archaeological conservationists, and historians. This book has been very interesting and I have learned a little about Navajo history along the way.

Max / HBO has a three part documentary, Navajo Police: Class 57 you might also find interesting.

 

[TimmyWl]

Ain't No Witch; the Wanderings of Mama Lucy by J.L. Grant (This is the literal title) It is a taste that is different. I didn't think I wanted an explanation between a cunning woman who applies her skill with 'hoodoo' and then explain the difference between that/the "new" art of voodoo, of which in the time that the book is taking place, to happen. It's a different taste and perhaps I will have a full opinion of it when I am done.

 

[Victoria]

I have given up trying to read "Kant's Mathematical World" by Daniel Sutherland. It's been a number of years since I read Kant and, in any case, I think this book needs someone who's gone a bit deeper than casual reading.

In its place I have started Hobbes' "Leviathian". I don't know how I've managed to miss reading this book before now. At intervals, I refresh myself with Baroness Orczy's "The Old Man in the Corner", possibly the first of the armchair detectives and which may be of interest to anyone who likes the traditional "puzzle" crime.

 

[Velocity]

The Mind at Night: The new science of how and why we dream by Andrea Rock

 

[Kor]

The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book.

Kor

 

[JLA]

The Martian

 

[Victoria]

Just finished Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes". Rather a wild ride! Definitely a book I'm not going to forget...

 

[Kraig]

After finishing Expanse Book 9, Leviathan Falls, I'm starting Memory's Legion, the complete Expanse story collection.

 

[USS Firefly]

After finishing Expanse Book 9, Leviathan Falls, I'm starting Memory's Legion, the complete Expanse story collection.

How do you like the Expanse books?
I love them.
I am thinking about to read "The mercy of the Gods" by James S.A Corey, when it becomes a little bit cheaper

 

[Kraig]

How do you like the Expanse books?
I love them.
I am thinking about to read "The mercy of the Gods" by James S.A Corey, when it becomes a little bit cheaper

I saw the series first and liked it. I like the books even better.

 

[TimmyWl]

Across the Sorrow Sea, by Anthony Ryan. It's part of a series and a guy is trying to find near to the last demon sword, not that he already has one, and most of his crew have them. I am getting the hint that in the last book, which I am very close on, it's going to be not very great for everyone, since the other books also retained a grimness to it, even though I really liked the bad spirit in the sword being a "guide" on what the main character did to become a wandering barbarian helping someone find their lost daughter.

 

[JD]

I just finished reading the Doctor Who: The Third Doctor comic The Heralds of Destruction written by Paul Cornell with art by Christopher Jones. It was good, it was well written, with nice art, and Cornell did a good job of capturing the feel of that era of the show, and Jones art look like what you could have expected from that era if they had bigger budget.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I've been reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson for the first time, and I've been struggling to really get into it. About 60% into it, and the first quarter was interesting, but feel the minute the first 100 get spread out, it becomes less interesting. This is because I feel the characters are thinly drawn, and the interpersonal drama feels drawn out, and the politics are not that interesting.

 

[May 20]

It's okay to stop reading a book you are not enjoying. There are too many good books out there to force yourself through a book that you are reading for pleasure.

 

[Owain Taggart]

^ Yeah, you're absolutely right. I guess I just expected a bit more from it given the praise it got. But of course, it's probably just not jiving with me.

 

[Victoria]

Recently finished "Extremophile" by Ian Green.

I thought the writing and plotting was good but I'm not sure that I enjoyed it. The future dystopia is depressingly possible. Although the Good Guys do "win" in the end, they don't "win" very much and even the potentially positive ending is very downbeat leaving the impression nothing that is done is going to change anything.

I would read something else by this author but I see that their other fiction is fantasy which isn't a genre in which I read much.