RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[pauraque]

What are you reading?

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[pauraque]

I've started Liu Cixin's The Dark Forest, the sequel to The Three-Body Problem. I'm finding it slow going so far, but it's a long book so we'll see what it's working its way up to. I do think the translation is not as good as the first book, which is a shame.

[valoise]

I liked the first book but have never read The Dark Forest, although it's on my very long list of books to read.

[pauraque]

I really liked the first book too. This one is picking up a bit more as I'm getting into it, so it may have just had a slow start.

[rekishi]

I just finished "The Rook" by Daniel O'Malley. Now reading fanfic while I decide what book I want to start next.

[spiralsheep]

Mostly lots of non-book reading, which has been productive.

Also, 85. Endemic, Exploring the Wildlife Unique to Britain, by James Harding-Morris, 2025, non-fiction natural history, 5/5.
Engaging in the science via travel memoir genre, but probably only of interest to UK readers for obvious reasons. :-)

[drawnecromancy]

I'm between reads today ! Finished the romance novel I'd started a little while back, and I've picked up Tail of the Blue Bird by Nii Ayikwei Parkes to read starting tomorrow :)

[drawnecromancy]

Coming back here to add that I finished this book in Two Entire Days. Really good. Great mystery, very good characters, awesome narrative voices (two of them!) 10/10
Gotta find a new book already LOL

[silversea]

Almost halfway through Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint vol 1 by singNsong. I've already read the manhwa up to around chapter 100(?), so this isn't new to me but it's still nice and definitely the easy reading I'm in the mood for.

[dhampyresa]

Are there any differences of notes between the two?

[silversea]

Not much I've noticed so far, mostly insignificant exposition from Kim Dokja. I did hear that the manhwa started omitting more significant things from the novel later on, so I'll keep an eye out.

[pedanther]

Still working my way through Ghost Empire.

Started reading Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow, then decided I was in the mood for something less complicated, so this week I've read a couple of children's books that have been lurking on my shelves unread for years: Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Claw by Mordecai Richler, which was fun but I'd have appreciated it more if I'd read it closer to the target age and been able to be carried along without being so aware of the author's hand at work; and The Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev, an adventure story about a boy fending for himself during World War II, which was interesting.

[olivermoss]

Started Iced out by Ce Ricci. It's mm hockey romance that's heavily stocked around here because she's a local author. I noped out pretty fast due to the set up, but I am going to go back and read at least a bit further in. But for now, making progress on my re-read of the Game Changers series.

[cornerofmadness]

Wrong Side of the Grave by Bryna Butler, a mothman mystery...

[rocky41_7]

On audio still progressing on "This is How You Lose the Time War"; on paper, "Tales of Earthsea" as I make my way slowly through the Earthsea cycle.

[valoise]

Finally finished the Murderbot series with System Collapse and although it was okay I didn't really like it as well as any of the others. Seemed like the writing was not as tight as it could have been. And about half the book hints at a big secret that is revealed in a one page explanation. Perhaps it would have been more effective and less irritating to work that in from the beginning.

[mxroboto]

Ah, I felt the same way. I really love the first three in the series, once it really took off I feel like her editors fell asleep. :/

[selenicseas]

I'm reading Ursula K Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven. Forgot how much I loved her writing.

[pauraque]

Oh that's a good one! I love her writing too.

[mxroboto]

Ahhh that's on my list!! Very excited to get to it

[mxroboto]

Dropped Water Moon 66 pages in. Fascinating premise, but spending the first half of the POV switches rehashing what the other POV was doing annihilated the momentum and my patience. :/ I hate when books do that! Stop it!!

All my other library requests are in limbo, so I turned to my pile of sci-fi pulps that I pick up at random shows. Really fucking loving Emma Bull's Bone Dance so far, a fun mix of cyberpunk, mysticism (done respectfully if not accurately), and gender fuckery.