I’ve been working through the Binti novellas by Nnedi Okorafor. It’s my first exposure to Afro-Futurism and I’m enjoying them so far.

Just finished "the running man" and found out that I didn't finish "why we are polarized" by Ezra Klein, so I'm finishing that one now

Thank you so much for the reminder/suggestion that the first annual Lemmy book bingo is happening! I've checked out the link posts and drawn up my bingo card/list to finish by May 1st.

The r/Fantasy subreddit is the only thing I was missing--glad to see this and excited to start participating!

Currently listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl.
About 4 hours into the 12 hour book and it is good.

I recently started I Want A Better Catastrophe by Andrew Boyd. It's good, but it's rough and I can only read so much at a time which caused me to look for a humorous non-fiction title as a mental palate cleanser. For that I landed on The Utterly Uninteresting & Unadventurous Tales of Fred, The Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes; which, in contrast, has been a lot of fun.

I've just started Earthlings by Sayaka Murata yesterday after getting my ass kicked by Roadside Picnic. Loving it so far! By far one of the strangest stories I've read. Really interested to see how it goes

Not current, but "The Devil's Playground" by Craig Russell is a lot of fun. Combines 1920's Hollywood sex scandals with voo-doo and a serial killer. Also a haunted movie that kills anyone who watches it.

Just finished the second book Shift and started the third, Dust, from Silo series. The first two were really good, long enough to dive deep into it and on that sweet level of being easy to read yet enough detail to keep it interesting.

My SO reads me stories in the evening and now we are going through LOTR, although I must say it's getting a bit cumbersome, being quite slow-paced book and all, so we'll probably give up and switch to something else soon.

I started The Hands Of The Emperor by Victoria Goddard last week (so good!), and tore through all 900 pages of it in a few days. Found out there’s a sequel - At The Feet Of The Sun - and poured that one into my brain as well (even better than the first!). Now I’m reading my way through the novellas that are in between those two behemoths.

The Running Man

I saw it mentioned on here the other day and with the movie set to release later in the year I thought I'd give it a go.

I'm really enjoying it so far. It's fast paced and not long so will probably finish it today (I started yesterday).

I read a fair amount of Enid Blyton as a kid, and remember enjoying the Five series. Does it hold up well?

Still haven't been getting much reading done; I'm not even a third of the way through Between Two Fires yet! It has been enjoyable so far, though, with a lot of clever medieval flavor that reminds me of Arthurian legends, or monsters doodled in the corners of old manuscripts. I suspect there's probably some Canterbury Tales influence as well, but it's been a long time since I had to read them.

I finished The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. It's a historical fiction taking place in occupied France during World War II. It was a very well plotted story, but the writing felt so distant and some scenes felt very unrealistic. It felt like a story I should have liked more that I did.

Now I've started Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson (Stormlight book 2). Far too early to have opinions, but I'm excited for this one.

Happy New year Dresden!

Since the last thread I replied to I have finished the BuyMort book I was on and listened to another couple Deathlands (of course)

I also listen to NPC by Jeremy Robinson which is the next book in the Infinite series for me and was another great book that I thoroughly enjoyed.

Now I am a few hours into The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. It has been a little slow starting but it is just starting to pick up pace and will hopefully be a good read!

I loved the ending of Hero of Ages. There's a novella to read partway through the second age that does some beautiful stuff around it. The second age is a very different style, but it is a lot of fun. You never regret that extra shake...

I just finished the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin. The first book is from the sixties and the final short from 2018, so it is a fascinating trip through the maturation of Fantasy. The first three books are firmly young-adult, while the last three stick with the characters as adults. The whole series ends with a very short story the author wrote to be published after her death. It's a wonderful look at the mind of an old person at the end of their story.

Recent publications include afterwords written in 2012 which give a lot of context and interesting insights into how she wrote stories.