What are you reading?

[Ensign Steve]

Originally Posted by vremya

I'm late to the party but I'm reading Artemis by Andy Weir. I wanted something lightish.

I read Artemis several years ago (guess I was early to that party) and I really like it. I thought a lot of the moon conceits were really clever and thoughtful. Like how fancy crystal dishes and chandeliers are cheap as hell because the silicon is already there. And how they would face up instead of east in order to pray to Mecca.

[LarsMac]

Well, I'm about to finish up Frank Herbert's sixth, and final Dune offering, Chapterhouse Dune.

Just finished "White Fragility" by Robin Diangelo

For lighter entertainment, I have been working my way through John D MacDonald's Travis McGee series for the last few years, and am now reading Cinnamon Skin, the next to last of the McGee series.

I'm also revisiting the 60s, re-reading Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in America" and Kerouac's "Lonesome Traveler"

OH! Also, I just picked up John Cleese's "So Anyway,..., A Memoir"

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by specious_reasons

The City & The City - There's been a murder in Beszel but it looks like the victim was a resident of Ul Qoma. The two cities occupy the same area, but are 2 different countries, and the citizens are all trained to ignore the other city. Interesting concept, but this ultimately fell flat for me. I guessed the culprit halfway through. I'm 0/2 on China Mieville. Perdido Street Station is wonderful world building, but the plot left me cold.

You are dead to me.

[SharonDee]

Because it's been a minute since I blew through the audiobooks and because the ebooks are available through Kindle Unlimited, I'm revisiting the Bobiverse.

For the uninitiated, it's a series of books about "Bob Johansson, a software developer who, after being cryogenically frozen and revived centuries later, becomes a sentient AI. and the first of many 'Bobs' exploring the galaxy in self-replicating probes".

It's light science fiction but throws in enough hard-to-me science to challenge me.

Also, author Dennis E. Taylor released the latest book in the series. This was another motivation for me to revisit it

[Crumb]

It's a fun lighthearted read with some bizarre stuff going on.

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by JoeP

You are dead to me.

I really liked Perdido Street Station until the main character’s lover gets fridged.

The City & The City was… fine. I think Mieville is a good and talented author, but I haven’t connected to anything I’ve read.

[democracy]

I have been reading Chaucer in the Middle English, Relativity by Einstein, Treatise on Light by Huygens, Science and Hypothesis by Poincare, Scientific Autobiography by Max Planck, Introduction to Mathematics by Whitehead, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by Berkeley, Introduction to Arithmetic by Nicomachus, the essay on Logic from the Syntopicon of the Great Books of the Western World.

I am also browsing unfamiliar books every day without a commitment. Just getting acquainted. Cracking open some scores by Bach and The Beatles. We could do some book discussions.

[Stephen Maturin]

Master of the Mountain by Henry Wiencek. Could Thomas Jefferson have been an even bigger piece of shit than you imagined? Why yes, yes he could!

[vremya]

The Once and Future Sex by Eleanor Janega. She's a medievalist and I love her YouTube videos - very irreverant. I'm also trying to get my Spanish back up to speed, so I'm reading Dune in Spanish.

[specious_reasons]

The last book club book was Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana. This is their first published novel, and it feels like it. There's some promise from the author here, but this is a very basic young-adult romantic fantasy.

Back to House of Leaves

[Miss Shelby]

Swallow the Ghost by Eugenie Montague. It's very good.

[JoeP]

A re-read (it's been a while) of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin.

[LarsMac]

Well, after nearly 60 years, I have abandoned Dune. All these years I held on the expectation that Herbert would come up with a Universe that fulfilled the promises of Human Destiny. Silly me. I don't care how the witches resolve the Universe. And there are far more interesting and optimistic visions of the future out there in today's SF worlds.

Also, I finished off MacDonald's McGee series.
And Thompson and Kerouac, They are back on the shelf, as well.
So, enough with the 20th Century Classics.


I was digging through my books in storage and came across and old Classic - The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy with Recipes, by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
A true Classic that I first read during Chef School.

It is a delightful read, and accompanied by a number of nice recipes.

I'll probably be in the Nineteenth Century for a while.