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[Roger, Knight Radiant]

For anyone looking for a small dose of litRPG/cultivation books I highly recommend Unsouled. This book is a novel first and a system second, which is not always the case for the litRPG genre. There are no stats in this book but there are ranks/progression. If you were curious at all about the genre I'd recommend giving it a try. If you want some other recommendations or just to chat about your favorite litRPGs feel free to drop me a line.

[Mary]

Terrors of Pangaea by John C. Wright

[Mike]

I have been trying to work in classic sci-fi and fantasy works. Two recent books:

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester. Winner of the very first Hugo Award in 1953. In short, a business tycoon in the future wants to murder his business rival, but the police of the future include telepaths which make committing murder, much less getting away from it, seemingly impossible. I liked this a lot (4 stars) and think it holds up well even by today's standards.

Golem100 also by Alfred Bester. Yikes. Mostly written in the 70's, this was very much an experimental book with a lot of different ideas thrown in, which led to an incoherent mess. I admire the risk even if I didn't like the end result. (2 stars)

[Mary]

The Ball and the Cross by G.K. Chesterton

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Laura wrote: "Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (Absolutely loved this book)"

I read this last January; loved it.

This week I finished a nonfiction book as well as Here and Now and Then and Witches Abroad and The Silent Patient.

[Carrie]

Finished Dragonflight yesterday, great book.

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

How have you guys been reading Dragonflight so fast?? Feb 1 somebody already had an energy cell for it.

[Mary]

The Last Human by Lee Bacon

[rin]

I just completed the Bobiverse trilogy (and looking forward to Bobiverse #4 later this year). I wonder if it would be a good book to recommend to people who liked - or wanted to like - Ready Player One? (Because of the pop culture references.)

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

I finished Age of Empyre, concluding the series. Bittersweet end.

I have Bobiverse on my list.

[Mary]

Ghost in the Council by Jonathan Moeller

[Mary]

Company of Strangers by Melissa McShane

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Mary wrote: "Company of Strangers by Melissa McShane"

Melissa is awesome! We ended up talking and talking at a dinner last spring.

[Mary]

Audrey wrote: "Mary wrote: "Company of Strangers by Melissa McShane"

Melissa is awesome! We ended up talking and talking at a dinner last spring."

book is good thus far

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

She has a lot of books out.

[Mary]

Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

[Mike]

The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura

[Carrie]

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

[Mary]

Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth by John C. Wright

[Mike]

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Worth the hype. Enjoyed it a lot.

[rin]

Finished Odalisque ... it felt like wading through treacle. I really want to like this series more than I do and encountering the occasional brilliant device in Stephenson's writing is wonderful. But I don't like any of the MCs and this instalment's presentation mostly as letters felt like it dragged...

[Mary]

The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters by Keith Ammann

[Vinca]

Emmeline wrote: "Finished Odalisque ... it felt like wading through treacle. I really want to like this series more than I do and encountering the occasional brilliant device in Stephenson's writing..."

I'm reading this series in the three-volume version, which combines the 8 shorter books together, often interleaving chapters from each to make the story flow better. I'm on the second book at the moment and I consider it a long term reading project. I love Stephenson's writing but just find it gets too heavy to read all in one go. It took me a long time after finishing the first book before I felt ready to read the second one - we're talking years here - but I'm enjoying it as a book that I read a little bit of between other books.

[rin]

Sounds like you've arrived at a methodology for reading it that gets you the most out of it. :)

Unfortunately when I read a book in tiny stints between other books the stints tend to get shorter, longer-in-between and more "what was going on again?" when they do occur until they fade to nothing...

[Vinca]

Emmeline wrote: "
Unfortunately when I read a book in tiny stints between other books the stints tend to get shorter, ..."

That is exactly why I've been half way through the first book in The Wheel of Time series for about two years 😂

[Mary]

A Middle-earth Traveller: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor by John Howe

[Mary]

Stone of Inheritance by Melissa McShane

[Mary]

Mortal Rites by Melissa McShane

[Kirsten]

The last book I finished was Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan. I thought it was great fun. Now, I really want to watch the film.

[Veronica]

The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley - really enjoyed it.

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Just finished The Last Wish - was really good and I’d like to read more!

[Mary]

False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine by Theodore Dalrymple

[rin]

Provenance by Ann Leckie - I "read" the "booktrack edition" on Audible which had ambient electronic music throughout. I didn't really think it enhanced the listening experience although it wasn't too intrusive and occasionally harmonised with times the book's pace or conflict escalated. The story has similarities to The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, having a lot of focus on interpersonal drama between the characters and a generally friendly optimistic tone, at the same time it feels like it's more weighty, with exploration of how our artefacts inform us about our culture and our meaning. It's set in the world of the Imperial Radch Trilogy but requires no knowledge of Ancillary Justice and its sequels to pick up. Three stars.

[Mary]

Shifting Loyalties by Melissa McShane

[Mary]

Sands of Memory by Melissa McShane

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

I've gone from Necromancers in space ( Gideon the Ninth) to steampunk elves (The Goblin Emperor(. It's been an odd few genre mashing books in a row.

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

It's weird how your books just happen to relate, or not. I ended up reading two books in a row about a psychiatrist at an asylum for the criminally insane.

[Freya, Dragon Rider]

I've just finished Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhii (and managed to even write a mini review - yay!).
It was a subject I thought I should learn more about and was both fascinating and disturbing

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Freya wrote: "I've just finished Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhii (and managed to even write a mini review - yay!).
It was a subject I thought I should learn more about and was both fascinating ..."

I was just looking at that; I bet it was fascinating and disturbing.

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

As a friend of mine said, "We're how many years after Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and no superpowers yet?"

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

lol

[Mary]

The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China by Mark Elliott

[Veronica]

I recently finished Inda as part of a BR.

[Mary]

Giants of Pangaea by John C. Wright

[Mary]

Agatha H. and the Siege of Mechanicsburg by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio

[Mary]

Magic User: Reborn in Another World as a Max Level Wizard (Light Novel) Vol. 1 by Mikawa Souhei

[Mary]

Trolls: An Unnatural History by John Lindow

[Mary]

Witchfinder by Sarah A. Hoyt

[Mary]

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 by Kamome Shirahama

[ASHreads]

Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton