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Jun 19, 2020 07:10PM

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I really want to continue with the third book in Mistborn, but I needed a change so I'm currently reading The Three-Body Problem.


Am now on Book 5, Salamis

On my eReader finished The Ghosts of Tristan Basin which completes the Powder Mage novellas and completes that series. There is of course the new trilogy and related novellas but still waiting for the third novel to come out in paperback first before getting into that. Love this series though! Great characters, worldbuilding and very creative idea with the whole powder mage thing.
My new dead tree book will be Triplicity by Thomas M. Disch as it was a book that the library was giving away free, a discard from their bookfair they were collecting for, so will fill my "free" BINGO slot. I know nothing at all about this author nor the three books included in this book, will see how it goes!
And on my eReader, my next book will be The Royal Book of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson. I had intended to read other things before coming back to Oz but was curious to see what a different author would do in Baum's world after having read all of his novels.






Currently reading Leviathan Wakes finally after watching the first season or so of the Expanse.

Sounds like one for my to-read list!


Have to admit while I liked that first book, the second book in the Triplicity omnibus was not for me - The Genocides is a post-apocalyptic tale where giant trees are seeded from space and take over the world leaving only a handful of ruthless mean people alive. I guess those are the kind of people that survive these kinds of events but doesn't mean I like reading about them and their cruelties that go beyond the need to survive. Hopefully the third book will be good.

Yeah, I was only planning to read the first one, myself. Are they actually related in some way?

Other than being the same author, it's just an omnibus of three of his standalone books. Starting The Puppies of Terra today. This one seems pretty depressing too, but also an interesting concept, what if aliens came to earth and decided we made good pets?


Before I get into the 6th book, though, think I want to switch gears a little. Planning to start Dead Water by Ann Cleeves which is one of the Shetland mysteries.

Now on to something requiring less brain power, I'm going to complete The Mortal Instruments series with City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare

Next I'm starting Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

I think that's on my list.
I finished Promise of Blood, finally. Imager went back to the library, but I will get it back. I'm also listening to Brief Cases, which will then make me all caught up in the Dresden Files.

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