What else are you reading - June 2023

[Robert]

Tamahome wrote: "Good luck on Blood Meridian. Here's some reading tips by Ben McEvoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If1Su..."

Thanks for that. I'm also listening to the audiobook, which is free for Audible members, and helped me in the beginning. The novel is short but the prose is thick as molasses and feels almost like a nihilistic James Lee Burke, one of my favorite authors. The lack of quotation marks threw me off at first. The use of the N-word initially threw me off when used in the third person, but I realized it really isn't really the third person.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Tamahome wrote: "Good luck on Blood Meridian. Here's some reading tips by Ben McEvoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If1Su..."

OMG that video is over an hour long. Are there Cliff Notes available?

[Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth]

Trike wrote: "Currently listening to The Blood Trials. If you were fine with the way death was handled in the dragon academy in Fourth Wing, then you’ll like this."

Deaths aside, how is The Blood Trials?

[Joseph]

Finished The Hand of Chaos (fifth in the Death Gate Cycle) and had to pivot to Thieves' World for an upcoming book club discussion I'm taking part in.

[Tamahome]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "Tamahome wrote: "Good luck on Blood Meridian. Here's some reading tips by Ben McEvoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If1Su..."

OMG that video is over an hour long. Are there Cliff Notes available?..."

That is the Cliff Notes.

[Robert]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "Tamahome wrote: "Good luck on Blood Meridian. Here's some reading tips by Ben McEvoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If1Su..."

OMG that video is over an hour long. Are there Cliff Notes availa..."

This channel goes through the book by chapters. So it's even longer. There's a whole playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD...

[Trike]

Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth wrote: "Trike wrote: "Currently listening to The Blood Trials. If you were fine with the way death was handled in the dragon academy in Fourth Wing, then you’ll like this."
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Very violent, very angsty, very Mary Sue-y.

I’m not quite at the halfway point and it’s been clear for quite a long time she’s setting up an “enemies to lovers” situation. The surprise will be if she doesn’t. So far it’s a 1-star book.

[Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth]

Trike wrote: "Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth wrote: "Trike wrote: "Currently listening to The Blood Trials. If you were fine with the way death was handled in the dragon academy in [book:Fourth Wing|614..."

Good to know - it was one I’d considered reading, but I suspect I would have similar feelings.

[Ruth]

Just finished the audiobook of Translation State, excellent as is everything I’ve read by Ann Leckie. Now I’m starting a modern classic of space opera, Old Man's War by John Scalzi.

[Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth]

Ruth wrote: "Just finished the audiobook of Translation State, excellent as is everything I’ve read by Ann Leckie. Now I’m starting a modern classic of space opera, [book:Old Ma..."

Wasn’t it though! Eeee!

And I do love Old Man’s War. That whole series is great.

[Trike]

Paused that other book in order to preserve my sanity and keep my IQ from slipping into couple digits. I can’t afford to lose bits of either.

Looking at my TBR purchases, I settled on Embers of War by Gareth L. Powell, a space opera about the crew of the sentient rescue ship Trouble Dog. I enjoyed the other book of his I read, and so far at the 25% mark this one is just as good.

[Trike]

I’ve also gone on a bit of spending spree this month, buying SFF-related art books: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct7Rlw3v7...

Traverse: Vehicles from the Outer Rim of Imagination

Alien: The Blueprints

Space: 1999 Moonbase Alpha Technical Operations Manual

Star Trek Designing Starships: Deep Space Nine and Beyond

MARVEL STUDIOS' SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS: THE ART OF THE MOVIE

Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971