Becoming the Pastor’s Wife by Beth Allison Barr.

Just about to finish Blindsight by Peter Watts. I’m slightly ambivalent, since I love the big ideas it’s built around, but the characters and their interactions are stunted and uninteresting. Plot isn’t really there either. It’s the ideas that carry this book. I think I’m most impressed with Peter writing in a main character who has gone through hemispherectomy - a very real and dramatic medical procedure - as a child, since I never thought I’d see that. It’s cool. But I struggle to call this book “hard sci-fi”, even if a lot of the concepts are very real. Maybe it’s the vampire character that feels like a total contrivance.

I’m about half way through To Kill a Mockingbird. I went in blind and I haven’t enjoyed a book this much in a long while.

I just binged the entire Hitchhikers Guide series, so I took a couple of weeks off after finishing “And Another Thing” to digest everything.

This week I started listening to New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson.

This is the first audio book I’ve listened to with a cast of people each doing characters, and it’s a bit different, so I’ll see how I feel about it in the long run.

My desk book (for when I take small breaks and want a short story) is still The Martians by KSR, although I realized I never finished Asimov’s The Complete Stories Vol 1 that used to be on my desk, so I think I may pull it back out next.

I just finished Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. It was not what I was expecting and I didn’t really enjoy it. I thought the Octopus would have been more than just a plot device, the book was very boring and predictable.

Currently re-reading the Hunger Games trilogy. I read it when it first came out and it was the first real post apocalyptic dystopian fiction I was introduced to and really enjoyed it but I couldn’t make it through the movies.

Stalking the Wild Pendulum by Itzhak Bentov

About halfway through NK Jemisin’s weighty “The City We Became” (2000).

Back in February I realized it felt a bit off to be binge-rereading (dismal racist) HP Lovecraft’s complete works throughout Black History Month, so I pledged to balance it out with something equally weird by an author of color. Lovecraft may rightly be called the founding father and foremost pioneer of the “cosmic horror” genre - but as far as technical skill, his storytelling technique never evolved past amateurish.

I’m about half way though Principles of Product Development Flow and The Sleepwalkers. Just finished Lean Customer Development and tomorrow I write a review on it and start Lean Enterprise.

I just finished Into the Blue by Emma Brodie. I found it quite enjoyable for a romance.

Just finished this little book - sir Pratchetts “shaking hands with death” a speech he gave

I’m partway through Red Rising per a recommendation from a friend. Taking a break from my charge through all of Brandon Sanderson’s works to appreciate some different writing styles.

Seems like a small thing, but I really like Pierce Brown’s use of the true first person perspective. It gives the book an almost poetic feel and its not something I’ve seen used very often in fiction.

I just finished “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer. Makes me NEVER want to get into mountain climbing as going up Everest sounds insane. Even if you remove the storm and the deaths, I don’t want to spend weeks getting acclimatized to an environment where humans don’t belong just so I can freeze my buns off.

Currently I am reading The Monk by Matthew Lewis, which is a gothic horror book. I guess the biggest themes are temptation, love and the concept of sin, but I have read only the first book out of three. Still light on the horror side of things, but all the elements are in their places for plot to start to unravel quite menacingly.

Other book is Mirabilis by Anni Kytömäki. I am struggling through, because it was loaned to my by a friend to discuss about.

I just started reading Killing in War by Jeff McMahan, and while it’s a really difficult read, his views on liability to be attacked in a war are really interesting. I’d recommend if you’re interested in ethics and morality to check it out!

On chapter 50/77 of DCC book #5, The Butcher’s Masquerade.

Had a few months break from DCC to re-listen (3rd time) to Project Hail Mary before the movie came out and a few others. Back at it and loving it again.