Wednesday Reading Meme April 24, 2024
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kitewithfishWhat I’ve Read:
The Darkness Outside Us – Eliot Schrefer – I really liked this and I managed to read it unspoiled. It was very much an impulse book and it was a very solid story with romance and a good tinge of space horror , but I can’t really discuss it without doing load of spoilers! If you want to chat about it, come into the comments and beware getting spoiled if you haven’t read it yet!
City of Miracles – Robert Jackson Bennett - Xing Book Club – Technically I read this for last Wednesday but I didn’t get done in time to write about it. This was a great example of how to do a trilogy so that the whole series builds on itself and the final book gets to wrap up the whole story. I didn’t think I would like Sigrud as much as I did, but he certainly works as final POV character, since he’s been here the whole time. He’s fun to read thru. Bennett really did land on some excellent development for the world he’d built. I really like the comparison of a city that was allowed to talk about its history rather than hide it.
What I’m Reading:
Children of Time (Xing book club)
Soulstar - CL Polk -static (I hate reading the final book in a trilogy and I think this is slowing me down.)
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York– Robert Caro – about 23% - No movement, I am officially behind on the podcast and I need to get on that.
The 99% Invisible podcast has special episodes on the chapters along this schedule, which I am trying to keep up with:
Reading schedule to the 99% Invisible Podcast reading schedule under the cut
Episode 3 — March 15 — Chapters 11 through 15 – done!
Episode 4 — April 19 — Chapters 16 through 20
Episode 5 — May 17 — Chapters 21 through 24
Episode 6 — June 21 — Chapters 25 through 26
Episode 7 — July 19 — Chapters 27 through 32
Episode 8 — August 16 — Chapters 33 through 34
Episode 9 — September 20 — Chapters 35 through 38
Episode 10 — October 18 — Chapters 39 through 41
Episode 11 — November 15 — Chapters 42 through 46
Episode 12 — December 20 — Chapters 47 through 50
Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkien – 17% -static
What I’ll Read Next:
The Witches of World War II
Some Desperate Glory
Wonder Woman Historia
Hugo Nominees:
Bea Wolf
Saga, Vol. 11
Translation State
Starter Villain
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
The Saint of Bright Doors
“Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition”
“Ivy, Angelica, Bay”
“On the Fox Roads”
“One Man’s Treasure”
“The Year Without Sunshine”
I AM AI
Rose/House
“Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet”
The Mimicking of Known Successes
Mammoths at the Gates
Thornhedge
“Seeds of Mercury”
The Culture: The Drawings
A City on Mars
A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller,
All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays
“Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld May 2023)
“Answerless Journey” / 没有答案的航程, 韩松,
“The Sound of Children Screaming”
“How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub”
“The Mausoleum’s Children”
The Darkness Outside Us – Eliot Schrefer – I really liked this and I managed to read it unspoiled. It was very much an impulse book and it was a very solid story with romance and a good tinge of space horror , but I can’t really discuss it without doing load of spoilers! If you want to chat about it, come into the comments and beware getting spoiled if you haven’t read it yet!
City of Miracles – Robert Jackson Bennett - Xing Book Club – Technically I read this for last Wednesday but I didn’t get done in time to write about it. This was a great example of how to do a trilogy so that the whole series builds on itself and the final book gets to wrap up the whole story. I didn’t think I would like Sigrud as much as I did, but he certainly works as final POV character, since he’s been here the whole time. He’s fun to read thru. Bennett really did land on some excellent development for the world he’d built. I really like the comparison of a city that was allowed to talk about its history rather than hide it.
What I’m Reading:
Children of Time (Xing book club)
Soulstar - CL Polk -static (I hate reading the final book in a trilogy and I think this is slowing me down.)
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York– Robert Caro – about 23% - No movement, I am officially behind on the podcast and I need to get on that.
The 99% Invisible podcast has special episodes on the chapters along this schedule, which I am trying to keep up with:
Reading schedule to the 99% Invisible Podcast reading schedule under the cut
Episode 3 — March 15 — Chapters 11 through 15 – done!
Episode 4 — April 19 — Chapters 16 through 20
Episode 5 — May 17 — Chapters 21 through 24
Episode 6 — June 21 — Chapters 25 through 26
Episode 7 — July 19 — Chapters 27 through 32
Episode 8 — August 16 — Chapters 33 through 34
Episode 9 — September 20 — Chapters 35 through 38
Episode 10 — October 18 — Chapters 39 through 41
Episode 11 — November 15 — Chapters 42 through 46
Episode 12 — December 20 — Chapters 47 through 50
Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkien – 17% -static
What I’ll Read Next:
The Witches of World War II
Some Desperate Glory
Wonder Woman Historia
Hugo Nominees:
Bea Wolf
Saga, Vol. 11
Translation State
Starter Villain
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
The Saint of Bright Doors
“Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition”
“Ivy, Angelica, Bay”
“On the Fox Roads”
“One Man’s Treasure”
“The Year Without Sunshine”
I AM AI
Rose/House
“Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet”
The Mimicking of Known Successes
Mammoths at the Gates
Thornhedge
“Seeds of Mercury”
The Culture: The Drawings
A City on Mars
A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller,
All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays
“Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld May 2023)
“Answerless Journey” / 没有答案的航程, 韩松,
“The Sound of Children Screaming”
“How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub”
“The Mausoleum’s Children”
