Well, after reading the Hand of Thrawn Duology and Star Wars: Choices of One (I really enjoyed that one), I’m finally reading the Canon Thrawn Trilogy.
Though, while a lot of people say that the new Thrawn Trilogy is better than the original, I don’t know; I personally haven’t been as interested in what I’ve read so far (which is only the first six chapters of Thrawn). However, it might just be that I’m biased towards Legends over the new Canon…
Just finished Children of Hurin. It was incredible but dang so freaking sad.
Is that related to the guy with the talking sword in LOTR?
Just finished Cloud Atlas for my AP literature class
These are two books that I’m currently reading (more focused on the first)
I’m currently reading the Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters. There’s also a really good tv series based on the books that was made by PBS a while back.
There was one or two bits that weirded me out but otherwise I enjoyed it on my readthrough. The plane nerd side of me went bananas when the F4U Corsairs showed up, despite the context.
I enjoyed playing Outer Wilds which deals with that concept of grappling with your mortality so maybe I’ll have a look-see of that book, that sounds interesting.
right now I’m reading edith grossman’s translation of Don Quixote
it’s pretty good
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Kind of a history of the western home (The author is English so it is kind of Eurocentric in scope) where the author goes through all the rooms of his house and dissects all the things that we take for granted about a home and how even major world events have made their way into our homes. Really interesting melting pot of trivia.
do my college course books count?
I finished the first book of Glen Cook’s The Black Company recently, and while I enjoyed it fairly well for the most part, the last couple hours managed to end the book in a way that was way more satisfying than I had expected. Definitely recommend it if you’re looking for a good gritty fantasy setting (though be warned its a lil dark at times). I recently started Anthony Ryan’s Blood Song, which has the classic feel of a coming of age story set in a warrior academy trope. Given that premise, I’m enjoying it more than I thought I would, and am really engaged so far.
Also,
amazing game. It’s not a book, but if anyone wants an amazing sci-fi story, play it.
I’ve been reading several Agatha Christie mysteries lately. It’s always interesting seeing the characters who recur throughout the Poirot stories (and a few who appear in her non-Poirot novels as well)!
Been reading A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman.
I currently read through a list of books in preparation for my German literature canon exam at the end of the semester.
I will be questioned about 30 plays and stories and 10 poems. Ranging ca.1650-2000 a.d…
Here’s some of them:
Lessing (Emilia Galotti), Gryphius (Comica Absurda), Goethe (Faust), Schiller (Intrigue and Love), Kafka (Metamorphosis), Büchner (Woyzeck), Storm (Rider on the white horse), Keller (Romeo and Juliet of the Village), Klaus Mann (Mephisto), Hoffmann (Sandman), Toller (Man and the Masses), Brecht (Three Penny Opera), Schnitzler (Leutnant Gustl), Borchert (The Man Outside), Dürrenmatt (The Physicians)
Edit:
Here’s some more:
Lenz (The Soldiers), Kleist (The Broken Jug), Schlink (The Reader)
Oh wow, we read Emilia Galotti in school… I’m not the biggest fan to say the least.
By any chance, does your exam include “Der Besuch der alten Dame” by Friedrich Dürrenmatt? That’s another school lecture we read the year earlier, and I really like that one.
I already handed in my list (i had like 200+ titles to choose from) and “The Physicians” is the only Dürrenmatt on mine. Haven’t read “Der Besuch der alten Dame” yet and it looks like i will be occupied with my current books for a while.
Well, I’ve certainly read a lot since last posting here. I finished up the first Black Company trilogy, and while I still like the first book the best, it’s still a solid trilogy overall, and each book felt like it brought something unique.
I’m 4/5ths of the way through the third Malazan book Memories of Ice, and while I adored the middle of the book, it feels kida aimless toward the end (plus, I just haven’t found much time for non-audiobook reading).
I am currently on the third book of William R. Forstchen’s Lost Regiment series, which is what if a ship full of Union soldiers from the US’s Civil War got isekaied onto an alien planet with 8ft tall man eating nomadic alien cavaliers, as well as a handful of other human civilizations which have been displaced over time. It’s a pretty ridiculous premise, but is played pretty straight. The characters are ok, but as the author has a doctorate in Civil War history as well as an education in technological advancement, it is the battles and logistics/strategies/technology development that really steals the show. It’s maybe a little patriotic in a sappy way, but honestly, I like patriotic 'murican action from time to time.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, but large-scale?
Pretty much.
Been rotating through William Black’s Yolande, Paige Parker’s Observations on the Human Condition, Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth, Carlo Rovelli’s Helgoland, and Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind. All very interesting for their own reasons
