Books

I just finished Dark Age from the Red Rising series. Started on the Light Bringer audiobook this morning while working! I haven't been this into a series in a long time so I've been blazing through it, though Dark Age was a bit of a slog for me so I'm hoping book six will pick up in pace a bit.

I also started The Colour of Magic last night to give myself a lighthearted option in between the heavier series. I've read more books this year I think than I ever have before thanks to the Book Bingo challenge keeping me motivated! :D

I ended up tearing through Babel by RF Kuang and finished it today. It was a solid 4/5. I think at times it was very in your face with the anticolonialism and racism but was probably very in line with the time frame. I would have enjoyed some more delving into how the magic system worked/was created as well. But if you can make etemology engaging i feel like you did a pretty good job.

Maybe now i can focus on finishing Lady of the Lake.

I'm 80% of the way through my star wars: aftermath book by chuck wendig. I plan to pivot to Billion Dollar Ransom by James Patterson after this, instead of reading the rest of the series. I will likely come back to the series after i read that Patterson book.

I am currently reading Legends of Localization Book 1: The Legend of Zelda by Clyde Mandelin as part of a readalong with a friend. It focuses on the first entry in the TLOZ series and I've found it really interesting so far. I hesitate on reading fanmade gaming history books cause I don't trust the information will be accurate or well-written but so far, so good.

I've just started another book (haven't even finished the prologue yet) with another friend called Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein. This book got on my radar after I found out the Laundromat film is based on it. I suspect to get mad at rich people's audacity by the end of it.

I need to start a new book, just finished the last one. It was a Sklyler Ramirez book, and I shared in a post this weekend that I strongly suspect him using AI to write. That said, the books are fine if you're in the market for some light scifi reading, I've read most of it in bed before sleeping.

Next will be "This inevitable ruin" by Matt Dinniman. I've read the first five DCC books early this year, and listened to "the eye of the Bedlam bride" this summer, so I'll just complete the series so far.

I'm currently almost completely through The Capital / Das Kapital by Karl Marx.