Books

I just finished No Longer Human last night. Haven't breezed through a book like that in quite awhile!

Elantris, Warbreaker and started The Way of Kings, all by Brandon Sanderson. Read Mistborn Era 1 a couple years ago and loved it, finally decided to jump head in into the Cosmere.

I have read Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders.

I can recommend it to anyone who are interested in the politics of US. Bernie talked about the main problems in the US. He talked about discrimination, the corruption, populism, wealth distribution and the negative effect of far capitalism overall.

The best bit of the book in my opinion, that you will understand why's the society so against socialism's ideas, even if it would significantly improve their life in many cases.

• Always Coming Home - Ursula K. LeGuin - I absolutely loved this book. I'm still keep thinking about the Kesh people that this book explores. Very strange read, absolutely recommended.

• The Fifth Season - N K Jemisin - Really enjoyed this book. The way it uses perspective was really great. The ending felt okay. I'm definitely going to be picking up the next one sometime soon.

Currently reading Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer, which has been a fascinating read thus far, but I'm only halfway through.

After that I'm planning on reading Among Others by Jo Walton (I loved her Thessaly series)

I finished:

• The Harlem Renaissance by Cary D. Wintz
• L'Âge des low-tech by Philippe Bihouix
• High Rise by J.G. Ballard
• Elle et son chat by Makoto Shinkai
• Judaism: A Very Short Introduction
• Berlin Stories by Robert Walser

Manna - Marshall Brain

I just finished No Longer Human last night. Haven't breezed through a book like that in quite awhile!

• Gardens of the moon by Steven Erickson - a reread. Finished the original 10 books a few years ago. Decides to poke around again. This time around has been such a different experience. I'm now thinking I'm gonna do the rest of the other 9 books again.

• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. A really good movie. Decided to try the book. An interesting read for sure. Psychological thriller, with far realm adjacent imagery. About 70% done. Don't think I'll be reading the whole trilogy, though.

• Periodo Street Station by China Mieville. I don't know what I think of this one. It seems to be sort of self masterbatory about how unique and wacky the world is. The actual story is scattered and completely lacks focus. The characterization is C+ at best. Full chapters of just wandering though the streets of the city showing small vignettes of peoplea lives from an omniscient pov, that seems to hint at a connection to the main story but is just tiresome to read. The main characters are a poor knock off of Doc Brown, and his girlfriend, a scarab beetle with a human body. I mean the head is the whole beetle legs and all. They are sort of mad scientist beetniks in socially forbidden love. This book just isn't for me I think.

• God's Demon by Wayne Barlow. Barlow is a concept artist who often works with Guillermo del Toro. It's a sorry about a demon lord in hell. Aka ex-angel who fell with Lucifer. And has decided to find his way back to heaven and is leading an army to get there. It's okay. The imagery is great. I don't love the characters so it's hard to get invested.

I read The City & The City by China Mieville and some bits of Psychogeography by Will Self.

I would recommend the first one, especially if you like detective stories (and games like Disco Elysium).

I'm not sure about the second, it's a collection of columns and the throughline isn't as good as I'd hoped.

I’ve been working my way through the Sandman graphic novels 

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Boys from Biloxi

Michael Connelly:

• The black box
• The concrete blonde
• The last Coyote

I am open for recommendations

Tasha's cauldron of everything... DnD rulebook.

The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch - I really enjoyed this storytelling and plot about multiple dimensions and timelines and murder. Thrilling and exciting.

Hopped around a few different genres but really enjoyed all the books I read in June:

• The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent
• The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

Swan Light by Phoebe Rowe - I really enjoyed this book telling two connected stories that occurred 100 years apart in parallel, centering around a lighthouse in Newfoundland that collapsed into the ocean and the search to find it.

The Weight of Air by David Poses - Autobiographical book advocating for harm reduction approaches in treating addiction. I was sad to see that the author passed away last year, it's clear that his book has helped a lot of people.

-Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

-Normal People by Sally Rooney

-How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (personal favorite for this month)!

-Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

-I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

-Happy Place by Emily Henry

-Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford

-The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

-The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle

-Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

-Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

-Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose

-Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

-Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

-Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

-Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth

-Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy

I've re-read the first Harry Potter. It's been so long since I last read it. I felt that it really wasn't poorly written. Sure it's a children's book but i looked reading it. And I've started reading flatland

Kept it pretty lowkey in June, read only two books: Loop by Koji Suzuki (3rd book in the Ring series) and Osamu Dazai's recently translated The Flowers of Buffoonery.

I got sucked back into One Piece, the anime I sorta dropped, put on eternal hold

So I figured I’d start the manga and give it a go, it’s much more enjoyable ^^

I read the Cradle series by Will Wight. Lots of fun! Interesting magic system, fun progression as the main characters get more and more powerful through the books.

It's not like I don't have a huge TBR list, but even so I keep getting seduced back into reading the Aubrey/Maturin series. They're just too good and every re-read reveals a little nugget of something wonderful you missed before.

So I read Desolation Island, The Fortune Of War, The Surgeons Mate and The Ionian Mission.

Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell. They both describe, in a very creative way, the totalitarian regimes of the '40s, especially the soviet one. They give you an insight of what freedom should be, and what are the systems used by dictators to control the popultation: poverty, ignorance, fear, etc.

Worth reading!

Working on three body problem. I dont know if anyone else have a hard time with translated works, but I always feel like some part of the book is missing when translated. Like iboixk up on a few context clues that something should be known.

Anyways I'm enjoying it, just lots of extra lookin things up, makes it a bit tedious.

I read Factfullness by hans rosling, would recommend if you want a different outlook in these seemingly dark times

A few Animorphs and the Well of Ascension. I have a few active challenges on Storygraph.