Both Doyle and Tolkien are a little too dry and dated for me to enjoy. But I love their characters!

I'm impatient for story right now, anything page-turning, so I couldn't get into Evvie Drake Starts Over, although I loved her style. I'm going to try again when I'm in another mood.

Looking for something new to read right now, actually.

I'm finding The Future of Another Timeline super compelling if you like that sort of thing. It is irritating that I have to do things like sleep and work rather than read it.

I always love the idea of time travel, but I wind up getting confused repeatedly.

I'm not confused yet, but only about halfway through. The characters are wonderful, though. Riot geeks and suffragettes, basically a couple hundred years of intersectional feminism.

I just finished Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep which I somehow missed on release (I think my Seanan McGuire alerts missed the pseudonym). It was creepy! Definitely see why it fell under her Mira Grant name, but I definitely found it scarier than Feed, though only a horror wimp like me would probably say so.

Well, I've read both ... perhaps it's that in Feed they know what they're dealing with and how to live with it - it's their normal. In the other, the people don't realize what they're going to face and if there's any way to deal with it.

That's probably it.

Space Opera fans, anybody read the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers? I enjoyed the first one and LOVED the second one, but haven't read the third. The characterizations in the second one were extremely compelling, and reviews of the third make me think that might be gone so I'm waiting a while.

I've read the first three (there's a new novella I haven't gotten to yet) and really enjoyed them all, but the second was my favorite for sure.

It was so good.

I went ahead and grabbed the third one as an audiobook. More episodic things work for me when I'm washing dishes.

Love the Wayfarers books. The new novella is a different beast but also very good.