I have read Fourth Wing but not the sequels. It was entertaining but not super more so than other similar books I've read, so I don't quite get why it's getting SOOO much love? But whatever.
I spent part of the afternoon downloading about 5 years worth of books from my amazon account--I didn't bother with most of the trashy romances I'll never re-read, and the last couple years I've bought relatively little because I read more from Kindle Unlimited and the library, but it was still a lot of books. And apparently I hadn't done it in 5 years. And then I made sure Calibre was up to date and de-DRMd them all. Had a random bunch that wouldn't, but when I added my kindle serial number to the de-DRM plugin, it worked. Yay! It's stupid, because it's not even like I'm doing anything other than making it easier to load these onto my iPad or future reading devices if I want? (yes, I can read in the kindle app on my iPad but sometimes I want to just download a series and not see all the other many books, so I side load from Calibre and read from iBooks). I'm not out here pirating my book hoard. The most I've done is let my sister read some of them. I don't even know how to pirate books these days! (Let's not talk about years ago, what I may have known or done). But it annoys me and makes me WANT to give copies of more of these books to friends. Hrmph. I feel curmudgeonly, but it did help distract me from the burning of our republic!
Maybe the character will show up in one of the other novels.
That would be interesting! I wouldn’t mind more history. I’m also hoping there’s more about the ring, assuming it’s return will have repercussions
A bunch of Terry Pratchett ebooks are on sale at Amazon: [link]
I was listening to Island of the Sequined Love Nun (I am lackadaisically working my way through Christopher Moore's oeuvre in between other things as I feel like it. I do like his stuff but haven't wanted to really wallow in it) on the way to work this morning and came to a scene where a jet narrowly avoids hitting a helicopter and it just . . . felt very weird? I don't know that I have a word for that.
I just saw where Asimov's and F&SF have a new owner (along with Analog but I haven't read that one in a long time). I hope that's good news, especially for F&SF where the owner seems to have been the source of quite a bit of the rocky road they've been on. That's two thirds of my magazine subscriptions, I did not realize I had all my eggs in so few baskets.
I have finished the Dungeon Crawler Carl books they are awesome..
I just finished The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love. Which is a zany romp about a hitman and a PI.
The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love.
Ha, this series was bonkers. I don't think I read all 7 (IIRC the writing quality degraded and they started to get repetitive) but I do remember liking the first one.
I'm reading the second one and I can see where it could get repetitive.
I'm trying to read Primal Hunter which is the LitRPG series my co worker recommended but so far it's a slog and I don't really like the main character. I read somewhere it starts to pick up more but right now I'm just....feeling like there are too many words to describe things and not enough action
Totally forgot that I had pre-ordered The Tomb of Dragons so that feels like a nice gift from past me. How much have I forgotten that happened to Thara Celehar in previous books? Hopefully there will be reminders of the important stuff
I read
The Thursday Murder Club,
by Richard Osman, a week or so ago and really enjoyed it. I could easily see it as a series on BritBox, with a bunch of older RSC actors. I understand they’re making something for Netflix out of it.
