Just finished Arthas, and just started with Cyberpunk’s No Coincidence. So far, reads well!

If DCC hasn't put you off litrpg entirely, I'm really enjoying Chrysalis by RhinoZ. Brutally neglected kid is reincarnated as an ant monster and enjoys being part of a loving family (colony) 👍

There is a weekly thread on the books com about what everyone is reading you may want to check out.

This weeks post

I am reading the river has roots by amal el-mohtar. This lady has such a nice way of writing its so refreshing and enjoyable to read. Ive always been terrible at writing and communicating ideas. She inspires me to write and just try and express thoughts in a flowery manner. Its like the text is imbued with emotion.

The book is cool because the magic is called grammar and to the average person its just grammar as is but to the magically inclined it can be transformed and weaves there is a land that exists where time is flexible. She explains the magic of the world while also showing it by transformating the sentences through past current and future tense. Its a short book I got it yesterday and I'll finish it next time I pick it up.

Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"

Wikipedia's description is pretty good:

In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal economic policies promoted by Milton Friedman and the Chicago school of economics have risen to global prominence because of a deliberate strategy she calls "disaster capitalism". In this strategy, political actors exploit the chaos of natural disasters, wars, and other crises to push through unpopular policies such as deregulation and privatization. This economic "shock therapy" favors corporate interests while disadvantaging and disenfranchising citizens when they are too distracted and overwhelmed to respond or resist effectively. The book challenges the narrative that free market capitalist policies have been welcomed by the inhabitants of regions where they have been implemented, and it argues that several man-made events, including the Iraq War, were intentionally undertaken with the goal of pushing through these unpopular policies in their wake.

Hacker book club is reading The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin and I'm enjoying it so far. First novel I'm reading in a long time 😅

I just finished Cormac McCarthy's top 3 again (blood meridian, the road and no country for old men). I started reading them again right after he died but kinda rushed through. This reading I really took my time. Finished a few other books in that time as well. But currently I'm reading "Krieg" which is from the Warhammer 40k universe.

Ryan North - How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

More interesting and funny than I had expected, not too heavy, ideal for now.

I am more litrpg and cosmic horror

I quite like He Who Fights With Monsters. An Australian get isekai'd to an almost earth and gains vast cosmic powers while getting the crap beaten out of him and dealing with the consequences of running his mouth off to authority.

Another is Speedrunning the Multiverse. The god king of time is bored and reincarnates to see how fast he can grow his powers back to god king level and not for the first time. Interesting read if you like amoral main characters.

Beyond the aquillo rift is a bunch of cosmic horror short stores and a couple made it into the Death, Love, and Robots Netflix series.

Nope. I'm on book 5 of Dungeon Crawler Carl. It's trash and I love it. Listening to the audiobook. That absolutely matters in this case. Hell, they got the audiobook narrator voicing Princess Donut for the live-action series. The cat is going to be voiced off-screen/dubbed in since, you know, cats don't actually speak, but we don't know how they're going to do the cat. I'm assuming some kind of CGI, since she wears glasses, a tiara, and has various other adornments. Not to mention shoots lasers out of her eyes.

Never got into the Holly Gibney books by Stephen King. I read the first two Mr Mercedes and Finders Keepers, but I couldn't get into the third one, so I didn't read the standalone ones, either. Also, I watched The Outsider on TV and thought it sucked, so I didn't bother with the book. Also, the subject matter makes me uncomfortable, so that's another barrier to entry.

I think I might read the Expanse series next. There are nine books in the series, and that's just the books. There are a bunch of short stories. The TV show adapted the first six books and some of the stories (as they provide background). There's a whole reading list for the series, and I have it ready to go whenever.

I also want to re-read the Vampire Chronicles series. I read Interview With the Vampire a long time (25+ years) ago, and after watching the AMC series, and watching the 1994 film again, I want to go back to the source material. I started The Vampire Lestat back then, but never finished it. I think I read it after seeing the movie, and I liked Claudia's story because the actress was about my age at the time. So it was hard to move onto the next one. I heard she gets more content later, though. (Worth noting that while in the movie she was 11 or 12, and in the AMC series she was 14, in the books she was five. Very different ages, very different personality types. So, very different characters.)

A Desolation Called Peace. It's the sequel to A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. Very strongly recommended. Really excellent political SciFi thrillers with amazing world building, really good character work and a lot to say about the nature of culture as a form of power.

I never reread books, but right now I’m rereading Jurassic Park which I first read back before the movie had even come out.

It’s such a weird experience. It’s been over thirty years and yet some of the details come right back as I’m reading. And weird things like remembering exactly where I was when reading a particular chapter.

But at the same time how I’d originally pictured the characters? Who knows; it’s completely lost to me; they’ve all now been replaced with the actors from the movie.

Last two books were Dark Blood by Stuart MacBride, I like this detective series so far but I need at least a few months between books. And this week I finished La Chica del Lago by Mikel Santiago, mistery novel, not bad.

Now I want to change genre, I'm thinking about reading Olvidado Rey Gudú by Ana María Matute.