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I haven’t gotten as much reading in this month as I had hoped to.
Started the month with Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weird (of “The Martian” fame). Truly an excellent story, and while it is not nearly as crunchy with it’s sciene as The Martian, it was fun, with a touching ending that really caught me by surprise. I’m not a scientition, so I can’t speak to some of the more esoteric things that make up the plot, but it was a tightly, well written story that left me wanting just a little bit more.
As that was for my book club, I jumped right into the next book for the club, Flowers for Algernon. As a Gen-X kid, I read the short story several times, including once in an English class in high school. This was my first time reading the full novel that the author eventually put together, after the short story, the movie, and a few other versions were done. The story is FAR more involved, and touches on a lot more adult themes. Charlie, bless him, is a mess. The ending is absolutely heartbreaking, and to me personally touches on one of my biggest, deepest terrors, and is portrayed in such an organic way, I knew it was coming and still got blindsided. Great book, highly recommend!
I have started on The Final Empire, by Brandon Sanderson, first of the Mistborn series, after being told by pretty much everyone I knew who had read it that I was missing out. I’m not far in, but it’s creative worldbuilding is enough to keep me going until the characters catch me.
I’m also slogging my way through 2 bathroom books, one being one of the Dune Prequal books (it’s not great, hence it being a bathroom book) and the other being The light hearted “A Phule and his Money”, a pun filled action-comedy by Robert Asprin and Peter J Heck.
Finished For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga, by Robert Sobel, an alternate history with a different ending to the American Revolution. It’s presented as a scholarly work, and while it has an elaborate scheme of worldbuilding, it’s not very interesting.
Next up: Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, by Seanan McGuire, one of her Wayward Children fantasies, and Mapping the Interior, by Stephen Graham Jones, a horror novella.
Finished it. Highly recommended for any sf fan, and anyone interested in space exploration.
Now reading The Passage by Justin Cronin, about a secret government research project on Death Row inmates that leads to… well, very bad things, I’ll just say. It’s slow getting started but I’ve been fully drawn in.
I’m halfway through The History of Money by Jack Weatherford. It’s interesting, but the author is kind of fast and loose with his take on the facts.