cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1757367
Here’s what I’m reading:
I’m going to stop reading A Dance with Dragons and the two Star Wars books for now and wrap up Empire, Incorporated and Determined while I continue on with Das Kapital.
Bonus question:
What do you PLAN to read later on?
Enjoy!
I just finished Dan Abnett’s The Magos, and it was actually pretty fucking rad, the best Abnett WH40K novel I’ve read (actually, listened to the audiobook) so far (I read Xenos, Hereticus and Malleus and this one was vastly superior)
Now I’m reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, and it’s pretty dope too, but also at times as dry as the dust storms it describes. Very good hard sci-fi, which is something I do enjoy immensely.
Next, I’ll go from WH40K slop to a bit of proper literature, something very grown-up, Grande Sertão: Veredas, by Guimarães Rosa, a great classic of Brazilian literature that I’ve been meaning to tackle for a very long time.
Now I’m reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, and it’s pretty dope too, but also at times as dry as the dust storms it describes. Very good hard sci-fi, which is something I do enjoy immensely.
I’ve been picking it up and putting it down on audio for a few weeks, and now that they’re on Mars it’s really got its hooks in me.
Just the descriptions of the geology is fascinating.
About to start Lanark by Alasdair Gray this morning. My partner gave me a copy when I was in rehab, and didn’t get to it then on account of doing hot girl rehab shit. Anyone read it?
That Sapolsky book is a lot of fun.
Working my way through “Blindsight” by Peter Watts. Fun little book about First Contact in an era when mankind’s alienation from itself has reached a singularity-esque extreme.
I’ve been rereading Lies My Teacher Told Me by Loewen for like 2 months now. Almost done, it’s been dragging and I’m avoiding it because he keeps showing his anti-communist and turning me off. I’m on the last two chapters now which are more meta than history, but that just made it worse because occasionally he’ll flat-out praise capitalism.🤢 It’s still a good intro to demythologizing US History, but I really wanna just read something else. I just hate leaving books unread, even if I’ve read them before. I’ve got a bunch of other interesting books to read like Perelman’s Invention of Capitalism,Tottle’s Fraud, Famine, and Fascism, and Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, but I think I might just pick up some paranormal romance slop as a palate cleanser first. I need to get myself back into wanting to read.
