I re-read it earlier this year.
“Night Soldiers” by Alan Furst. A young fisherman is killed by a Fascist mob in a small Bulgarian town. His brother is recruited to join the KGB. After training in Moscow he’s sent to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
A great mix of atmosphere, action, and politics. Every character, from a Nazi pilot ot a Paris café owner is portrayed perfectly.
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. But I gotta step it up – Bookwyrm tells me I’m only 33% of the way to my reading goal for the year.
Its not new I don’t think, but my book club read “The Last Murder at the End of the World” by Stuart Turton this year and I loved it.
Been going through Project Gutenberg’s library recently and came across The Blue Castle.
Gave it a read and was pleasantly entertained.
Dungeon Crawler Carl. Been reading all summer, on book 8.
I usually don’t recommend people listen rather than read, but in this case do it! The audiobooks are hilarious. They do such a good job with them.
Really Carl! I can’t be held accountable for everything I say to a stripper!
agreed. The audio books really take it to another level.
and I’m glad they managed to get Jett the voice role of donut in the upcoming tv show (although it would be absolutely hilarious if they let him ADR every single character)
!dungeoncrawlercarl@lemmy.ca (although sadly very inactive)
I recently finished book 3. Fun series.
I hate them so much. I get that the pace is supposed to be frantic but half the time I felt like I was having a stroke because the text is full of that word does not mean what you think it means words.
Can you think of any examples of parts that felt like that? I can’t say I’ve noticed anything like that…
Both Clover Blue, and This I Know, by Eldonna Edwards.
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Extremely weird and engaging book that I can’t recommend enough, and although it’s cliche the city the book is set in, is definitely the main character. And the city shines in a well built creative way it feels lived in and varied, filled with class conflict and many strange and exciting aliens races which show the heights of creativity fantasy should be striving for. All in all can’t recommend more.
The Memory Police
It’s a dystopian novel by Japanese author Yoko Ogawa. It was first published back in the 90s, but recently (2019) translated to English by Stephen Snyder.
The way it’s written just has this haunting, surreal matter-of-fact-ness that I really enjoyed.
Chaucer’s Canterbury tales, but i think I can’t remember anything prior to this June
I remember reading some of the Canterbury tales in high school. Some of my favourite lit from HS probably. I should revisit it.
It’s just fucking incredivle
Been reading the Bobiverse book series by Dennis E. Taylor. Really fun series, though book 4 was a little tough to get through. Book 6 just came out on Audible but waiting for the workflow the print version. Weird that the audio one came out before print.
If you’re a fan of audio books, the series is read by Ray Porter who did an amazing job with Project Hail Mary so I assume they are good too.
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor. I rarely give books 5/5, but this one got it from me.
I read Buffalo Hunter Hunter earlier this year and loved every bit of it. It started me down a Stephen Graham Jones rabbit hole I’m still doing down.
I think it might have been the end of last year rather than this year, but: “Everything is Tuberculosis”
Incredibly well written and absolutely fascinating.
Probably They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran with an honorable mention (since I talked about it just this morning on lemmy) for How High We Go
