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Just finished Expanse 7 (and 7.5) novella. Loved them. Number 7 has been my favourite so far. Also just finished 3 novellas making a trilogy called Binti. I try to read authors different gender or race from me. Binti trilogy was a fun and interesting read. If you don't love it, after book 1 (around 150 pages) it wraps up in a way you wouldn't need to read the others.
Reading my first non-fic for the year now. I usually try to read 4-6 non-fiction out of my 30-35/year. Reading "Down With the System" by Serj Tankian. I'll probably make "Walking Disaster" and "Smart, but Scattered" two of my others this year.
Waiting for my reading buddy to catch up so I can start Stormlight 5 and read "Between Two Fires"
I was just thinking about messaging you the other day, to see where you disappeared to!
Will look up Binti novellas. How's Down With the System?
Haha the amount of time I spend on Lemmy Ebbs and flows depending on work, family, how angry I want to be, Etc.
Down with the System has been a good read. I saw a system live when I was young, and was very much into the punk rock, Alt rock, numetal scene. When I went to University, and later education, a lot of that stuff got put behind me for some reason. And the last 5 years, my children have been asking what music I like to listen to and my middle child is very much taking a liking to the aggressive nature of the music that I like.
So not only has reading this book being enjoyable because I quite like the band, it's had a bit of a Renaissance on my music habits.
From a literary standpoint, it's been very interesting to hear the band came to be on how much Armenia and the Armenian Genocide has played a role in their lives (granted I'm only ¾ done).
The other book I'm excited about comma Is Joe Abercrombie's "Devils" book. I still have the last Trilogy For the first law world Comma but this one looks promising too.
Edit: while plot wise, not everyone loves the mistborn second era as much as the first. But for me, the characters were so much better and I enjoyed the second era more than the first. Your mileage may vary, but I love Wayne
Hehe, glad to see you rediscovering your favourite music.
I think I am done with Abercrombie, as much as I like his books, he is too cruel to his characters. Let me know if Devils is any different, but I doubt so.
Well, the second era isn't as dreary, so that's a big plus for me. I do miss the complete badass-ness and power of Vin and Kelsier though. But I have just read the first book yet, so let's see how it progresses. Liking Wayne quite a bit. He is weird. 😀