Ken Follet - The Evening and the Morning

My uncle wrote this

Girl dinner

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227871604-tom-s-crossing

Does this count?

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I'm like 2 chapters in to the 3rd Dresden files book. One of my friends recommended the series to me but I'm still not really sold on it... at least they're pretty short.

Book 7 of " Dungeon crawler Carl " series by Matt Dinniman.

Fun stuff. I feel like I'm getting drunk just reading it.

Shares a lot with Dungeon Crawler Carl but takes itself a little more seriously. I’m on book 5 or 14.

Enshittification by Cory doctorow

Do not read in public, at work, during lunch breaks.... but, a very vivid graphic novel about society's voyeristic views of sex and violence.

Accidentally read book #4 first and am now going back to read the first one.

Been enjoying most of these stories. A few fall flat though.

You’re under arrest?

I put down Kingdoms of Death by Christopher Ruocchio to read Project Hail Mary before the movie comes out. Both good books. I'm enjoying Hail Mary a lot more though. I powered through the first 150 pages in 2 days. It took me like 2 months to do that with Kingdoms of Death.

I enjoyed White Noise so much I decided to read another.

Sci Fi book week for me

Adrian Tchaikovsky - Pretenders to the Throne of God

The fifth installment in the "Tyrant Philosophers" series, the fantasy series takes inspiration from the european independence movements of the 1840s. It is based in a world where magic isn't just real, but where hundreds of different magic systems all come together and clash, as each different culture has several ways that things are done. From helliers calling demons through contracts to work the industrial mills, to the leftovers from thousand-year-dead necromantic empires that locked themselves away in their tombs, to a city that has actually figured out utopia, and can work any miracle (but the city has a hard population cap) to minor gods who actively manifest and can do miracles, to the keepers of a mysterious forest that seems to allow people to move between realities... For a price.

Between them all (or, rather, surrounding them), we have the Palleseen: a new imperial power swiftly taking over the world. Strictly "rational", abhorring all gods, woowoo, and mumbo-jumbo, the Palleseen are all-business, exporting their "perfection" (in the form of absolute bureaucracy) to the rest of the world by diplomacy, and, failing that, the underside of an iron-shod army-regulation boot. From a Pal-occupied city turning into a powderkeg of rebellion, to the front lines of one of the Palleseen's ever-present wars, to a country facing the Pal's more diplomatic face, to a city under siege, we see this world the Pals seek to "perfect" through the eyes of the weirdos, the outcasts, and those whose livelihoods rely on the messy inefficiencies of human life (those whom the Palleseen philosophically reject, and yet rely on as integral parts of civilisation) we explore the perspectives, flaws and beautiful rube-goldberg collision of these weirdos, both those fighting against and as part of the Palleseen engine.

This series examines the inescapable fallacy of a system which claims to be perfect, and how systems that work require the flexibility afforded by diversity of thought. Through every crack we glimpse as the imperialist war machine plods implacably forward, we glimpse the inevitable fall of such a machine, and have to ask "at what point is there hope in standing against an unbeatable foe? Should you stand against it anyway?"

Passport to Magonia by Jaques Vallée, crazy alien junk.

"The wager I actually really enjoyed it, currently in South America, but sadly I don't have time to go visit it