# What are you reading? **URL:** \ **Category:** Not Games\ **Created:** [28 April 2020 21:48 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643 "2020-04-28T21:48:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 77
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [6 June 2023 19:00 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1536 "2023-06-06T19:00:48Z")
Reading **Charlie and the Great glass elevator.** Not Aged Well ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [6 June 2023 19:15 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1537 "2023-06-06T19:15:20Z")
(With mod hat resting at a rakish angle) Fair points all round, let’s drop it now. ---
**Author:** ![Paint-it-Pink](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/paint-it-pink/32/9663_2.png) [@Paint-it-Pink](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Paint-it-Pink)\ **Post date:** [7 June 2023 07:24 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1538 "2023-06-07T07:24:29Z")
[RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW) Roger, Roger. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ghostvoshe](https://discussion.tekeli.li/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@ghostvoshe](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/ghostvoshe)\ **Post date:** [7 June 2023 10:10 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1539 "2023-06-07T10:10:56Z")
Enjoying Lovecraft’s novels. I’ve been rereading them for a while now, but I really enjoy reading his creepy (sometimes funny) stories, in which he creates the atmosphere of a man who’s in a jam 😈 ---
**Author:** ![Chewy77](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/chewy77/32/1035_2.png) [@Chewy77](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Chewy77)\ **Post date:** [9 June 2023 23:36 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1540 "2023-06-09T23:36:33Z")
Finished _Amongst Our Weapons_ last Thursday. Took me less of a week, which given how little I am reading lately, it is quite remarkable. I can see @Marx point about stereotypes, and I think the book might bring those more up due to the police theme it has been immersed in. Before this conversation started, I had noticed that in this book, each character first description includes a racial feature, which in my head it makes sense as it is something a police officer would do due to training and procedures. So if a person is white, he will describe it as white, which I welcomed. Hardly any books I read do that. But then again, hardly any books I have read are from people from my generation or younger, so I guess that is a factor. Besides that, I did really enjoy the book a lot (hence why it took me so little to read it) and I will take that as a positive thing. ---
**Author:** ![Phil](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/phil/32/1508_2.png) [@Phil](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Phil)\ **Post date:** [11 June 2023 04:01 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1541 "2023-06-11T04:01:52Z")
> [@Chewy77](#): > > Finished _Amongst Our Weapons_ last Thursday. “Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise… Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency… Our _three_ weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope… Our _four_…no… _Amongst_ our weapons… Amongst our weaponry…are such elements as fear, surprise… I’ll come in again.” ---
**Author:** ![Griffster77](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/griffster77/32/1048_2.png) [@Griffster77](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Griffster77)\ **Post date:** [12 June 2023 11:02 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1542 "2023-06-12T11:02:02Z")
Oh really? My son has just started reading it ---
**Author:** ![Griffster77](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/griffster77/32/1048_2.png) [@Griffster77](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Griffster77)\ **Post date:** [12 June 2023 11:03 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1543 "2023-06-12T11:03:41Z")
Currently rereading a load of Lindsay Davies _Falco_ books. Always an enjoyable read. ---
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [12 June 2023 11:09 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1544 "2023-06-12T11:09:53Z")
There’s a questionable chapter involving the Chinese Premier ---
**Author:** ![Chewy77](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/chewy77/32/1035_2.png) [@Chewy77](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Chewy77)\ **Post date:** [15 June 2023 06:31 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1545 "2023-06-15T06:31:44Z")
Started a book that I have been wanting to read for a while, _Scar Tissue_, from Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of Red Hot Chili Peppers. I have always heard really good things about it, and so far is not disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![Boronian](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/boronian/32/1607_2.png) [@Boronian](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Boronian)\ **Post date:** [17 June 2023 18:05 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1546 "2023-06-17T18:05:19Z")
I finished **Black Sun** by **Rebecca Roanhorse** , a book my wife gifted me. Probably because it won a Hugo award. It is the first book of a series. It was fine. The world building has some nice aspects (being set in a Mesoamerican , but doesn’t really do anything ambitious with it. It just feels like standard fantasy world with some inclusive twist (a third gender xir / xe and homosexuality without anyone being surprised). but the ending was underwhelming (there wasn’t really a climax, it was just over, it was a whole setup book), one main character annoyed me a lot and didn’t feel very interesting (she felt like an adolescent but was over 30 years old, getting outmaneuvered by everybody while being the boss of them). Also the book was pretty predictable in some ways, a lot of telling instead of showing. But also finished **Matt Dinniman’s** fifth Dungeon Crawler Carl book **The Butcher’s Masquerade** and that one was nerve wracking. Very tense and exciting. Great read! Looking forward to book 6 coming out on July 2nd! Now onto my reread of **Dust of Dreams** by **Steven Erikson**. I think I could read another **Cradle** novel on the side. ---
**Author:** ![SteveB\_uk](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/steveb_uk/32/26030_2.png) [@SteveB\_uk](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/SteveB_uk)\ **Post date:** [18 June 2023 07:51 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1547 "2023-06-18T07:51:12Z")
I thought Roanhorse’s “Trail of Lightning” was really good, have read reviews saying it’s probably her best one. ---
**Author:** ![GeeBizzle](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/geebizzle/32/20606_2.png) [@GeeBizzle](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/GeeBizzle)\ **Post date:** [26 June 2023 18:20 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1548 "2023-06-26T18:20:43Z")
Finished listening to Jade Legacy. The green bone saga is awesome, very fantasy meets the godfather. The characters are really great and it nicely pulls together all the different strands towards a satisfying ending. ---
**Author:** ![bruitist](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/bruitist/32/31788_2.png) [@bruitist](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/bruitist)\ **Post date:** [1 July 2023 18:21 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1549 "2023-07-01T18:21:48Z")
Books I read in June: ![image](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/3X/e/8/e89372aa29a9d4e551c9962564741f493141bd36.jpeg) (+ tiara, because that’s what was nearby) ---
**Author:** ![Griffster77](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/griffster77/32/1048_2.png) [@Griffster77](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Griffster77)\ **Post date:** [4 July 2023 11:42 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1550 "2023-07-04T11:42:24Z")
Just finished **A Heart That Works** by Rob Delaney. Its a memoir about his son who is diagnosed with pediatric brain cancer at the age of 1 up until (and the effect of) he dies when he is two and a half. It has absolutely devasted me. Totally fucking floored. 1. It is also beautiful and actually, in places, very funny. ---
**Author:** ![Boronian](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/boronian/32/1607_2.png) [@Boronian](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Boronian)\ **Post date:** [5 July 2023 17:43 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1551 "2023-07-05T17:43:48Z")
A question… where do you guys buy books in the epub format in the US or UK? The German book stores are often bad with English books (meaning they don’t have them). Amazon has all the books but I dislike getting mobi format and converting it. Also dislike supporting them when there should be good alternatives. ---
**Author:** ![Marx](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/marx/32/28667_2.png) [@Marx](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Marx)\ **Post date:** [5 July 2023 17:54 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1552 "2023-07-05T17:54:49Z")
Although Amazon is still The Devil, they are apparently dropping MOBI as a format. Just an FYI. ---
**Author:** ![yashima](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/yashima/32/21481_2.png) [@yashima](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/yashima)\ **Post date:** [6 July 2023 07:22 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1554 "2023-07-06T07:22:18Z")
They have been using kfx internally for ages and I think at some point they introduced some support for epub. So mobi is now another dead format. Most of my zine subscriptions have been epub/pdf only for a while as well. So dropping mobi… ah well. In any case my next eReader will not be a kindle. @Boronian I buy ebooks at [ebooks.com](http://ebooks.com) or at Thalia. They have a weird model where you have to install some download software but it works and gives you nice epubs to put in your calibre library. Also sometimes smashwords (very niche) or Barnes & Noble (rarely). Not buying at amazon often means stuff is more expensive but we all know how cheap prices at quasi-monopolists come to pass. (note most of my ebooks were still bought via amazon over the past many years, recently I have not been reading as much. I have converted my whole library into a calibre library so I am not bound to amazon anymore) ---
**Author:** ![mistercrayon](https://discussion.tekeli.li/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@mistercrayon](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/mistercrayon)\ **Post date:** [6 July 2023 08:39 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1555 "2023-07-06T08:39:29Z")
I’m reading (listening to Dominic West read it) the remains of the day. I’m really really delighted with it so far. ---
**Author:** ![Boronian](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/boronian/32/1607_2.png) [@Boronian](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Boronian)\ **Post date:** [6 July 2023 16:33 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643/1556 "2023-07-06T16:33:45Z")
@Marx Oh I didn’t know that. Very interesting, that would remove one big thing for me. @yashima Thanks for the suggestions, these are the ones I know and checked before but they don’t have the book I was looking for, it is only on Amazon. But I was really surprised about the fact that I couldn’t find a real alternative to Amazon in the US because the market seems so big. I thought it is Barnes & Noble (their name is even known here in Germany, a bit at least) but their selection isn’t actually that good. So I guess I continue using Amazon. [Previous page](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643.md?page=76) [Next page](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-are-you-reading/643.md?page=78)