What needless brutality does Rivers of London have? I’ve read them all and its genuinely never occurred to me.
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Ending of the first one, and the second made me think it’d continue that way in every book.
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Not being able to buy myself a load of comics has slowed my reading down as I have to read stuff I already own?? So just two books read in January.
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Ooh, Silk turned up in Marvel Champions and I haven’t read them at all yet. Puts on wishlist
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I’m a massive Silk fan (this was a reread for fanfic reference purposes). Her solo stuff is all pretty self-contained and don’t really require reading anything else to know what’s going on.
I wouldn’t bother checking out her origins in Amazing Spider-Man as it’s bad enough that the writer apologised for it.
Volumes 1 and 2 are basically the same run (all by Robbie Thompson), it’s just that it got restarted after 7 issues because of the Marvel-wide Secret Wars event, but that doesn’t affect the actual storyline in Silk. There’s also a Spider-Women crossover during volume 2 where it’s worth reading the other issues if you can.
Volumes 3, 4, and 5 are different writers and just standalone miniseries.
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I stumbled upon this and as a Marx Brothers fan and because it was such an odd idea I couldn’t resist it.
Okay I’ve only read the first story so far and it was average.
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were the contents written for the book, or did the editor pick existing stuff?
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I started and finished Storm Front by Jim Butcher.
Yesterday. I started and finished it yesterday. It’s good. I’m not sure if this whole “contemporary wizard as a PI”-thing has legs, but it worked really well for one book at least.
I wonder if there are more…
(I joke, obviously. I’m going to check a few used bookstores for Fool Moon because apparently the series doesn’t “get good” until Book 3, but I enjoyed book 1 a fair bit)
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One of us! One of us! One of us!
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As far as I can ascertain they are original to the anthology.
Interestingly the same editor apparently has The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell.
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I like the Dresden Files a lot but the first book was a bit icky for me. Harry’s male gaze was hard to stomach sometimes, at least for me.
Edit: It gets better though in that regard, much better.
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Listening to Twelve Months at the moment. Seems to do a solid job of resetting the pieces and teasing the next story arc while being a solid entry in it’s own right.
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Yes, I felt that Twelve Months was very much about resetting/ reestablishing Dresden’s world ready for a newer story arc. Not the most action packed novel in the series by some margin, but solid enough.
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In a rare instance, I do not yet have the newest Dresden Files novel, though if my life weren’t as hectic as it is, I would have already had it and gotten it signed by Jim Butcher two weeks ago when he was at a local bookstore here. 
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Saw this on Bluesky, which I thought was fun:
Five authors I’ve read at least five books by:
Douglas Adams
Margaret Atwood
Alan Moore
Margaret Weis
James Herbert
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Hmm…just five? Okay:
Jim Butcher
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (counting co-authors as one here)
Timothy Zahn
R.A. Salvatore
Hideyuki Kikuchi
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Yeah, there’s definitely some selection I suspect most of us will need to do!
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Pratchett
Banks
Stross
Cherryh
McDonald
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Terry Pratchett
Cherie Priest
Gideon Defoe
Ben Aaronovitch
Gail Carriger
Doesn’t much reflect my current reading tastes as the amount I’ve read has slowed down and I’ve tried to read a wide selection of stuff. Plus some of my favourite authors (like Tamsyn Muir) just have written that many books!
The options go way up if I include comics, but then it gets weird on what counts as a “book” 
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