It combines my fascination with Cold War espionage with my interest in cartography. Unfortunately, it isn’t an easy book to find. At least here in the USA. 
NB: I perused some of the plates last night, and I would dearly love to have some copies of those maps!
Just finished The Way of Kings. It lost me for a bit in the middle, but recaptured my interest in the back third. I get why it is massively popular, and it has served as excellent commute listening. It has earned another Audible credit for Book Two.
Just ordered this based on your post! Looks amazing!
I hope you enjoy it! 
Right up my street - maps plus history plus different optics …
Have you read Red Plenty by Francis Spufford?
No, I haven’t. But I do know of it, though.
Started reading Heroes of Red Hook, a set of short weird tales about underrepresented protagonists, which is interesting so far. I enjoyed the title story which puts a different spin on the original Horror at Red Hook.
I’m adding to this with some games reading: currently Underground Adventures and Urban Magics by this forum’s own @whswhs (Underground Adventures, which I’ve finished, is excellent and extremely relevant for my current projects).
I’m glad somebody’s finding a use for Underground Adventures. I had fun writing it, especially the racial templates, and I learned some things about geology and geomechanics I hadn’t known—notably the mechanics of tunnel collapse. (Most of the GURPS titles I’ve written have involved research that I learned something from . . .)
I got a little jewel out of the library on Tuesday, after returning Rothfuss novella, I spotted in the Fantasy/Sci-Fi section another book from Miles Cameron, author of The Traitor’s Son cycle, Cold Iron. I’m 200 pages into it and cannot stop reading.
(Whoops, posted in the wrong thread!)
Filling out a survey for the ONS furnished me with a £15 voucher, which I used to take a chance on the first two volumes of Witch Hat Atelier. I’d seen a few tweets praising it and the art looked lovely, so it seemed worth a try.
I ploughed through them in one night and the second volume ended on a massive cliffhanger, so I immediately ordered the remaining five volumes and read them over a few days. Gutted I now have to wait months for the next volume.
It’s a lovely series with gorgeous art. Very nicely balances some of the darker themes brought in later on, so it still remains light and hopeful.
ONS also sent me a canvas bag!
Ah, my partner got the bag because she took part in a second survey about life during the pandemic.
I actually had a response typed to you in the other thread that is now discarded and lost to the ether.
Oh no! 
Serves me right for not paying attention when searching for threads.
The Catcher Was A Spy. Watched the film recently and Moe Berg sounded a really interesting chap so decided to read the book.
This week, the Amazon fairy has delivered the following books for me to enjoy:
Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism because it seems like time I read it as I’ve heard enough about it from a number of sources.
Sioned Davies’ translation of The Mabinogion because I’ve loved the Prydain books since I was 11 and I don’t have a dedicated translation.
Toby Wilkinson’s A World Beneath the Sands because a history of Egyptology as a discipline seemed like a fun read after all the other Egypt themed bits of fiction I’ve read over the years.
I’ve got the same translation. It’s technically a book I’m “currently reading”, but I haven’t picked it up in ages.
It’s a remarkably interesting book and offers many useful categories. I don’t know if I’ve read a work of criticism that I find more useful.
Just finished the first Battletech novel that I’ve read in… gosh, decades at least. I’m going to say the last one I read before this one would’ve been back in the 90s.
Anyway, I read Battletech: The Corps, a selection of short stories from the “Battlecorps” short story website (which I think is now defunct?). As with most short story collections, it was pretty mixed bag… some really good ones that I wish were fleshed out more, some pretty awful ones that I think went on a page or five too long, and some really enjoyable ones as well.
It didn’t exactly make me want to dive back into Battletech fiction, but I enjoyed it well enough.
Next book: Ancillary Mercy, the third in the Ancillary Justice series, which I’ve really enjoyed thus far.