What are you reading this weekend?

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Much like the thread in the gaming forum, I thought it'd be fun to see what book or books everyone is digging into each weekend. And since the book recommendations thread is just for, well, recommendations, this is a good way to post about what we're reading at the time, good or bad.

This weekend, I'm reading The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones. It's the follow up to his excellent book The Plantagenets.

I also got The Design of Everyday Things from the library. Always heard good things about this one.

In the literary candy genre, I'll be dipping in and out of the third book in the Legend of Drizzt series. I have no idea how many of these I'll end up reading, but they're fun for the moment.

Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

I'm totally in love with this book. It's the author's debut and she writes with a confidence that is breathtaking. Incredibly lyrical as well as honest and raw.

The story follows four Jamacan women who live and work in the shadows of a vacation resort industry that both fuels the country's economy while exploiting its people and their land.

Fascinating and heartfelt stuff.

Books are for noobz.

Now that's out of the way, I'll probably be reading:

Better Angels of Our Nature
Assassin's Apprentice

First is a rather heavy on the sociology and history but it does a good job of arguing how humans continue to evolve to be less violent. For example, in some hunter gatherer tribes the death rate from war per capita is higher than the casualty rate on the Eastern Front.

The second book is great fantasy by Robin Hobb. Think a more personalized version of Game of Thrones were the intrigue focuses on a smaller but well fleshed out group of characters.

This weekend's going to be busy so I may not have much time for reading, but I'm hoping to continue and possibly complete The Wars of the Roses. I'd like to read more of The Design of Everyday Things but I find myself needing a large block of time to concentrate and absorb the material. It's fascinating stuff, but it feels very much like reading a textbook.

Will finish volume 5 of manga series What Did You Eat Yesterday? and also plan on reading the second (and final) volume of manga series Underwater - Le Village immergé.

So, yeah, lots of manga reading this weekend.

Ohhhh, great thread idea!

I just started mission 9 of the really fun Black Ocean series, Adventure Capital. Really fun mix of Firefly-style space hijinks and Dresden Files-style mysticism, and it's is a blast so far. I also plan on finishing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - The Skyrim Library, Vol. I: The Histories, which is a really fun read. I'll then start Vol II.

Yay reading!

Oh man, those Skyrim books are really tempting

beanman101283 wrote:

Oh man, those Skyrim books are really tempting

They're all leathery bound and stuff, really feels like you'd find one lying around an old crypt in Skyrim...until you look at the back and see the embedded price tag, which is just BAFFLING to me. Besides that though? Top notch. They also have similar books for ESO. I have all four but this is the first one I've actually read.

beanman101283 wrote:

...The Wars of the Roses. I'd like to read more of The Design of Everyday Things...

A busy week has left me with little time for reading, so for the third weekend in a row these are still on my plate.

But, I did check out the first volume of The Wicked + The Divine from the library, so I'm looking forward to that.

I just finished Virtual Light by William Gibson. I started it a long time ago but somehow fell off. So this weekend I'll be started Idoru, the second book in that same series, the Bridge Trilogy.

Veloxi wrote:

Ohhhh, great thread idea!

I just started mission 9 of the really fun Black Ocean series, Adventure Capital. Really fun mix of Firefly-style space hijinks and Dresden Files-style mysticism, and it's is a blast so far. I also plan on finishing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - The Skyrim Library, Vol. I: The Histories, which is a really fun read. I'll then start Vol II.

Yay reading!

Still reading this, though I just began volume 2 of the Skyrim books, which is even better than the first one. Nords are awesome!

This weekend, I'll be finishing up A Long, Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers and the audiobook for A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E Schwab.

If I have any time to read, I hope to finish W.E. Johns' Biggles defies the Swastika. And then... I dunno, I need to go to B&N to pick something else.

Should be finishing The Nightmare Stacks this weekend. It's good, though I miss Bob Howard as the protagonist. I liked the last book from his wife's point of view, but the new guy is just sort of bland.
After that I'll probably start Warren Ellis' new serialized novel, Normal.

Veloxi wrote:
Veloxi wrote:

Ohhhh, great thread idea!

I just started mission 9 of the really fun Black Ocean series, Adventure Capital. Really fun mix of Firefly-style space hijinks and Dresden Files-style mysticism, and it's is a blast so far. I also plan on finishing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - The Skyrim Library, Vol. I: The Histories, which is a really fun read. I'll then start Vol II.

Yay reading!

Still reading this, though I just began volume 2 of the Skyrim books, which is even better than the first one. Nords are awesome!

ahhhhhhhhh super squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I'm buying these books now.

Oh yeah I came in here to say I will be buying the new harry potter book and reading that.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Oh yeah I came in here to say I will be buying the new harry potter book and reading that.

Do you know offhand if the US edition is the same text as the UK edition, or am I going to have to order overseas to get jumpers, sweets and Philosopher stones?

(Also a bit put out that there is no possible way to get a cover that matches all the existing books.)

As for what I'm actually reading, currently working on the 5th Dresden Files book (Death Masks), and hoping to get to Ben Aaronovitch's Foxglove Summer by the end of the weekend (unless it ends up Harry Potter instead).

I don't know if the text is the same but I do know all the previous versions were exactly the same except for the book covers. So I would be very surprised if there is any difference in text.

all the previous versions were exactly the same except for the book covers.

No, there were a whole bunch of minor text changes between the Bloomsbury (UK) and Scholastic (US) editions, which is why I asked.

Man you can't believe anything on the internet these days. I looked this up before and read there weren't any differences.

I'll be working on World War Z this weekend. I can see why it was so popular a few years ago.

So I'm hoping to finally finish The Wars of the Roses this weekend. It's a much more complicated story than the breezy history told in The Plantagenets, which has slowed me down some, but now that I've adjusted my expectations I've been enjoying it.

I'll probably dive into Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as well. I don't really know what to expect from this, but I'm definitely curious to know what's been going on in Harry's world since Deathly Hallows. Also it's unlikely I'll ever actually see the play, so this will have to do.

I'm moving on from the zombie apocalypse to something more Lovecraftian. Starting on Chapelwood by Cherie Priest. Glad to see her continue the Bordon Dispatches. Course all her books have been a joy to read.

I'm knee deep in Chris Claremont era X-Men via Marvel Unlimited at the moment. I've just gotten past the Dark Pheonix saga and Days of Future Past which puts me at about 1981. It's super cheezy, but for some reson I can't get enough. Can't wait to get to the 90's, that was the X-Men of my childhood.

Fair Play How LGBT Athletes are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports by Cyd Zeigler.
Great book although heavily centred about the G and America (since he is gay and American, he is writing what he knows). Really highlights lots of the issues and stories and their meaning and is relevantly easy to read (from a flow point of view). Anybody with an interest in sport and/or LGBT issues should read it.

Finished up Dresden #5 (Death Masks) and dove into Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London #5). Next up is either Rosemary & Rue or Cursed Child (probably the latter, as I expect it to be a fast read.)

Another book thread! Well, we can't have too many of those!

This weekend, I'll be finishing up with Tier One, a military thriller, by Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson, that was my Kindle First choice for this month. After getting past the severe overuse of acronyms, the plot has picked up and I'm finding it pretty interesting so far. Definitely more of an "alpha male" type read though.

If I still have weekend left, I'll be starting the book offered for free download by TOR this month, The Just City by Jo Walton. You can still get it for free in the U.S. and Canada at http://ebookclub.tor.com/ until August 8th. It's supposed to be for this book club they started last month, but oddly, I've found nowhere on the TOR site to actually discuss the book, so it's not really much of a book club as I would define it. Still, the book itself is free, so that's still a good thing!

It's been a busy weekend so far, so not much time for reading, but I did finally finish The Wars of the Roses, and I'm going to try to return to The Design of Everyday Things. Tomorrow will be a little calmer so that'll be one of my goals for the day.

Radical Ans wrote:

I'm knee deep in Chris Claremont era X-Men via Marvel Unlimited at the moment. I've just gotten past the Dark Pheonix saga and Days of Future Past which puts me at about 1981. It's super cheezy, but for some reson I can't get enough. Can't wait to get to the 90's, that was the X-Men of my childhood.

So much this. I thought maybe I was the only one who had a need for overwrought Claremontian narration in my life.

If you haven't already, you should definitely dive into the "Jay & Miles X-plain the X-Men" podcast. It's solid gold for X-Men fans.

I have been reading Jo Walton's Thessaly trilogy and am currently in the midst of the third book, Necessity, which is what I'll be reading for the rest of the weekend. The first book is called The Just City and it was a free download on the TOR site for the first week of this month. I loved the book and then found out there were two more and I'm still loving it!

The trilogy starts out as a sort of fantasy/alternate history involving the gods Athene and Apollo and an experiment to create a city based on Plato's Republic. (There are some robots involved as well though!) Then in the third book, it starts to take on more of a science fiction feel.

Lots of philosophy and discourse and religion and relationships and questions concerning the soul and how to achieve excellence and the Good Life. And more robots of course.

I just started reading Seveneves and am really enjoying it so far. Will definitely be reading more this weekend. I also have Y The Last Man downloaded but haven't dived in yet.

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