Books

Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics. I saw it mentioned in one of the threads about the recent apple sauce food poisoning, and it's very interesting (whoever that was, if you are reading it, thank you!).

If you didn't already read it: O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin Series. He greally goes deep into ships and sailing but the story is still compelling.

I just finished reading Leech, by Hiron Ennes. Very strange book, some described as Gothic horror science fiction. Thought provoking, but weird.

Just started reading Erich Maria Remarque - Three Comrades. I'm really liking it so far.

Currently on the third book of J. D. Kirk's Bob Hoon series

I've never laughed so much at an audiobook in my life.

Imagine if you took something like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and made it really Scottish, extra violent and incredibly sweary. That's Bob Hoon

Female villain - "I'd ask you to join our operation, Mr Hoon, but I know exactly what you'd say"

Hoon - "I'd tell you to shove it up your fish-hole, you badly-aimed batch of ejaculate"

Female villain - "Well ok, I didn't know exactly what you'd say..."

Exile

Book 2 in the chronological order of The Legend of Drizzt series

Not sure what happened but I used to knock back 50-80 books a year, now I barely read anymore. I'm trying to get back into it with all the books being on every electronic device so I can read wherever, and I have two physical copies of the books from different releases. Yet I'm still dragging my feet getting through it.

The frustrating thing is once I get into the book I don't want to put it down, but once I stop reading it's hard to start again.

I miss reading.

Incidentally, I was looking at the Kobo readers recently and they look pretty neat!

Just starting "The Time Regulation Institute," by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (translated).

“A” Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton.

I found a book series to read from my local library and the librarian told me Sue passed away before she could finish her book series, so I took it up.

I'm one of those people who reads several books at once, swapping between them depending on my mood and engagement. Currently the great mortality by John Kerry, the salted earth by Jeff Somers, woken furies by Richard Morgan, a journal of the plague year by Daniel Defoe, velocity weapon by Megan O'Keefe, and a couple of others that I may not finish.

I'm doing a beta-read. Well written, great ideas, etc. Unfortunately, the book is turning out to be much darker than I'm comfortable with. I'll probably try to get to the halfway point before deciding to give up.

Working my way through He Who Fights with Monsters by Shirtaloon (aka Travis Deverell), currently on Book 7.

I just read "Eyes Guts Throat Bones", highly recommend at least reading the "Rath" story

It's fucking great!

I finished A Memory of Light (the final book in the Wheel of Time Series) and The Last Metal by Brandon Sanderson. Now I'm rereading The Lord of the Rings.

I'm also reading The Recording Engineers Handbook and Complete Vocal Technique.

Currently about a third of the way through "Babel: Or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Translator's Rebellion" by R.F. Kuang.

It's pretty good so far, but also I'm really still waiting for the plot to kick into gear, lots of wonderful world building has been taking place so far.

Also, you and I have the same Kobo! I'm a fan of this device, and haven't read a physical book since last June.

Just started raft by Stephen Baxter, little concerned when I found out there are a dozen more books, roughly.

Digging the first though, so...

Dungeon Crawler Carl and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Sanderson

Hey I have The Wager in my list, but right now I'm reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, it's excellent. Going really slow because it contains so much information, I read a few pages and that sends me in a research spiral for an hour and a thoughts spirals for the day.

What device is that?

I'm currently reading Fool's Fate, the third in the Tawny Man trilogy, which itself is the 3rd trilogy in the Realm of the Elderlings sequence by Robin Hobb. I've loved every book so far and this is no exception although

Poor Fitz has had a shit life so far. I'm hoping he gets some sort of happiness before the end of this one.