Finished The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King.

It was a nice book. Kind of YA, but fun to read. Pretty much a typical story of good vs bad, where good characters are super good and bad characters are super bad, with very few gray in between. Worth a read if you want a standalone fantasy novel that’s quick to read.

Read The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. My first Scalzi novel and I loved it. A very light and easy to read sci-fi, with Kaiju in them. Going to get other Scalzi novels, may start with Old Man’s War.

Finally got my order my Dresden Files comics / graphic novels. So read the first omnibus, which has the original Welcome to the Jungle and graphic adaptation of first two Dresden Files novels, Storm Front and Fool Mon.

Second omnibus has all original graphic novels novels though, but will get to them later.

Just started Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. I have read it before, but it has been quite a while, so re-reading it before starting on the sequel series.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

Covers One Less (Hard Mode), Older than You, Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie, and It takes two Bingo squares

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    2 days ago

    Hey, I was the guy who recommended Kaiju Preservation Society to you a few months ago! I’m glad you liked it. I personally liked Starter Villain over Old Man’s War but you do you

    I’m currently reading Artifact Space by Miles Cameron. I’m 70% in and I like that every time it has a chance to go grim and edgelord the characters all go “ew, why would we do that? We’re civilized.” It does feel poorly edited, with a few misspellings, some odd continuity, and it’s a little hard to follow between certain paragraphs. Overall it’s a good space opera type with a character who learns to let down walls instead of having to put them up

    Just finished: We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen. Man, this book sucked. The main character is unlikable, the story is nonsensical, and it quite clearly is just cobbling together ideas from better Sci-fi series. They had to spend a few pages towards the end of the book explaining the plot to the main character which is always a sign you didn’t tell a good story. Final takeaway being lost and confused is not the same thing as being scared of the unknown

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      Oh, cool. Thanks for the recommendation! I am going to get his standalone books too, Starter Villain and Red Shirts specifically, but also want to checkout his biggest series.

      Artifact Space sounds interesting. Would wait for your 100% finished update.

      Would love to get more recommendations 😀