Finished Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore. It was a fine book, enjoyed reading it, at least the latter half.
Started The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson. Third and final book the of Mistborn series, well the first era anyway. This is quite a dreary book, but it concludes everything so that’s good.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Almost through Kinsey Millhone. Getting to the end of R is for Ricochet (There’s no Z as Grafton died before finishing it and didn’t want anyone else writing in her name).
Ended up at the library and borrowed Tower of Fools by Andrzej Sapkowski (the author of the books the Witcher is pulled from) and The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold (an author my brother has suggested in the past) after some wandering. We’ll see if I end up diving into those or spend more time re-reading Sanderson (either secret projects or Stormlight) with free time from the holidays. I made it a little into Tower of Fools and am not sure if it’s going to catch my interest. After an info-dump prologue, there’s a really oddly written sex scene, and it just didn’t work for me. I’m not anti-sex in books. I frequently suggest Karen Rose and I think all of those have explicit sex scenes (it’s probably more “most”, but whatever). But IDK. Might see if the McMaster Bujold one catches my interest better, or just read the physical secret projects now that I finally got them.
Or simply, the author of The Witcher books. Tower of fools is the other series he wrote, right? Never heard much about it. Not sure because Witcher became super famous, or just because they weren’t good enough. If you do complete them, would love to hear what you think about it.
I just don’t enjoy his writing style at all. I only ended up doing a couple chapters and probably won’t go back.
Maybe part of it is the translation, but it feels like a huge slog. The only translated series I can really think of that I really loved is Millennium (Lisbeth Salander/Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). I think translation can be a challenge, because you’re trying not to vary from the author’s intent, but different language choices in a book are made for different choices at different times, so even a really great translator can be constrained by the original work. It’s hard to match both the flow and intent of native writing.