What are You Reading Right now?

Coincidence, I'm currently reading the complete Lovecraft and Dreams In The Witch House was one of the more recent stories I read, just a day or two ago. I only have a few stories left to go and I've really enjoyed it. I thought it would take me longer but Lovecraft didn't write as much as I thought he did.

 

Reading Monograms and Alphabetic Devices & Bound and Lettered two wonderful books I got for free at the Society of Scribes Holiday Fair. Great book for calligraphic art. So many books but only took 2, didn’t want to seem greedy.

 

Cheers,
Jayson

 

I finished up the Lovecraft and started this



I've always really enjoyed the movie and have been meaning to read this series for years but there's so many of them it wasn't at the top of my list. I'm not sure how many more I'll read though because while I like the story and everything it's often very hard to understand with all the old timey sailor speak. I feel like I need Quint from Jaws to translate, then Hooper from Jaws to translate that, into something I finally understand. It was written in the 60's but it doesn't at all explain itself to its modern audience, you're just kind of dropped in.

 

I'm still reading the Aubrey-Maturin books and just started the 4th book



Also after finishing up Lovecraft I kept reading some Cthulhu Mythos stories by other authors, there are quite a few collections to choose from and after reading a couple of those I came across this which looked fun, and it is. Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft make a great crossover.

 

Top Book of 2022:
In the Shadow of Lightning by Brian McClellan. While I don't like it as much as his first series, this book plays to Brian's strengths and shows a solid amount of growth in the author. I'm excited for the sequels...whenever they come out. (Tor WANTED Brian to finish at least the first two books of this trilogy before publishing the first one, but that didn't happen in their set timeframe.)

Top Manga of 2022:
Sweetness & Lightning
Silver Spoon

Both manga were lighter than previous years as a whole, but both are definitely worth reading for fans of Spy x Family

Best Carryover Manga:
Spy x Family
Witch Watch
High School Family

Witch Watch and High School Family have been a blast to read nearly every week, and it's been great seeing Spy x Family's popularity explode throughout this year.

Most Anticipated Books of 2023:
Brandon Sanderson books (Secret Projects & Defiant)
Daughters of Kobani (YES THIS WILL TOP THE LIST UNTIL I READ IT)
Pride and Prejudice.

 

3 books im currently reading this beginning of 2023

Dune Butlerian Jihad book 1 of the Butlerian Jihad Prequel trilogy
Star Wars New Hope From a Certain Point of View
Wheel of Time Crown of Swords

 

I'm curious what you think of those, I barely got through them and then after that the Great Schools Of Dune trilogy was the straw that finally broke the camels back and made me quit reading Dune when I was one book shy of having read all the books published at the time Which is only like 2 or 3 less than there are now.

 

Still plowing through the Aubrey-Maturin series...



And also still reading some Cthulhu Mythos books, I'm on this one now...



It's a mixed bag, the stories are either great or awful but the great ones are worth it. There's a second collection called Swords vs Cthulhu I might check out next.

 

Since the Super Bowl is this week I took a break from old-timey sailors for some old-timey football.

 

Appropriate read for BHM. Pretty damn inspiring story.

 

I've been meaning to read this for a long time but never got around to it but since it ties into the Lovecraft Mythos quite a bit and has been referenced in quite a few stories by him and others I decided to go ahead and read it. So far it's pretty good, weird though. It's a collection of unrelated stories about people who have read this fictional play called "The King In Yellow" which is considered the greatest thing ever written but also too vile to exist and tends to drive those who read it insane.

 

Along the shores, the could waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadow lengthen,
In Carcosa

Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is,
Lost Carcosa.

Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the king,
Must die unheard in,
Dim Carcosa.

Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed,
Shall dry and die in,
Lost Carcosa.
--Cassilda’s Song

 

I just started this little collection also between King In Yellow Stories...



It was definitely a case of buying a book because of it's cover and as usual that was a mistake though it was only 99 cents on Amazon. I can see why, after only like 20 minutes I'm about 1/4 of the way through. I wasn't paying much attention to the title and didn't realize that these are stories all under 100 words. In other words not really stories. Some of them are pretty amusing though, the ones that work out more like a joke. Like there's one where a guy is going insane from this hammering sound that's giving him a headache until finally he's had enough... then goes and gets a saw and uses that on the dead body instead. Many of them just don't really work though, seems like an idea that stemmed from horror writers messing around on Twitter or something and probably should have stayed there.

 

I finished The King In Yellow and I'm not really sure what to think. I really enjoyed the first half but it turned into an entirely different book the second half. The stories no longer had anything to do with the titular play or any supernatural aspects at all. It becomes a bunch of tragic love stories about Americans living in Paris behaving like morons and falling for mysterious French women. It's probably good stuff but it wasn't at all what I signed up for, still enjoyed the first half a lot though.

Anyway I just started this....



It takes a little explaining but basically it's comedy if you can't tell from the cover. It's a tie-in with the British TV show "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace" from back in 2004. Though this just came out so it was a nice surprise for fans of the show. In the show Garth Marenghi is a parody of hack horror writers and he wrote/produced/starred in a TV show in the 80s that never aired (except in Peru) called Darkplace. Each episode had an episode of the fictional 80's show intercut with the fictional cast doing retrospective interviews. And this book is the star of the show actual show, Matthew Holness, in character as the author/bad actor Garth Marenghi writing another one of his terrible horror novels. It's hilarious though I've been laughing really hard while reading it.

 

I read all 11 Cradle books by Will Wight in about 6 days (Saturday through Thursday), so that was fun! They're pretty short reads (the first five combined are still shorter than the first two Stormlight books combined, at about 530k words or so) and never get too dark, so I enjoyed them. I plan on exploring more of the Progression Fantasy genre, but this was a good and fun start. I don't plan on revising the series anytime soon, but I eagerly await Book 12 in June.

 

I just came across this post... thank you so much.

 

It doesn't feel right to say it's a good read, it's quite hard to read at times and very emotional, but these folks and their non-violent approach and their commitment to the Movement is nothing short of epic. It's a story that should be more widely known for sure.

 

reading two books at the moment

Dune Battle of Corrin
Star Wars High Republic Rising Storm