What are you currently reading?

Finished Rob Halford's memoir Confess. Read the first half, and listened to the audiobook for the last half. Enjoyed both and recommend it. He maintains enough of a strong overarching narrative to excuse the occasional tangential anecdotes.

Now listening through the audiobook of Geezer Butler's memoir--digging it so far, though it's easy to hear how much he dislikes having to read the whole thing aloud.
 
I've got a soft goal of 50 books this year. I am already behind but I started with some big ones. I always like to tackle a few at a time so I can hop around.

Finished in January:
  • The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
  • How to Sell a Haunted House - Grady Hendrix
  • Empire Falls - Richard Russo
Finished in February
  • The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
In Progress
  • Theft of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan
  • The Stand - Stephen King
  • Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson
 
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Alright... This one was a wild ride. This is the type of book that I think could qualify as life changing. Absolutely insane true (and well researched) story about an antarctic expedition in circa 1915. Some parts were so discouraging I had to set the book down and try again later. These early explorers did the impossible and the story was mind-blowing.
 
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A really interesting book, how the RNA and DNA of everything holds our respective evolutionary history - potentially all the way back to the very beginning. It discusses how complex our evolution has been, w/ all sorts of surprises coming from processes such as horizontal gene transfer. In addition, it shows that while scientists are of course all too human (w/ egos, etc), the cross-checks of the overarching scientific process overcomes human frailties to get to the underlying truth (e.g., w/ competition between researchers, and the ultimate test being that everyone's experiments ought to yield the same result). This is still a story in progress today, it will be very interesting to see what the coming decades of science will reveal.
 
I'm rereading Psalm for the Wild-Built, book 1 of the monk and robot series. Probably one of the few good solarpunk series and a really calming, reassuring read.
 
Stickman393 said:
Second time through the expanse.

On Tiamat's Wrath.

Good little sci fi romp.
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I just finished the last book a few weeks ago. I think it might be the most consistent science fiction series I've read. The characters behave consistently, the antagonists make sense, it didn't aggressively recycle plot devices.

I'm reading Black Leopard, Red Wolf. It's sort of a horror-fantasy mash-up, drawing on African myth. Kind of reminds me of Between Two Fires. It's good but surprisingly horny.
 
Harry Klippton said:
What is solarpunk?
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Solarpunk is a genre of science fiction centered on technological/ecological solutions. It tends to be hopeful rather than pessimistic (so it's sorta the opposite of cyberpunk). The aesthetics can be interesting although it can veer a bit into the hippie sphere.

The series I'm rereading features a monk that leaves their monastery in a city of casein-extruded biodegradable buildings to become a tea monk/counselor e-biking around their continent, visiting various towns (like treehouse village) and helping people out. Not the kind of thing I normally read but it's just a calming book because a lot of it covers interesting daily routines. Sorta like a sci-fi Haruki Murakami novel.
 
rwl said:
Solarpunk is a genre of science fiction centered on technological/ecological solutions. It tends to be hopeful rather than pessimistic (so it's sorta the opposite of cyberpunk). The aesthetics can be interesting although it can veer a bit into the hippie sphere.

The series I'm rereading features a monk that leaves their monastery in a city of casein-extruded biodegradable buildings to become a tea monk/counselor e-biking around their continent, visiting various towns (like treehouse village) and helping people out. Not the kind of thing I normally read but it's just a calming book because a lot of it covers interesting daily routines. Sorta like a sci-fi Haruki Murakami novel.
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Sounds kind of interesting. Got any recommendation for an entry level book?
 
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