About half way through James Clavell’s Shogun. Highly recommended if you’re looking for a deep adventure novel!

Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner

Exhalation by Ted Chiang. About 3/4 through so far and really enjoying it. The scifi concepts are great and I like that it doesn’t always have a black mirror, technology is going to kill us ending.

Read This Book on a Silent Hill: Meditations that they won’t tell you about

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Somewhat randomly I read The Remains of the Day a little while back and loved it, even though it’s entirely unlike the stories I usually read.

I’m really enjoying Klara and the Sun too - in-particular I’m enjoying how the story has these quite sharp shifts in where you think the story is going, but they’re just dropped casually, almost as a throw-away line, and you’re left thinking about the huge implications of so few words.

I also just love Ishiguro’s writing style and creativity - it’s like he’s painting a picture with black on white, and that picture is great - but the white space forms a picture too, and with that he adds so much more.

With each story he’s setting out to take you on a specific emotional journey, but he’s not holding your hand and showing you so much as guiding you with as little effort as possible such that when you get there, you feel like you got there on your own, and so it hits so much harder as a result - even though he very carefully led you. It’s hard to describe! But it’s amazing, I’d be surprised if I’ve not read everything of his soon!

Finished reading Blindsight by Peter Watts. I haven’t read this good Science Fiction book in a long time. On to Echopraxis, as it’s a double edition

Almost at the end of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went To War in 1914 by Christopher Clark. Highly recommend it to all history lovers!

The Spy and the Traitor [Non Fiction] by Ben MacIntyre. It’s the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a kgb agent who was working with MI6 during the height of the cold War.

I took a chance on it and was pleasantly surprised.

I almost exclusively read non-fiction, but I just got done reading Slash’s autobiography (the guitarist for Guns N’ Roses among other projects), and that book kept me absolutely hooked from start to end. I have no idea how he’s still alive after the wild stuff described in that book.

I shifted from that to a book about the history of the US Postal Service last week, so it’s a pretty big contrast in tone.

I’ve been reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Love it so far!

I just now finished “The Dawn of Everything” by Graeber and Wengrow, which was an excellent investigation into early civilizations and a nod to their cultural implications for modern society. Looking to steal ideas for my queue in this thread!

SS by Barış Pehlivan and Barış Terkoğlu. It’s basically a book about Süleyman Soylu’s crimes. It’s indeed a heavy read, but I think the book does a good job with shedding light on who Soylu really is, so far (I’m at Chapter 5).

I’m listening to The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson. Written by an older, crankier Bryson than I’m used to, but still a decent “read”.

Reading The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler. I like the book, but so far I’m finding the world-building and backstories more interesting than the main plot.

I finished Waybound by Will Wight yesterday. It was a great finish to the Cradle series.

Now I’m on Honor of the Queen by David Weber. I don’t think I’ll make it through more than about the first five of the Honor Harrington books. They start to transition into a more political series than “space ships go boom”, so that’s about where I stopped the last time.

Then I’ve got The Day of the Triffids on my slate, but we’ll see if that holds.

Continuing my journey in discworld - The Truth