The Syndicate

Reading A Canticle for Leibowitz. I'm kinda unimpressed honestly, it's just not really capturing my interest.

I see there was lots of Russian lit discussion in here. I just finished reading Anna Karenina, and The Brothers Karamazov before that. I liked Anna Karenina, but I didn't really get into the Brothers Karamazov even though I loved Crime and Punishment.

Re-reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog, one of my favorite books ever <3

I'm reading The Way of Kings by Sanderson, and I'm also reading the awesome web serial Worm

I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha and really enjoyed it, very beautifully written and I learned a lot about geisha culture/20th century Japan.

Anyone else here read the comic Saga? I just caught up and it's SO FKING GOOD. Highly recommend.

I just finished The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (the author of Cloud Atlas, which I haven't read but now want to as well as everything else he's written). Fantastic novel, the scope of it was amazing, the characters were so well written, I don't want to spoil too much but it spans several generations and has a supernatural element that's really well done and incorporated into the real world in a deep and meaningful way, and there are lots of cool foreshadowing details to pick up on/go back and understand later. It's one of those novels where everything ties together really satisfyingly. Really enjoyed it through all the different sections. An emotionally and mentally engaging adventure from start to finish. I highly recommend it.

Yessss join me in the Sanderson club! Mistborn is fantastic as is everything else in the "cosmere" (his fantasy series are linked together/in the same universe and the way he develops the magic systems/worlds/over-arching stuff is astounding).

speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2017 11:25 am I'm finally on the last book of the original Mistborn trilogy.

I was sidetracked by my own book and the four most recent Dresden Files books.

yesss I'm looking forward to your reaction to the ending!!

dunya wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2017 6:35 am Khaled Hosseini - And The Mountain Echoed.

Just starting it. Will give you my opinion when I form one.

loved that one!!!


I'm in the middle of The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruíz Zafón, part of his "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" trio of interweaving novels --one of which, The Shadow of the Wind, is one of my favorite books of all time -- I recently re-read it and read the other one The Prisoner of Heaven as well; the three books don't need to be read in order but there's a lot of plot/character/timeline stuff related across them that's fun to cross-reference

Ahh nice!

Finally got around to reading The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, the first book in the Broken Earth trilogy. It has won lots of awards and I've been hearing so many raving reviews of it for a while and I knew I would love it and it still blew my mind. Absolutely the best fantasy book I've ever read. The innovative way the character perspectives are written, the worldbuilding, the unraveling of the plot, the allegorical commentary on real social and environmental concerns, all of it is stunningly executed and I highly recommend it. Moving on to the sequel asap.