I'm reading Erdogan Pizza by John Dolan. It's a collection of real travelogues from an utterly unadventurous, shy nerd who keeps managing to get kicked out of third world countries while being dead broke. I couldn't imagine a greater mismatch between the personality of someone and how they've chosen to live their life. Very amusing.

Wheel of Time. On the fourth book now. Pacing is a little slow but it is interesting enough to keep me reading. Though I really have almost no clue how this story keeps going for several more books. Guess I'll see :)

Been reading through Mistborn Trilogy 2, current on the back half of the Bands of Mourning.

This trilogy has not been as captivating to me as much as Stormlight or Mistborn 1.

I have Elantris queued up to read more of his works next, but I might take a bit of a Sanderson break here soon since I know Horneater and Stormlight 5 are due later this year. I’ve heard good things anbout Earthsea Anyone have some recommendations about where to start those books?

Rachel Maddow, "Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Cause_(novel)

Quite OK so far.

Just started on a re-read (audiobook) of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams, also read by him. Oh I love him as a narrator! Also continuing with Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol.

Almost done with N.K. Jemisin's The World We Make.

Also reading the fourth John Dies at the End book.

And listening to Why We Sleep.

Sultan by wasim akram. An autobiography. Quite readable, cowritten with the best cricket writer gideon hague. Finished 70% yesterday, should end it today

Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx.

Listening to Debt of Honour by Tom Clancy

Been reading some adult books lately by Lillian Lark. Currently on Entranced by the Basilisks.

Just finished Wheel of Time book 2 (The Great Hunt) and about to start book 3 (The Dragon Reborn). I absolutely devoured book 2 so I'm super eager to continue.

I am reading a bit too much different things at once right now, so this is a fairly long comment:

I've been reading "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway for a while, and I have read 5/6 now. It's about partisans in the Spanish civil war. I am enjoying Hemingway's prose and the story, but I think I will wait a bit after this before reading any of his other works.

I've been meaning to read the great Chinese classic novels for a while, but I never got to it. Last week, after seeing someone on here was reading it, I decided to start reading "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". The story (about the fall of the Han dynasty and the war of, you guessed it, three kingdoms) is very fun so far, but there are like 50 names in the first 50 pages, so I have trouble remembering who is who. I'm hoping for a bit more dialogue too.

I'm also halfway through the "Aeneid", the great Latin epic by Virgil. It's a decent story, but I should have gone for a modern translation instead of the old one I have now. I think I'm going to stop with this one for a while, as this is the perfect point to stop.

Lastly, I'm reading Leo Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God Is Within You", his most well-known non-fiction work. I am a massive Tolstoy fan (War and Peace is my all time favourite novel), so I wanted to know more about his philosophy. It is very interesting so far, with how he makes arguments for non-violence, as well as his arguments against the principle of the Church. I don't always fully agree, but it is a very thought-provoking book.

Last week I also read Tolstoy's short story "Master and Man". I think it may be the best work to read as an introduction to Tolstoy. The setting is perfect for this time of the year, the prose is amazing as always, the psychological depth is unbelievable for so short a novel, and the moral part is typical for his later works, but not too prominent that it bothered me in any way. So if you're interested in reading some Tolstoy, you should definitely read this one!

Finally got my Gideon the Ninth hold to pop up at the library at the right time. 2 hours in and digging it

I finished Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner last night and so I’m on to Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher then King of Attolia by Turner over this week.

I am slogging through the last bit of "Judas Unchained". I love the world that's been crafted, but at times it's way too detailed.

I'm reading Stephen King - Insomnia on my breaks at work and listening to David Jason's Autobiography in the car.

I'm listening to Hidden by Benedict Jacka, the fifth book in the Alex Verus series. I really enjoy both the story and the narrator for the audiobooks!

I been slacking off lately:

• The Dark Half - Stephen King, 3/4 done.
• Rogue - George RR Martin ed, 1/4 done.
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King, just started.
• Some of the Best from Tor: 15th anniversary - various, 1/5(?) done

How to be an antiracist, The Palestine Laboratory, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine (a translated version instead of the original text and I question my decision every day) and The Dos and Donuts of Love.

And yes I'm a huge mood reader

'Lincoln in the Bardo' (2017) George Saunders. A bit late to this title but got restarted with Saunders after finding 'A Swim in a Pond in the Rain'. Now I have to read/re-read all the Russian short stories but before that, I found a signed, hard-cover, first edition of 'Lincoln in the Bardo' at my local used bookstore! It's a trip but I'm along for the ride.

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani. Although initially I couldn't grasp much of what was happening in the prologue, as I progress it grows on me more and more.