The highlight for me was by far the discovery of Percival Everett. "Erasure" & "The Trees" were both very good, and I am planning to read a lot more of his books.
Oh for the love of all that is holy, please let Wind and Truth live up to all our expectations hahaha. Also love how excited you are about the Too Like the Lightning series, I really want to read that so badly! My favourite book so far is a toss-up between Hell for Hire by Rachel Aaron and A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams 🥰
Glad to see someone liked Fledgling besides me lol I DNF'd Womb City right after the decision you were talking about. I just couldn't force myself to go on🙄
Love getting hyped to try Too Like the Lightning and Translation State, and I’m right with you on loving Oathbringer!!! What did you make of Martha Wells taking home two Locus Awards for a mid Murderbot book and an unreadable mess?
My first half of the year was defined basically by Malazan, as I finished the 10 books series. And that's already worth the whole year, actually, I'm feeling great about it
I spent the first half of the year trying to work through a backlog of subscription box books, which has been interesting. Both my biggest surprise and disappoint came from BOTM (loved Dragonfruit, hated A River Enchanted), but now I want to focus the second half of my year on reading all the pretty books I've bought in 2024 😅🎆
Also excited about The Lotus Empire, obviously. My highlight of the year so far has been The Warm Hands of Ghosts, plus a bunch of rereads. Too bad the Killers of the Flower Moon movie was so boring!
Talking about new releases, are you going to be reading The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons? You loved the Chorus od Dragons so much I was expecting you to talk about it!
Fantastic tag ! Really excited to see where Jade Daniels story goes in that third book because I've really enjoyed seeing her in the first two. I think for my character the ones I havent been able to stop thinking about is Cordelia from Vorkosigan, Jade, Markel from Tithenai and Tashue & Stella from Legacy of The Brightwash. Also you Hugos videos were fantastic !
I also put Too Like the Lightning as the best book I've read so far! Mainly because I put Seven Surrenders down as the book that made me cry. I am still not over the ending.
Glad you enjoyed your re-read of Oathbringer, I read it for the first time this year and I loved it so much! :) (I am a big Dalinar fan so that's probably partially why). Also, I love the idea of Ali Hazelwood and Abby Jimenez co-writing something! And I agree about the focal point of the Killers of the Flower Moon, I remember watching the trailer and wondering why the bad guys were almost the POV characters (Mollie should have been the "main character", imo). As for my highs, I really loved Defiant, Oathbringer, Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands, the last two Aurora Cycle books, The Deep Sky, Ali Hazelwood's romances, the X-Wing series, etc :) 🎆☀
The Dune movies are truly superior to the book for me, which is rare in adaptations, I think it helps in the movies we dropped all the gross pseudohomophobia present in the book
Ngl, I'm surprised Jenn Lyons' new book isn't on the list. :P Also every Scorsese is too long and boring, sorry not sorry. 👀 And glorifies violence. And is the basically the same thing over and over again. I do feel like hollywood is getting better at not having everything so white focused and erasing everybody else, but then comes along a dude like Scorsese and they're just like "whatever you say man, make us some money". -.-
The highlight for me was by far the discovery of Percival Everett. "Erasure" & "The Trees" were both very good, and I am planning to read a lot more of his books.
Your sci-fi subgenre rec video was also super helpful!
Oh for the love of all that is holy, please let Wind and Truth live up to all our expectations hahaha. Also love how excited you are about the Too Like the Lightning series, I really want to read that so badly!
My favourite book so far is a toss-up between Hell for Hire by Rachel Aaron and A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams 🥰
im suuuper intrigued to pick up too like the lightning. ive been craving sci-fi so much lately!
I keep hearing rave reviews for just for the summer, it gets me so excited to read it! (even though part of your world was only 3.5 for me 👀)
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Glad to see someone liked Fledgling besides me lol
I DNF'd Womb City right after the decision you were talking about. I just couldn't force myself to go on🙄
Love getting hyped to try Too Like the Lightning and Translation State, and I’m right with you on loving Oathbringer!!!
What did you make of Martha Wells taking home two Locus Awards for a mid Murderbot book and an unreadable mess?
My first half of the year was defined basically by Malazan, as I finished the 10 books series. And that's already worth the whole year, actually, I'm feeling great about it
Yep, your Hugo videos were great, loved those!
Love all the books behind you.
I spent the first half of the year trying to work through a backlog of subscription box books, which has been interesting. Both my biggest surprise and disappoint came from BOTM (loved Dragonfruit, hated A River Enchanted), but now I want to focus the second half of my year on reading all the pretty books I've bought in 2024 😅🎆
Also excited about The Lotus Empire, obviously. My highlight of the year so far has been The Warm Hands of Ghosts, plus a bunch of rereads. Too bad the Killers of the Flower Moon movie was so boring!
Talking about new releases, are you going to be reading The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons? You loved the Chorus od Dragons so much I was expecting you to talk about it!
Great video!!! Will go watch the Octavia Butler one next* 😅
*insert a T. Kingfisher* is so real 😂
Fantastic tag ! Really excited to see where Jade Daniels story goes in that third book because I've really enjoyed seeing her in the first two. I think for my character the ones I havent been able to stop thinking about is Cordelia from Vorkosigan, Jade, Markel from Tithenai and Tashue & Stella from Legacy of The Brightwash.
Also you Hugos videos were fantastic !
Demon Copperhead was INCREDIBLE!!! I finished it as I was getting ready for the day and cried on my way to work.
Recent news isn't really putting me in an July 4th mood, so having an existential crisis on the beach sounds good. 🏖
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I also put Too Like the Lightning as the best book I've read so far! Mainly because I put Seven Surrenders down as the book that made me cry. I am still not over the ending.
Glad you enjoyed your re-read of Oathbringer, I read it for the first time this year and I loved it so much! :) (I am a big Dalinar fan so that's probably partially why). Also, I love the idea of Ali Hazelwood and Abby Jimenez co-writing something! And I agree about the focal point of the Killers of the Flower Moon, I remember watching the trailer and wondering why the bad guys were almost the POV characters (Mollie should have been the "main character", imo).
As for my highs, I really loved Defiant, Oathbringer, Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands, the last two Aurora Cycle books, The Deep Sky, Ali Hazelwood's romances, the X-Wing series, etc :) 🎆☀
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🎆 Happy Place taking the spot of my favorite book of the year so far, was not on my bingo card. I STILL need to read Angel of Indian Lake. 😅
I am happy you enjoyed Oathbringer this time around; it was my favorite book and Dalinar is my person… I am looking forward to Wind and Truth. 🏖️🎇
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Watch me use “reprehensible” in my wrap up for that mermaid book today. 😂
🏖 always love your videos
A few of the highlights this year have been the Emma M Lion books, The Trees by Percival Everett, and The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.
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The Dune movies are truly superior to the book for me, which is rare in adaptations, I think it helps in the movies we dropped all the gross pseudohomophobia present in the book
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Si los libros hay conocimiento y sabiduria, ¿por que no hay un mundo mejor?
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Ngl, I'm surprised Jenn Lyons' new book isn't on the list. :P
Also every Scorsese is too long and boring, sorry not sorry. 👀 And glorifies violence. And is the basically the same thing over and over again. I do feel like hollywood is getting better at not having everything so white focused and erasing everybody else, but then comes along a dude like Scorsese and they're just like "whatever you say man, make us some money". -.-
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