What Are You Reading?

Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad. His writing style never ceases to amaze me - especially for someone who only learned English as an adult. This collection is interesting because it contains two stories set in Europe, rather than African, Malaysia, etc. I'd only read his more "exotic" stuff before.

In a few minutes I am going to start The Shroud Codex by Dr. Jerome Corsi. Reviews make it maybe less detailed than Da Vinci Code, but it has a little more pro-faith angle (I am told). Dr. Corsi is someone I know and communicate with. I have not had the nerve to tell him Hitler died, though.

I just finished a wonderful book called A Street Cat Named Bob.

It's a true story of how a young man, who is addicted to drugs and living in London, meets a cat outside one day that decides to follow him home and take up residence in his apartment. The cat changes his life for the better, leading him out of addiction and transforming his life.

I highly recommend this book for cat lovers, or anyone looking to read an inspirational story.

😂 Ravi is hard to understand.

Quite the undertaking!  For me, it got dull towards the end and then actually got great again when Sanderson finished the series with Jordan. 

Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward Angel. Just started. Not sure about the narrative so far, but the writing is already terrific.

I'm reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Easily my favorite fantasy series. One thing about the dullness, it kinda came into Jordan's writings in concentrated spots. Once I got used to his writing style, I could kinda pick out when he was going to go off the deep end some minutia that no one cares about (like how to measure horseflesh, jfc), and then just scan over the next few pages and pick up the important bits.

Sanderson did a good job of picking the pace back up, but in the end it felt rushed. I like where he went with it, but there was maybe a little too much hand waving and serendipity. I did go on to start reading Sanderson's Mistborn series, and was a little boggled to find I thought he was a better writer there than in the WoT series. I guess he was more comfortable in his own series.

Recently finished Ian Caldwell's The Fifth Gospel.   Probably not everyone's cup of tea, but if you think you might enjoy an ecclesiastical murder mystery set in the nooks and crannies of the Vatican, you might like it.  A certain moderator of our acquaintance might like it. 

Jordan left an unbelievable amount of loose ends and story lines. And tons of notes. Sanderson was first contracted to write one book that would wrap up the series, but after studying the notes he had to write 3 books to wrap everything up. Yet you feel the ending was rushed. That shows you what a mess he inherited. He had his own books he wanted to be writing at the time.
PS
Read "Elantris" if you want an idea of what he can do when he is in top form.

About to finish The Age of War by Michael J. Sullivan.

Foote's Civil War trilogy is a masterpiece. I went to a lecture by Shelby Foote in the 1980s. Southern gentleman thru and thru and not just a great historian, but a master story teller too.

Well,2061 ended up being anti climatic. Can't settle on a book at the moment...I'm picking at two Terry Pratchetts and Ben Rich's Skunk Works