Last week I finished When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi, and I am currently working on the fourth book in the Chequey Series by Daniel O’Malley, Royal Gambit.
The Chequey Series started with The Rook, and I’ve been reading every book as it comes out. I enjoy the whole series, but it can be controversial because not everybody agrees with its structure, as each book doesn’t directly follow the characters of the one before, but instead tells another story with different characters who interact in the same world. They slightly overlap at some point.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately??
With regards to Bingo, I’m provisionally planning to use When the Moon Hits Your Eye for the square New Release and Royal Gambit for the square Political, but they may drop off or be changed as time goes on.
For details on the c/Books bingo challenge that just restarted for the year, you can checkout the initial Book Bingo, and its Recommendation Post. Links are also present in our community sidebar.
Didn’t read as much this week. Still working on Thirteenth by C.M. Rosens.
Finished Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories by qntm (technology-centered scifi short stories) | bingo: indie HM, short HM, cool cover)
No aliens or space opera in this, just a lot of speculative stories focused on computers or other technology. Some are structured as wiki entries, chat logs, or social media threads.
I liked this more than the other short story collection I read recently. I think it helped that it was very concept-focused, not character-, world-, or plot-focused.