Posts Tagged ‘High fiction’

Books I’m reading at the moment… January 2019

Monday, January 7th, 2019

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant part VI by Stephen R. Donaldson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Thomas_Covenant)
So I’ve finished part VI which is somehow an end to the chronicles because (spoiler alert!) at the end of part VI, TC actually dies. Which is unfortunate because it makes me wonder what happends in the parts VII to X… *sigh* – to be continued, I guess

星空を願った狼の by Shiina Takasato (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E9%87%8C%E6%A4%8E%E5%A5%88)
http://iss.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000002-I026521234-00
50 more pages to go….

Desperation by Stephen King
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperation_(novel))

红豚 by a friend of a co-worker

PADI Tec Deep Diver Manual
Not sure if I will ever do this… but it’s interesting to read about it, at least at the moment.

限りなく透明に近いブルー (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Transparent_Blue)

Yes, I’m getting spread a little bit but it’ll get better again. And I have a number of other e-books waiting to be read – sci-fi stuff, lots of it.

Update January 23rd: It’s getting worse… I’m also re-reading Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (couldn’t resist and once in a while I like to read something which makes you laugh) and Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson (from the highly-recommended series Malazan Book of the Fallen)

On the other hand, I finished The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Part VI which is good but I started with part VII, so yeah….

Overall, one down, three more added which makes a net plus of two.

Books I’m reading at the moment… December 2018

Sunday, December 2nd, 2018

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant part IV by Stephen R. Donaldson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Thomas_Covenant)

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant part V by Stephen R. Donaldson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Thomas_Covenant)

星空を願った狼の by Shiina Takasato (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E9%87%8C%E6%A4%8E%E5%A5%88)
http://iss.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000002-I026521234-00
I was reading this previously but lost interest throughout (when I bought it, I was told “it’s funny”… maybe it is not in a terry-prattchet-funny-way). Maybe I’ll make it to the end this time

Desperation by Stephen King
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperation_(novel))

红豚 by a friend of a co-worker… correct name to follow 🙂

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods)
I picked this up in used books shop. I “know” Neil Gaiman from his collaboration on Good Omens (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens) with the late Terry Pratchett. It’s good to hold a physical book in the hand while reading because I mostly read e-books on my tablet, but it’s just not the same.

PADI Tec Deep Diver Manual
Not sure if I will ever do this… but it’s interesting to read about it, at least at the moment.

Books I’m reading at the moment… November 2018

Saturday, November 3rd, 2018

攻殻機動隊 1.5 Human Error Processor by Masamune Shirow

The Last Ringbearer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer)

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant part III by Stephen R. Donaldson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Thomas_Covenant)

The Long Walk by Stephen King / Richard Bachman
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk)
I read that book in German as a teenager and I wanted to re-read it to see how it holds up and whether I would discover something new about it.

The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eyes_of_the_dragon)
I read this book at around the same time as the Long Walk and it was a nice re-read.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods)
I picked this up in used books shop. I “know” Neil Gaiman from his collaboration on Good Omens (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens) with the late Terry Pratchett. It’s good to hold a physical book in the hand while reading because I mostly read e-books on my tablet, but it’s just not the same.

PADI Tec Deep Diver Manual
Not sure if I will ever do this… but it’s interesting to read about it, at least at the moment.