What Im Reading
Here is a pretty sprawling description and discussion of what im reading at the moment.
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
I'm really enjoying pachinko at the moment, it is a fascinating and depressing view into a history of colonised Korea and it has a very easy to read writing style.
Apostles of Mercy by Lindsay Ellis
The third book in the Noumena series is so far a very enjoyable read, I picked it up at christmas and started reading it recently while I was recovering from a surgery.
I won't pretend I didn't read the first book in the series, Axiom's End, purely because of my love for Ellis's video essays but I continued to read the series purely from interest in the world and characters she had built. Truth of the divine, the second book in the series, was a personal favourite which I read in only a few days.
Ellis's books are both fascinating in their unorthodox depictions of alien civilizations aswell as their very fun style of writing, and isnt that what reading is really meant to be?
Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan
This was the book that I jumped ship from to read Apostles of Mercy and had been reading for a few months prior having been reading it on and off.
Jordan's Wheel of Time series is an epic 14 book story and I am only at book three. As you can probably imagine these books can be lengthy and a little hard to stick with at times but they are also wonderfully exciting and immersive.
I am eager to return to and finish The Dragon Reborn as I throughly enjoyed the previous book, The Great Hunt and find that Jordan's writing is the most inspiring for my own fantasy storytelling.
The Lure and Romance of Alchemy by C.J.S. Thompson
I have developed an interest in the history of Alchemy and it has only incensed the feeling I have that Alchemy is severly undervalued as a piece of scientific and spiritual history...
