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I think that's the series before this one, which I couldn't find as an audiobook (I have very limited time when I could read a traditional book atm).

He's not done a great job with the romance or female characters in this book, which is quite common with sci fi and fantasy authors sadly, but I thought the world was intriguing enough to keep going. I feel I've mostly figured out the mysteries in the setting now so I'm sort of lagging as it meanders to it's conclusion. The prose isn't bad but he really takes his time with stuff.

Fyi Humble Bundle is running a deal where you can get all? of the diskword books by Terry Pratchett for like 16 bucks.

I had to figure out how to set up a Kobo account, but seemed worth it.

Now to figure the reading order…

Gave the Dungeon Crawler Carl books a try but haven't really clicked with it. I'm not sure if its just a rough start but I'm finding myself struggling to get into it.

 LunarSol wrote:
Gave the Dungeon Crawler Carl books a try but haven't really clicked with it. I'm not sure if its just a rough start but I'm finding myself struggling to get into it.

I’ve got friends who rave about it (in a good way) but I haven’t got around to picking them up.

On my radar though.

 Nevelon wrote:
Fyi Humble Bundle is running a deal where you can get all? of the diskword books by Terry Pratchett for like 16 bucks.

I got so excited as I'd love to have all the Discworld books. I was then bitterly disappointed to find out the bundle's not available in my area.

Continuing reading my Dredd Mega Collection in volume order.

Finished the Democracy and Dark Judges stuff. Ploughed through the Psi Files (with mixed results. Anderson great. Others…they have the odd moment).

Now onto Devlin Waugh. The Homosexual Brit-Cit Vampire Exorcist. Body of Schwarzenegger, face and mannerisms of Terry Thomas. Every bit as bonkers and brilliant as that suggests.

I'm dipping my toes into the LitRPG genre with Mimic and Me, a story about an adventurer that bonds with a mimic, basically a medieval fantasy version of Venom and Eddie Brock.

I'm not entirely sure about the genre, although I have heard people love it. It's a bit too much of a 4th wall-break for me.

Litrpg has come a long way in the last handful of years.
I recall a lot of the early stuff was very much things like skyrim with the serial filed off or super heavy number crunch that you could tell was someones homebrew that couldn't actually function as a working system
Now granted, a lot of it is still numbers go up, but you see a lot more that use whatever system they use to support the story instead of being the story itself

This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno

A couple moves into a new apartment and strange things start happening. Turns out the previous tenant, an elderly Hispanic woman placed a curse on the new occupants before her eviction. The girlfriend is killed in a botched mugging and the boyfriend leaves town. The curse follows the boyfriend.

A decent exploration of grief in the first 3rd with some haunted house type vibes, and then it devolves into cosmic/demonic horror.

This novel was pretty well hyped by some of my favorite reviewers, and I also found it to be a fun read.

About 1/3rd into Rekt by Alex Gonzalez

A horror novel billed as

A disturbing examination of toxic masculinity and the darkest pits of the Internet, about a young man’s algorithmic descent into depravity in a future that’s nearly here.

A grieving young man is sent a link to a gore/shock site that has a video of his girlfriend’s fatal car crash, enthralled by the site he digs deeper into the dark web and finds footage of other deaths, including the deaths of people still alive in the real world. Depravity ensues(or so I’m told, haven’t gotten too far yet).

Medalist (manga) - Helped me to understand the rules and scoring for figure skating more than reading a wiki would.
Reread a couple of Chronicles of Narnia books for the first time in ages, and I still love the archaic slang.