Curious what other folks are reading presently and looking to start a running topic, similar to “on the table” and “current video game”.
I’m presently on Chapter 11 of Mordew by Alex Pheby. Nothing gets one in the Holiday spirit more than reading about a boy fishing with his hands in living mud to catch flukes to sell for money to buy his dying father’s lungworm medicine. 
Actually reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula for the first time. For a book well over 100 years old it reads very easy and I am loving the dark gothic vibe. Really enjoying it so far!
Currently reading The Cthulhu Casebooks: Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors by James Lovegrove.
I will be following that up with Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson.
Currently reading “Grey Seer” by CL Werner.
Listening to “Wheel of Time book 1: Eye of the World” on Audible.
I’m currently reading stories from these volumes.
And making my through this as I listen to each album.
I could see that Dylan experience being pretty rewarding. Good idea.
Are you interested in the upcoming film at all?
Dylan is absolutely my favorite artist of all time. I have less than zero interest in the new movie. I don’t care for biopics at all. I do like concert films and documentaries though.
So many RPGs have a medieval theme I find it interesting to find real world traces as part of the imaginative process. If it wasn’t so cold and wet I would go out and follow some of the routes that are still walkable 
I just finished Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. It was ok, not great. I felt the same about Station Eleven. She’s kind of overrated.
You wouldn’t think Aliens would work in the medieval ages but this book has been pretty good so far.
The Audible version is also read by Heaney and is a really wonderful story to sit back and have told to you. Great grandfatherly voice that makes it feel like oral history passed down to you by the previous gen.
I’ve been breezily speeding through ‘Lord of a Shattered Land’ by Howard Andrew Jones and enjoying it thoroughly. I’ve read some of his Pathfinder Tales but this book is on a whole other level. It’s episodic, with great characters, really good writing and strong sword and sorcery feel to it. Anyone else read it? I highly recommend it for something that’s easy to pick up and instantly get immersed in.
Have it but haven’t read it yet. Sad about the author - he has terminal cancer. 
I’ve read some of his Pathfinder books though, and they’re pretty good.
Really? That really sucks and I’m sorry to hear that.
I finished ten novels/anthologies in 2024, only ten due in large part to struggling through (but completing!) Steven Erickson’s difficult-but-rewarding Gardens of the Moon (book one of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series).
In order:
So, ended up with classics that I’d wanted to get to for a while mixed in with some more recent stuff. Of note, this was my second time reading The Demolished Man. The first was when I was 15. Now I’m 65. So yeah, the reads were a half-century apart.
And my re-read was with the very same copy of the book. I’d saved it all along.
Is this a stand alone or part of a series (I’m hoping standalone)?
