I just order it on my Kindle, otherwise I'll forget about it.

I just keep a list of books I want to read on Google Docs

This is a great book my Max Lucado, "Anxious for nothing".

https://a.co/d/08XOQaDa


I'm also going to recommend this daily devotional, I went through it last year and it was great.

https://a.co/d/0cHiFSnL

Praying for you! Keep your head up, it gets better.

Anxious for Nothing is Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!

Praying for you brother. Sent a DM as well.

Lots of great book recommendations above. Agree on the Lucado book as you've already read Giglio.

Night by Elie Wiese (A) - A short fragmented memoir in which the author recounts his life from April 1941 as a devout Jewish teenager in Sighet, Transylvania (Hungry) to the various camps of the Auschwitz concentration complex to Buchenwald and his eventual liberation by U.S. forces in April 1945. Through the his eyes the reader becomes a witness to the ghettoization of his home town, the horrors of the trains and camps and how it not only leads to the loss of his entire family but his innocence's and faith due the cruelty of men.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (A) (Audiobook) - Read parts of this novel (primarily the chapters dealing with combat in the trenches or these left the most lasting impression) when WWI was covered in high school history. Well worth the read/listen even if you have seen the various film adaptations.

Currently reading: I'm a few chapters into C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet, the first novel of his Space Trilogy.

Currently listening: Back to Don Quixote by Cervantes. Learned in the preface that Part II of the work was written in response an unauthorized sequel.

January
1) A Team For America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation at War by Randy Roberts (B)
2) Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (B+)
3) What Christians Believe: Understanding the Nicene Creed by Bishop Robert Barron (A)

February
4) A Gentleman in Moscow by by Amor Towles (A)
5) The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams by Adam Lazarus (C)

Audiobooks
1) The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien - A mixture of listening and reading the text in an attempt to actually finish the book after many failed attempts in the past. I think listening to the stories comes across as the telling of lore instead of a dry history.
2) Frankenstein (or, The Modern Prometheus) by Mary Shelley (B)

March (Not a good reading month of reading for me)
6) The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins (B-)

Audiobooks
3a) Don Quixote Part1 by Miguel de Cervantes (A-)

April (All three of these book are rather short, so another not particularly good reading month for me)
7) Daybreaks: Daily Reflections for Lent and Easter by Amy Welborn (B)
8) The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel (C-)
9) Night by Elie Wiese (A)

Audiobooks
4) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (A)
5) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (C+)
6) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (A)

Another great book that a Christian author wrote was, "Heal your hurting mind". Would highly recommend it.

Also, sending prayers your way, like others have said, don't hesitate to reach out!!

GoodReads. It's free. Owned by Amazon so if you use a Kindle they are linked.

Been on it since around 2010. It's remarkably changed almost none since 2010 from a look and feel standpoint. Also, remarkably is that there aren't very many players in this space.

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The first 3 Dungeon Crawler Carl books.

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Same; just started Gate of the Feral Gods - reread in prep for the release of "A Parade of Horribles"

Just finished Artemis.

Not really what I expected going into it blind and having read Martian and Project Hail Mary. But I enjoyed it and thought it was a pretty quick read.

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Just finished Artemis.

Not really what I expected going into it blind and having read Martian and Project Hail Mary. But I enjoyed it and thought it was a pretty quick read.

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I liked Artemis as well. Definitely a different feel from the other two. Quick and easy and worth the time.

Read Butcher's Crossing by John Williams. Enjoyed it. Liked it better than Stoner which I feel is over hyped. I wasn't crazy about the ending which was a shame. But still an enjoyable read up to that point. I like how he doesn't belabor points and effectively keeps things moving. Didn't realize it was made into a movie so will check it out.

Gai-Jin by James Clavell. Sadly it doesn't really compare to Shogun or Tai-Pan. 5-star, 4.5-star, this is more like a 3 or 3.5.

Would anyone here recommend Noble House or Whirlwind? I don't think I'll be reading King Rat, as I'm more into the Struan storyline than anything else.

Whew - finished Oathbringer this week on a work trip. Man these books are intense and the world building is truly unreal. I get it now when people asks how he does it.

Time to jump in to Rhythm of War but expect a detour to jump into DCC: A Parade of Horribles when it drops in a couple weeks!

2026 Tracking:
1. Strength of the Few
2. Mistborn: The Final Empire
3. Mistborn: Well of Ascension
4. Project Hail Mary
5. 11/22/63
6. Mistborn: Hero of Ages
7. Stormlight Archives: Oathbringer

htownag08 said:

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Whew - finished Oathbringer this week on a work trip. Man these books are intense and the world building is truly unreal. I get it now when people asks how he does it.

Time to jump in to Rhythm of War but expect a detour to jump into DCC: A Parade of Horribles when it drops in a couple weeks!

2026 Tracking:
1. Strength of the Few
2. Mistborn: The Final Empire
3. Mistborn: Well of Ascension
4. Project Hail Mary
5. 11/22/63
6. Mistborn: Hero of Ages
7. Stormlight Archives: Oathbringer

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I got halfway through Oathbringer and got busy and put it down. I need to jump back in it's been months at this point.

I was so exhausted after my reread of the first 4 Stormlight books that I couldn't make myself start the 5th book. I need to get to it before I forget everything again.

Not something I've read yet, but I just saw that Scott Hawkins who wrote The Library at Mount Char has a new book coming out September 6th called Blacktail. I really like The Library at Mount Char. It was a bit slow and confusing at first but was great by the end. I've been itching to re-read it for some time, so I might have to do so before this new one comes out.

Synopsis of Blacktail from the Panmacmillan site:
A twisting and apocalyptic dark fantasy novel, Blacktail is the long-awaited second novel from Scott Hawkins, the critically acclaimed author of The Library at Mount Char.

Who does your dog pray to?

Blacktail, a half-breed wolf, knows only the language of the hunt. When men kill his mate and unborn pups, he answers with total slaughter. In his violence, Blacktail draws the gaze of an ancient and terrible feline witch. She sets him on a path south to wake the sleeping Forest God and end the plague of humankind.

As Blacktail journeys farther from his wild home and deeper into the world of man, he encounters strangers animal, mortal, and otherworldly who want to help him rid the world of humans. From the blood-slicked wilderness to a burning confrontation with Archangels, this is a feral odyssey of vengeance brutal, heartbreaking and unlike anything else in fiction.

The Forest God sleeps. But what will be the price of waking him?

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Never read this one before, but now it's my second favorite Shakespeare play of all time behind only Hamlet.

Coffin Moon. Same writer as Fever House. Another good read. Stand alone this time. An earlier work of his so maybe not as strong as FH but still enjoyed it. A more classic-ish vampire story.

The Brotherhood of the Wheel. Another one that I super enjoyed. The Knights Templar survive as a few truckers going around and defeating bad things on the road. Awesome take on the whole thing. Has a sequel I am waiting on to be delivered.

Just finished The Silverblood Promise by James Logan. Good heist fantasy with enjoyable characters and just enough loose ends to make me look forward to the next book.

Just finished reading Krampus - The Yule Lord by Brom. Very brief summary - a down on his luck trailer-trash guy gets caught up in the battle between Santa Claus and Krampus in the hills of West Virginia. Its a fun book that has some deeper moments.

Just before that I finished up Easy Go, Michael Crichton's third novel, written under his pseudonym John Lange. Classic Crichton but you can tell it's one of his early works where he is still developing his patented storytelling style and plot arc.

About to finish the audio book of Foundation: the history of england from its earliest history to the tudors by Peter Ackroyd. Still on my medieval england history kick.

In a case of horrible timing, my library hold on The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell finally came through after God knows how long, but I only have ten days to knock it out before A Parade of Horribles comes out. Gotta do some serious reading after work this next week.

This morning I finished The Andromeda Strain by Crichton and started Open Season, by C. J. Box. It is book 1 in the Joe Pickett series.

The Marksman said:

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Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Never read this one before, but now it's my second favorite Shakespeare play of all time behind only Hamlet.

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I couldn't really get into it, for it was Greek to me.

Completed: Macabre Stories by HP Lovecraft. A collection what I think are some of his earlier short stories, none of which really deal much with the Cthulhu mythos. It was fine - you can see the beginnings of what he eventually built - but probably not worth seeking out unless you want a full Lovecraft picture.