Kingdom of Knuffel

Woo-hoo! New author acquired!
:)
Definitely looking him up.

He sounds interesting, I wonder where I could buy his books in Poland. I can see some of his works are translated to Polish.

Edit: Ah, damn, expensive DX Can't afford now XD

I'm going to try first by asking my library to acquire his books.

That way I don't have to pay for them, but the author still gets paid and I still get to read them.

I got his first few books of age of the first empire on sale for cheap which is what got me hooked on him so I'm not even mad about paying full price now lol Though I do still try and wait to see if any fall on sale before buying.

So I finished The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood. Quite boring, if you ask me.
Now I have started a non-fiction book titled The autistic brain, by Temple Grandin, which looks certainly promising.

Well I finished the The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin, and it was bad. Especially the end just seemed rushed. It was quite dumb imho. I wasn't expecting steamy scenes either and they just felt cringey to me. I've read books with those scenes, but they aren't my favorite. Especially since they fell in love in like 5 days. Can't wait to passionately hate read the rest of the series. I do think it's a different character perspective in the next book so maybe the first person won't be bad.

Why do you want to hurt yourself?
If you hated the first book, why read the rest?
You may have wasted your money, why waste your time too?


<-- says the one who can't give up a bad book

Because I'm stubborn lol.

Well, I'll read it before the end of the year. Sad news I didn't realize I had bought the first book of another series by her. I might just toss that onto my give away, donate, or turn in for credit pile.

In other news, finally went to the library and got a membership. While I was there I picked up Cape Refuge by Terri Blackstock and started that last night.
I won't lie, my library selection is quite sad, but luckily the online database has many more options. Already put myself on a waitlist for two books (but one is available right away on another database so if I am ready to read it before I get my hold I'll cancel it and read from that one) I haven't explored all of the databases I got access to yet, I just got so overwhelmed and started making a list of interesting books that is outside of fantasy genre lol.

It's amazing what options can open up with those library databases!


DK recently turned me on to the notion of reading webnovels. Some of them have been surprisingly engrossing. So far I've gotten into "Lord of Mysteries" which turns out not to belong to the mystery genre at all (that surprised me a lot. Apparently it's some isekai/steampunk situation instead).
I also managed to grit my teeth through a first person PoV and read a bunch of "The SSS-class Suicide Hunter" which was surprisingly good, but I really can't stand first person, and then I found out from some of the comments that there was a manhwa adaptation and switched over to looking that up instead.
Thankfully, graphic novels are exceedingly rarely in first person PoV.
Sure enough it's an amazing story. I was so fed up with the MC at first but he's grown.... and has become astonishingly philosophical.... and the author is really good at creating fascinating minor characters.
I still truly do not understand some of the reactions, but they're so CONSISTENT about it, I'm pretty sure that there's some cultural component I'm just missing out on.

So that's where my reading has gone lately.

And I finally got further with Bridge at Remagen!
One day I'm going to finish it, swear to peaches.

The cool thing is that I can visit any library in the same district and check out with my card. The town next over got a new library built within the past 5 years so might go see what they have for their selection since the new library is much bigger eventually. But my list for ebooks I found to borrow eventually is over 30. Whoops.
Most of the ones I keep getting suggested on the app looks like erotica. Like nty lol.

Oh man that reminds me when I used to go to fanfiction or something like that and read people's stories.
A graphic novel in first person sounds interesting, but I think I'll stay away from it because of a certain book I read that I couldn't stand. Unless I am understanding wrong and the graphic novel isn't in first person, but the original story just is?