Let's see, since last book, finished
Mistborn Series #2, Book #3 of 4 - The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson - This was great. It was a grand Indiana Jones-esque adventure with comedy, action, detective work, good characters and a good length. The first book in this new series was a fun short pulp steampunk western w/magic and the second book was not very good and was a short dark Victorian-era political murder mystery, but this third book really rebounded well with a big adventure that pretty much hit all the notes. Liked it a lot and had some interesting updates to the overall lore of the Mistborn books and hints at Sanderson's Cosmere universe. The setup for the final book is solid and makes it seem like it will be very Cosmere lore heavy, so looking forward to that when it comes out hopefully next fall. Feels weird finally being caught up on one of the active Sanderson mini-series within Cosmere. Only 2 books left in my full Cosmere catch-up read. Arcanum Unbound short novella collection and then Stormlight Book #3 Oathbringer. Book #4 Rhythm of War lands mid-November so should be caught up in time no problem.
Tetris by Box Brown. I saw they were making a new movie based on the story of Tetris and I'd owned this book in my backlog but hadn't read it. Turns out it's a graphic novel! Hadn't even flipped it open before and discovered that. Read it in one sitting last night after finishing the above. Was good, especially if you're familiar with the game industry and all the people and companies involved. Even knowing that stuff I still found it pretty hard to follow the legal trail of IP ownership (it's very confusing), but the characters and stories within were really interesting. Will watch the movie.
Does anyone here use goodreads? Is it any good for getting recommendations?
Yeah, I find it pretty helpful for recommendations. If I wasn't lazy I'd make an account myself.
Also check authors you enjoy, often they have their own good read page of books they like and you might find some good stuff from it. Like I read the first Discworld book Colour of Magic and didn't care for it and bailed on the series, and the only other Terry Pratchett book I had read was Good Omens and loved it, and I'd heard one of the top ones was Men at Arms, book #2 in the City Watch series. Kept it in the back of my mind and then I was checking out Brandson Sanderson's goodread recommendations page where he lists only 5-star books that he felt were great and takes inspiration in his writing from and he had Terry Pratchett's Men at Arms on it.
In his review he said something to the effect of I was late to Discworld and started with the first book Colour of Magic which people say isn't the best place to start and it wasn't a very good book and I bailed. I read Good Omens and loved it and wanted to give Discworld another try and then people told me Men at Arms was one of the top-tier Pratchett/Discworld books and I read it and it was totally fantastic.
Since that basically lined up 1:1 with my experience and I like Sanderon's writing style, it made me think I'd probably like Men at Arms a lot if I gave it a shot so I picked it up and am about to start it.
