What are you reading in 2024?

[Reynard]

I started Console Wars, which has been on my radar for a while. I was a PC gamer from the early 80s on, so I never really connected with the Nintendo/SEGA war, but I love books about the history of and drama in game development (Blood Sweat and Pixels is one of my favorite books).

 

[prabe]

Still on something like my rhythm, so the last three books: One by One by Ruth Ware, a pretty conventional thriller novel by someone who's probably read too much Dame Agatha, lots of cheating going on, here; Icarus by Deon Meyer, a police procedural set in South Africa, lots of local slang and Afrikaans thrown in but understandable, a central plot apparently inspired by real life things, obviously part of a series but decently standalone; The Curator by Owen King, cluttered and busy and borderline disjointed, pretty clearly a short story entombed in a 500-page novel, one of the blurbs should have warned me off.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Getting a Kobo changed my life (I use a Kindle now, because it gets even deeper discounts, but same thing). I donated all those boxes of books and am never going back. I still buy physical books for graphic novels and comics, most of which I done to our school library, and I occasionally buy a physical book for gaming just because of the art, but that's it.

I save a small fortune, have a lot more space and a lot less clutter, and I'm not killing nearly as many trees.

I love my Kindle, and use it for most new book purchases, with a few exceptions. For a lot of the older Appendix N and adjacent readings, I still prefer to read the old print versions, with their lovely old book smell and glorious covers.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Currently catching up on something I should have done decades ago, and reading the Chronicles of Amber. Darn it's good!