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Starting the thread a day early because I'm going to be busy all day tomorrow taking my 14 year old to a big bike race. What are you reading right now? Any and all genres welcome in this topic!

Finished Wilderness of Mirrors a week or so back
I have started the latest self published Michelle West Essalieyan Series.
The story is her publisher dropped the books because economics. They were large tomes and cost a lot to print. She started a patreon to finish the series. She just finished the second book of the final series and I love the whole series. Eighteen books and counting.
Been reading them for the last twenty odd years. The best thing is she has been slow and steady, Always had a new book out every two or three years. Keeps you hooked
Started The Wild Road

I was curious what the fuss has been all about, so I finally picked up A Court of Thorns and Roses. It was...fine? I suspect that a lot of the buzz comes from readers who aren't usually fantasy fans, because I thought it was completely full of tired tropes that I've seen used a million times, but if you're new to high fantasy I can see how it would feel original. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either. Not sure I'll bother continuing with the series.

I then ripped through Bald-Faced Liar, which was a pretty standard popular thriller that I got for free on Kindle First. Now I'm on a memoir There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish.

Finished Fallout
That was quite the ending.

Starting Match Game

I got confused on what month we were reading the new Scalzi book, so continuing on with my marathon. :)

Finished Match Game

Starting Failure Mode at some point today.

Failure Mode was initially the end of the series.. And while he picked it back up, the new stuff is not yet done, so this is a good stopping point for me for now until the new stuff is completed.

Hoping to finish this weekend:

Count Zero by William Gibson. Been doing a buddy read of the Sprawl trilogy and have let this one slide. Need to finish it up because I really want to get to the third book.

Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress. I'm so not a Kress fan. I'm just reading this for another group's challenge. At least it's short.

Even the Worm Will Turn by Hailey Piper. Another series buddy read for another group. A reread for me. Gave it 4 stars last time (this one is more exposition heavy than the other two), but still enjoying it. Another short read.

Also reading:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. A long-due reread of an old favorite. Not a fast read due to the large number of characters and how they connect to each other that can be hard to keep track of.

Navigational Entaglements by Aliette de Bodard. Just read the short story by de Bodard in the latest Uncanny magazine and now onto this recent publication. After this I'll be reading her A Fire Born of Exile as a buddy read.

Finished Failure Mode
Wow, so that was the initial ending for the series? I'm not surprised he picked it up again. There are still a couple more books pending so now is a good time to take a break.

Started Foe this morning. CJ mentioned it in one of our QotW and it sounded interesting so I grabbed it.

Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn't Know You Could Eat by Ellen Zachos

Finished Foe (short book)

I am honestly not sure what I think about it. I think it achieved what it set out to do, but I am unsure on my reactions. Unusual for me.

I have a few library books out that I really should start, but I'm in that end of school year fog and went for a comfort re-read instead - Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay. I've been meaning to re-read it for a while, since the history of Sarantium is mentioned so often in his more recent books.