Here's all the stuff I've read, am reading, and will soon read for the month of May to June. Check out pagechewing.com and Speculative Speculations open.spotify.c...
So sad to have missed The Rediscovery of Man, but looking forward to the next one! Embassytown!! My TBR crushed me and I haven't been able to get to it. You're still going on with the short stories! I really need to read more of those, they're so much fun! I haven't read Tchaivkosky, but the new standalone Alien Clay caught my attention. That cover for Song of Mysteries is gooorgeous!!! Happy reading Jarrod!!
Great wrap up! Hooray for Embassytown! Very glad that you found something that resonated with you in that book, Jarrod. And I'm very much looking forward to discussing The Book That Broke The World with you and the rest of the crew!
Those are some bangers for the month. The Demon Pope sounds hilarious. I didn't know Chinese Myths and Folk Tales was a thing, definitely going to be picking that one up!
Great update Jarrod! So happy you are enjoying LORD AND KING, and all your current reads! Thanks for including my work in your video! It means a lot! And congrats on receiving SONG OF THE MYSTERIES! You are gonna be blown away when time comes to read it!
I have pushed back “The Dragonbone Chair" by Ted Williams (Memory, Sorrow & Thorn #1, Epic Fantasy) from May to June, and will continue on with book #2, “Stone of Farewell”. Next on my June TBR, I have “A Brightness Long Ago” by Guy Gavriel Kay (Historical Fantasy inspired by Renaissance Italy) and “The Darkness That Comes Before” (Prince of Nothing Trilogy #1, Dark/Epic Fantasy inspired by the Crusades and I heard it described as “if Frank Herbert of “Dune” fame, had written Joe Abercrombie’s “First Law” trilogy”…). Cheers!
I've heard similar descriptions of Prince of Nothing and have it on my to be read someday list. GGK as well. Always happy to hear from you MacScarield!
That's quite the list there! I enjoyed Embassytown just like enjoy everything Miéville of course. Have you read his Kraken yet? I'm knee-deep in my current video project research which besides absolutely terrible trash like The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail luckily also included a reread of the Illuminatus! trilogy to save my sanity. In addition I read the new Peter S. Beagle I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons and Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz which was great. Now I'm reading Philip Roth's The Plot Against America and Christopher Douglas's If God Meant To Interfere - American Literature And The Rise Of The Christian Right. Oh, and I reread both Use Of Weapons and The State Of The Art by Iain M. Banks too.
You always have such a wonderful and eclectic reading list. If you're interested in the horrible rise of the christian right here in America, check out a book called Hijacking History: How the Christian Right Teaches History and Why It Matters by Kathleen Wellman. It will give you chills more than the scariest horror story. I plan on getting to Banks and more Mieville as well.
