Weekly “what are you reading” Thread #51

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

I'm about to finish Confessions of a Mask, I'll post a review once it's done. I also bought this book

“Rise and Reign of Mammals”, is by Steve Brusatte, and American paleontologist, his book about dinosaurs was good.

!bookworms !dinochads

Also @kaamrev it's pass 4pm at Cape Town so you can't complain about timing. Most euros are awake too and soon so will the West-Coastcels

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kaamrev they/them :marseynpcsheep:

5mo ago #6483379

I finished the 1st book in series of Constable Evans, the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys for adults. I discovered the series from Evan's above, the 4th or 5th book in the series randomly from pirated audiobooks, and read it out of order.

Written by this 82 year old Boomer foid still pumping out books every 4 months. She named herself Rhys Bowen, to be unisex or male sounding author. Apparently this was something all Boomer Bong foids did in the 1990s as it was a common held belief that women authors were not taken seriously outside the romance genre.

So far I like the Constable Evans style, because there is a more logical set of events for the protagonist to solve the crime/mystery, and he's not some fricking mary sue :marseyeyeroll: literally just tripping over clues, that shit is annoying in crime serials for me - also the guy is actual law enforcement and not just some civilian who has automatic access to sensitive gov files and shit.

What's most charming about the series is that the setting is in welsh rural countryside and it's small town small-mindedness lmoa - where there are peeps with redundant names, just like Park for Koreans or Mohammed for towelheads.

There are so many Evans in town, that the locals distinguish between each separate man as, Evans the Post, Evans the meat, Evans the Milk and Evans the Law (our protagonist) lol

Finished the 40kslop of Dark Imperium trilogy, and began The Fall of Cadia, which I so far enjoyed, but holy shit you have to be neck deep into 40K lore to understand what the actual frick is going on lol - like you have to have actually read 10 books to grasp who is who, what factions exist and their relationships are, and how the powerlevels scales, and how the magic space-heck in which the human factions use to warp between the stars in faster than light travel, cuz this books goes off running with ZERO explanantion, this is probably the most noob unfriendly book in the Black library