Books and stuff

[graculus]

Since I've been mostly blathering about what I've been up to in my personal life, I thought I'd also do a post about what I've been consuming in terms of media, since it's been quite a lot.

So, first off let's talk about books - I'm pretty much exclusively reading SF and Fantasy now, with the occasional non-fiction book thrown in (but very occasional) and these are the best of what I've read this year so far, mostly newly published but a few older books too:

A Gathering of Shadows by VE Schwab (loved the first book, loved the sequel)
The Iron Ghost and The Silver Tide by Jen Williams
City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett (boy, this series is so good!)
Uprooted by Naomi Novik (which won the Nebula Award for Best Novel yesterday)
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Down Station by Simon Morden
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
The Grass King's Concubine by Kari Sperring
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson
City of Bones by Martha Wells
Ombria in Shadow by Patricia McKillip

More detailed commentary is available at my Booklikes blog if you're interested in any of the above. The only books I've given 5 stars to this year so far have been Uprooted and City of Blades.

Meanwhile, on the idiot box, this is how it falls out at the moment...

Still watching (though in some cases massively behind what's currently airing): Brooklyn Nine Nine, Elementary, Orphan Black, iZombie, Person of Interest, Vikings, Turn, The Americans (season 4 starts on UK television this week!)

Got bored and/or annoyed and wandered off from: Sleepy Hollow, Blindspot, How to Get Away With Murder, Empire

Unexpectedly enjoying: DC's Legends of Tomorrow (considering I ditched The Flash fairly early on, this one has stuck mostly because of the combo of Sarah Lance and Leonard Snart) and Limitless

Feeling ambivalent about: Arrow, The Blacklist (which I mostly watch for Spader but...) and Jane the Virgin

Happy to discuss any of the above in the spoiler-laden world of comments!