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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? June 23

Since last week's post I've finished Battle Ground (plus Christmas Eve, Little Things, The Law) & Twelve Months from the Dresden Files, and Risen from Alex Verus. That just leaves the last few novellas from both series to cap them off.

After that, it'll be the latest Incryptid book I missed from earlier this year, then I dunno maybe back to finishing Mercy Thompson before taking a break from urban fantasy for a while.

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? June 16

I finished up the Lord of the Rings trilogy today, loved it. Now I'm about a third of the way through a reread of Battle Ground (Dresden Files) so that I can get to Twelve Months, probably starting on Thursday. I also listened to ~40% of the last Alex Verus book, I'll be finishing that in the next two workdays too. This is the one good thing about working night shifts in security.

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? May 26

The other day I finished The Two Towers, it was great. Right after that I binged all of Skin Game (Dresden Files 15) in one day which has been my favourite in the series since the first time I read it.

Now I'm just cleaning up a couple of random things I've had on the backburner, then it's Return of the King, Peace Talks and Battle Ground as soon as possible so that I can get to Twelve Months.

Other than that, I've picked up my The Wise Man's Fear audiobook again now that I'm working out regularly again because it was my gym noise back in... wow late 2024. Time flies.

Apparently Michael G Manning's latest book came out a couple of weeks ago too, but I haven't had any luck finding it for some reason, no idea what's happening there 🤷‍♂️

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I didn't make it through all of S1 of Invincible (though I've read the comic a couple of times and really wanted to like it), but at one point during a conversation William had two mouths because they pasted the open mouth over the closed one and didn't have it in the right position.

I also noticed in S1 of Gen V during a fight scene you could literally see the seam around characters' faces where they'd been stuck on the stunt actors, so after that I just assume anything from Amazon made recently is going to be sloppy. That was probably the least of Gen V's problems though.

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What are you playing this weekend? 2026-05-15

I just took 2 wonderful weeks off and played about 160 hours combined of Transport Fever 2 (city builder but without the city-building that only focuses on logistics), FOUNDRY (voxel Satisfactory), Teddy's Haven (cosy fantasy shop sim) and Bobo Bay (basically Chao garden from Sonic Adventure 2 that someone finally made into a standalone game).

Less than two hours into my first shift back I was already utterly miserable, and now 90 minutes after that I'm just... burned out. I guess it'll be back to Pokémon after this because I won't have the mental bandwidth for much else. Just gotta win the lotto!