Well, like it or not, the summer is starting to draw to a close. The weather is calming down a bit (it was hot as Hades for a few weeks there), the days are getting noticeably shorter, and my last two semesters of school are approaching like a freight train.
Part of going back to school for these last few courses includes a list of “summer reading,” which I have been happily diving into, along with a few leisure books I picked up at the same time. The first is Severance my Ling Ma (no relation to the show of the same name), and it’s been a joy to read thus far. I forgot how much I love reading during my lunch breaks… just a few chapters at a time. I get the impression that the ending (which I am still half a book away from) is going to be super bleak, but hey, you can’t always have everything.
I also picked up John Scalzi’s Kaiju Preservation Society, which I am super excited to dive into. I love Scalzi’s work, almost without exception (I didn’t love all of the sequels to Old Man’s War, but I at least liked them), and I have heard very good things about this one.
Those two should get me to about mid-next-week, at which point I will dive into the other two I picked up thus far (Icarus Down by Bow, I think, and… another school one… oh! The Fault in Our Stars by… I don’t know off-hand!).
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!