1st Quarter:
1) Ellis Peter's The Devil's Novice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #8): Probably will not read more B-
2 - 4) Bernard Cornell's Richard Sharpe's Books Sharpe's Revenge, Sharpe's Waterloo, Sharpe's Devil. Finished series given to me last year. Overall B
5) Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography B
6) Jo Nesbo's The Bat (Harry Hole #1) Finally got around to reading 1st in series that have read many of. B+
7) Jeff Shaara's To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Habor I was actually hesitant about reading since read From Here to Eternity last year. Liked Shaara's better A-
8) Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House Knew was a classic horror so wanted check out. C-
9) Julian Sanchez's The Antiquarian Really enjoyed A
10) Stephen King's 11/22/63 Could have really used some serious editing B
11-13) Reread of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn Wanted to get the first three done before season 2 since been over 30 years since read first time. A

Haven't been in much of a reading mood this month. Started the month with trying to read Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto, the creative force behind HBO's True Deceive. but after not making much head way decided I'll try again later.

Books Finished in March

• Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA by Amy Shira Teitel - The book is a short, about 300 pages history. Well worth the read if the topic interest you.
• Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber - The first collection short stories about Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. including Nebula and Hugo Award winning" Ill Met in Lankhmar." If you enjoy the John Cater or Conan series you'll likely enjoy this as well.
• Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber - A collection of ten more Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser tales.

Previous books finished in 2022

• In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd
• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Not Forgotten: Elegies For, and Reminiscences Of, a Diverse Cast of Characters, Most of Them Admirable by George Weigel
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Endurance: My Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
• Manufactured Witches by Michelle Rene

Dune Messiah - Herbert
Auberon (The Expanse 8.5) - Corey

Leviathan Falls (The Expanse 9) - Corey
Completes The Expanse. What a f'ing ride. One of the best sci-fi series out there if you haven't picked it up yet. You can now pick up the entire collection that includes all novellas if you just want one big book.

Guess I'll finish Dune as my next sci-fi series.

"Dead and Breakfast" (Audible): Kate Kingsbury: C
"The Exiled Fleet: Albion Lost" Book 1(Audible): Richard Fox: A
"The Exiled Fleet: The Long March" Book 2 (Audible): Richard Fox: A
"The Powder Mage Trilogy: Promise of Blood" Book 1: Brian McClellan: A
"Wizard for Hire" Book 1(Audible): Obert Skye: C-
"The Exiled Fleet: Finest Hour" Book 3(Audible): Richard Fox: A
"The Exiled Fleet: Point of Honor" Book 4(Audible): Richard Fox: A [Buyer beware: I thought this was the final book of series because there is no mention of any others even on the author's website. Zero inkling of when the story will be completed. I really enjoyed the series so far, just bummed that there seems to be no end in sight.]
"The Powder Mage Trilogy: The Crimson Campaign" Book 2: Brian McClellan: A
"The Powder Mage Trilogy: The Autumn Republic" Book 3: Brian McClellan: A-
"The Last Dog On Earth" (Audible): Adrian Walker: B (told from two perspectives: owner and dog/beware: the dog is foul mouthed but pretty dang funny)
"Viridian Gate Online: Cataclysm" (Audible): James Hunter: B
"Viridian Gate Online: Crimson Alliance" (Audible): James Hunter: B
"Viridian Gate Online: The Jade Lord: A litRPG Adventure" (Audible): James Hunter: B
"God of War" (Audible): J. M. Barlog; Cory Barlog: C
"Alias Hook" (Audible): Lisa Jensen: A- (Peter Pan told from Captain Hook's perspective; not a kid book, more adult oriented)
"Witches Be Crazy" (Audible): Logan J. Hunder: B+ (would have been better I think with possibly a better reader, although I did warm up to him as the story progressed. Lots of bad puns and hokey stuff, had a very The Princess Bride feel)
"Cowboy Bebop: A Syndicate Story" (Audible): Sean Cummings: B
"High Strangeness" (Audible): Will Maclean: B
"A Dog Called Demolition" (Audible): Robert Rankin: C
"Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection" (Audible): James S. A Corey: A
"Midnight at the Well of Souls" (Audible): Jack L. Chalker: C+/B-
"Goon Squad-Year One-" (Audible) Jonathon L. Howard: B+
"Warbound: Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles": Larry Correia: A+

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Read:

"Jenkins at the Majors" - Dan Jenkins: A good conglomeration of Jenkins' articles over the decades, a pretty neat read for a golf fan.

"Calamity" - Brandon Sanderson (Reckoners #3): Anything by Sanderson is good. This is definitely more YA than anything Cosmere but good nonetheless.

"The Weight of Glory" - C.S. Lewis: Similar to Sanderson, I'm going to give high marks to anything by Lewis.

"Cat's Cradle" - Kurt Vonnegut: Recommended by a friend. Definitely out there, but a quick, entertaining read with some dark laughs along the way as is Vonnegut's style.

"Skyward" (Skyward #1)
"Starsight" (Skyward #2) - Brandon Sanderson: Copy/paste the note from Calamity here. I probably like this series even a little more than Reckoners. Skyward has an Ender's Game academy/solving family drama vibe. Starsight is more of a spy, covert mission theme.

"Greenlights" - Matthew McConaughey: If you like McConaughey's schtick, you'll like his biography, if you hate his schtick you'll hate this book. It's definitely 100% him. For me it was an entertaining insight into the man, but definitely not the self-help book he would like it to be.

"Billy Boy" - Bud Shrake: Another must-read for a golf fan. Colonial is one of my favorite places (annual birthday trip to the PGA stop there with my brother), and Hogan is probably my favorite historical athletic figure. Quick read.

"Wuthering Heights" - Emily Bronte: I missed out on a lot of the classics in H.S. as we didn't read too many full books. I try to sprinkle these types in now and then so I'm not the only book-nerd in America who doesn't get references to classic literature. This one was OK. I didn't dislike it but didn't find myself anxious to get back to it either.

Currently Reading:

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - Douglas Adams: I've seen Brandon Sanderson mention this one several times as inspiration for some of his one-off projects so I decided to give it a go!

2022 Goal Update: 09/36 (25%)

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watched "wuthering---" when a kid -didn't know what was going on. Now-too gloomy!

BryanAggie2013 said:

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Read:

"Jenkins at the Majors" - Dan Jenkins: A good conglomeration of Jenkins' articles over the decades, a pretty neat read for a golf fan.

"Calamity" - Brandon Sanderson (Reckoners #3): Anything by Sanderson is good. This is definitely more YA than anything Cosmere but good nonetheless.

"The Weight of Glory" - C.S. Lewis: Similar to Sanderson, I'm going to give high marks to anything by Lewis.

"Cat's Cradle" - Kurt Vonnegut: Recommended by a friend. Definitely out there, but a quick, entertaining read with some dark laughs along the way as is Vonnegut's style.

"Skyward" (Skyward #1)
"Starsight" (Skyward #2) - Brandon Sanderson: Copy/paste the note from Calamity here. I probably like this series even a little more than Reckoners. Skyward has an Ender's Game academy/solving family drama vibe. Starsight is more of a spy, covert mission theme.

"Greenlights" - Matthew McConaughey: If you like McConaughey's schtick, you'll like his biography, if you hate his schtick you'll hate this book. It's definitely 100% him. For me it was an entertaining insight into the man, but definitely not the self-help book he would like it to be.

"Billy Boy" - Bud Shrake: Another must-read for a golf fan. Colonial is one of my favorite places (annual birthday trip to the PGA stop there with my brother), and Hogan is probably my favorite historical athletic figure. Quick read.

"Wuthering Heights" - Emily Bronte: I missed out on a lot of the classics in H.S. as we didn't read too many full books. I try to sprinkle these types in now and then so I'm not the only book-nerd in America who doesn't get references to classic literature. This one was OK. I didn't dislike it but didn't find myself anxious to get back to it either.

Currently Reading:

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - Douglas Adams: I've seen Brandon Sanderson mention this one several times as inspiration for some of his one-off projects so I decided to give it a go!

2022 Goal Update: 09/36 (25%)

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Couldn't stand Matthew until I found out he was a soccer GK for ten years in LA. Now I can abide him.

I set a goal last year to read 30 books and had to scramble the last months of the year to find short books to meet my quota. This year, my goal is a lot less ambitious (12 books) to allow me time to make more purposeful reading choices instead of reading for volume. Fiction is my preferred reading, but I have been making an effort to work more non-fiction into my rotation. I am diving back into urban design, which has always been one of my main interests. The list below includes the rating I gave each book on Goodreads.

Super Sushi Ramen Express by Michael Booth (4/5)
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild by Charles Marohn (4/5)
Better Buses, Better Cities by Steven Higashide (2/5)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (4/5)
Walkable City by Jeff Speck (5/5)
The Floating World of Agnes Viridian by Kimberly Richardson (5/5)
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (4/5)

In progress:

The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time #1) by Robert Jordan

"Stonehenge" Bernard Cornwell; B- (love Cornwell's work, but this one dragged on)
"God Emperor of Dune" Frank Herbert; A- (just a fantastic series)
"Heretics of Dune" Frank Herbert; A (the first book without a Leto or Paul, about 4500 years after Dune... great new characters introduced that were fascinating to follow)
"Chapterhouse: Dune"; A (again following the same Characters - kind of - from Heretics; great series and the very ending was pretty humorous)
"Daughter of War" Simon Turney - Good quick read, enjoyable but not earth shattering

Picked up "Red Rising" as my Audio Book for commutes, but will also continue the Templar Series with the next one "The Last Emir" SJA Turney

Haven't been reading much, just get a few minutes here and there while my son reads before bed.

Per TexAgs recommendation, read In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson about William Dodd's ambassadorship in Berlin during Hitler's early administration. The suggested similarities between 1930's Germany and today's America in terms of thought suppression, totalitarian government control, idealization of fascism, etc. were spot on and scary.

I'm definitely at that age when a lot of dudes get fascinated with WWII, but I've always been. I moved on from Larson to Kershaw (Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis). I skipped the first volume about Hitler's rise because I got that far in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer years ago before getting distracted.

I read along with my oldest son's books also to keep the doom and gloom down.

"Stonehenge" Bernard Cornwell; B- (love Cornwell's work, but this one dragged on)
"God Emperor of Dune" Frank Herbert; A- (just a fantastic series)
"Heretics of Dune" Frank Herbert; A (the first book without a Leto or Paul, about 4500 years after Dune... great new characters introduced that were fascinating to follow)
"Chapterhouse: Dune"; A (again following the same Characters - kind of - from Heretics; great series and the very ending was pretty humorous)
"Daughter of War" Simon Turney - Good quick read, enjoyable but not earth shattering
"Red Rising" Pierce Brown - super impressed; a nice long book that combines Ender's Game, Hunger Games, Dune (kinda), and The Expanse...
"Golden Son" Pierce Brown - Book 2 of Red Rising
"Morning Star" Pierce Brown - Book 3 of Red Rising

<on pause>
Templar Series with the next one "The Last Emir" SJA Turney

Isn't Red Rising, Golden Son and Morning star all Pierce Brown?

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I do the same thing.

Death of a Bookseller-Farmer Too detailed. ending not believable.

Don't bother.

"Dead and Breakfast" (Audible): Kate Kingsbury: C
"The Exiled Fleet: Albion Lost" Book 1(Audible): Richard Fox: A
"The Exiled Fleet: The Long March" Book 2 (Audible): Richard Fox: A
"The Powder Mage Trilogy: Promise of Blood" Book 1: Brian McClellan: A
"Wizard for Hire" Book 1(Audible): Obert Skye: C-
"The Exiled Fleet: Finest Hour" Book 3(Audible): Richard Fox: A
"The Exiled Fleet: Point of Honor" Book 4(Audible): Richard Fox: A [Buyer beware: I thought this was the final book of series because there is no mention of any others even on the author's website. Zero inkling of when the story will be completed. I really enjoyed the series so far, just bummed that there seems to be no end in sight.]
"The Powder Mage Trilogy: The Crimson Campaign" Book 2: Brian McClellan: A
"The Powder Mage Trilogy: The Autumn Republic" Book 3: Brian McClellan: A-
"The Last Dog On Earth" (Audible): Adrian Walker: B (told from two perspectives: owner and dog/beware: the dog is foul mouthed but pretty dang funny)
"Viridian Gate Online: Cataclysm" (Audible): James Hunter: B
"Viridian Gate Online: Crimson Alliance" (Audible): James Hunter: B
"Viridian Gate Online: The Jade Lord: A litRPG Adventure" (Audible): James Hunter: B
"God of War" (Audible): J. M. Barlog; Cory Barlog: C
"Alias Hook" (Audible): Lisa Jensen: A- (Peter Pan told from Captain Hook's perspective; not a kid book, more adult oriented)
"Witches Be Crazy" (Audible): Logan J. Hunder: B+ (would have been better I think with possibly a better reader, although I did warm up to him as the story progressed. Lots of bad puns and hokey stuff, had a very The Princess Bride feel)
"Cowboy Bebop: A Syndicate Story" (Audible): Sean Cummings: B
"High Strangeness" (Audible): Will Maclean: B
"A Dog Called Demolition" (Audible): Robert Rankin: C
"Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection" (Audible): James S. A Corey: A
"Midnight at the Well of Souls" (Audible): Jack L. Chalker: C+/B-
"Goon Squad-Year One-" (Audible) Jonathon L. Howard: B+
"Warbound: Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles": Larry Correia: A+
"Two Necromancers, A Bureaucrat, and an Army of Golems-" (Audible) L. G. Estrella: B+ (Similar to Witches be Crazy)
"Firefly: Carnival" (Audible) Una McCormack: A-
"The Screwtape Letters" (Audible) C.S. Lewis: B+ (Wanted to give it highest grade but having it read to you makes it very dry, content is amazingly accurate, could've been written today and applied to current times, definitely a worthwhile read)

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi
The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
The Lightning Tree by Patrick Rothfuss
Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

Really enjoyed Starship Troopers. I had always heard that it was much different than the movie. I both agree and disagree with that. A lot of it was familiar, but there were definitely differences. The movie is a great "bad movie" in my opinion.

Stranger in a Strange Land was different. It had some pretty good highs and some pretty low lows, mixed with a lot of WTF. Took me a while to get through it.

It may be one of the only books that ever made me cringe though. Racism/sexism/etc. can be part of a story without upsetting me because those things exist in life. This felt more like a "product of its time/author" type of situation though. Maybe I'm wrong in that, but there were genuinely some things that made me think "damn…" For perspective, I don't get others saying things like Wheel of Time is sexist, but the way women were presented and/or treated at times in this one was over the top.

One interesting bit I didn't realize was that Heinlein's original manuscript was published in 1991, 39 years after the original. It's about 50% longer and is the version I just read.

Thinking my next book will be more of a mindless, entertaining book after what I just read. Project Hail Mary may be a good candidate.

Taste by Stanley Tucci…very good.
The lost kitchen by Erin French…good.

Working up to finishing at least a book every three weeks.....

Just started Red Rising based on recommendations here, really like it so far.

The Collapsing Empire - Scalzi - really enjoyed it, started the second one in the series but haven't been able to get into as much. Probably waited too long between finishing the first and starting the second, so will give it another shot.

I really like Sci Fi thrillers in the near future realm of technology, like most everything Michael Chrichton wrote (I think I've read all of his stuff). Does anyone have similar book they'd recommend? I've read most of Dan Brown books, some of the Pendergast novels (they're ok). Thanks in advance.

Try the Murderbot series by Martha Welles. Mostly novellas, with one full length novel.

I really liked the full trilogy from Scalzi. Would definitely recommend giving it another shot.

"Dead and Breakfast" (Audible): Kate Kingsbury: C
"The Exiled Fleet: Albion Lost" Book 1(Audible): Richard Fox: A
"The Exiled Fleet: The Long March" Book 2 (Audible): Richard Fox: A
"The Powder Mage Trilogy: Promise of Blood" Book 1: Brian McClellan: A
"Wizard for Hire" Book 1(Audible): Obert Skye: C-
"The Exiled Fleet: Finest Hour" Book 3(Audible): Richard Fox: A
"The Exiled Fleet: Point of Honor" Book 4(Audible): Richard Fox: A [Buyer beware: I thought this was the final book of series because there is no mention of any others even on the author's website. Zero inkling of when the story will be completed. I really enjoyed the series so far, just bummed that there seems to be no end in sight.]
"The Powder Mage Trilogy: The Crimson Campaign" Book 2: Brian McClellan: A
"The Powder Mage Trilogy: The Autumn Republic" Book 3: Brian McClellan: A-
"The Last Dog On Earth" (Audible): Adrian Walker: B (told from two perspectives: owner and dog/beware: the dog is foul mouthed but pretty dang funny)
"Viridian Gate Online: Cataclysm" (Audible): James Hunter: B
"Viridian Gate Online: Crimson Alliance" (Audible): James Hunter: B
"Viridian Gate Online: The Jade Lord: A litRPG Adventure" (Audible): James Hunter: B
"God of War" (Audible): J. M. Barlog; Cory Barlog: C
"Alias Hook" (Audible): Lisa Jensen: A- (Peter Pan told from Captain Hook's perspective; not a kid book, more adult oriented)
"Witches Be Crazy" (Audible): Logan J. Hunder: B+ (would have been better I think with possibly a better reader, although I did warm up to him as the story progressed. Lots of bad puns and hokey stuff, had a very The Princess Bride feel)
"Cowboy Bebop: A Syndicate Story" (Audible): Sean Cummings: B
"High Strangeness" (Audible): Will Maclean: B
"A Dog Called Demolition" (Audible): Robert Rankin: C
"Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection" (Audible): James S. A Corey: A
"Midnight at the Well of Souls" (Audible): Jack L. Chalker: C+/B-
"Goon Squad-Year One-" (Audible) Jonathon L. Howard: B+
"Warbound: Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles": Larry Correia: A+
"Two Necromancers, A Bureaucrat, and an Army of Golems-" (Audible) L. G. Estrella: B+ (Similar to Witches be Crazy)
"Firefly: Carnival" (Audible) Una McCormack: A-
"The Screwtape Letters" (Audible) C.S. Lewis: B+ (Wanted to give it highest grade but having it read to you makes it very dry, content is amazingly accurate, could've been written today and applied to current times, definitely a worthwhile read)
"Fata Morgana" (Audible) Steven R. Boyett and Ken Mitchroney: A- (WWII B-17 crew gets knocked into another world after coming off of a bombing run over Germany)
"Mr Monk Goes To Hawaii" (Audible) Lee Goldberg: B+

"Stonehenge" Bernard Cornwell; B- (love Cornwell's work, but this one dragged on)
"God Emperor of Dune" Frank Herbert; A- (just a fantastic series)
"Heretics of Dune" Frank Herbert; A (the first book without a Leto or Paul, about 4500 years after Dune... great new characters introduced that were fascinating to follow)
"Chapterhouse: Dune"; A (again following the same Characters - kind of - from Heretics; great series and the very ending was pretty humorous)
"Daughter of War" Simon Turney - Good quick read, enjoyable but not earth shattering
"Red Rising" Pierce Brown - super impressed; a nice long book that combines Ender's Game, Hunger Games, Dune (kinda), and The Expanse...
"Golden Son" Pierce Brown - Book 2 of Red Rising
"Morning Star" Pierce Brown - Book 3 of Red Rising
"Iron Gold" Pierce Brown - Book 4 of Red Rising
"Dark Age" Pierce Brown - Book 5 of Red Rising (book 6 is scheduled for April 2023; womp womp)

<on pause>
Templar Series with the next one "The Last Emir" SJA Turney

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I will likely pick back up the Templar Series at nights; but I need something for my commutes (prefer Historical Fictions or Fantasy/Sci-Fi), any suggestions? Maybe I'll pick up Witcher.

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"Dark Age" Pierce Brown - Book 5 of Red Rising (book 6 is scheduled for April 2023; womp womp)

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You actually finished these two? I loved 1-3 but #4 was unbearably bad.

I kinda think they have a Fast and the Furious quality about them where they're just getting wilder and wilder and somehow it's still fun to read. Like, it's definitely bad, but it's fun.

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Exactly, there are some lame anachronisms (pulling in a few 20th and 21st century references and sayings into 700+ whatever their era is), and there is alot of hidden plot shifts, then BANG someone dies or is saved miraculously. I've listened on the audiobooks, and I really appreciate the performances by the voice actors and it's kept me thoroughly engaged.

I am just enamored with the world(s) Pierce built and all the cool tech and gadgetry they bring into conflict.

I was okay with Red Rising and Golden Son, but couldn't finish Morning Star after a certain scene. It just became exasperating, so I closed the book and decided I'd come back to it later. That was maybe a month ago, and I haven't gone back yet.

Since the start of the year, I have read the first 5 books of the Expanse series. Just started book 6.

Since we were on the subject of Red Rising; I like to put some descriptors into artflow.ai and see what characters it generates - what do you think?

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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
American Buffalo - Steven Rinella
The Postman - David Brin
Masters of Modern Soccer- Grant Wahl
1984 - George Orwell
11/22/63 - Steven King
Dead Wake - Erik Larson
The First Frontier - Scott Weidensaul
Gods and Generals - Jeff Shaara
Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
The Last Full Measure - Jeff Shaara
Black Flags, Blue Waters - Eric Jay Dolin
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
The entire Witcher short story and saga books (annual re-read) - Andrej Sapkowski

Currently reading:
Leviathan Wakes - James Corey

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi
The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
The Lightning Tree by Patrick Rothfuss
Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Another great one. It's almost strange that I liked it because not much happens. I found it really interesting though. Anyone every read others set in the same universe?

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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
The Lightning Tree by Patrick Rothfuss

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I see you too are a glutton for punishment... 11 years and counting waiting for book 3