What are you reading now?

I’ve been a casual but interested reader of this phenomenon for sixty years. There has been good and bad coverage. But for the past twenty-five years or so, there has been strong factual evidence put forth by very credible people. The usual sources try to discredit and deny the evidence, as they’ve been doing since the 1940s (i.e. the DoD and the IC). But the evidence is strong and verifiable. If you’re skeptical, then please read this book. The times, they are a-changin'

In reply to Gary :

I will remain skeptical.

If actual extraterrestrials ever do visit Earth, either everybody will know it, or nobody will know it.

Even after reading the book?

"We Who Wrestle with God" by Peterson.  Tough chewing....

yay I got a page count for last year. 43 titles, 50 total books, I have a preference for multipart books being in one big volume when it's available.

In reply to RevRico :

They will give you a year end wrap up? I don't think I've ever got that email

In reply to Antihero :

I never got one before. I usually just delete Amazon emails on my lock screen but saw something about my Kindle unlimited in the subject so I checked it out. 

Maybe it's just an unlimited feature?

Gary said:

Even after reading the book?

Probably.

Maybe I'll give it a shot and see.

This was a gift.  Nice quick read, written by one of the founders of Janus Motorcycles in Goshen Indiana. 

Finished earlier:

Idoru by William Gibson, #2 in the Bridge trilogy.

Generally as good as other Gibson of this era.  Some interesting premises and extrapolations as always, and fun characterization.  However, the main generator of conflict is completely unrelated to the primary plot of the story; it's just kind of there.  It causes strife but could have been anything, and is as noted completely irrelevant to the main thrust of the story  But as so often happens with Gibson stories, the resolution kind of comes from a Deus ex machina intervention near the end rather than the action of the main character(s).

Finished recently:

Persepolis Rising by J S A Corey, #7 in the Expanse series.

The writing of these books is very consistent and solidly good.  That being said, I really hated the story arc and antagonist of the last 2 books.  I hate Marco Inaros and his whole 700-page temper tantrum where he throws all of his toys out of the pram and berks everything up basically because he's an a-hole.  I'm very glad that the story has moved on since that era.  This one is a much more straightforward faux-benevolent-dictator story and oddly enough is not as far fetched as the previous book or two.  I don't like what's happening to the main Roci crew, but by the same token I knew something similar was inevitable at some point, so it is understandable the story is going this way.

Currently reading:

The Griffin and Sabine series by Nick Bantock.

This is an innovative and enigmatic series of novels (?).  The first trilogy was published in the early-mid '90s; a second trilogy was published in the early Oughties, and there is a 7th book dating from 2016 or so.  They weren't cheap and we were broke so I didn't but or read them when they originally came out; DW thoughtfully got me the first 2 trilogies as an anniversary present last year.

Each book is 40 pages or so, and the story is told as a series of postcards and illustrated letters between Griffin and Sabine.  The letters are actual letters, that you pull out of an envelope in the book; the postcards are just presented as front and back.  Each one is richly and somewhat ambiguously illustrated with mixed media art involving pen and ink, etching, watercolor, collage, and other techniques.  The story is quite mysterious - don't read these if you like tidy resolution.  I am currently on book five.

I made the mistake of not jumping into "Outlive" by Peter Attia sooner.  Now that I want to read it completely it's due at the library and I have to return it.