[QuickTidal]

Chance, on 23 March 2026 - 05:42 PM, said:

Finishing up The Strength of the Few, I still think it is too grim for me to really enjoy it, but it is a well written and interesting book.

QuickTidal, on 23 March 2026 - 04:56 PM, said:

Deep in a Book hangover I can't escape. I've tried no less than 7 books in the last week or so and fell off all of them.

No idea what I could try to get out of this.

Pick up a favorite you haven't read in while, that isn't too heavy, something comfortably familiar. My go to is Lord of Light.

This may be what I end up doing, thanks man.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 23 March 2026 - 05:35 PM, said:

Abyss, on 23 March 2026 - 05:34 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 23 March 2026 - 04:56 PM, said:

Deep in a Book hangover I can't escape. I've tried no less than 7 books in the last week or so and fell off all of them.

No idea what I could try to get out of this.

I'm enjoying the heck out of Kingfisher's THE CLOCKTAUR WARS, if that's an option.

I've read them. They are great.

All good... let me suggest THE LEGEND OF ELI MONPRESS then. Similar whimsical tone, caper elements, fast pace, easy to get into, light but not fluffy, as it were.

[polishgenius]

Read Notorious Sorcerer. With a title like that how can you not? Great book too.


Pretty much exactly fits the description Abyss used for Eli Montpress tbh, very much seems in the same vein. The whole series is one of my favourite new reads of the last couple years or so.

eta: I feel like I should challenge Abyss to a recommendation swap now. I read Eli Monpress and he reads Notorious Sorcerer. En guard!

This post has been edited by polishgenius: Yesterday, 07:37 PM

[worry]

The Notorious W.I.Z.

[QuickTidal]

Okay so I’m taking both Abyss and Chances advice and mashing them up…. I’m re-reading the Clocktaur War! Huzzah. Usrula Vernon’s prose is so cozy and funny that it’s bound to get me outta my funk.

[Chance]

Finished up The Strength of the Few and yeah there was a lot of reversals closer to the end which perhaps make the book a bit less grim but it was a bit of slog up to that point. Started up Shadow Upon Time which promises more of the same. I've generally enjoyed the Sun Eater books but they can also be very grim. Yet I'm curious to see if there is any twist to an ending the readers have known about since the first book.

QuickTidal, on 23 March 2026 - 10:10 PM, said:

Okay so I’m taking both Abyss and Chances advice and mashing them up…. I’m re-reading the Clocktaur War! Huzzah. Usrula Vernon’s prose is so cozy and funny that it’s bound to get me outta my funk.

Funny usually works. Sometimes we need to get back to the reason why we read which is some kind of enjoyment, entertainment most of the time. Its sometimes lost when we read heavier books which might be stylistically great, have great big ideas but just aren't that enjoyable.

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[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Currently about a third of the way into Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie which was a recommendation.

It's lovely. Hard to articulate beyond that, but the prose is so vivid and just a delight to read. Captures childhood incredibly well thus far.

JPK - if this isn't in your classics list, I think you would really enjoy it.

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