Books

This is an excellent story. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think I saw another comment mention it but after you finish this, you must read (or listen to) "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing. The narration was excellent. I borrowed the audiobook from libby and it was such an amazing story!

Finishing the Lightbringer Series by Brent Weeks.
Next up is I think Murtagh by Christopher Paolini.

I'm reading The Wager as well!

Currently switching between Prequel by Rachel Maddow and Naked Empire (book 8 of the Sword of Truth series) by Terry Goodkind.

Slugging through book 6 of A Practical Guide to Evil. Still have about 4000 pages to get to the end of the series

Your pick reminds me I really should get into some naval fiction. I used to love it on the screen (Hornblower, Master and Commander, etc), I'm a big fan of it's sci-fi equivalents, I was into sailing as a kid and I am a total sucker for command drama stuff. Frankly, I'm shocked I've never read any naval fiction as far as I can remember.

Slightly off topic but can anyone recommend a good android based ereader?

Edit: I mean a device, not an app.

The MANIAC

Currently reading Brute Force: cracking the data encryption standard by matt curtin.

Just finished The Breach. Poor Jacob

Peter Watts' Blindsight for the second time. It's pretty dense. I'm catching more this time around. It's a fantastic read with some of the most alien aliens ever put to page. It was a meme how often it used to get recommended back on r/printsf which I miss a lot since its replacement here is essentially dead.

Half way through the fourth book in the Shopocalypse Series -

Buy Mort: 30,000 Leagues: How I Merged And Became New Earth Affiliated by Joseph Phelps and Damien Hanson

If you didn't already read it: O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin Series. He greally goes deep into ships and sailing but the story is still compelling.

Currently on the third book of J. D. Kirk's Bob Hoon series

I've never laughed so much at an audiobook in my life.

Imagine if you took something like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and made it really Scottish, extra violent and incredibly sweary. That's Bob Hoon

Female villain - "I'd ask you to join our operation, Mr Hoon, but I know exactly what you'd say"

Hoon - "I'd tell you to shove it up your fish-hole, you badly-aimed batch of ejaculate"

Female villain - "Well ok, I didn't know exactly what you'd say..."

Just starting "The Time Regulation Institute," by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (translated).

Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics. I saw it mentioned in one of the threads about the recent apple sauce food poisoning, and it's very interesting (whoever that was, if you are reading it, thank you!).