I'm generally reading at least a dozen different books at any given time, plus probably twice that many fanfics, so I'll limit it to five:
Nonfiction, print - Joel Greenberg's biology of Gordon Welchman, the man who, alongside Alan Turing, was responsible for about 60% of everything groundbreaking or cool that came out of the codebreaking efforts at Bletchley Park. Nominally for fic research, but it's the kind of thing I'd enjoy anyway.
Nonfiction, audiobook - Bruce Cannon Gibney's A Generation of Sociopaths. I think the author stretches his point a little far (okay, a lot far), but after encountering approximately thirty zillion baby-boomer-penned articles about how millenials are ruining everything ever, it's a nice change to see someone point at the sort of people who write those articles and go, "I think you will find that it is YOU who ruined everything!"
Fiction, print - Masks,, the first book in E.M. Prazeman's Lord jester's Legacy series. I bought it almost entirely because it had a pretty/striking cover and was the first book I came across on Amazon's list of "M/M-themed novels for $2 or less" that looked like it might actually have a plot instead of just a thinly constructed scaffolding to hang sex scenes on, but it's actually pretty good. The worldbuilding involves some relatively original/interesting concepts, and while the protagonist is being trained to serve as a sort of nobleman's sin eater who does everything from assassinate people for his master to serving as said master's boytoy, the political intrigue elements get at least as much focus as the boytoy part (Ex: I'm about a quarter of the way through, and the character has so far discovered a conspiracy, witnessed a fatal duel, wrestled with conflicted loyalties, possibly been set up to betray his mentor, and fled the city, and there's still no love interest in sight and no significant sex scenes.)
Fiction, audiobook - Spycatcher by Matthew Dunn. Does this book have any redeeming value whatsoever? Is the hero the biggest Mary Sue to hit spy/espionage action thrillers since Jack Ryan? Do I care? (Respectively: No, yes he is, and no).
Fanfic - Bloody Ruin by esama. Decent-length Alucard/Trevor Belmont fic that feels IC for both of them is hard to find, so I'm treasuring this one while it lasts.
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Nonfiction, print - Joel Greenberg's biology of Gordon Welchman, the man who, alongside Alan Turing, was responsible for about 60% of everything groundbreaking or cool that came out of the codebreaking efforts at Bletchley Park. Nominally for fic research, but it's the kind of thing I'd enjoy anyway.
Nonfiction, audiobook - Bruce Cannon Gibney's A Generation of Sociopaths. I think the author stretches his point a little far (okay, a lot far), but after encountering approximately thirty zillion baby-boomer-penned articles about how millenials are ruining everything ever, it's a nice change to see someone point at the sort of people who write those articles and go, "I think you will find that it is YOU who ruined everything!"
Fiction, print - Masks,, the first book in E.M. Prazeman's Lord jester's Legacy series. I bought it almost entirely because it had a pretty/striking cover and was the first book I came across on Amazon's list of "M/M-themed novels for $2 or less" that looked like it might actually have a plot instead of just a thinly constructed scaffolding to hang sex scenes on, but it's actually pretty good. The worldbuilding involves some relatively original/interesting concepts, and while the protagonist is being trained to serve as a sort of nobleman's sin eater who does everything from assassinate people for his master to serving as said master's boytoy, the political intrigue elements get at least as much focus as the boytoy part (Ex: I'm about a quarter of the way through, and the character has so far discovered a conspiracy, witnessed a fatal duel, wrestled with conflicted loyalties, possibly been set up to betray his mentor, and fled the city, and there's still no love interest in sight and no significant sex scenes.)
Fiction, audiobook - Spycatcher by Matthew Dunn. Does this book have any redeeming value whatsoever? Is the hero the biggest Mary Sue to hit spy/espionage action thrillers since Jack Ryan? Do I care? (Respectively: No, yes he is, and no).
Fanfic - Bloody Ruin by esama. Decent-length Alucard/Trevor Belmont fic that feels IC for both of them is hard to find, so I'm treasuring this one while it lasts.