monster hunter international series in order

#Monster hunter international series in order series#

The problem with the first novel however is that Linsay is a researcher at heart, and the novel was so filled with random Apocrypha of the early 2000s, and random bits of information that take a while to click into place tightly. It is so rooted in the early 2000s internet nonsense that it was this weird delightful trip down memory lane, as well as setting up some of the more interesting extra-terrestrial interactions I had seen in a while. Axiom’s End was excellent and I have described it many times as X-Files meets WikiLeaks meets E.T. While other YouTubers were securing book deals to talk about themselves… she pitched a handful of science fiction novels.

#Monster hunter international series in order series#

I only really know about this book series in the first place, because I have always loved Lindsay Ellis and her long-form video essays. There are just so damned many things I loved about this read, and I realistically burned through it in less than a week at my oftentimes sluggish before-sleep reading pace. I guess I should warn you that this is very much also a novel about the pandemic and how it changed society set against the pastiche of giant Monsters. The Locke Lamora novels are so dense with plot elements and I have never really understood the concept of a “light read” until this point, but I was desperately in need of it. This was precisely the sort of read that I needed following Red Seas Under Red Skies. Now I just desperately want the KPS to exist and for me to somehow end up as an IT Guy for it. It feels like the love of Kaiju seems to be one of the common GenX traits, and I grew up watching the original Toho Godzilla films broadcast each summer during “monster movie” weeks from my local “pre-Fox” UHF channel. I have to say this is probably the best book I have read all year to this point, and it is very unlikely that another is going to dethrone it. When last I updated you on my book journey, I was about a third of the way through The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. The Kaiju Preservation Society – John Scalzi Granted we are now also paying $50 a year for our OK Virtual Library account and $75 per year for the Metro Library account… but we figure the money goes to supporting the public library system in general which is another win. Even more common is that the hold lines for a given book may be shorter out of one of the collections than they are out of our “home” TCCL collection.

This has been deeply beneficial because not all of these accounts are created equal and some systems have had books that others did not. Recently we got the third of these accounts and now in theory have access to the collections of all of the libraries in our state. In my State there are effectively three Library systems: The Tulsa City-County Library, the Metropolitan Library System covering the Oklahoma City area, and the OK Virtual Library which allows smaller rural libraries that can’t afford their own access to sign on to a collective system. This gives you easy access to all of the books and audiobooks available in your local library collection. Firstly we “discovered” the Libby App, or in truth were painfully late to that party. This rapid transformation has been due to a few different variables clicking into place. Libby App Screenshot showing three library cards on my account She is I think on book 38 of the year for reference. Granted I’ve not proved this wrong time and time again this year, but I still feel like I do not read anywhere near as fast as my wife does. However my entire life I have struggled with some general feelings of anxiety over how slow I actually read. The weird part about this is that I have always loved books, and will never turn down a chance at going to a used bookstore.

However, now that I have reached the point where I have finished eighteen books out of my original goal of twenty books for this year… I am absolutely certain that I’m treading undiscovered territory.

Previously I needed to do a disclaimer because the year I burned through ten Dresden Files books in rapid order might have completed. Good Morning Friends! This year has been extremely unusual in that I have been consuming more books than I have likely ever consumed in a single year before. Eighteen Books read out of my Twenty Books Yearly Goal