What are you reading during the lockdown?

"Recursion", Blake Crouch: That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome-a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.

"Daisy Jones & The Six", Taylor Jenkins Reid: Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six: The band's album Aurora came to define the rock 'n' roll era of the late seventies, and an entire generation of girls wanted to grow up to be Daisy. But no one knows the reason behind the group's split on the night of their final concert at Chicago Stadium on July 12, 1979 . . . until now.

"The Silent Patient", Alex Michaelides: Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety.

Solitude: A Return to the Self, Anthony Storr

https://bookshop.org/books/solitude-a-return-to-the-self-rei...

Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff

https://bookshop.org/books/metaphors-we-live-by-revised/9780...

Confessions And Other Religious Writings, Tolstoy

https://bookshop.org/books/a-confession/9780486438511

The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod, Henry Beston

https://bookshop.org/books/the-outermost-house-a-year-of-lif...

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing

https://bookshop.org/books/endurance-shackleton-s-incredible...

The Quantum Thief: imagine a world (mainly in the local solar system) where all the coolest tech exists. Nanites, uploading your brain to a computer, the ability to control quantum effects, meyacortexes, advanced cryptography, etc. It's hard to read since it's kinda based on hard physics, but very fun. I'm on the second book in the series.

Ninefox Gambit: the physical world (some far off place with a lot of worlds in space) can be controlled by events that occur and the common use of a specific calendar system and using specific formations like a 'spell'. It's basically a heavily math oriented magic system that runs all of the tech in the universe, and different calendar systems have different effects. It's hard to explain here, but a really fun 'sci-fi fantasy' novel.