It’s Malaysia Day and also Pythagorean Triple Square Day (btw this only works if you count the date in the American Way: 09/16/25)! On this auspicious occasion (and the not so auspicious occasion of the very sad demise of Robert Redford), I am posting my reading updates! This is the last day of a four-day weekend for us Malaysians since Monday was declared an extra public holiday this year. I’ve mostly spent this time recuperating from a bad knee, keeping house (plumbing emergencies, ahoy), working on articles due to be submitted etc, and reading!
Book I have completed reading:
- Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction — edited by Sonia Sulaiman. This was an amazing book but so hard to get a hold of because Kobo Malaysia did not have it available. Finally got it via Google Play books. I finished reading it today and I have so very many thoughts percolating about the intermingling of grief, trauma and speculative/fantastic contexts. This is truly a brilliant anthology that deserves far more attention. If I have time/energy at some point I’m doing an individual post just for this book.
Books I am currently reading
- Five Star Billionaire — Tash Aw. This has been on my TBR for TWELVE YEARS! Ooph. Also the third book by Aw that I’m reading (clearly I am reading in sequence) and it is amazing as always. Every book by Aw I’ve read so far just grabs me by the first page and this one is no different. Started reading it during this four day weekend, and adore it!
- The Shadow Rising (WOT #4) — Robert Jordan (reread). I’m still working my way through this which is also why I have not finished any other book in the past month. It’s all been about the Wheel of Time, Kartography and Thyme Travellers. This is a very chonky book and I read slower in my old age. But I do have some thoughts about magic systems in Jordan’s books on my main author blog.
- System Collapse — Martha Wells
- The Night Country — Melissa Albert
- Ancillary Justice — Ann Leckie (reread)
Books I recently purchased:
I was a bit more adventurous a couple of weeks ago so I entered a bookstore and picked up Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky, an author I kept meaning to read and whose books I’ve heard so many things about. My curiosity was piqued and I’m looking forward to digging into this at some point!
Published in Petaling, Selangor, Malaysia (16 September 2025)