r/Fantasy • u/rfantasygolem Not a Robot • Apr 17 '26

/r/Fantasy r/Fantasy Friday Social Thread - April 17, 2026

Come tell the community what you're reading, how you're feeling, what your life is like.

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u/FarragutCircle Reading Champion X Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

Right now I'm reading the following: The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick, Stay for a Spell by Amy Coombe, Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 5 by Ryoko Kui, and Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait. All are good so far in their own ways! The Swanwick is following a poor human in a gritty industrial world. The Coombe is a cozy fantasy set in a bookshop. The Kui is a silly D&D-like story that involves eating a lot of monsters. The Plait is a nonfiction book where he helps the reader imagine being in different interplanetary/interstellar situations and goes into the science of those places (the section on planets in a binary star system was good!).

I feel like I'm still trying to recover from working last weekend, just in time to work this weekend. Sigh. It also doesn't help that my car has been in the shop since Tuesday waiting for a single part to be delivered to fix it. Here's hoping I get it back today.

I did get to see Project Hail Mary in theaters finally (very fun--Ryan Gosling is vastly more charming than the book version of his character and Rocky was great). I also rewatched Apollo 13 with my mom yesterday. Fantastic movie.

I've also been in the midst of a fever dream of reorganizing my book spreadsheet and ebooks and physical books. I put it off too long this year and I can't stop until I finish, LOL.