Blaugust 2025 Reads and ReReads
Previously in Blaugust 2025, I finished off my AI battle for reading and the results were 7 books and one I threw in for my personal selection.
- Dune
- Project Hail Mary
- Carrie
- The Name of the Wind
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
- The Three-Body Problem
- Lies of Locke Lamora
- Dungeon Crawler Carl
I’ve actually read a few of these and look forward to reading them again.
Dune, by Frank Herbert, has been a favorite of mine but I have had struggles with it. I went through quite a few trials and failures trying to read this classic from cover to cover and I think it must have been at least a dozen tries before I finally was able to get all the way through. Even here on BTG, I’ve mentioned my difficulties, but in 2016 I started the audiobook and was able to finish it in May 2017. That’s quite a bit of time for my read through and I have since read and commented on the chapters so I can definitively say that it’s understandable why so many consider it a classic.
Another of these 8 that I have read is The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. This is another dense sci-fi book and one that I’ve read a couple of times. As opposed to Dune, I’ve actually read through the whole trilogy of these books and look forward to revisiting this world, though it certainly can be a bit scary.
I’ve also read The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August for a book club, but this one I don’t recall as much. I’m sure as soon as I start in, I’ll recognize things but it has been a few years and I’ve read a bunch of stuff since.
Today is kinda a filler day since I have not started reading any of these yet but I want to make certain to keep moving forward with Bluagust 2025. I think I’ll read a bit today and get started talking about things tomorrow as I ramp up my reading. I’m also looking towards another AI battle to see which Games I should be playing, but that is for another day.
Other than the fact that I have 5 new books to read, I’m excited about the variety. I’ve got 3/4 sci-fi stories in Dune, The Three-Body Problem, and Project Hail Mary, and technically The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August falls into this category; 2 fantasy stories in The Lies of Locke Lamora and The Name of the Wind; a horror novel in Carrie, though I would consider The Three-Body Problem a bit of a horror story; and finally a LitRPG story in Dungeon Crawler Carl, and I would also place that in the humorous category. Quite a lineup.