Adam's blog: 2024 Recap: Books & Podcasts

As the 2024 has come to an end, let’s recap on some of the books I have read this year and what podcasts did I listen to.

Books

• Earthside (Quantum Earth, #2) by Dennis E. Taylor
  • The best setup and payoff I have seen in a book so far
• Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5) by Dennis E. Taylor
  • Great as always, although I would rank this as my least favorite Bobiverse book. Compared to others, there were too many story lines with unsatisfying endings
• The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1) by Chris Hadfield
  • Appreciated the realism given to it by its author
• Redshirts by John Scalzi
  • A great fan service with a lot of meta content, at the end I could not get my head around all the layers
• The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1) by John Scalzi
  • After reading Redshirts, I wanted to check out some more “serious” book and immediately was hooked on the next one
• The Martian and Artemis by Andy Weir
  • All of them are great and made my laugh out loud, my ranking is Project Hail Mary > The Martian > Artemis
• All of the Expanse by James S.A. Corey
  • After finishing the TV series, I wanted to know how the story ends. Discovered soon enough that the books are much more funny and light-hearted than their screen counterparts. Had to go back and read all of them.

Podcasts

• Darknet Diaries
  • Discovered recently, large backlog with great content and goosebumps-producing stories
• The Layover
  • Weekly recap and behind the scenes of what happened during Jet Lag: The Game with some entertaining in-between seasons stuff
• Jam Mechanics
  • Bug and TNC are given prompts for which they have 3 hours to create a song from scratch, love the energy between them two

Songs

• Tongues & Teeth by The Crane Wives
• 2 Bed, 2 Bath (and a Ghost) by Bug Hunter