I'm finishing up The Golden Enclaves, the last of the Scholomance Series by Naomi Novik. It fulfills The Jerk with a Heart of Gold square, but in getting in to it, it also fits the LGBTQIA+ representation square. I've gotten started on so many great series in the last few years doing reading challenges and this year I'm going to try and get caught up with a bunch of them. I'm super excited!

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm reading "Lost In Shangri La", It's a true story about an army plane carrying a lot of womens army corps personnel that crashed in the highland valley of Baliem in New Guinea, a place that almost nobody knows exists, inhabbited by uncontacted cannibal tribes, and surrounded by thousands of guerilla-style embedded Japanese troops. The three survivors, two men and one woman suffer horrific injuries and gangrene, and are on the verge of death when the US army parachutes a bunch of paratroopers in to treat the survivors, with no established plan to extract them. The mountains are far too high for helicopter extraction, and there's nowhere to land a plane in the jungle.

I recently got done reading "The Day I fell From the Sky", a story about a german teenager who was the sole survivor of a mid air plane explosion who survived her plunge into the jungle and self-rescued over the course of like 2 weeks.

Next up is "Cannibals are Human" by Helen Mcleod, an expedition back into Papua New Guinea. So I guess I'm on a bit of a jungle vibe this month.