Nope. I’m on book 5 of Dungeon Crawler Carl. It’s trash and I love it. Listening to the audiobook. That absolutely matters in this case. Hell, they got the audiobook narrator voicing Princess Donut for the live-action series. The cat is going to be voiced off-screen/dubbed in since, you know, cats don’t actually speak, but we don’t know how they’re going to do the cat. I’m assuming some kind of CGI, since she wears glasses, a tiara, and has various other adornments. Not to mention shoots lasers out of her eyes.

Never got into the Holly Gibney books by Stephen King. I read the first two Mr Mercedes and Finders Keepers, but I couldn’t get into the third one, so I didn’t read the standalone ones, either. Also, I watched The Outsider on TV and thought it sucked, so I didn’t bother with the book. Also, the subject matter makes me uncomfortable, so that’s another barrier to entry.

I think I might read the Expanse series next. There are nine books in the series, and that’s just the books. There are a bunch of short stories. The TV show adapted the first six books and some of the stories (as they provide background). There’s a whole reading list for the series, and I have it ready to go whenever.

I also want to re-read the Vampire Chronicles series. I read Interview With the Vampire a long time (25+ years) ago, and after watching the AMC series, and watching the 1994 film again, I want to go back to the source material. I started The Vampire Lestat back then, but never finished it. I think I read it after seeing the movie, and I liked Claudia’s story because the actress was about my age at the time. So it was hard to move onto the next one. I heard she gets more content later, though. (Worth noting that while in the movie she was 11 or 12, and in the AMC series she was 14, in the books she was five. Very different ages, very different personality types. So, very different characters.)