adric | What to read ?

After I got the Nespresso into my circulatory system I dawdled for several minutes at the to-read bookcase trying to select something to read today.

I read the first few pages, cover blurb, or prologue of:

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marcia Marquez
Illium, Dan Simmons
Glory Season, Brin
Elantris, Brandon Sanderson
The Bridge, Ian Banks

Oh, and I asked the famous chat-bot to confirm the universes of the novels as a sort of decision support. They seem to think that Elantris is in Cosmere (as is everything Sanderson has created) and that The Bridge might be in the Culture universe but is standalone. Those responses were cogent and confident and I haven't fact checked them, so, that's as expected. It doesn't understand Russian pleasantries and promises that it is studying Spanish ... Either sort of language practice would be more useful to me than unreliably looking up unverified information from The Miasma, so.

How about anyone else? What are you reading today or up to this weekend? I think it's the Ian Banks today for me.