Many Thanks to all SG (and a few GAs too)

thanks, me too.

Lol, thanks but these really were just sitting around in my list collecting dust. I've been largely under austerity measures since leaving my job. I just recognize that if I went full-austerity then I'd periodically end up binging like during sales and that would put more of a strain so I stayed in the humble monthly as my sole "treat" to myself trying to keep from slurging on other things. It's worked for the most part thankfully.

Thanks!

thanks, and good luck

Thanks! It's heartening to see people that actually care about family and the like even if it impacts work at times. From being stuck in that situation around people who all felt the other way for a good while it really did a number on my head for a while.

I might as well chime in since I'm asking others to. Wouldn't want to seem hypocritical. These are some that I've read recently.
Kings of the Wyld - Nicholas Eames
Light-hearted grim dark fantasy. Debut novel for the author. The book's premise is about mercenary bands being treated like rock stars (the author took the term band and ran with it). The story follows a "Reunion tour" of one of the early massive legendary bands who've gotten back together to go rescue the missing daughter of one of the members. There's some really great humor in this book and it fits in with all of the action and the story without breaking one out of the flow or detracting from it.
Lexicon - Max Berry
What if words could kill? What if they could make others kill? Basically this book is a thriller that also looks a bit at linguistics and what words actually do or mean to us. The story focuses on a secret society operating behind the scenes by controlling how people act and feel, both directly and indirectly, through words. How is this different from PR, marketing, and psychology? Well it uses much of that, but they also know of linguistic word roots which bypass people's filters and work directly to affect them without the person being able to have a say in matters. When a word is discovered which can literally kill a person, schisms within the society form and lead to fracturing which may have huge implications for everyone else around the world.
The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins
This book is very hard to describe, I'm not really sure that I can without giving things away. It's one where I personally spent a lot of the book trying to figure out what was going on, but in a good way, and everything made sense in the end. I tore through this book and would definitely recommend it to anyone who can take being a bit confused with what's going on for a while. The payout is worth it.

Thanks, like I said this community has helped keep me sane during this interim in purgatory.