I've been on holidays and reading while in transit. I finished Trudi Canavan's "The Novice", book 2 of the black magician trilogy and it was incredibly mediocre. Basically 8 hours of a student being bullied for her heritage despite her skill and innate talent. Not much happened. Book 3, The High Lord, has been significantly better. I'm about 2/3 through it and a romance subplot is developing that I don't particularly enjoy though.
I've also decided to read some lighter milquetoast reads between what has been a heavy diet of Stephen King, so finally turned my attention to "a series of unfortunate events". I didn't read it as a kid, and enjoyed both the movie and Netflix series so I've been dipping into these between other reads. I'm sure I would have thoroughly enjoyed them as a kid, and as an adult they're a reasonable hour long palette cleanser. I'm assuming there will be more of an overarching plot as the series progresses, if my memory of the Netflix series serves. Otherwise the first two are sort of wile e. Coyote-esque as Olaf dons yet another disguise that only the children see through.
After I finish The High Lord I'm finally getting around to Cloud Cuckoo Land.