Whazzup everybody? I like books (and edibles) so when I saw this community I wanted to contribute. I just finished Artemis by Andy Weir, a sci fi novel about a young delivery worker/smuggler who gets entangled in a plot to change the balances of power on the Moon’s only city.
I picked up The Deepest South of All by Richard Grant at Ollie’s for a few bucks the other day and have started that. It tells the tales of various people the author meets in Natchez, Mississippi and explores how it’s slavery centric past still influences the area today.
What are you all reading? How big is your backlog? I started explicitly keeping a physical backlog when I buy new media because I’m 100% that guy who’ll put it up and forget forever. haha
I just finished “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. It’s a series of haunting (and sometimes poetic) stories from the author’s experiences as an American soldier during the Vietnam War.
I just started “Because Our Fathers Lied” by Craig McNamara. It’s about his growing up in the shadow of his father, Robert MacNamara, a Secretary of Defense and one of the architects of the Vietnam War (which the son and his friends were opposed to).
My backlog is digital, since the only way I’ll end up actually getting reading done these days is if it’s on my phone. If I hear about something interesting (usually either an NPR interview or mentioned online), I’ll either buy ebooks for Kindle (if they’re on sale) or obtain epub/mobi’s from other sources. I try not to do this too often, since it takes me a while to get through things. I think I have a dozen or so items in the backlog at the moment.
I have a Nook Oasis that I really should use more, it’s really nice and I got a good deal on it but I’m just traditional with my preference for a book ass book I guess.