Reading Three Days to Never by Tim Powers. The premise is pretty interesting, can’t wait to see where he takes it.


As mentioned last week, @[email protected] and @[email protected] are working on something related to Bingo card for books.

Keep your eyes peeled, just one week (or so) to go.

Also, welcome @[email protected] as a newly minted mod of this community!


Now to topic at hand, what have you been reading or listening lately?

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    Mort by Pratchett. I can’t believe it took me this long to actually get into Discworld.

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    I finished up the current Murderbot books and am working on some short stories and novellas by Ursula K Le Guin (The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas) and T Kingfisher (Minor Mage, Illuminations)

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    Still trying to finish:

    • Slewfoot (book)
    • Eleanor is completely fine (book)
    • Haite Kudasai (manga)

    But university/ thesis is wrecking my time and in the weekends feel a bit to tired to read.

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      University / thesis are important. Don’t worry about the other stuff, it will be here when you are finished with those.

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    Jurassic Park (the book) - first time reading it after watching the movie multiple times.

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    Just about finished with Emperor of Ruin by Django Wexler. It’s fun, escapist fantasy. Decent characters and decent story, even if it is the over-troped “only this small band of ragtag individuals can save the entire world from a supremely powerful magician.” It’s the 4th and final book in the series, so there is no sitting around waiting for the next one.

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    Reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Already read Pride and Prejudice and loved it, feeling good about this one.

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      How are you liking the series?

      I have A, B, F and L. Thinking about starting reading A is for Alibi soon, and if I like it, start collecting the rest of the series.

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    State and revolution by Vladimir Lenin (its his birthday)

    Society of the spectacle by Guy Debord (not his birthday 😔)

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    Reading “A tale of two cities” by Charles Dickens. I am not too far into it, but so far it’s been really enjoyable! The English accents are really hard to follow for someone whose native language isn’t English, but I’m getting used to it.

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      Listen to audiobook it’s a interesting story. Does OP want a complete list? Because just finished my 69th book for the year so far and 12 audiobooks. Goal is over 100 stories read by end of year which probably accomplish before the end of June.

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        Ah, just replied to your other post.

        The idea is generally to share what you are reading since the last time you posted in one of these thread (which are posted weekly), or just what you are reading lately.

        Also, 69 books and it’s just April, that’s really cool. With this speed, you can have around 200 books by the year end. Would love to see how your journey progresses.

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          Yeah decided to keep a detail list. I am reading between 150 to 250 pages a day. Keep in mind some on my list are short stories but my wife says they count. Having a library card and a Libby account been great for that.

          And on what reading now hard to clarify. The last book on my list I started and finished yesterday and was 80 pages into Gerald’s Game by Stephen King.

          Probably finish it today our tomorrow depending on how busy we get a work.

          That be neat to do 200 but for now just trying reach 100 mark. I keep three books on hand at a time so we will see. I post a big pic of all the physical books at the beginning of next year and screen shot of the ebook reading list.

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        I should really start listening to audiobooks more often. I just looked and the book is freely available on Librivox, so I may switch back and forth between reading and listening from now on. Thanks for the tip!

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          You’re welcome. I use Libby sure beats having pay Audible every month.

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    Currently listening to Star Wars Outbound Flight. The reader/speaker isn’t a good one.

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        A Jedi master is like, we should expand outside of the current galaxy and into other galaxies. Political and military kerfuffles ensue.

        It is now classified as Legends and no longer canon since the Disney purchase of Lucas. It took place between Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones films.

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          Yeah, heard about “Legends” stuff when Disney bought it. Ignoring the narrator / speaker, how’s the book?