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?

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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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.

      • @[email protected]
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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!

      • @[email protected]OPM
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        31 year ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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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.

  • zephyr
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    31 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      21 year ago

      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.

  • ComradeSharkfucker
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    State and revolution by Vladimir Lenin (its his birthday)

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

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Finished Southern Gods from last week on Sunday (it was ok), and spent last night picking out something new. Ended up with Stargazy Pie by Victoria Goddard, which seems pleasantly light and cozy so far; should be just about long enough to last a week.

    Also, grats Jaymes!

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    11 year ago

    Listening to Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey (book 3 of The Expanse). I gotta say, the narrator sucks pretty bad. He pronounced the spice cumin as “Come In”.

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      PHYSICAL AND EBOOKS
      
      1. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote*
      2. Parasite by Mira Grant*
      3. Symbiont by Mira Grant*
      4. Chimera by Mira Grant*
      5. How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them by Barbara P Walter.*
      6. Animal Farm by George Orwell*
      7. Just After Sunset by Stephen King*
      8. The Murder At The Vicarage by Agatha Christie
      9. Feed by Mira Grant
      10. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
      11. In The Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace*
      12. Deadline by Mira Grant
      13. Countdown by Mira Grant
      14. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
      15. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
      16. Blackout by Mira Grant
      17. Elevation by Stephen King
      18. The Woman In Me by Britney Spears*
      19. It's Ok To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders*
      20. Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie*
      21. The Firm by John Grisham*
      22. Sitting Pretty The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig*
      23. It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover
      24. The Last Stand Of The California Browncoats by Mira Grant
      25. In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune*
      26. My French Whore by Gene Wilder*
      27. The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg*
      28. The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
      29. The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
      30. Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King*
      31. The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie
      32. Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King*
      33. Verity by Colleen Hoover
      34. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman*
      35. The Exchange by John Grisham*
      36. Double Homicide: Santa Fe, Boston by Jonathan & Faye Kellerman*
      37. The Pelican Brief by John Grisham*
      38. No Time Like The Future by Michale J. Fox
      39. The Death Cure by James Dashner
      40. The Kill Order by James Dashner
      41. The Fever Code by James Dashner
      42. Dolly Parton Songteller by Dolly Parton with Robert K. Dermann
      43. Mean Baby by Selma Blair
      44. 1984 by George Orwell
      45. The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley
      46. A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to The Future by Michael J. Fox
      47. Wildflower by Drew Barrymore
      48. The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
      49. Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
      50. Throttle by Joe Hill and Stephen King
      51. The Fold by Peter Clines
      52. Full Throttle by Joe Hill
      53. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
      54. The Hollow Places b y T. KingFisher
      55. Something Wicked This Way Come by Ray Bradbury*
      56. Her Little Flowers by Shannon Morgan
      57. The Fireman by Joe Hill
      58. The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert
      59. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
      60. Theodore Boone:Kid Lawyer by John Grisham*
      61. Theodore Boone:The Abduction by John Grisham*
      62. Yes Man by Danny Wallace*
      63. Theodore Boone:The Accused by John Grisham*
      64.Theodore Boone:The Activist by John Grisham*
      65.The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter*
      66.Theodore Boone:The Fugitive by John Grisham*
      67.Theodore Boone:The Scandal by John Grisham*
      68.The Assault On Reason by Al Gore*
      69.Theodore Boone:The Accomplice*
      
      
      
      
      AUDIOBOOKS
      
      1. Lords Of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky
      2. Guns by Stephen King
      3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
      4. Bird Box by Josh Malerman
      5. The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
      6. The Guardians by John Grisham
      7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
      8. Thank you For Smoking by Christopher Bukley
      9. Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
      10. I'll Be Gone in The Dark by Michelle McNamara
      11. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
      12.The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
      
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          How I keep track of the physical books I have read. End of year I pull them all out and take a pic of them all. Also so far I loved In The Lives of Puppets. Also enjoyed The Fireman of course swear he channeled his dads Stand with that novel.

          Also the Theodore Boone novels are pretty good.

          And just finished a novel that part of series of books accidentally started with the middle novel but called Witch Upon a Star.

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          21 year ago

          I read between 150 to 200 pages a day on average. Started January 2nd to present time. Today reading Gerald’s Game by Stephen King. Book I read before but been a long time. Also some of those were short stories I either bought on kindle our got from Libby.

          My goal is 100 but believe I will surpass that. I do hope to listen to 25 audiobooks as well before end of year.

          But since I don’t drive a delivery truck anymore it might not happen. Only listen when commuting or working on Lego.

          • @[email protected]OPM
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            21 year ago

            150 to 200 pages a day is a very good amount. Respect!

            Good luck with your audiobook goal!

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]M
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    51 year ago

    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)

  • InfiniteGlitch
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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.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      21 year ago

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

  • slazer2au
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    21 year ago

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

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        21 year ago

        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?

  • Bebo
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    31 year ago

    Reading English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee and listening to Jane Eyre.