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Here's what I'm reading:
I'm going to stop reading A Dance with Dragons and the two Star Wars books for now and wrap up Empire, Incorporated and Determined while I continue on with Das Kapital.
Bonus question:
What do you PLAN to read later on?
Enjoy!
I'm gonna cheat and include a book I haven't actually started: Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler.
I got it as a last minute birthday gift for my dad, and after he finished it he said it was good and gave it back to me to read lol
Haven't started a new nonfiction lately since I'm still knee deep in Blowback and that scratches the same itch.
Thanks for reminding me about this one! Another octopus themed book that was quite fun is Children of Ruin, the sequal to Children of Time (post-space-apocalypse, a hubristic uplift experiment on monkeys accidentally creates a species of sapient spider over the course of ten thousand years, while the few surviving humans dip in and out of cryo to deal with their own problems).
A lot of work went into extrapolating a non-human mentality for the animals (the spiders in the first, octopuses and mystery goo in the second).
Sounds good!