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There's a thread about how people find new books, and one of my favorite ways to find things to read was browsing comments from the weekly 'What are you reading' threads in r/truelit and r/books. So what is Lemmy reading?

I'm finishing The Passenger, and about to jump into John Williams' Stoner. Excited to see what is next!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • The guns of August - Barbara W. Tuchman : An engaging and narrative-driven recounting of WWI
  • The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies - Clark Ashton Smith : A collection of Lovecraftian short stories and poetry. CAS is what you get when a poet writes Lovecraft stories
  • German Philosophy 1760-1860 : The Legacy of Idealism : A book about Kant, Fichte, German Romanticism, Schilling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, etc
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

After quitting Reddit finally getting to my book backlog. The Expanse: The Sins of Our Fathers and then got to pick another old Star Trek book.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Bumped, a feminist dystopia where only teenagers can reproduce. The book is very confusing to get into (it's narrated by two teenagers in 2036, so you need to learn alll the slangs) and the writing style rubbed me off as amateurish, but it's been very entertaining nevertheless. It gets even funny when you get what's going on because teens be teens.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just got a few books from my local library that I'm excited to start. I'm starting off with "Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD" by James M. Ochoa which I picked out because it was the smallest book in the ADHD category, ha.

I also got a book on Linux/Unix, Diabetes, a workbook for Bipolar, a healthy snack book, and an organization book. Not too too sure if I'll be able to finish it all by the time they're due, but its a nice varied selection.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That second paragraph is peak ADHD lol.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently listening to Dust by Hugh Howey (book 3 of the Wool/Silo books)

Ive also been slowly reading MaddAddam by Margeret Atwood (book 3 of the MaddAddam series)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just did a re-read (or relisten) of Dust because of the Apple adaptation!

Also I read the Maddaddam series last year and found it to be enjoyable and very well written.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am reading Discworld again. Just started Lords & Ladies and enjoying every minute of it

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing right now but I have Foundryside coming tomorrow which I am looking forward to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I loved the Divine Cities, going to be starting Foundryside soon too.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm working my way through Thinking, Fast and Slow at a chapter a day. It took me a minute to get his point (well near the 30% mark, that is) but it's illuminating about how people think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a great book. Keep going - worth it

Want to learn more about the team who did this work? The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis is a great read about how Kahneman and Amos Tversky collaborated on it.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Started book #9 of Malazan this morning on a flight. It's been a long ride, and I'm looking forward to a climax. That's literature, right? ;)

Last night I started reading Children of Time out loud to my GF as we fell asleep. It triggered an excellent conversation about biological imperatives and evolution. Plus, Portia is cool ;)

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