What are you currently reading?

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Sep 10, 2022 3 years ago

cleans up nicely

Working on The Devil in the White City right now. It was recommended by a coworker like 6 years ago.

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Sep 10, 2022 3 years ago

is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

The Graveyard Apartment was a REALLY good read! The ending was a little personally disappointing, but it was fitting for the story, I think. A little ways into The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow, currently. Seems to be some sort of magical alternate of Salem in the late 19th century. Kind of weird, but not bad so far.

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Sep 13, 2022 3 years ago

is INCONCEIVABLE

Making my way through 78 Degrees of Wisdom at the moment.

Sep 16, 2022 3 years ago

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The Once and Future Witches was a worthwhile read! I read a quote from a review that whined about it alleging to be about suffrage but just being about spells and witchcraft, and just.... Yeah, okay, sure, it used the suffragist movement as a plot device for some characters to meet and whatever, but I'm wondering if I even read the same book as that person because to me it was a book about family and finding yourself and standing up for what you believe in. Finally got my hands on a copy of Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (my library only had it in large print edition and it took me a while to suss out in which large print section I needed to look) and finished it in literally four hours. It was SO good, I couldn't put it down until I had finished it. It really helps shed some more light on the other Wayward Children novels I've read (and gave me a more satisfying conclusion I had been hoping to eventually find for Down Among the Sticks and Bones). The Great Mars Hill Bank Robbery by Ron Chase is my next book; a true crime book that will fill one of the squares for my library's book bingo. (Though I'd probably still read it even if it DIDN'T fill a square, I'm a bit basic in that I love true crime books. >>; )

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Sep 18, 2022 3 years ago

plays with dead things

The Silmarillion -- J.R.R. Tolkien

Tried reading it when I was younger, and giving it another go now that I am way older. While I love LOTR/Hobbit, the details always bogged me down at the time. Give my overactive imagination a few details and it will run wild. Over-detail something or someone and I am bogged down and rarely get through it.

Sep 20, 2022 3 years ago

is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

The Great Mars Hill Bank Robbery was one heck of a read, wow. Half of it beggars belief, honestly. I'm at least half tempted to try to find the actual news articles referenced by the book. I'm now reading Laughter at the Academy by Seanan McGuire. It's a short story collection, and so far the stories are honestly way out to field compared most of the other works I've read by the author. Hopefully they're not all like this, because the first two stories were so frustrating as to be nearly impossible for me to enjoy...

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Sep 20, 2022 3 years ago

needs a vacation!

Champion of the Scarlet Wolf, by Ginn Hale. Ginn Hale is one of my favorite authors of M/M Fantasy. This is my second time around reading this series

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Sep 24, 2022 3 years ago

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Laughter at the Academy got a lot better after the first few that fell flat for me. There are even a few in there that I kind of wish would be expanded to full books or series! Started Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant. My beau's mum suggested it to me a while back, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how it goes.

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Sep 25, 2022 3 years ago

Fairy Catcher

Dyed in the Green by George Mercer

Sep 25, 2022 3 years ago

is getting bi

Mentats of Dune Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

Finally continuing with my epic Dune Re-Read/Completing the Series =D

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Sep 27, 2022 3 years ago

is made of stardust

Fire and Blood (again) by JRR Martin

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Sep 28, 2022 3 years ago

only has room for one

I Get Wet - Phillip Crandall

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Sep 30, 2022 3 years ago

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Into the Drowning Deep was amazing~ It straddles the lines between sci-fi, fantasy, and horror/suspense in a way that I greatly enjoyed. If you like suspense with a side of science and deep sea monsters, I would recommend this book. Reading Fun Home by Alison Bechdel next. It's a biographical graphic novel, technically one of my beau's books. I suspect I've read it before, which may mean I'll get part way through, get tired of recognizing all the content, and give up on it, find another book to fill the "non-fiction graphic novel" space on my book bingo card. But maybe I won't, who knows.

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Oct 4, 2022 3 years ago

Star Captain

i am currently reading the haunting of hill house! i've always wanted to read it, so i'm happy to finally get around to it.

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Oct 6, 2022 3 years ago

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As it turns out, I had not read Fun Home, so I did wind up finishing it! (It was another graphic novel of my beau's that had been a gift from the same person that gave him Fun Home that I had already read; we found it on my bookshelf after the fact.) It was an interesting read, made me really glad not to have grown up in the same era as the author. Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas is my current read. Which is exactly what it says on the tin. Not something I would normally pick up to read, but it's entertaining. Yay for book bingo making me branch out a bit, I guess?

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Oct 7, 2022 3 years ago

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I am...an incredibly slow reader, so saying I'm "currently reading" anything is an overstatement, but I'm working on Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It's a purportedly seminal sci-fi novel, propped up among Dune by some critics I've seen, but I hardly know anything sci-fi as a genre before late 90s video games, so I wouldn't know...

Anyway, Hyperion is really good thus far, though I'm only halfway through the book. I love the how much interiority the characters all feel like they have, and how mysterious everything is. The moments of sort of horror and carnage are written in a way I really dig, and I love Dan Simmons' rhetoric. I've got all the other books already, so I can take it all at my own pace.

I'd like to read more, but I'm in a high fantasy, D&D, elves or whatever sort of mood, and I really don't know what I'd like to read in that vein. :s Maybe I should finally try to dig into the Witcher novels again.

Oct 7, 2022 3 years ago

Adventure Captain

Um do audio books count? If so, currently readin/listening to the wheel of time while i work, not very far in to it literally JUST met Lan and Moiraine but already the characters just seem so much better than the series. Tried reading the silmarillion but.. ok this sounds silly and childish but the words are too much for my brain. It just stops working. The thing is though, it IS interesting, :/

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Oct 9, 2022 3 years ago

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The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel.

Oct 10, 2022 3 years ago

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Don't know what I can really say about Funny in Farsi after finishing it that the full title doesn't already tell you. It was entertaining, and I enjoyed it well enough, but it didn't really... leave an impact, I guess? Like, I'm not going to go running over the hills raving about it, but it didn't suck. Just finished I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui. It was exactly what I expected going into it. It's as haunting as any tale about child brides from the Middle East, and I suspect it'll stick with me for quite a while. Just started The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams last night. It's something I've been meaning to read for AGES, so when I found it on a list of books that will fill one of my book bingo squares, well, perfect excuse to finally pick it up.

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Oct 11, 2022 3 years ago

can’t believe it’s vegan

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris I love his humor.

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