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What are you reading?

 
 
 
As You Wish - Cary Elwes

The Winter of the World (2nd reading) - Ken Follett

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo

The Ice Dragon - George R. R. Martin

Shop Class as Soulcraft - Mathew B. Crawford
 
I just got the book House of Leaves. Several people recommended it to me and I generally like their taste. I was a little put off after flipping through it and seeing scraps of text, pages with one line of text, text written backwards, etc. I'll give it a good try.
 
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch. I read the first in this series about a year ago and after reading a couple middle of the road sci-fi/fantasy titles since then, I've forgotten how good Lynch is.
 
Just finished The Leopard's Wife by Paul Pickering and would heartily recommend it. NOT a funny book.

Currently listening to Margaret Atwood short stories in the car (My first talking book, don't know if I like the format.) and in the middle of Oryx and Crake, having just read Moral Disorder.

All you people who recommended Margaret Atwood. Thanks.
 
I finished For Whom The Bell Tolls.

I'm a little surprised that it is considered a classic. Aside from the finish, the rest of it was a real test of my patience.

Dialogue in something like translated Spanish with a few Spanish phrases thrown in.

Euphemisms instead of obscenities. Or the word "obscenity" instead of an obscenity.

Clumsy sex.

But somewhere in there is a decent story about the horrors of war and what it does to people.
 
I am currently reading this:

People of the Raven

It is just one in a series of books about the North American Indians history. I find the series fascinating. Their culture and beliefs. While some are far fetched, others are not so bad. It does help to read the series from the beginning though.

This is the first in the series:

People of the Wolf
 
I'm continuing the Safehold Saga by David Weber currently on book 5 "How Firm A Foundation" (Having finished the previous "By Heresies Distressed" and "A Mighty Fortress")

I also read through the Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman book Good Omens
 
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Workshop of Dreams by Claude Henri Rocquet
 
I've just spent months persisting with the most pedestrian book I've ever read.

Avoid Five Dead Canaries if you wish to sidestep the urge to self harm.
 
Read The Centurion's Empire by Sean Mcmullen. A plausible time travel novel.

Reading Odysseus, the Oath by Valerio Massimo Manfredi. A version of the Trojan war from the perspective of Odysseus.
 
The Martian by Andy Weir

Astronaut accidentally left behind on Mars. Fights to survive until the next mission comes along.

Not great literature, and too technical for my puny brain, but I just kept reading it because I wanted to know what happened.
 
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