Not much change at my end. A bit further in the books, but still reading the same books:

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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  • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 days ago

    Finished The Strength of the Few by James Islington on Monday.

    I need some time to digest. I don’t know if I’m gonna get anything else read this week as I need a palate cleanser from reading so many heavy and dark books lately, but I also can’t imagine anything but a direct sequel to be a satisfying follow-up after that book.

    • blueduck@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      Just finished The Will of the Many on Monday and started Strength. There’s a lot going on in this second book and I’m only 10% in

      • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 days ago

        The end of The Will of the Many really puts a spin on everything that happened prior, and The Strength of the Few runs with it and it’s insane. I don’t know how Islington does this, his books are amazingly paced and plotted.

        I have to admit, I had to take periodic breaks while reading Strength, no spoilers, but it’s extremely involved with separate concurrent plots that are all in depth.

        • blueduck@piefed.socialEnglish
          5·
          9 days ago

          Yeah I listen to audiobooks and the interweaving plotlines with similarly named characters is confusing

          • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            9 days ago

            Trying to remain spoiler free here, but how does the audio book handle the… context switching, shall we say, when there’s a perspective change? I’m curious since I recommended the series to my wife who also enjoys audio books.

            On the written novel there was a icon below the chapter header to signify.

            • blueduck@piefed.socialEnglish
              3·
              9 days ago

              No helper audio to indicate the difference.

              a different narrator, for example, would REALLY help

    • RamenDame@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 days ago

      How is the re-read going? Will you do anything different? Like completing a chapter or going back and forward?

      • youngskywalker@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 days ago

        Yeah it’s been like 5 years so far I remember some of it but I definitely missed some footnotes from last time. It’s basically brand new loving it so far

  • BlindFrog@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 days ago

    I recently finished listening to Watership Down by Richard Adams, read by Peter Capaldi. ~11 hours long, if Libro FM was right.

    I’ve been listening to him at work, and Peter Capaldi making animal noises and accents just maaaaade my days :3

    • AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network
      3·
      9 days ago

      That sounds amazing. I love Capaldi and had no idea he did audio books. I’ve also been wanting to read Watership Down.

  • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 days ago

    The William H. Gass Reader. It’ll take a while, but I’ve rarely come across someone with such an enjoyment of literature, writing, and criticism.

  • iegod@lemmy.zip
    6·
    10 days ago

    Started the Memory Police today and before I knew it I was 70% in. Easy read, and sad. Will likely wrap it up tomorrow.

  • 6nk06@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    10 days ago

    Bullet Journal is good, I can also recommend “Getting Things Done” (but don’t take everything seriously though) and any book on the Pomodoro technique.

    Right now I’m reading

    BTW, why are we using librarything instead of goodreads? It’s the first time I’ve seen this web site.

    • dresden@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      I read about GTD and watched some videos when it was released, but never got around to reading the book, may do that.

      Nice books! I enjoyed Discrete Maths in college but never really used it anywhere after that.

      Well, I believe LibraryThing has been around since before Goodreads, but I can be wrong about it. For cataloging books, it is pretty much the best site around (though I haven’t really checked up any other sites in last few years), you have the ability to select the correct edition of your book, have proper cover page etc. There are also library related features if you are interested in that. All accounts can also act as a mini library, giving you complete features of lending etc.

      I don’t really care about social features much so after trying multiple applications / websites settled on LibraryThing more than a decade ago.

  • Augustiner@lemmy.world
    6·
    10 days ago

    Reading The Clown by Heinrich Böll.

    Probably his most famous novel this book mostly criticises post war catholic/capitalist German society for it’s hypocrisy and not really denazifying. It’s good, but the main character, who loses his girlfriend to a catholic and is handling it pretty badly is quite the doomer at times. There is enough cynical humor, sarcasm and irony to not make it too dark to read, but depending on how the story ends it definitely could become pretty dark in the end. It also cuts very close to home with some issues, but that rather enhances the reading experience, despite being quite uncomfortable at times. At times it’s a bit hard to discern wether the author did something on purpose to give his protagonist some negative traits, or if he just believed that stuff himself (especially how women are treated is pretty bad) but I’m quite sure that I’ll be able to judge this better by the end of the book. Overall I’d recommend reading it, but it’s definitely an emotional downer.

  • bonegakrejg@lemmy.ml
    6·
    10 days ago

    Empire of the Dawn, the third book in the Empire of the Vampire series that just recently dropped. Which I am quite digging, a big epic fantasy series about vampires that is really engaging and well written.

    • dresden@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      An acquaintance of mine recommended it to me, but the last book wasn’t out then. Is the series finished now or are there more book in the series?

      Also, what are you opinions about the whole series?

  • Catma@lemmy.world
    6·
    10 days ago

    Finished Kingdoms of Death by Christopher Ruocchio this morning. Its the fourth book in Sun Eater series. Glad I stuck with the series the book was really good if not emotionally damaging.

    Also started Katabasis by RF Kuang this week. So far book has been pretty fun. Have been enjoying so far but not super far into it.

  • n0p1lls@piefed.zipEnglish
    6·
    10 days ago

    I chose to read “Reform or Revolution” by Rosa Luxemburg this week. I’ve just finished it today. It’s a very interesting book, with a critical perspective on capitalism, militarism, and reformist “socialism.” It should be remembered that Rosa was also against authoritarianism.