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What book(s) are you currently listening to or reading - April 29 (literature.cafe)

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Hi all, I’m taking over the weekly c/Books post this week to talk about what’s happening on the First of May.

But first things first, my update…

I’m finishing up Illumination by T. Kingfisher. I only found her within the last 2 years, but I’m loving all of her stuff.

On to Bingo. In 2 days, in the morning (US Central Time because that’s where I live), I’ll put up a post with details for Bingo. Our hope is to provide a some additional motivation or even gamification of reading over the next year. There are 25 categories that we’ve tried to craft to be flexible no matter what your chosen genre or category are. We’ll additionally have a post where you can find or post recommendations for each category. And throughout the year we’ll post check-ins for those who are participating.

Dresden, Misericordiae, and I are excited and hope you’ll join us.

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[–] FatLegTed@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Insider by Matthew Richardson. Love a good spy novel. And this is very good.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 6 months ago

Haven't read a good spy novel lately, will check it out.

[–] herescunty@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Madly Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries.

[–] misericordiae@literature.cafe 3 points 6 months ago

I barely got any reading done this past week, so I'm still on Stargazy Pie by Victoria Goddard. The tone and overall story so far remind me a bit of the Cemeteries of Amalo series by Katherine Addison, which is a pleasant surprise.

It's been a pleasure to work on book bingo with Dresden and Jaymes; hope you'll all find it a worthy addition to the community!

[–] ReeferPirate@lemy.lol 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I started "How I killed Pluto, and why it had it coming" by Mike Brown on Friday. With the hopefully imminent discovery of the real 9th planet in the news I'm doing a lot of day dreaming about space these days

[–] dresden@discuss.online 1 points 6 months ago

Poor Pluto, it could've been a great planet, if given a chance...

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

'The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine' by Ilan Pappe.

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm still slowly making my way through the second Gears of War book. They aren't exactly the pinnacle of literature, but I'm finding them better written than I was expecting. Karen Travis does a good job at fleshing out characters the games kind of sideline.

After I finish this one (whenever that will be) I'll likely try and start Hyperion again. For some reason I just haven't stuck with it

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I remember thinking similarly about the old X-Wing Rogue Squadron books by Michael Stackpole. Sometimes we get really lucky with those add on properties.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I am still reading Three Days to Never by Tim Powers.

Have been pretty busy with real life, so haven't gotten around to doing much reading these past couple of weeks. Have a long list of books lined up after it, so hopefully will get some time over the coming the weekend.

Edit: Can't wait for the Bingo post!