What are you reading at the moment?

[OmnislashXX]

Read?

Nah, I guess maybe it is a form of reading. I'm playing a Visual Novel/Battle SIM game called Sunrider:Mask of Arcadia. A Captain of a rogue starship that can launch mechanized robots which are piloted usually by a young girl. So far, I haven't been rewarded with any sexual scenes yet. The harem keeps growing though. Also my first officer is a girl.

 

[Scareltt]

For me it’s..

Not reading, but listening to "The Valens Legacy" by Jan Stryvant It a series that is an old friend.

I don’t have time to read (I wish) between work, and EVERYTHING else I just don’t have time. Whenever I say read I mean book on audio.

 

[Scareltt]

Rereading..

The Smart Girls Guide to Polyamory..by Dedeker Winston...

https://www.ebay.com/p/219635159?iid=293264776611&chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=293264776611&targetid=539174388635&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=9022814&poi=&campaignid=6470552775&mkgroupid=77829366456&rlsatarget=pla-539174388635&abcId=1139336&merchantid=127685698&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI__6y1Nqt5QIVxx-tBh2TFgQzEAQYAiABEgKfL_D_BwE

 

[KeithD]

Wrath of the Furies by Steven Saylor

and

By Its Cover by Donna Leon

 

[BiscuitHammer]

Summa Theololgica by Aquinas.

Next up, Inferno, Paradiso, and Purgatorio, by Dante.

Read any of the latter three on a bench near any university campus, and you'll get laid like Mothra's egg by hipster Millennial girls...

 

[Bramblethorn]

Just finished Seanan McGuire's "Every Heart a Doorway". Short but beautiful.

 

[whowrotethisshit]

Have been trying to write today but it's coming out all pulpy and agitated. Gonna spend the rest of the day reading Daniel Handler's newest which I'm reading real slowly in order to make it last forever.

 

[Hypoxia]

When PG&E cut power yesterday, I read another couple chapters of Stephen King's THE TOMMYKNOCKERS on a tablet till the battery died, then more paper chapters of the de Camps' LOST CONTINENTS by candlelight and eventually daylight. Power resumed this afternoon so I'm back scouring the web for tidbits. Everlasting Blort is always fun.

 

[Misshotndeep]

Romance novel. I can’t recall the name as I tend to read 3 or 4 a day.

 

[whowrotethisshit]

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

 

[ChloeTzang]

The Secret of the Hittites by C W Ceram

 

[Scareltt]

I just added this to my reading list..

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Pretty good little read so far. Fantasy set in an alternate universe China.

Once I finish a book about Walt Disney.. I’ll start it..

 

[ChloeTzang]

Once I finish a book about Walt Disney.. I’ll start it..

That actually looks really interesting. Added to my list too.

 

[Misshotndeep]

They have adult choose your own adventure apps. I am reading stories there.

 

[trysail]

"...America's second-largest city, with a population of about thirty thousand, New York was a small provincial town compared to European capitals. Lavishly appointed carriages sped through streets heaped with horse droppings and rubbish. Rich and robust, New York already had a raucous commercial spirit that grated on squeamish sensibilities. 'New York is less citified than Philadelphia,' said a French visitor, 'but the bustle of trade is far greater.' Before the war, John Adams, passing through town, huffed that 'with all the opulence and splendor of this city, there is very little good breeding to be found. There is no modesty. No attention to one another. They talk very loud, very fast, and all together.'..."​

-Ron Chernow
Washington: A Life
New York, N.Y. 2010.​

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Ron Chernow has written several popular biographies. I've read most of them. This is the first that contained information of which I was previously unaware. Chernow somehow manages to both tarnish and canonize George Washington. Bowing in the direction of very careful political correctness, Chernow spends considerable time painting Washington as a benevolent slave owner who wrestles with both the practicalities and ethics of America's "peculiar institution" and who, eventually, by operation of his will manumits those he owned directly. At the same time, Chernow removes Washington's halo by making it very clear that the young Washington was a thruster, an ambitious self-promoter and, quite possibly, an enabler and, certainly, an apologist for what would today be considered war crimes by sensation-seeking media types.
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[trysail]

The Secret of the Hittites by C W Ceram

Well-known author of the widely-read Gods, Graves and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology.


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[KeithD]

Rennie Airth, The Death of Kings

Olen Steinhauer, The Cairo Affair

 

[Bramblethorn]

Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth. One of the weirder things I've read in a while.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

V.M Sawh - Setsuko and the Seven Samurai. Very readable reworking of a classic fantasy/fairy story, but for adults.

 

[whowrotethisshit]

SO many.

The Starless Sea, Box Wine Sailors, and Art & Fear.

All of them crazy good and unbelievably hard to put down.

 

[KeithD]

Mortal Causes, by Ian Rankin

and

The Nature of the Beast, by Louise Penny

 

[Javahead]

I'm recovering from a (minor) medical procedure, so I'm doing a bit of comfort reading. Cedar Sanderson's "The God's Wolfling" (YA, but good). Before that, Ben Aaronovitch's "Lies Sleeping", the latest addition to his "Rivers of London" series.

 

[Hypoxia]

2020 IKEA Catalog

 

[trysail]

"...In the southern part of the Bahamas chain and the group south of it known as the Turks and Caicos, salt rakers found small islands with brackish lakes in the interior. Great Inagua, Turk, South Caicos, and Salt Cay (pronounced KEY) had salty inland lakes well suited for salt making. Since Columbus and his Spanish successors had already annihilated the indigenous population, these scarcely inhabited islands were easily converted into salt centers..."​

-Mark Kurlansky
Salt: A World History
New York, N.Y. 2002.​

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The stuff used to be scarce and expensive. It's also indispensable. H. sapiens cannot survive without it.

Now it's inexpensive and ubiquitous. Capitalism is a wonderful thing.​

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[NotWise]

"Louise Brooks: A Biography" by Barry Paris. After that will come "Lulu in Hollywood," Brooksie's autobiography. I may also pick up "Dear Stinkpot: Letters from Louise Brooks" by John Wahl.