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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dresden@discuss.online to c/books@lemmy.world

This was a nice week for book reading. Don't usually get this much time generally.

Finished The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid. I didn't like the writing style initially but got used to as I read along. It's a small book, just a little more than 100 pages. An umm... interesting read.

Got my copy of The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson. Really liked the book. It was a fun, light book. There was much less action than I was expecting, after reading the announcement of the book, but that didn't make book any less enjoyable. Finished the book in two days, which I rarely get to do now.

Grave Peril by Jim Butcher. Book 3 of Dresden Files. I have just started it, but it's the same Dresden Files. Nothing to say about that.

What have you been reading?

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[-] DrMango@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I usually have a few books going at once. Some print, some digital that I can read in bed with the lights out, and some audio that I can read in the car or while exercising.

I just finished Plath's The Bell Jar, found that one quite enjoyable. Very pretty prose throughout.

I've been reading Ovid's Metamorphoses which I'm finding surprisingly approachable given it's age.

I'm making good progress on my second read of Infinite Jest.

I'm nearly through with The Black Echo which is a pretty run-of-the-mill police drama recommended to me by a friend. It's part one of a lengthy series started in the 90s,but I don't think I'll be following along with the rest of them. It was fine and pulpy. Nice to put on when I didn't need to pay much attention.

I've just ordered a few books by Siddhartha Mukherjee which look interesting.

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