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[SiameseDream99]

I'm currently reading The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt.

 

[AmosTrask]

Currently listening to the audiobook of Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (GNU), have read the book many times but it's great hearing the characters brought to life properly

 

[SiameseDream99]

I'm gonna start reading Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain by William and Jim Reid

 

[Retro Doomer]

To much to be honest to list as I read many many Mangas that are not finished yet so I have to wait until they update and in the meanwhile my reading collection only gets longer but Here a few.

I just started that Manga :The Witch and the Mercenary​

I read that one to but its been a long time since the last Update:

Villainess Level 99 ~I may be the Hidden Boss but I'm not the Demon Lord~​

And those are actually quite good to:

Centuria​

The Knight King Who Returned With a God​

I also should probably begin reading that one

Escort Warrior​

That one also looks quite Interesting I did not read to far into the Manga yet but here

B-Rank Adventurer With a Bad Guy Face Becomes a Father for the Hero and His Childhood Friends​

 

[Raziya The Seeker]

So last year, I found a book called Bad Chili, by Joe Lansdale. The title and concept seemed intriguing enough. Reminded me of the crime drama shows I watched growing up with the family, was really fun with a character-driven story... a bit uncouth to put it lightly in places. Let's just say it's a book set in Texas, written in the 90s. But still a fun buddy detective story! Loved it.

I bring up Bad Chili to bring up the book I'm reading now.

Picked up from the library a later book in the series, Devil Red, which is what I'm currently reading. Toned down some of the harshness of the jokes, but I'm hooked and halfway through already in less than a week (I'm not the most consistent reader). Reached a serious point in the story where the main character falls into a nervous breakdown due to seeing an assassin's handiwork. It's written in first person through the MC's point of view, so it was... something to witness. Deep bonding moment about PTSD between him and his buddy.

Pretty hardcore cover, too.

 

[Sonicrain]

I finished Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn 2nd book of the Thrawn Trilogy of star wars EU. I liked it. Great build up but a few let downs. Overall amazing. I'll get to the third one in the near future.

 

[diet_orange]

Started reading Penguin's "The Complete Sherlock Holmes". I've always loved Doyle's character (even creating my own interpretation in The Black Bayou, Dr. Johnathan Herbert Valquish) from the radio plays (particularly the Ralph Richardson/John Gielgud era)", the post-humorous stuff like "The Seven Percent Solution," to DIC's "Sherlock Holmes in The 22nd Century". What struck me the most is how VAST the literary content is, 4 main novels and 56 short stories!

Looking forward to gobbling this up and considering getting a physical copy for my birthday

 

[Crashbandi]

Finally getting through Mistborn saga. I tried reading it years ago but couldn't make it through Book 2. The Wax and Wayne Trilogy is much better to me. I like the Old West frontier feel of it

 

[eyixon]

I finished the Heroes Of Olympus series by Rick Riodan a while back. Now i'm focusing on Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, starting with Echo Burning.

 

[667]

Really fun manga by the guy who does stuff like Uzimaki. Bittersweet of course, because our pets live much shorter lives than ours. But it's a really funny/weirdly cozy manga. It's based on his experiences in real life with his and his wife's cat

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

"Deadly Women (series)" by Robert Keller.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

I’ve been trying really hard to get into the Hunger Games.

 

[SiameseDream99]

The Journals of Sylvia Plath

 

[Deleted member 598440]

The Red Book by Carl Jung (again)

 

[TinRattler]

Reading A-Z encyclopaedia of unsolved crime on page 841 of 1448

I read about 15-20 pages a night

 

[ThatOneLum]

I'm between books right now, but the last books I read was a local history book about what my town was like before they built a load of stuff around here. It was surprisingly interesting, but not very comprehensive.

The previous fiction book I was reading was just Fellowship of the RIng for the 100th time. I'm probably gonna polish off Towers and Return before the end of the year, mostly because I'm running a challenge on Story Graph to read 50 books in 2025.

 

[Spyrone]

So last year, I found a book called Bad Chili, by Joe Lansdale. The title and concept seemed intriguing enough. Reminded me of the crime drama shows I watched growing up with the family, was really fun with a character-driven story... a bit uncouth to put it lightly in places. Let's just say it's a book set in Texas, written in the 90s. But still a fun buddy detective story! Loved it.

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I bring up Bad Chili to bring up the book I'm reading now.

Picked up from the library a later book in the series, Devil Red, which is what I'm currently reading. Toned down some of the harshness of the jokes, but I'm hooked and halfway through already in less than a week (I'm not the most consistent reader). Reached a serious point in the story where the main character falls into a nervous breakdown due to seeing an assassin's handiwork. It's written in first person through the MC's point of view, so it was... something to witness. Deep bonding moment about PTSD between him and his buddy.

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Pretty hardcore cover, too.

You should try and find "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks". It's his zombie apocalypse novella, and it's my favorite of his.

 

[breremarer]

I'm about 2/3 of the way through "The Unworthy" by Agustina Bazterrica, because I liked her previous book "Tender is the Flesh" when it dropped a few years ago. This one is... alright? I'm liking it solid, so I'm probably gonna finish it. I'm happy I got it from the library though, because it's not catching me quite the way I hoped it would.

 

[strawberry29]

diary of a wimpy kid the first ever book

 

[eyixon]

A classic i read in my 20s. I still haven't the name of the sequel, but will re-read this first.

 

[lytrid]

Dragonball and The Hobbit, both at the same time.

 

[strawberry29]

i'm reading two books :

frindle by andrew clements
gnome cave by james rolfe

i'm mostly into gnome cave because it's getting interesting (and fangirling on the writer lol)

 

[Tonberry]

Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad.

I'm a very big fan of his youtube channel, and bought the book on a whim a while back, which recounts his decade of living in Japan.
His prose is fantastic, just like the narration parts of his videos, and it's surprisingly personal yet full of his iconic extremely british sense of humour.

Highly recommend it.

 

[strawberry29]

Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad.

I'm a very big fan of his youtube channel, and bought the book on a whim a while back, which recounts his decade of living in Japan.
His prose is fantastic, just like the narration parts of his videos, and it's surprisingly personal yet full of his iconic extremely british sense of humour.

Highly recommend it.

i'll give that a look!

 

[x_lod]

DiDiary of a Wimpy Kid