What are you reading currently? # IAmReading I'm currently reading

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• oleastra@mastodon.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon Finishing the familiar by Leigh Bardugo and about to start the last contract of Isako by Fonda Lee
  I started the audio of Yesteryear this afternoon (after finishing Ring shout)
  And I'm making very slow progress on Jane Eyre

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  • RanaldClouston@fediscience.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @oleastra @kimlockhartga @bookstodon I finished The Familiar a couple of days ago! I'm currently reading Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. I'm also half way through XX by Rian Hughes, a 970 page doorstop that I had to pause because the Borges needs to go back to the library, and am *also* half way through Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake, which my 11yo daughter has me reading to her as her bedtime story.

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    • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @RanaldClouston @oleastra @bookstodon This is so cool. Borges writes so wonderfully.

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @oleastra @bookstodon wow. You've got a feast there.

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    • oleastra@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @kimlockhartga @bookstodon yeah I usually read at least two books simultaneously but three might be my sweet spot!

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• Edelruth@mastodon.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

  You were so emphatic about Charlotte McConaghy I looked her up, and now I have to try one of her books myself.

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• ariaflame@masto.ai ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon Currently The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. Far Sector by N K Jemisin. Darksight Dare (One of the recent Penric and Desdemona novellas by Lois McMaster Bujold). Swordheart by T.K. Kingfisher.

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @ariaflame @bookstodon I wish I could read The Fifth Season again, for the very first time.

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    • oleastra@mastodon.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @kimlockhartga @ariaflame @bookstodon Same! The fifth season is truly one of my favourite books

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• Edelruth@mastodon.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

  Oh boy. Annie Jacobsen's scenarios hit hard. Have some joy planned for after you finish that one, which I didnt know about and now have to read myself.

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @Edelruth @bookstodon yeah. I could feel that coming. Apparently her nuclear war scenarios were terrifying.

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    • Edelruth@mastodon.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

      I can vouch for that.

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• alicemcalicepants@ohai.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon I'm currently reading Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal by @robinince and resisting the urge to post everything from it I relate to like 'omg it me!!!', because it's way over 10% of the book and would therefore be a copyright violation 😅

  Next up are The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher because I adore her books, and The Driftborn by Simon Bullock for a blog review (but it sounds good, I wouldn't have signed up otherwise!).

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  • robinince@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @alicemcalicepants @kimlockhartga @bookstodon so glad you have found some connection

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @alicemcalicepants @bookstodon @robinince Normally Weird sounds like it would resonate with everyone here! 😃

    It sounds like you make careful and deliberate choices, and I admire that so much..

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  • reay@beige.party ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @alicemcalicepants @kimlockhartga @bookstodon @robinince Kingfisher writing is SO good.

    I unfortunately did get into an unexpected row of books based around the “Broken good guy who feels undeserving for his past deeds and/or present condition meets woman scarred by abusive man in her past and unexpectedly they eventually get over themselves and admit that they’re in love” theme, which isn’t a well I cared to dip into repeatedly.

    But there’s a lot of her stuff I haven’t even checked out yet, so I’m looking forward to those. I’m just holding off because, like with any excellent writer, I don’t want to reach the end of what’s available from her, but always have something else I haven’t seen yet to look forward to.

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    • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @reay @alicemcalicepants @bookstodon @robinince That is very familiar, that feeling that you don't want an author's back catalog to end.

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• djtoebeans@mendeddrum.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

  I'm reading Arrow's Flight by Mercedes Lackey.

  On hold, I've got:
  - Anxietyland by Gemma Correll
  - Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

  #Bookstodon #AmReading

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @djtoebeans @bookstodon I think you will like ANXIETYLAND, especially if you yourself, or someone you know, has had the same experiences as the author.

    I've not read Brandon Sanderson yet, but obvs. on my radar. Don't know Mercedes Lackey's work well, but def. heard of her. Does she write Hard Fantasy, in your view? I like to know what level of fantasy going in. I tend to gravitate to SFF, but I'm open to straight-up fantasy, too. Sounds like you have a strong line-up.

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    • djtoebeans@mendeddrum.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @kimlockhartga @bookstodon Anxietyland was a fedi recommendation I've seen multiple people post about, so I'm excited for that one.

      This is my second Mercedes Lackey book (of the 37 I bought on a whim as a Humble Bundle). So far it feels like the early books of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series. Apparently she and McCaffrey cowrote a science fiction book, The Ship Who Searched, which I have just added to my TBR.

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• sandsoftime5050@c.im ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @bookstodon @kimlockhartga #amreading Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher. I read her Snake Eater book last year which was excellent.

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @sandsoftime5050 @bookstodon oh cool! I liked Thornhedge, and surprisingly enough, the story for kids: A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, which was sweet.

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    • sandsoftime5050@c.im ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @kimlockhartga @bookstodon oh good will add them to my waitlist. Thanks for the recommendation!

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• umrk@metalhead.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon That one is on my list!

  Just started One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @umrk @bookstodon ooooooooh. GGM for the win!

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• VWDasher@mymasto.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @kimlockhartga @bookstodon it's not too late to sign up!

  https://www.msreadathon.org.au

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  • kimlockhartga@beige.party ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @VWDasher @bookstodon Thank you. I know that reading goals can really help motivate a lot of readers, if the books they want to read are available.

    The hardest part about reading goals for me, this year, is having no idea when the books I have on hold will become available. Sure, I have plenty to read in the interim, but I'm gonna ditch those in favor of the ones I'm waiting on, every time.

    And it's killing me that it's too early to get in the hold line for upcoming books by:

    Chuck Wendig
    Alix E. Harrow
    Nghi Vo
    Silas House
    Annalee Newitz
    Min Jin Lee
    Deeshaw Philyaw
    Courtney Gould
    Lydia Millet
    Becky Chambers
    Cassandra Khaw
    Ayad Akhtar
    Stephen Graham Jones
    Alma Katsu
    Naomi Alderman
    Tananarive Due
    Leigh Bardugo
    China Miéville
    Emily St. John Mandel
    Jodi Picoult
    Kate Atkinson
    Ariel Lawhorn
    R.F. Kuang
    James Islington
    Natasha Pulley
    Alexandra Bracken
    Téa Obreht
    L. Penelope

    I mean, that's a dynamite pack of author's new books to chase down. But, I'm ready

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    • likewise@beige.party@beige.party ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @kimlockhartga @VWDasher @bookstodon I do the same thing when books come in from a hold!

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    • VWDasher@mymasto.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @kimlockhartga @bookstodon just work through it, you've got time!

      I've got a stack of books by my bed, slowly working through it all.

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