#Books (General)

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alpine drum
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tbh I am only in the 26-50 bucket because of some books I read in highschool that I definitely didn't really understand

old bone
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Most of those I read were high school or probably older

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like Huckleberry finn, david copperfield, animal farm. I don't think I have read them after grade 5

spring turtle
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I've read...5.5 of those

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(got to the time skip in Dune and DNF'd)

long sorrel
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I've read about 10

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I think it's a mix between sff and literary fiction so...

royal carbon
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Roughly 34, some I couldn't remember if I had read or wanted to read at some point. Others are on the extended TBR.

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long sorrel
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A bunch are on the tbr

small bloom
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Only Piranesi, Frankenstein, and Wuthering Heights for me but yeah several on the TBR

long sorrel
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I have read Don Quixote more than once and analyzed about half of its sections 😩

minor sleet
royal carbon
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I read part of it in Spanish a lifetime ago

wide hearth
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I count 19, or 22 including dnfs or where I skipped massive bits (looking at you Les Mis)

minor sleet
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Someone missed out on the lecture about the Parisian sewer system

wide hearth
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I think I read that one, actually

potent linden
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What kind of nonbinary?

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cloud socket
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21, but definitely a mix of classics and sci-fi (plus Demon Copperhead, and I found it funny that it made the list with its source story, David Copperfield which I haven't read)

long sorrel
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you need more queer books that aren't purely just gay romance!

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Also I started The Devil You Know last night

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Loving Daphne so far (as expected)

tight kindle
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Although there is some non-binary/man romance.
I think Cemetery Boys is one?

mild lance
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Starless 9 ||so if I’m reading this correctly, the big secret is that Khai is AFAB but hasn’t been told yet. Very interesting, curious to see how that’s handled. Also Brother Yarit is a great character, and him being the new Seer is something I had absolutely not predicted||

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For clarity: this is Starless by Jacqueline Carey, not The Starless Sea

minor sleet
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That was a fun book. Everything Carey writes is fun

potent linden
snow vessel
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Finished my reread of the Cruel Prince, probably going to head straight into TWK

sage crystal
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I’m at 12.5, currently moving very slowly thru an audiobook version of moby dick

quaint tendon
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6

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But for whatever reason the mobile site I had access to had a bunch of numbers skipped

cunning pivot
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They aren't skipped they are tied.

I have a dozen of these definitely read and a number more that either I might have read in school or I started but didn't finish.

quaint tendon
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Oh

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Weird way to format a list but interesting

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Yeah then I’m bad at reading

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I read a lot of classic literature when I was a kid but none of these super famous ones outside of the 6

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I read Beowulf and the odyssey

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Tried reading the Iliad but I got really bored after the pages and pages of ship preparation

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Moby dick. Well basically the same thing

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I read a lot of Sherlock Holmes stories those were fun

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Treasure Island was alright

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I prefer Jules verne over 20k leagues under the sea was a big time favorite

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It was one of those books that felt like. I had heard so much about Nemo and the nautilus in like pop culture and finding the original book lived up to that was great

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I read common sense by Thomas Paine, which. I read it and probably understood it but I don’t remember anything about it anymore so I doubt I actually parsed a lot of it as an 8th grader

minor sleet
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From “Galaxy: the Prettiest Star” by Jadzia Axelrod

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The character on the left is a trans woman who hasn’t come out yet and the comic is written by a trans woman

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Oh this comic is really pretty

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Metropolis has an alien neighborhood

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minor sleet
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That was a really fun, sweet comic

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The main character reminds me a lot of Karolina Dean from the Runaways comics. I wouldn’t be shocked if she was an explicit inspiration for Galaxy

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Karolina Dean was one of the first queer comic book characters I encountered. I found her just after I figured out I was queer. And she’s also an alien teen in hiding on earth with bright inhuman skin who flies and has energy powers

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snow vessel
minor sleet
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light drum
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I have finished the starless sea

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I would rate it 5 stars but im afraid it's starless

tight kindle
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Finished Heartwood, the Appalachian trail lost hiker mystery I got from the used section at the bookstore
It was mid.

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But it gets to be turned into a green box instead of a red one on the spreadsheet so that's good LUL

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My read/unread ratio is decent but I do need to work on it

white pond
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I am reading Kingdoms of Death (Sun Eater book 4) and I am just. Stunned.

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This book has been true misery for the past.. nearly 5 hours of audiobook.

minor sleet
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Started reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil before my trip ro visit my friend in Savannah Georgia

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Now I’m under the impression that everyone who lives in Savannah is insane

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The book was her idea

white pond
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How many have you read from the Guardian’s top 100 books?

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Most of the ones I’ve read are…

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Literary Fiction

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I must know @wraith lynx how did you not read any of those books? Not even in school?

snow vessel
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Tbh I think I only read one in school

old bone
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I think the only book in our school syllabus was Animal Farm

snow vessel
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That wasn't the only book I read for school but it was the only one I saw on the list

minor sleet
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Huh

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I guess the canon really is expanding

snow vessel
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I think we had a mix of classics and modern texts

old bone
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I am not from US/Europe so that might explain why

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My dad's an English professor so my house had books he read, taught and also books he did his Masters and PhD on

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so that's why I did read stuff like Marquez or Llosa, and especially Woolf

snow vessel
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I'm from Australia, so not US/Europe but I wouldn't be surprised if there's some overlap

old bone
minor sleet
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Im not from Russia, but we had to read Crime and Punishment

old bone
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No as in people in US from my experience have a lot of reading in school than we do in South Asia

long sorrel
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I didn't have Animal Farm in mine but I read it anyway

old bone
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for English stuff

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Especially since like probably still have of our school are not in English Medium still

long sorrel
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in Spain, back then, we had to read a lot but it wasn't predetermined books that had to be read

snow vessel
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From memory we did animal farm, midsummer night's dream, and a few Australian texts(?)

old bone
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maybe its like 20% now but it was that rare when I was in school

old bone
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oh wait I remember we did On The Beach too

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in 8th grade

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which was an Australian post-apocalyptic novel

snow vessel
swift flint
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Dcc book 3 ch 4 ||Im predicting that the veto is gonna be relevant at some point later. Carls gonna do something crazy to stick it to Borant, and they’re not gonna be able to veto it||

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@muted nebula

snow vessel
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Mm because my moods cannot be consistent lately I am torn between starting a reread of the vampire lestat or the wicked king

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I am thinking I will start Lestat but I am not entirely sure I will stick to this order, I might jump over to TWK

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Either way they're both on my June tbr

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-# I was big hyped for TWK yesterday with finishing TCP, big hyped for TVL this morning with the show premiere, now time has passed and I am unsure...

old bone
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Started Prayer for a crown shy Monk and Robot book 2

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50 pages in and its already leagues better than the first one

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The first one had clunky prose, and had an erratic prose where it felt it was trying to stay within some hard word count/page count limit

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which made it have a artificial forced cozy feel and while the second half of the book was genuinely good, that earlier part disappointed me

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Not in book 2 tho. The pacing issue ain't there. The prose is pretty great.

oblique zodiac
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nice

old bone
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Ig one slight issue I have is || Mosscap's characterization feels "more human" at times in how he approaches certain things, which kinda defeats the point of difference between robots and humans, robots spending their life in wilderness separate from humans ||

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Thank god this series actually feels cozy and iyashikei-ish than the usual cozy sff

wet prism
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I’m reading a book called Wild Geese right now, it’s about a trans woman having a conflicted reunion with her Irish ex-wife, post transition

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It’s a fantastic book, unless you yourself are a trans woman who is currently having a conflicted divorce with your Irish ex-wife, in which case it’s actually the worst thing imaginable lmao 🌈