I'm reading Dune and this dude has to stop making up words god damn

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fiction_rule_of_thumb.png

i'm also reading the news

thats funny this is exactly what the author says

Infinite Jest

the last wish (witcher)

R.A. Dickey's Wherever I Wind Up

been reading a lot of baseball books lately. burned through astroball, which was pretty good, and Rick Ankiel's The Phenomenon, which was fucking great. This one is pretty good too.

the bible

actually tho just yesterday my mom bought me The Girl Who Played with Fire which is the sequel to The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo which I read in high school. I really liked it but I don't remember it super well so I'm gonna re read it before I read the sequel, probably gonna start that soon

Rereading where I left off in The Dark Tower series, Wizard and Glass.
I fucking love Stephen King.

basic economics by thomas sowell, IT by stephen king and the subtle art of not giving a fuck by mark manson.

read danse macabre by him, its one of the best book I ever read from him

Me too! I'm liking it a ton.

I'm also reading Flour Water Salt Yeast and Worm which are respectively really useful/educational and really really good.

(plus a bunch of stuff for school but that's different, although I got to read A Child's Book of Sickness and Death which was really good but a really hard read)

Right now Use of Weapons by Ian M Banks, I don't find it as good as the previous books in the series yet but I'm only 100 pages in.

Twentieth-Century Harmony by Vincent Persichetti
learning a lot bout music theory

Do you use a genealogy tree ? I did one caus at some point it was really confusing.
If you like that kind of writing i'd suggest you
- Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
And any book GGM did, they're all master pieces.

Black Eros Tits - Kloah
like 90% of it is in color
also hxh (new chapters now!!!!)

Rereading the "His Dark Materials" series. Read it once as a kid but remember nothing beyond "Drinking murder bear"

How We Sleep by Matthew Walker

he is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, and the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He wrote this book about his studies and findings on human sleep, dreams etc. and especially the negative effects caused by lack of sleep.

I became interested in it after listening to his lecture done to promote the book from Talks at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXflBZXAucQ

its interesting but i havent read much yet.

Reading an old, albeit good, translation of The Trial and Death of Socrates and a book on early Dutch painting that has a lot of good images not really seen in other, similar books

I am currently reading Goblin Slayer, Tower of God, The God of High School and Venom 2016 comic series.

The version I have has a family tree at the start of it, I can't imagine I would be able to actually understand what was going on otherwise :p. I'll definitely have to check that stuff out though thanks for the recommendations!

Read it once, reading it again now. Learning so much more this time around.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61R96HUOGeL.jpg

Why did you post a picture instead of just saying it? And the cover is the most boring of all time?

I was sick in bed all day yesterday and caught up with Worth The Candle by Alexander Wales. It's well written enough but it's also pretty suffering dense and I wouldn't recommend to anyone who doesn't at least somewhat enjoy "grimdark" fiction. It took me a couple tries to get into it (I put it down a couple different times at different times in the story) but the world and characters ended up being compelling enough for me to read all 600k words.

i always thought it a lot of the charm of the book. deepens the lore and prevents you from contextualizing the worldbuilding as a version of our own.

was reading some collected Ada Louise Huxtable essays on modern architecture, but my library got all jumbled when i moved recently so i've mostly been rereading Larry Niven short stories since then

I'm reading the Name of the Wind series again because eventually I'll be reading the second book when the release of the third is announced.

I'm planning to restart the Silmarillion in earnest this weekend. The introduction is really beautiful so I always lose steam after reading it.

(Seriously anyone who hasn't read Name of the Wind but is looking for a good book should really consider this one)

I work at the library and usually have like 20 books at home at once.

I read an amazing children's novel called The Stars Beneath our Feet from the perspective of a little boy growing up in Harlem, and it was really touching and sweet. I also read a YA novel called The Female of the Species in like a single night and decided after reading the whole book that I didn't like it. But apparently a lot of teens do because it's nominated for a reader's choice award.

I'm also trying to slog through like "Best/Winnerrest Science Fiction Novel of all time" lists and reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons and I just can't get into it.

Also I read the Silmarillion like a billion times when I was younger and loved it, but it is kind of uneven because it's actually a compilation/trim-and-paste of like several different full-length books he never published.

Keep the Apidistra Flying by Orwell, finished Burmese Days a month or so ago and thought it was good enough to keep on with the omnibus.

Never got around to reading the Silmarillion, seemed a little too lore heavy for me. Unfinished Tales was a fun ride though.

It's supposed to be essentially the creation myths of Middle-earth, right? I think it makes sense for it to have a stitched together collection/anthology vibe. I'm pumped to revisit it. :)

the picture of dorian grey by oscar wilde. language is a bit flowery but overall really good