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Post by mln59 on Jan 25, 2021 16:58:43 GMT -5
"sword of kings" is now ready. i will walk over after work to pick it up
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Post by mln59 on Jan 27, 2021 9:31:17 GMT -5
"sword of kings" is now ready. i will walk over after work to pick it up have read roughly a third of this book. things are moving quickly
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Post by mln59 on Feb 2, 2021 16:40:25 GMT -5
"sword of kings" is now ready. i will walk over after work to pick it up have read roughly a third of this book. things are moving quickly i think i am roughly 70 pages from finishing and then will switch back to non-fiction.
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Post by mln59 on Feb 3, 2021 17:36:08 GMT -5
curious if any of y'all are reading these days
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 3, 2021 17:50:56 GMT -5
curious if any of y'all are reading these days Generally always reading something, but nothing particularly that is worth discussing.
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Post by mln59 on Feb 3, 2021 18:08:25 GMT -5
curious if any of y'all are reading these days Generally always reading something, but nothing particularly that is worth discussing. still would like to know a title and author
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 3, 2021 18:11:07 GMT -5
Generally always reading something, but nothing particularly that is worth discussing. still would like to know a title and author OK, I am currently (re)reading Grand Central Arena, by Ryk Spoor.
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Post by mln59 on Feb 4, 2021 10:23:51 GMT -5
still would like to know a title and author OK, I am currently (re)reading Grand Central Arena, by Ryk Spoor. the entire series?
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Post by mln59 on Feb 5, 2021 10:17:57 GMT -5
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 7, 2021 16:43:18 GMT -5
OK, I am currently (re)reading Grand Central Arena, by Ryk Spoor. the entire series? Like, I suspect from experience, many people, I have a tendency to find it annoying and intrusive when people ask me what I'm reading if I don't already want to tell them that. However, I will say that as I have done previously when I read this story, I immediately moved on from the first book to the second and will likely move on to the third. Unfortunately, Spoor's publisher declined to buy a fourth book in the series from him (even though they continued to buy other stories from him). So he's never written a fourth book. But if he did, I would certainly read that one too.
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Post by oldnewbie on Feb 12, 2021 14:01:53 GMT -5
I'm reading Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
True story about David Star Jordan, an ichthyologist who was credited with discovering a fifth of all fish known to humans in his day. Some here might know that name, but I did not. Interesting enough story at first, then went in a completely unexpected direction and I found it fascinating. Apparently a lot of the founding history of a certain very well known VB school is in the process of being completely rewritten based on history only discovered 20 or so years ago.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 12, 2021 15:32:14 GMT -5
I'm reading Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller True story about David Star Jordan, an ichthyologist who was credited with discovering a fifth of all fish known to humans in his day. Some here might know that name, but I did not. Interesting enough story at first, then went in a completely unexpected direction and I found it fascinating. Apparently a lot of the founding history of a certain very well known VB school is in the process of being completely rewritten based on history only discovered 20 or so years ago. The number 1 review on Amazon right now is basically a complaint that this book is not about fish.
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Post by oldnewbie on Feb 13, 2021 1:00:11 GMT -5
I'm reading Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller True story about David Star Jordan, an ichthyologist who was credited with discovering a fifth of all fish known to humans in his day. Some here might know that name, but I did not. Interesting enough story at first, then went in a completely unexpected direction and I found it fascinating. Apparently a lot of the founding history of a certain very well known VB school is in the process of being completely rewritten based on history only discovered 20 or so years ago. The number 1 review on Amazon right now is basically a complaint that this book is not about fish. Not being a hardcore ichthyology enthusiast, I found the balance acceptable.
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Post by mikegarrison on May 31, 2021 6:01:13 GMT -5
I am currently reading a fun novel called Rivers Of London. It's ten years old now, but I only heard about it recently.
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Post by gotonemos on Jun 20, 2022 1:32:53 GMT -5
I stumbled across Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, because it was on my library’s online reading list. A quick read, and a timely parable about human connection or loss of connection as told through the eyes of an AI humanoid robot.
Strangely enough, I had stumbled across another Ishiguro novel a few years ago, this time on the library’s paper-back carousel. The cover caught my eye, and while I don’t think you can judge a book by it’s cover, if you are talking about people, I do believe that you can judge a book by it’s cover if you are talking about books. This book was The Buried Giant an untimely tale set in post-Arthurian Britain.
I’ve since gone on to read The Remains of the Day. And will probably go on to read many more Ishiguro novels.
P.S. This thread was more deeply buried on this site than I think a thread on literature should be.
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