This includes articles, ebooks, audiobooks, etc. If you do, what genres and which books?
Currently I’m re-reading entertaining trash.
- Dan Brown - Angels and demons. Basically indiana jones / national treasure on steroids. Very entertaining and good storytelling.
- Agatha Christie - And then there were none. An extremely entertaining who-dunnit in a mansion, with lots of twists. Not too long, and keeps you on your toes the whole time.
I played Wargrave in my high school’s production of And Then There Were None and it was a blast. By the way, every version has a different ending: the book, the play, etc. All different so there aren’t spoilers.
Whoa nice, bet that was fun. I’d love to read the play to see how they end it differently.
Audio books here. When I cook, when I’m at the gym, beginning of my shift while I go through my emails. I listen to mostly trashy sci-fi books, sometimes good / decent sci-fi. At the third book in the “Three body problem” trilogy now, it’s pretty damn good.
I average at one - two books a month. Great majority sci-fi. I read only for fun, to disconnect, so my bar for quality is pretty low, there’s a loooot of fun stuff out there.
Three body books are monumental. They reignited my will to read. Also really enjoying the murderbot diaries which I bet will appeal to all the rad commies in here.
I try to aim for reading around 30 books per year. I tend to pick one fiction and non fiction to read concurrently. I tend to enjoy hard sci-fi the most for fiction, and politics/economics for nonfiction.
News articles from various sources, academic papers for university classes, discission threads on Lemmy and Reddit, various short form fiction.
Yes economic textbooks,political science textbooks, computer science textbooks, science fiction novels and manga
Because I’m often on the train, it’s easier for me to take an e-book reader, than anytime carrying a book with me.
I don’t think I’ve ever really did any dedicated reading since the Eragon series when I was still in school.
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I’m currently reading Immortel by J.R Dos Santos, I find it pretty good I don’t really know the genre tho. Otherwise I really like biographical genre.
Btw I used to think that I couldn’t read books because I simply couldn’t focus but I’ve found a trick and now I love reading. The “trick” is that I must listen to a music from which I know the lyrics and I add some white noises to that, like that my mind can only focus on what I’m reading (or at least more than before).
I actually have a lot of books at home and I sort of move around them in a weird way. I’ll read a chapter of one, then read a bit of another, then back to the first one, then something completely different. I do read a lot but very little of it is structured.
I’ve only recently started to get into reading books. I know it may sound silly, but the only books I read growing up was required by school (which was a lot and a lot of important books were read). I tend to read more non-fiction since I don’t tend to use reading as escapism as much as I do education.
The other day I read an entire (small) book in a day, and it was a terrible book. It was called The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe. After reading it I looked at some reviews of it and saw that my sentiment was shared. The author did very little research and just goes about discrediting 150 years of scholarly research to arrive at his own conclusion. Additionally, there’s a strong sense that the author is upset with political correctness because when referring to an indigenous tribe, he will say the following:
“… the nati -er, indigenous - peoples…”
and it just rubbed me the wrong way entirely. He did this so frequently that it was really upsetting my reading. This book review is pretty short, but devastating: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/08/the-kingdom-of-speech-by-tom-wolfe-review
I read the book because my spouse bought it on a whim some years ago, and I felt like it. Don’t recommend though haha. My next two books will be Mutual Aid and The Ice People.
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Yes, I tend to read the most boring kind of books I can find, they’re fun.
I love reading fiction. I like classics American as well as contemporary fiction. Occasional foreign translations as well.
