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Reading Three Days to Never by Tim Powers. The premise is pretty interesting, can't wait to see where he takes it.


As mentioned last week, @JaymesRS@literature.cafe and @misericordiae@literature.cafe are working on something related to Bingo card for books.

Keep your eyes peeled, just one week (or so) to go.

Also, welcome @JaymesRS@literature.cafe as a newly minted mod of this community!


Now to topic at hand, what have you been reading or listening lately?

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[–] hardaysknight@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Listening to Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey (book 3 of The Expanse). I gotta say, the narrator sucks pretty bad. He pronounced the spice cumin as “Come In”.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)
PHYSICAL AND EBOOKS

1. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote*
2. Parasite by Mira Grant*
3. Symbiont by Mira Grant*
4. Chimera by Mira Grant*
5. How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them by Barbara P Walter.*
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell*
7. Just After Sunset by Stephen King*
8. The Murder At The Vicarage by Agatha Christie
9. Feed by Mira Grant
10. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
11. In The Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace*
12. Deadline by Mira Grant
13. Countdown by Mira Grant
14. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
15. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
16. Blackout by Mira Grant
17. Elevation by Stephen King
18. The Woman In Me by Britney Spears*
19. It's Ok To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders*
20. Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie*
21. The Firm by John Grisham*
22. Sitting Pretty The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig*
23. It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover
24. The Last Stand Of The California Browncoats by Mira Grant
25. In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune*
26. My French Whore by Gene Wilder*
27. The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg*
28. The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
29. The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
30. Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King*
31. The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie
32. Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King*
33. Verity by Colleen Hoover
34. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman*
35. The Exchange by John Grisham*
36. Double Homicide: Santa Fe, Boston by Jonathan & Faye Kellerman*
37. The Pelican Brief by John Grisham*
38. No Time Like The Future by Michale J. Fox
39. The Death Cure by James Dashner
40. The Kill Order by James Dashner
41. The Fever Code by James Dashner
42. Dolly Parton Songteller by Dolly Parton with Robert K. Dermann
43. Mean Baby by Selma Blair
44. 1984 by George Orwell
45. The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley
46. A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to The Future by Michael J. Fox
47. Wildflower by Drew Barrymore
48. The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
49. Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
50. Throttle by Joe Hill and Stephen King
51. The Fold by Peter Clines
52. Full Throttle by Joe Hill
53. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
54. The Hollow Places b y T. KingFisher
55. Something Wicked This Way Come by Ray Bradbury*
56. Her Little Flowers by Shannon Morgan
57. The Fireman by Joe Hill
58. The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert
59. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
60. Theodore Boone:Kid Lawyer by John Grisham*
61. Theodore Boone:The Abduction by John Grisham*
62. Yes Man by Danny Wallace*
63. Theodore Boone:The Accused by John Grisham*
64.Theodore Boone:The Activist by John Grisham*
65.The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter*
66.Theodore Boone:The Fugitive by John Grisham*
67.Theodore Boone:The Scandal by John Grisham*
68.The Assault On Reason by Al Gore*
69.Theodore Boone:The Accomplice*




AUDIOBOOKS

1. Lords Of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky
2. Guns by Stephen King
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. Bird Box by Josh Malerman
5. The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
6. The Guardians by John Grisham
7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
8. Thank you For Smoking by Christopher Bukley
9. Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
10. I'll Be Gone in The Dark by Michelle McNamara
11. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
12.The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wow, that's a lot of books. How long did it take to read all these?

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I read between 150 to 200 pages a day on average. Started January 2nd to present time. Today reading Gerald's Game by Stephen King. Book I read before but been a long time. Also some of those were short stories I either bought on kindle our got from Libby.

My goal is 100 but believe I will surpass that. I do hope to listen to 25 audiobooks as well before end of year.

But since I don't drive a delivery truck anymore it might not happen. Only listen when commuting or working on Lego.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 7 months ago

150 to 200 pages a day is a very good amount. Respect!

Good luck with your audiobook goal!

[–] hardaysknight@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What’s with the asterisks? Also what has been your favorite from that list?

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

How I keep track of the physical books I have read. End of year I pull them all out and take a pic of them all. Also so far I loved In The Lives of Puppets. Also enjoyed The Fireman of course swear he channeled his dads Stand with that novel.

Also the Theodore Boone novels are pretty good.

And just finished a novel that part of series of books accidentally started with the middle novel but called Witch Upon a Star.