Hey Beehaw (and friends)! What’re you reading?

Novels, nonfiction, ebooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, etc - everything counts!

  • Big Miku@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Right now I am reading An Urban History Of China by John Lincoln. It might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I am enjoying reading it, since I am a sucker for anything history.

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      1 year ago

      Nearly all of those books are nice, quick reads. I read them before playing Witcher 3 and watching the NF series first season. It greatly enhanced the game; it made me dislike the screenplay version.

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      1 year ago

      Three body problem series is fantastic in my opinion. I love that heavy sci-fi shit. And viewing the world from a different cultures perspective was fascinating.

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        1 year ago

        Yes. Without going into spoilers, the event that started the Deterrence Era blew my mind. It’s so rare to have an unexpected reversal like that in sci fi it really caught me by surprise.

        I really wish I could read it in the original Chinese. The translator did a great job though.

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          Well, now you’re making me want to go back into the series. I liked the premise of the first, but found the writing foreign - which, hey, it is! I felt like I really should read more everyday Chinese fiction as I didn’t understand a lot of the nuance and it felt less polished (to my American sensibilities) as a result.

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    1 year ago

    The Foundation series by Azimov. I read it when I was a teenager and remembered very little. It’s a lot scarier today.

  • menturi@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat.

    I never really was that great at cooking, but I enjoy it and want to improve.

  • Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m very nearly done with ‘The Precipice’ by Ben Bova. Next is either ‘Rock Rats’ in the same series, or I start the Cosmere series by Brandon Sanderson. I’ve read all the Mistborn novels, and they’re fantastic.

    Sanderson writes books faster than I can read, so it’s kind of daunting. Ben Bova is already dead, so I don’t have the same problem with him.