Currently Reading this Gem:
Next Up:
A Dance with Dragons
The Historian
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Next Up:
A Dance with Dragons
The Historian
2666
But my real question: Do people actually read more than one book at a time? I mean, sure, students do, but do normal people as well? (sorry, students ) I'm a serial reader myself--I don't even try to start a second book anymore.
I have bounced around a bit, and I don't like it these days for the most part. I try to keep that number to three or less but sometimes it just doesn't work out that way. I think part of the explanation is that I'm a slow reader coupled with me feeling compelled to finish a book once I've started it.But my real question: Do people actually read more than one book at a time? I mean, sure, students do, but do normal people as well? (sorry, students ) I'm a serial reader myself--I don't even try to start a second book anymore.
Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch, who btw, is one of the best fantasy writers out there IMO.
Up next will be to finish a feast for crows so I can FINALLY read a dance with dragons.
After that who knows, I've got a backlog of around 20 fantasy books to pick from so it could be one of many lol.
Currently reading
Sky Key an EndGame Novel.
Read the first one so I may as well keep going. its ok but more geared towards teens.
Next up
Shift - Hugh Howey
Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
The Revenant - Michael Punke
My queue at the moment:
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco (currently reading)
Good luck. I've read it, and all I can say is just stick with it. It's by far his worst, and he even admits it. I'm a fairly fast reader and it took me awhile to get through that.
Luckily, I did finish and felt very accomplished afterwards.
I absolutely loved that series. Heard they made it into a movie or a TV series and that it sucks, although I've yet to see anything about it.
Umberto Eco is my favorite living author. I have all of his novels and some of his other works, "History of Lists", "History of Beauty", etc.
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Luona was another fantastic books of his you should check out.
But my real question: Do people actually read more than one book at a time? I mean, sure, students do, but do normal people as well? (sorry, students ) I'm a serial reader myself--I don't even try to start a second book anymore.
All the time. I cannot do one at a time. I have tried for years and my attention wanders too much. I pretty much have to have at least one fiction and one non-fiction going regularly. Usually more.
To answer the question: I am reading The Soul of an Octupus right now, a non-fiction work that argues that octopusses (not octopi, which is technically incorrect because it attaches a Latin suffix to a Greek prefix...or something) are a hell of a lot smarter than people give them credit for. And shape-shiftier, too: could you escape from a room through a pipe the size of a can of tennis balls? Be honest.
But my real question: Do people actually read more than one book at a time? I mean, sure, students do, but do normal people as well? (sorry, students ) I'm a serial reader myself--I don't even try to start a second book anymore.
Non-academic things I'm currently reading:
The Cinema of Bela Tarr: the Circle Closes
The Melancholy of Resistance
Fun fact from The Soul of an Octopus. If a woman linked arms with her mother and she with her mother and so on down through history, the line up for our species would be roughly three hundred miles long and go back 5 million years. If an octopus did that with her mother (with so many arms to choose from, mind you) and her mother did the same and so on, the octopus line-up would cover untold thousands of miles and go back more than 500 million years. All the earth's continents, author Sy Montgomery writes, would still be "huddled in the Southern Hemisphere."Octopodes! Yes, can't mix Latin and Greek word elements. I might have to look into that book, since I also deeply admire the octopus.
Good luck. I've read it, and all I can say is just stick with it. It's by far his worst, and he even admits it. I'm a fairly fast reader and it took me awhile to get through that.
Luckily, I did finish and felt very accomplished afterwards.
I absolutely loved that series. Heard they made it into a movie or a TV series and that it sucks, although I've yet to see anything about it.
Umberto Eco is my favorite living author. I have all of his novels and some of his other works, "History of Lists", "History of Beauty", etc.
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Luona was another fantastic books of his you should check out.
It was a movie starring Tom Hardy that came out a little while ago. Its apparently of middling quality.
Right now I'm rereading book four of the Demon Cycle series, the Skull Throne. Recommend the series to anyone who enjoys fantasy.