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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? July 21 (discuss.online)
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Still reading When Moon Hits the Eye by John Scalzi.

Had some vacation, so didn't get time to read much.

What about all of you, what have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Just finished Fool's Assassin. I'm not sure how I missed it a decade ago; I love Robin Hobb.

I loved and hated it at the same time. It's one of those books that feels like half the book is the intro. But...it's Robin Hobb. I love her writing! And I've read 6 of her books starring one of the main characters (and another 6 set in the same world), so there's a cozy sense of the familiar.

I also just finished Neal Asher's The Soldier. Based on that, I've started reading Gridlinked (which, hindsight, I should have picked up Gridlinked first! But I grabbed The Soldier off the shelf at the library, so c'est la vie...(ou livre?)