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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? August 04 (discuss.online)
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Finished When Moon Hits the Eye by John Scalzi.

The book is divided so that each chapter is a new day, and it's from perspective of new people. So there is no story of certain people, rather it's about the "event" and we see things from different people's point of view throughout the book.

I didn't know that, so it took some getting used to, but once I had come to terms with that it was a very interesting book.

Highly recommended for soft sci-fi fans.

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

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[–] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

Started reading The Sword of Kaigen (TBR centre square for the bingo) a couple nights ago. Immediately before that, I read my first-ever Kurt Vonnegut novel -- Deadeye Dick (weapon on cover - hard mode square), I really enjoyed his writing though I'm glad to have jumped into something less bleak at the moment.

On the nonfiction side, I'm gradually making my way through Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, which came heavily recommended by another author (Erika Hall) who I really dig.