Literature Freyas' all about books thread.

I miss having more Discworld books to read.

I read Sarah J Maas's book "A court of thorns and roses" over the weekend.

Yesterday I started Giada's "Eat better, feel better".
 
I highly recommend the Indranan & Farian War trilogies by KB Wagers. They are an excellent writer and I don’t think I’ve ever felt more for characters than I did for the ones in the books. The audiobooks are really well done too. I can’t say enough about them.
 
I’ve just started reading the newest bobiverse book “heavens river”. I read the original trilogy and loved them. Has anyone else read the bobiverse? It’s well worth it.
 
After reading the Count of Monte Cristo
(a very intimidating but well worth it book) I decided to pick up another classic from Alexander Dumas, The Three Museketeers.
To be honest I'm having a hard time with it. for the sole reason that there are a Lot of names of people and places to remember. While that isnt normally a problem for me, in this case they are of course all French names of people and places. My unfamiliarity of the language makes it difficult for me to retain these.
 
I just finished " Civilizations" by Laurent Binet. Brilliant, thoughtful, surreal and funny fake history novel.

After capturing Columbus Inca emperor Atahualpa conquers 16th-Century Spain.
Binet writing is academic and playful. He writes fake letters between Thomas More and Erasmus, fake excerpts from Columbus's diary, and a supremely funny set of 95 Theses that merge Christian reformism with Inca belief.
I loved it
 
I love books; I am a voracious reader of history -- military, World War II, the space race, American history -- but also work in some fiction when I need a break. I can spend hours in a nice quiet place reading a good book -- I'll even read some of the non-fiction out loud, as if I were the narrator of a documentary. While I prefer physical books -- my family had a book binding business which I worked at for ten years -- I do enjoy audiobooks when I go for a walk. I try not to damage the books as I read them, to the point that some books on my shelf look unread after having been read. When I was in high school I borrowed books from my older brother and he had one rule, "Don't bend the cover."

Oh, and I ran out of book shelf space years ago, I've got stacks of books everywhere.
 
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