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What are you all reading?

I am currently going through a re-read of Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Currently on 2nd book, Fool Moon.

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Just read an erotic romance, Heart of the Mountain by Snek Guy. It is about a mercenary going up a mountain to slay a dragon and take her hoard of gold. Things don’t go quite as he planned. It was well written, but a bit too much smut for my taste. I wrote a bit more here.

Just started the My Best Friend is an Eldritch Horror series.

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Is “My Best Friend is an Eldritch Horror” available as a web novel somewhere?

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It was originally published on Royal Road, but has since been moved to Amazon.

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Ah, okay. Thanks for the info!

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I just finished Project Hail Mary. A wonderful and fun read. Highly recommend if you like science fiction.

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I just started City of Refuge by Tom Piazza. It’s a fictional account of two families in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina. I’m only 12% in but so far I’m impressed by how real I feel like the pov characters are.

Also reading Lichtenbergianism by Dale Lyles. It’s about using procrastination as a creative strategy. 30% in, and juries out on whether I’ll find anything helpful in it.

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procrastination as a creative strategy

I want this. I like procrastinating! Share your opinions about finishing it.

City of Refuge looks like an interesting book. Going to check it out.

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I got more inspiration from the Lichtenbergian book than new information. Among other things, it made me start a kanban for my personal projects and now I have less anxiety over how much I need to do and in what order. If you’d like, I’m happy to mail you my copy, since I’m unlikely to read it again.

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I’ve read maybe 3 books all the way through in my entire life. My girlfriend has been trying to get me to read before bed and on the recommendation of some discord friends I purchased Infinite Jest and am a quarter of the way through it. It’s been a jarring book with the tonal shifts and the way it rapid fires between characters and settings, but I’ve absolutely loved some of the perspectives and dialog that DFW creates. If anyone else is a fan, I’d love more recommendations in the same vein, specifically the type of warped humor and how it stems from the human condition.

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I haven’t read Infinite Jest, so can’t recommend anything like that, but keep visiting these posts, I am sure you’ll be able to find something you like.

Or you can create a separate post, asking for recommendations, it should get you more visibility.

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House of Leaves. It’s sick. Anyone got other books that go off the rails like that?

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