Oh, this got delayed a bit.

I am still reading Valour’s Choice by Tanya Huff. Book 1 of Confederation series. Almost near the end though. Enjoying the book a lot.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening?

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Sultan by wasim akram. An autobiography. Quite readable, cowritten with the best cricket writer gideon hague. Finished 70% yesterday, should end it today

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Oooh, that seems interesting. Going to check it out.

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Always shocked to see a cricket fan on lemmy lol

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Uhhh… ahem I am actually not a cricket fan, just sometimes interested in sports books. Like last week someone mentioned (and recommended) Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano, and I added it to my wish list.

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Wheel of Time. On the fourth book now. Pacing is a little slow but it is interesting enough to keep me reading. Though I really have almost no clue how this story keeps going for several more books. Guess I’ll see :)

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Well, the pacing becomes even slower, and there are books where nothing happens. Still, it’s my favourite series. So, keep reading, and maybe pace yourself so you don’t get burned out.

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The pacing change from the first three books is noticeable but I felt it was welcome. The first three are almost contained quest novels, where they chase a goal and more or less complete it by books end, the scope changes a bit in book four onwards to a larger view of how you pull this disbanded world together to face the final fight. It really doesn’t return to the early books pacing, but once you adjust, I felt at least that the novels now intriguing for the change.

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Just started on a re-read (audiobook) of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams, also read by him. Oh I love him as a narrator! Also continuing with Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol.

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Ah, were these also on radio or just read as audio books?

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I think these were available on the radio. To be honest I got them over the high seas since I didn’t like the audible narrator (don’t remember his name).

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Ah, I’ll look up the details.

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How is he as a fiction writer? I have come across posts by Doctrow over the years, but have never read any of his fiction.

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Listening to Debt of Honour by Tom Clancy

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