what are you reading? 📚

what it says on the tin! i won't set a threshold on what counts as "real" reading, so how you interpret the question is up to you.

in fiction, i'm reading william gass's /middle c/, which i got from My Local Library, and which i'm really enjoying so far! and in non-fiction i'm reading a beat-up old copy of paul tillich's /religionsphilosophie/ i found at a thrift store two years ago, so that my weak-ass grad student german doesn't fall into total disuse. :3

An audiobook of heart of darkness! Obv some issues but I love how classics talk about the ocean

oooh if you like heart of darkness you HAVE to read season of migration to the north by tayib salih next. it's a play on conrad's story within a story narrative structure and flips it on its head. its one of my favorite books ever.

dante's inferno, blind

I'm currently reading 'A Wizard of Earthsea' by Ursula Leg Guin and 'Welcome To Your World' by Sarah Williams Goldhagen. I have also been slowly making my way through the Wheel of Time series, and I'm on 'Lord of Chaos' now though I haven't actually started reading it yet ^-^

Cecilia and the Angel by Jostein Gaarder. My progress is slow...

Fear, by Michael Grant. I love that series, too bad the fandom died in 2014

i'm currently reading 1984 by george orwell... it's kinda of a scary book since much of what it tells isn't quite fiction anymore

On audiobook listening to Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Honestly not my thing so far, but it's a book club pick so oh well

Currently I read religious and spiritual self-help book. Al-Quran the meaning and the translation. We need to connect with Allah (God).

I caved and started reading the grandmaster of demonic cultivation. I watched the untamed a few years ago, but it's only now that i decided to read the novel.

right now im reading A Confederacy of Dunces

It's pretty funny

Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis.

Waiting For The Barbarians by Coetzee

The movie is excellent too.

I'm currently reading The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology and Intrusion by Digital Studies scholar Iván Chaar López.

It "shows how US borders are more than instruments of blockage like walls or fences; since the mid-twentieth century they are recursive regimes of datafication and racialization" (quoted from the back). Even as a non-USAmerican it is still a very interesting read as it's concepts of technological advancement in security, governing and policing is relevant worldwide and because American influences are everywhere. It's a bit of a tough read but that's just how I like it.

I got a bad grade on a Norwegian texts so for christmas id like to try to read some more in norwegian and broaden my vocab quite a bit.

Mainly realism like Bondestudentane and an famous author called Falkberget- i hope to find his passages depicting how life was working in the mines.

Although I honestly would like to try to find something to read that satisfies me intellectually as well. I have my eyes on Capitalist Realism by Mark fisher and psychology books, but I have to be realistic and keep to some books for the Christmas holidays.

Every time Brandon Sanderson drops another Stormlight Archives book (roughly every 3ish yrs) I binge all the previous books before reading the new one. The fifth one dropped early December, so I'm actually behind :P

I'm reading a few books but the main one is Dune!! I'm really loving it but I have a feeling I'm gonna be reading it for a while lol it's a lot and the chapters are not numbered

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taocp lol

A Closed and Common Orbit, by Becky Chambers. <3

extremely online by taylor lorenz.

really cool deep-dive into the anthropology of social media and how it's affected how we perceive ourselves and each other.

been reading "life in code" by ellen ullman: really crazy interesting if you're interested in the history of the internet.

I'm reading Dopeworld by Niko Vorobyov and The Man Who Sold The Moon by Robert A. Heinlein. The latter book is one I've had for a while but haven't really read until just now, and the other one is a library book. I don't even have a library card, so the only times I read it are when I'm at the library and have nothing else going on, lole.

i just finished "go down moses" by william faulkner. it's five interrelated short stories and i had read a couple already, but i just had the whole experience, and it blew the roof off my head. he's the best. it had me circling back to the beginning to try again

ive been reading salem's lot by stephen king :D

also the portrait of dorian gray. really good books mhmhm

Well, I don't know if this counts, but I've recently downloaded the Author Commentary mod for the Unofficial Homestuck Collection, which takes the author commentary from the published versions of Homestuck and Problem Sleuth and drops it under the comic proper. Homestuck's a comic, so I guess it's a bit easier to get through on its own, but I'm at the point where individual pages have multiple paragraphs of Hussie analyzing their own story. It's a lot.

In terms of "real" literature, I keep meaning to pick the Mahabharata back up. It's neat, honestly.

ooo thats really cool. i remember reading Homestuck when it was coming out