▲ 56 ▼ What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? October 06 (discuss.online) submitted 5 days ago* by dresden@discuss.online [M] to c/books@lemmy.world 54 comments fedilink hide all child comments Had a pretty busy week and didn't get to read anything. What about all of you? What have you all been reading or listening to lately? Check Official Bingo Challenge Post and the accompanying Recommendations Post for our Bingo for 2026!
[–] misericordiae@literature.cafe 3 points 5 days ago (3 children) That's awesome, grats on the goal! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children) Thanks! It wasn’t a goal I was gonna stress myself with if I wasn’t going to make it, but it does feel good to read “a book a week”. More than a handful of them were around 800 pages, those feel like they should be multiple books. But same time I also read a lot of anthologies, those are “one book” and not multiple stories or even novellas depending on their size. I’m gonna read Murderbot next, and I got paired volumes for the novellas, so I’m debating if I treat those as one themselves or track the individual original novellas. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] misericordiae@literature.cafe 3 points 5 days ago (1 child) Oh wow, you went hard. I got through around 50 last year (which was way more than I'd planned, and not something I intend to try again), but only a few were over 400 pages, with maybe a dozen novellas. Anything in the super-long range you read that you'd recommend? I'm always hesitant to pick up anything with a high page count b/c they often seem like they're long just to be long, and slow pacing and me don't mix. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* DCC I just finished, earlier this year I read Ken lius translation of Cixin Lius Three Body problem, one of the books was up there. Silo was also good, the first book is a collection of short stories, and the other 2 books are decently long. The Captive War series book 2 by James S.A Corey came out, it’s gonna be trilogy, so may want to wait if you like only going into done series. Other than that, it’s just random Star Wars books that crest just over 5-600. And previously read the last couple years would be Dune, and some anthologies. I’m not a fan of the super long book myself. All these books are ones I alternate between reading all of Star Wars Legends chronologically. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children) Thanks! It wasn’t a goal I was gonna stress myself with if I wasn’t going to make it, but it does feel good to read “a book a week”. More than a handful of them were around 800 pages, those feel like they should be multiple books. But same time I also read a lot of anthologies, those are “one book” and not multiple stories or even novellas depending on their size. I’m gonna read Murderbot next, and I got paired volumes for the novellas, so I’m debating if I treat those as one themselves or track the individual original novellas. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] misericordiae@literature.cafe 3 points 5 days ago (1 child) Oh wow, you went hard. I got through around 50 last year (which was way more than I'd planned, and not something I intend to try again), but only a few were over 400 pages, with maybe a dozen novellas. Anything in the super-long range you read that you'd recommend? I'm always hesitant to pick up anything with a high page count b/c they often seem like they're long just to be long, and slow pacing and me don't mix. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* DCC I just finished, earlier this year I read Ken lius translation of Cixin Lius Three Body problem, one of the books was up there. Silo was also good, the first book is a collection of short stories, and the other 2 books are decently long. The Captive War series book 2 by James S.A Corey came out, it’s gonna be trilogy, so may want to wait if you like only going into done series. Other than that, it’s just random Star Wars books that crest just over 5-600. And previously read the last couple years would be Dune, and some anthologies. I’m not a fan of the super long book myself. All these books are ones I alternate between reading all of Star Wars Legends chronologically. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] misericordiae@literature.cafe 3 points 5 days ago (1 child) Oh wow, you went hard. I got through around 50 last year (which was way more than I'd planned, and not something I intend to try again), but only a few were over 400 pages, with maybe a dozen novellas. Anything in the super-long range you read that you'd recommend? I'm always hesitant to pick up anything with a high page count b/c they often seem like they're long just to be long, and slow pacing and me don't mix. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* DCC I just finished, earlier this year I read Ken lius translation of Cixin Lius Three Body problem, one of the books was up there. Silo was also good, the first book is a collection of short stories, and the other 2 books are decently long. The Captive War series book 2 by James S.A Corey came out, it’s gonna be trilogy, so may want to wait if you like only going into done series. Other than that, it’s just random Star Wars books that crest just over 5-600. And previously read the last couple years would be Dune, and some anthologies. I’m not a fan of the super long book myself. All these books are ones I alternate between reading all of Star Wars Legends chronologically. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* DCC I just finished, earlier this year I read Ken lius translation of Cixin Lius Three Body problem, one of the books was up there. Silo was also good, the first book is a collection of short stories, and the other 2 books are decently long. The Captive War series book 2 by James S.A Corey came out, it’s gonna be trilogy, so may want to wait if you like only going into done series. Other than that, it’s just random Star Wars books that crest just over 5-600. And previously read the last couple years would be Dune, and some anthologies. I’m not a fan of the super long book myself. All these books are ones I alternate between reading all of Star Wars Legends chronologically. permalink fedilink source parent