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Readers thread: what or who are you reading right now?

One of the best books I've read in a long damn time...mainly because it touches on so many things that became relevant in my life after having emergent medical experiences create the need to discover and follow through with drastic changes in my consumption habits/lifestyle. "The burden of knowing", as she refers to it often, sums it up perfectly, in my opinion.

She hits so many nails on the head about the things I experienced and still deal with, both internally and externally, as there's truly no escaping. She's an Australian-based psychologist and psycho-therapist who is also a vegan and lived through many similar experiences. Grateful the book was brought to my attention and shared with me. It's called Vystopia: The Anguish of Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World.
 
I downloaded George Eliot's Daniel Deronda last night, which I read in college about 37 years ago. It's very long, so I am going into it with no pressure on myself to finish it. Reading the first chapter was fascinating, because I am a more aware reader now than when I was younger.
 
Still reading Odd Billy Todd. It's for a book club and hard to get through in a way. In post apocalyptic fiction, people with mental health issues are suddenly cured by the fact that they need to be homesteaders and it was society that caused the problems. I do believe all of us were not meant to be successful in our society, but instant cure? I'm homesteading and it has helped enormously, but I'm far from cured. I'll finish it though, It's a lot longer than I thought.

I was thinking I read a lot less nonfiction but I don't. I read it in articles and books. I don't list the garden, chicken, or homesteading books I read. I should.
 
Has anyone tried any of the ‘great lectures’ series on audible? I only just found them and am getting pretty excited.

I’m trying to choose books for the February requirements of the reading challenge and found the great courses talks on medieval life.

I haven’t read a history book for ages and I am overwhelmed. If all I did was read for the rest of my life I still would read everything wonderful and that’s both a relief and a sadness
 
I'm trying to lighten things up, so I thought I'd try some of vintage Scandi Noir, with Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers.

2 notes:
1) 'vintage' is a nice way of saying "we do a better job of these now"
2) I seriously think I've read this before - so, I probably have, and it probably wasn't worth remembering.

I have Natsuo Kirino's Out lined up next and am thinking of jumping ahead. It's not that Mankell is bad, it's just that having finished The Chestnut Man by "insert impossible to type Scandi names here", it takes a fair bit to raise an eyebrow these days.
 
Mee said:
Has anyone tried any of the ‘great lectures’ series on audible?
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No, but I'll check it out! I'm reading Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance, a nonfiction memoir of life as a hillbilly by an Ivy League attorney. He went through lots of trauma, however he is happy and successful and wrote the memoir to try to find out why he "got out" and others were victims of the trauma. I have a short answer - some got PTSD, some didn't but it is engrossing so I'll finish. I don't know if mine answer is correct either and he hasn't brought up PTSD so we'll see what he comes up with. A little triggering to read, but not much.
 

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