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

Kicking it with dragons, Anne McCaffery style 🌧 🐉
Still on an Anne McCaffrey binge…

Pern everything
Powers That Be trilogy
PTB Twins trilogy
Crystal Singer trilogy
Freedom’s trilogy
Brainship series

None of these are new, the infection I have is still affecting my ability to process/learn new info, but as I’ve read pretty much everything she’s ever written? It’s like curling up in a blanket with old friends.

specially as my reading speed is waaaaay reduced, even with things I’ve read, before…. It’s relaxing. And as my long term memory isn’t (knock wood) effected, just my short term memory? Even reading at half speed, is relaxing.
 
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How to make the Best Coffee At Home by James Hoffmann. Or how to properly use all those coffee making devices I have collected.......
 
Ooh what’s the challenge?
I really like this one because it challenges the reader a bit:

1. Set in a neighbouring country

2. Re-read a favourite

3. Set in space

4. A book that your favourite author would read

5. A cover you hate

6. An award winner

7. Published the decade you were born

8. Originally published in another language

9. Set in a city you've always wanted to visit

10. One word title

11. Poetry

12. Based on a true story

13. Listen to an audiobook

14. Has been on a banned book list

15. A debut

16. Nonfiction

17. Made into a movie

18. Has a food item in the title

19. Has a rural setting

20. A short story

21. Recommended by a friend

22. A nonhuman narrator

23. A genre you rarely read

24. A cover you love

24. A cover you love—Walking on the Wind, by Michael Garrett
 
I really like this one because it challenges the reader a bit:

1. Set in a neighbouring country

2. Re-read a favourite

3. Set in space

4. A book that your favourite author would read

5. A cover you hate

6. An award winner

7. Published the decade you were born

8. Originally published in another language

9. Set in a city you've always wanted to visit

10. One word title

11. Poetry

12. Based on a true story

13. Listen to an audiobook

14. Has been on a banned book list

15. A debut

16. Nonfiction

17. Made into a movie

18. Has a food item in the title

19. Has a rural setting

20. A short story

21. Recommended by a friend

22. A nonhuman narrator

23. A genre you rarely read

24. A cover you love

24. A cover you love—Walking on the Wind, by Michael Garrett
This looks awesome! I think I’m gonna do it too. We’ll see if I remember to post about it lol.
 
Some of my great grandfather’s old journals. They’re a riot.

He was wih the Big Red 1 in WWI, and island hopping with the SeaBees & ANZAC & Royal Engineers in WWII.

Whilst I know the reason we (5gen of my extended Northern Hemisphere family) always whistle/sing Christmas carols in the summertime is because of / in honor of his mates from those years? I’m particularly delighted to be reminded of :

Yankee Ingenuity
Brit Know How
Irish Improvisation
‘Strine Sense

Love. It.
🤩
 
Now I'm reading At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace, by Claude Anshin Thomas. I met and spend time with him before he wrote the book at a Buddhist retreat, and I really liked the book first time I read it. I'm re-reading for the challenge.
 
Working on the first part of that reading challenge: set in a neighboring country. I chose The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence and . . . that might have been a mistake lol. Might be giving up and choosing a different one. Or not. I’ve gotten so used to reading very fast paced non stop action romance that this is as opposite as I can go which is what I wanted. I want to expand my palette but holy hell it’s a bit painful.
 
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