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After reading a non-fiction book, do you beat yourself up over not remembering all that much? This is especially painful if the book took years to complete (e.g. Anne Applebaum’s “Gulag”)....

A very busy week, didn’t get to do any reading at all....

Any recommendations for something like “Amusing Ourselves to Death” but written after the internet became mainstream?...

Let’s say that I may only read one or two, as I’m not a prolific reader. What do you think I should get?

My first experience was the Ready Player duology by Ernest Cline and the This Trilogy is Broken 4 book series by JP Valentine. I’ve also had many recommendations for Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman....

Bought couple of books for my young one, and just read through them....

I think it’s a tobacco trial. The main character is the wife of one of the jurors? I think the bad guy / big company is trying to buy the jurors out by using the services of the wife

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Want to read more, but need motivation or direction? Want to gamify or expand your reading? Try book bingo! Our hope with this challenge is to provide a fun way for you to keep up with your reading goals throughout the next 12 months....

His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.

Hi all, I’m taking over the weekly c/Books post this week to talk about what’s happening on the First of May....

A fix-up (or fixup) is a novel created from several short fiction stories that may or may not have been initially related or previously published. The stories may be edited for consistency, and sometimes new connecting material, such as a frame story or other interstitial narration, is written for the new work....

Whole series is fully translated to German.

Back in the mid 90’s Steve Perry wrote Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire and an orchestral soundtrack was published to go with it....

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Reading Three Days to Never by Tim Powers. The premise is pretty interesting, can’t wait to see where he takes it....

Didn’t get time to read at all this week, so still at the same place as last week....