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Whatcha reading?

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Mmmm books!
Whatcha reading? Whats your Goodreads lists look like? Are you a physical book person, e-reader person, maybe an audiobook person? Paperback or hardcover? Post about it!


Been reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, nice interesting read about a guy in the early 1990s who donated his savings after college and suddenly left his family to venture out alone around the country, eventually being found dead in Alaska. It covers the many diary entries he wrote over the years and the accounts of the many people he befriended and worked for, including his family members and the possible reasoning surrounding why he dropped everything and disappeared.
It's been a nice way of keeping hubris in check: watching a lot of camping/bushcraft survival Youtubers has me thinking of how cool it is to do those things, but reading this book at the same time helps remind me that I'm not invulnerable, I'm not as capable as those guys. So I leave it up to them while looking for less dangerous ways of spending time outside this winter.

As for reading "method", I'm 50/50 on e-reader and a physical copy of a book (specifically paperback). I've been reading Into the Wild on my Kobo Glo e-reader but I am looking to buy a physical copy of it since Thriftbooks has it for like $5 :smile:

I did also pick up Leviathan by Scott Westerfield at an old book store downtown couple weeks ago. I read that in middle school, and it's actually the second time I've bought it used within the last 6 years oddly enough. I had another copy of it at my old place but forgot about it when I moved, so now I have replacement copy of it. I haven't read it since middle school, but I've been looking to get back into it sometime hopefully soon. (Apparently it has a Netflix anime adaptation being made, and it looks passable but nothing too amazing imo)

I haven't updated my Goodreads in a while, but here's my "Want to Read" list I put together last year:
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I've been trying to read more slowly but surely to break away from the doomscrolling and constant internet use, it's been pretty nice to just lay back on the bed with my cats next to me as I read a couple chapters before bed.


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i just started reading house of leaves. not gotten very far, just the intro really, but ill get through it in time.

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I read an actual metric ton of stuff but mainly webnovels. Usually, online novels made by an Asian person because a lot of the good ones gets an adaption, usually anime. I don't mind sharing these, However for this post I will recommended books that you could find in a book store.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Adventure, Comedy
My favorite book and one I would recommend that you find an audiobook version of it. Very fun science-like adventure comedy. NOTE: the comedy is very British so it is very dry.

Angelarium
Spiritual, Religon
I know many of you probably dislike Christianity for obvious reasons, but I would still recommend this. Also its very much Jewish Mysticism of Kaballah or the Tree of Life and documenting angels and abstract beings while illustrating and writing about them. This is very much a acid trip while reading about angels and all the pictures are very pretty.

Caroline
horror, fantasy
I had never read Caroline as a child, despite it being a children's book; however it is really neat, also quite scary as an adult too.

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Psychological Horror, Post-Apocalyptic
A short story, where you watch the last humans in the world be tortured by a angry supercomputer. F̸̰͖̘̌̂̍͘ü̴̹̎̏̒n̵͕̫̣̑̂́̊͜͜ ̷̧̩̖̾f̶͖̣̅̊̔͗̆ȏ̴̳̔̅r̸̨̩̙͇͆̋͝ ̴̡̡͔͉̙̍t̵͖̖̄͝h̴͙̪̉̃͐̽ḛ̸̃̔ ̵̯̯͋ẁ̴̗̦̪̰̤̏ḩ̴͍͍̘̳̿̄̆̎̚ö̴̬̭̍̈́l̴͈̭̊̉̑ȅ̸̱̔͘ ̸̻̹͇̗͆f̴͚̱̖̗͓̋̎̎a̸̋̉͛̃̋͜m̷̡͔̤̺̈́̏̄͝i̴̫̝̮̔͋̽̈́̈͜l̶̝̱͝ẏ̴̠̋̌̎̒

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