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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? 22 April (discuss.online)

submitted 6 months ago by dresden@discuss.online to c/books@lemmy.world

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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.

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Now to topic at hand, what have you been reading or listening lately?

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[–] blubton@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Reading "A tale of two cities" by Charles Dickens. I am not too far into it, but so far it's been really enjoyable! The English accents are really hard to follow for someone whose native language isn't English, but I'm getting used to it.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Listen to audiobook it's a interesting story. Does OP want a complete list? Because just finished my 69th book for the year so far and 12 audiobooks. Goal is over 100 stories read by end of year which probably accomplish before the end of June.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah, just replied to your other post.

The idea is generally to share what you are reading since the last time you posted in one of these thread (which are posted weekly), or just what you are reading lately.

Also, 69 books and it's just April, that's really cool. With this speed, you can have around 200 books by the year end. Would love to see how your journey progresses.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah decided to keep a detail list. I am reading between 150 to 250 pages a day. Keep in mind some on my list are short stories but my wife says they count. Having a library card and a Libby account been great for that.

And on what reading now hard to clarify. The last book on my list I started and finished yesterday and was 80 pages into Gerald's Game by Stephen King.

Probably finish it today our tomorrow depending on how busy we get a work.

That be neat to do 200 but for now just trying reach 100 mark. I keep three books on hand at a time so we will see. I post a big pic of all the physical books at the beginning of next year and screen shot of the ebook reading list.

[–] blubton@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I should really start listening to audiobooks more often. I just looked and the book is freely available on Librivox, so I may switch back and forth between reading and listening from now on. Thanks for the tip!

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

You're welcome. I use Libby sure beats having pay Audible every month.