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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #255 on: June 25, 2020, 10:35:55 am »
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Currently reading The Silver Chair (again), Brisingr (Inheritance Cycle) and A Dancer from the Abbey (E. J. Oxenham 'Abbey Girls' series)
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #256 on: July 02, 2020, 09:07:44 pm »
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Going to start reading Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman this weekend! Been meaning to read this one for agesssssss, and I finally got my mitts onto a copy the other day and squeeeed about it to one of my bookstagram friends haha!
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #257 on: July 03, 2020, 06:10:47 pm »
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It's been awhile since I've given any sort of update on what I'm reading but I have been investing in reading a lot these days. Over the past 2 weeks, I've read:

- Fire and Blood (GRR Martin)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- Half of The Witcher Novel series (Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, The Tower and The Swallow, The Lady of the Lake, Sword of Destiny, Season of Storms) - I read the first two last year

At the moment I've ran out of things to read but I'm currently scrolling through QBD to buy. Currently looking at the Assassin's Creed books (yes they have books, not just video games) just for lols.
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #258 on: July 03, 2020, 11:08:12 pm »
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Currently reading 'This is going to hurt' by Adam Kay! Highly recommend for any science/healthcare students especially, it's a great light read. Here's the blurb for anyone interested:

"Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and This Is Going to Hurt intersperses tales from the front line of the NHS with reflections on the current crisis. The result is a first-hand account of life as a junior doctor in all its joy, pain, sacrifice and maddening bureaucracy, and a love letter to those who might at any moment be holding our lives in their hands."

He has an incredibly funny yet touching way with storytelling :)

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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #259 on: October 23, 2020, 08:57:50 pm »
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Nearly finished with 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' by Mark Manson. It's really put into perspective a lot of things, definitely not overhyped! Would recommend

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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #260 on: October 23, 2020, 09:21:00 pm »
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Currently reading:
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis (the last of his space trilogy, preceded by Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra/Voyage to Venus; I highly recommend these books, especially the first. That Hideous Strength is proving curiously unlike the other two books; I have never read it and it is peculiarly opaque as a story; I don't know where it is going, although I can guess at some of it, though far less than many.)
2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke (also recommend this, part of a four-book series, preceded by 2001: A Space Odyssey; highly recommend to anyone faintly sci-fi-ish.)
Just finished Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (again... so good to be able to class it as 'study' since it's one of my English texts. :)))
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #261 on: October 23, 2020, 10:28:20 pm »
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Currently reading:
Highway Bodies by Alison Evans (Australian zombie apocalypse book, genderqueer author)

Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust (sapphic fantasy read, with BIPOC representation)

Defending the Galaxy by Maria V Snyder. (Scifi book, one of my most anticipated reads for the year. Advanced copy!)
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #262 on: November 02, 2020, 02:44:04 pm »
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Currently reading:

Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. Has started off all right. Recently read Norwegian Wood which was super weird but weirdly good.

Recently finished:

The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. I found the former a bit slow at times and anticlimactic and half-reluctantly bought the Testaments because I liked the world Atwood had constructed. Very glad I made that choice, The Testaments is brilliant
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #263 on: November 02, 2020, 02:52:28 pm »
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Currently reading:

Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. Has started off all right. Recently read Norwegian Wood which was super weird but weirdly good.

Recently finished:

The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. I found the former a bit slow at times and anticlimactic and half-reluctantly bought the Testaments because I liked the world Atwood had constructed. Very glad I made that choice, The Testaments is brilliant

I have The Testaments out on loan from my library. Glad it's worth the read!
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #264 on: February 18, 2021, 09:48:18 am »
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I just finished Riven by Jerry B. Jenkins - highly recommend. Same with St Tom and the Dragon by Ethel Turner. I'm now reading The Princess Spy (Melanie Dickerson) and South Riding (some old author, Winifred someone?).
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #265 on: March 27, 2021, 07:40:34 pm »
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At the moment I'm reading V.E Schwab's new realise, The Invisible Life of Addie Larue which was very difficult to get my hands on (both local libraries had it either checked out or on order) and to my surprise, it was sitting on the "Featured Reads" shelf in my school library. I'm only about 150 pages in but it already gives off such a lonely feeling and it makes it easy to feel the pain Addie experiences. I'm hoping to continue enjoying it as much as I am now till I finish it :)

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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #266 on: April 22, 2021, 04:44:22 pm »
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I just finished reading Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes last night, and it actually broke me. I will be thinking about it for a long time - I really recommend it. It's a potent commentary on the terrible way that we treat disabled people in society - and also how intelligence is not always a measurement of happiness.
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #267 on: April 22, 2021, 05:30:42 pm »
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Currently reading Being Black and Chicken and Chips by Matt Okine (the adapted teen version) and definitely can see this as a book a school could pick 😅
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #268 on: April 22, 2021, 07:18:48 pm »
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Currently reading... not much....
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (I do not apologise for rereading these books many times)
University textbooks
and that's pretty much it.
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #269 on: April 23, 2021, 09:06:10 am »
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As my mental health has taken a toll (yet again), I'm currently spending a majority of my time with my head in book and this week's contender is Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen! I'll update you guys as soon as I finish :)
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