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What is up

I’m listening to a couple of books.
i, Robot, because Susan Calvin might have something useful to say about AI today.
Midnight Rising, the story of John Brown. That’s for class.
I’ve got Dungeon Crawler Carl started, but so far I’m not impressed.

Reading Sophie's Choice by William Styron right now. A tough read for someone who just wants to relax, but beautifully written.

>1 redmushroorrm: So what are you reading?

Oh, what am I reading right now...

Physical book Frozen Heat by Richard Castle
Ebook A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Audio At All Costs By David Weber - Technically a reread, since I read the physical book a few years ago.

I'm taking a break from serious reading, and have picked up my copy of The Case of the Stepdaughter's Secret by Erle Stanley Gardner.

When not taking a break, I'm reading Woodpecker: A year in the life of North American Woodpeckers by Paul Bannick. Mr Bannick is a local author for me.

Are you reading anything?

The Doors of Eden and
Ask Me Again by Clare Sestanovich

I've found it really hard to find books that interest me in the library lately, but these two were pretty good.

So, does anyone have any proxy links for Manga sites?

>2 2wonderY: How is DungeonCrawler? I've seen a lot on fb around it, but very little actually about it.

>6 MrAndrew: People who love manga will not use pirated sites, because they want authors/artists to be paid for their work.

Also, it is not nice to encourage young people to do things that will get them flagged off the site.

>7 reading_fox: It’s being recommended as hilarious; but I find the opening scene just incredibly awkward and uncomfortable with a dash of nasty gore. The plot appears to be a gaming adventure through 18 levels of challenge. I doubt I will go much further.

I completed my 8th prompt of a short story challenge I created here, I think I'm kind of on track, there are 26 prompts plus 6 bonus prompts.

For the latest one I read 6 stories from Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, all locked room mysteries, the ones I read are listed here https://www.librarything.com/topic/376303#9045826 under 'detective' prompt.

I think a new fictional account of the life of Shakespeare was released recently. I would like to read it but I can't remember the name. Does anyone know? Thank you!

I went to a local bookstore on Sunday and they wouldn't sell me the book I wanted!

Legit, though, because the official release date in the U.S. for The News from Dublin by Colm Tóibín is today, so they held a copy for me and now I have it.

>12 lilithcat: I got my copy of (the heavily embargoed) Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day a day early (by dint of having ordered the US edition in the UK and the shop not realising it wasn't due out). I was subscribe to the Pynchon-l email list, at the time, which was a madhouse of anticipation. I have never had to bite my tongue so hard.

I inaugurated new tags "a three-hanky story" and "the treacherous sea" for my most recent read, which was rather exciting. I need to go scan my catalogue and see if other books should be tagged as such.

Not much. Just finished another diorama using old toy trains - one more to go and that will be all until fall. The setup is based on a picture in one of my books of railroad history.