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Because what good is being out of a job if you can't make time for the book club book, after all.

Wait, I just realized. This is a book written in German. Why am I reading the english translation? 😭

Surely Mr. Darcy's disagreeing manner hides a heart of gold... I have played these games before

Finally continuing this behemoth, and way more hooked now than I was in the beginning.

Also, sidenote: Sanderson is going all-in on "pandering to the woke mob" for this one, and I love it. lots of queer representation, gender identity stuff, subversion of traditional protector/masculinity roles, questioning of monarchy as a power system... fantastic stuff

Pratchett just doesn't disappoint. Incredible that this is only the third discworld novel with how good it already is

This book is really good but it's also kinda fucking with my motivation to read at all. The tonal whiplash paired with the extremely dense content makes it kinda hard to be "excited" to read it - even though I like it very much...

"Lieutenant Scheisskopf smacked his hands over his eyes in exasperation. It was the despair of [his] life to be chained to a woman who was incapable of looking beyond her own dirty, sexual desires to the titanic struggles for the unattainable in which noble man could become heroically engaged.
'Why don't you ever whip me?' she pouted one night.
[...]'I haven't the time. Don't you know there's a parade going on?'"

Did I not pay enough attention or did this... twist come completely out of nowhere?
Not sure what to think of it.

Hit another reading slump right now, maybe in part due to how intimidating the size of this book is right now. Enjoying it so far, though!

Might shelve it for a little while to read some smaller books for book club etc.

Yesterday I spent about 5 hours cataloguing, counting and rearranging all physical books I own. The final count is 438, of which I haven't read 52, which comes out to about 12%.
So one of my goals for this year will definitely be to get keep the number under 10%.
The good news is, that some of those 52 are graphic novels, or otherwise pretty short. So I'll knock some of those off over the next ~two months

this might be one of my new discworld favorites if it stays this excellent

fuck it folks we go straight into book 3

Chapter 61

Chapter 201

it's all going to come down to new year's eve, I'm afraid...
about halfway through the other book I'm currently reading as well.

but what better way to bookend the year than reading?

two little things:
1) the setup of this really, really reminds me of the korean novel series "omniscient reader's viewpoint". might have to finish that at some point (hopefully there's an official english translation by now, the fan translation was pretty dire in places)
2) love how the author uses "cringe" and outdated jokes to reflect on how out of touch the megacorporation running the show is.

I'm in the biggest reading slump of all time aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

defeated by a 240 page novel with large print

I hope I'll be able to finish this until book club on friday. I'm really enjoying it so far, but I've been in an enormous reading slump these past few weeks :(

Finding it kinda hard to get into this as of right now. Hope I'll be able to get it done by Friday...

It's been about 8 years since I last read this, I think, and I've recently had the strongest urge to go back. Really hope I love it as much as I used to.

This is rough. I do essentially like the two main characters, but the vibe is all over the place, the writing is like dragging a fork across a plate at points and the tonal shifts are giving me whiplash. I don't think I can do this for... *checks GR page counts* another 30.000 pages? So will probably not continue reading the series after I'm done with this.

It's not going too hot rn gang... hope Sir Pratchett'll be able to provide some happiness and whimsy

I'm enjoying it, even though the writing is very rough in places and the LitRPG elements feel a little shoehorned in at times (though I'm sure it's all a big part of the greater world that will be adequately explained in about 4000 pages). Not sure if I will ever finish the whole thing (after all, the entire run is about 10 times as long as Malazan, and still ongoing) but I'll keep chugging along for now.

There is a book club coming, after all...

Reading this right before bed was NOT a good idea!

This was recommended to me by someone I really respect, which is why I am doing my best to engage with it on its own terms, even though I am pretty much constantly very angry while reading it. The author loves phrases like "it's a well-known fact" and absolutely hates citing any kind of source for his often wild claims. It's also deeply steeped in neoliberal narrative. There are some positives - will review when done

Shelving this for the weekend, since I'm going out of town and will use that opportunity to read some other things, so that I can come back fresh and finish this pronto next week!
It's really, really good though.

I'm really enjoying this book so far, but I'm still in a terrible reading slump right now. Contemplating picking up something quick in the interim just so I don't feel so shitty about not reading

Really loving this so far. The voice is enjoyable and I love basically every character that has appeared up until this point - the main character most of all (pleasant change from most other books I've read so far this year).

I'm extremely wary of how this book is going to proceed, especially in its second half. The reason for this is that, everyone I know who has read this tells me that they disliked it and the end was terrible. Which, currently, is completely at odds with my opinion up until page 172 - I think this book is absolutely fantastic.
Hence, the wariness. Oh well. Here's hoping everyone else is wrong.