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7:35p, 1/27/20
I finished the last two of Red Rising series. Also read The Deserter by DeMille. Thought it was good, but as already stated, a little drawn out.
Listening to A Jezebel Remedy by Martin Clark now.
And just started the 1632 The Ring of Fire Series.
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Wheel of Time #1 (The Eye of the World)
Wheel of Time #2 (The Great Hunt)
Wheel of Time #3 (The Dragon Reborn) in-progress
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12:37p, 1/30/20
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I have been distracted by podcasts so it has been a slow start.

1. The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
2. The Burning White. Lightbringer Book 5 by Brent Weeks

In Progress:
WoT Book 1 (still intimidated - mostly by everybody saying how about 5-10 are hard to get through)
Hatcher - reading to my boys

About to start:
Starsight by Brandon Sanderson (to read to daughter)
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In reply to YouBet • 7:58a, 2/1/20
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Completed
Black Cross - Greg Iles
Sharp Ends (First Law World Book 7) - Joe Abercrombie

In Process
Revenger - Alastair Reynolds
Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer - May abandon this one. It's a slog of a read and I've been reading it off and on for two years now.
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12:35p, 2/1/20
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Just finished My Years with Townes Van Zandt, Music, Genius, & Rage.

Getting started on The Nickel Boys
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1:19p, 2/1/20
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Witcher: Tower of the Swallow

One more to go!
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10:30p, 2/1/20
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Six Easy Pieces : Richard Feynman (some of the Tyson-Degrasse stuff made me wish my grasp of physics was better. My engineering buddy recommended it. I actually have a better understanding of wave-particle and uncertainty principles after reading.)

Thrawn: Timothy Zahn (Loved his Thrawn stuff in the 90's, this was good enough I already ordered the next book.)
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11:34p, 2/1/20
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FINALLY finished "It".
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2:41p, 2/7/20
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Witcher: Lady of the Lake


Damn good series, once you get rolling. There's an 8th and final book that came many years later - I think just a random collection of adventures. I'll get to that one soon. But now I have to play Witcher 1 for the first time, then 2 and 3 again.
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In reply to maverick2076 • 1:12p, 2/12/20
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maverick2076 said:
Add the Licanius Trilogy by James Islington to your list.
Just finished this. Very entertaining.
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1:13p, 2/12/20
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The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
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1:37p, 2/12/20
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Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate 9/10

Multigenerational fictionalized story about the real life kidnapping of poor children and adopting (really selling) them to rich families
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12:37p, 2/13/20
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Thrawn: Alliances
Thrawn : Treason

The second book (Alliances) was my favorite, but they were all good.
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Finished "Rogue Protocol", the third novella in the Murderbot Diaries series by Aggie Martha Wells. So much fun. Murderbot needs to be a Netflix or HBO series.
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11:37p, 2/14/20
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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
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8:30a, 2/15/20
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Finished "City of Miracles" by Robert Jackson Bennett. This was a good series.
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Completed
Black Cross - Greg Iles
Sharp Ends (First Law World Book 7) - Joe Abercrombie
Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
  • Meh. If you are into mythology you would probably like this otherwise it's just ok. Collection of short stories that Gaiman has put together from multiple sources and then taken some leeway with them to flesh out a bit.


    • In Process
    Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse #6) - James S.A. Story
    Revenger - Alastair Reynolds
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    9:14a, 2/15/20
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    Finished:
    Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson
    First 2 books of the Mistborn: wax and Wayne series
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    In reply to bushytailed • 11:19p, 2/17/20
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    bushytailed said:
    FINALLY finished "It".

    Finished Khaled Housseini's "And the Mountains Echoed". A
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    1:07a, 2/18/20
    I read the Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami. I am a big fan of light novels and japanese ones. But sometimes I do not have much time for reading. For example, now I write assignment and use help from https://assignmentshark.com/corporate-finance-help.html
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    6:01a, 2/18/20
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    Blood, Sweat and Pixels
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    In reply to bushytailed • 6:37a, 2/18/20
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    bushytailed said:
    bushytailed said:
    FINALLY finished "It".

    Finished Khaled Housseini's "And the Mountains Echoed". A
    Yay or Nay? I read his first two books, but had sort of forgotten about him.
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    7:19a, 2/18/20
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    Read all of Pierce Brown's books and waiting for book #6:
    - Red Rising
    - Golden Son
    - Morning Star
    - Iron Gold
    - Dark Age
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    In reply to dc509 • 11:50a, 2/18/20
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    dc509 said:
    bushytailed said:
    bushytailed said:
    FINALLY finished "It".

    Finished Khaled Housseini's "And the Mountains Echoed". A
    Yay or Nay? I read his first two books, but had sort of forgotten about him.
    Sorry, I should have made it more clear that the "A" was the grade I gave the book. I loved it. As with his other books, prepare to have your heart stings pulled. Things got dusty for me several times.
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    Heir to the Jedi by Kevin Hearne. This was meh, which disappointed me since I enjoyed Hearne's Iron Druid series.
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    In reply to bushytailed • 7:34p, 2/18/20
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    Gracias. His books are tough.
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    In reply to Chipotlemonger • 11:45p, 2/18/20
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    - Where the Crawdads Sing
    - Franklin Steak

    Reading a couple of other learning, non-fiction books right now, but will start another fiction soon.
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    In reply to Chipotlemonger • 2:49p, 2/19/20
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    Chipotlemonger said:
    - Where the Crawdads Sing


    I felt like the ending didn't fit the rest of the book
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    In reply to The Dog Lord • 11:19p, 2/19/20
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    Wheel of Time #1 (The Eye of the World)
    Wheel of Time #2 (The Great Hunt)
    Wheel of Time #3 (The Dragon Reborn)
    Wheel of Time #4 (The Shadow Rising) in-progress
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    Witcher: Season of Storms

    Now I am sad
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    7:28p, 2/26/20
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    Completed
    • Black Cross - Greg Iles
    • Sharp Ends (First Law World Book 7) - Joe Abercrombie
    • Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
    • Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse #6) - James S.A. Story (Audible)
    • Stormchild - Bernard Cornwell


    In Process
    • The Hero of Ages (Mistborn #3) - going to finally finish this on Audible. I do continue to be amazed at how amateur Sanderson's prose is in this trilogy but the ideas are good.
    • Revenger - Alastair Reynolds. Abandoned this. I really didn't like the first several chapters. Seemed amateurish and then I went online and discovered it was YA. That explained that.
    • The Martian - Andy Weir


    I'm trying to have one Audible book that I listen to on commute and then one other non-Audible. One really annoying thing about Audible though is that it doesn't sync well back to Kindle. Both owned by Amazon so that not working well baffles me, but whatever.
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    7:37p, 2/26/20
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    Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

    Highly recommend
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    8:12p, 2/28/20
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    Complete!
    The Way of Kings
    Expeditionary Force: Valkyrie
    Galaxys Edge: Part VI Takeover
    Words of Radiance (Holy **** that ending was wild!)

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    Oathbringer
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    8:21p, 2/28/20
    Completed:
    Flawed
    Perfect
    Thunderhead
    The Toll
    Talking to Strangers
    Outliers

    Currently
    Gulag
    Red Rising
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    9:23a, 2/29/20
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    Damsel by Elena K. Arnold
    10/10
    Amazing writing with a really cool take on the rescued damsel fairly tale
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