I have slowly been reading this one for a few months now. My sister gave it to me but I feel bad because I can’t get into it and it makes me feel stupid.
Libby is pretty useful. I was mad when I found out my collection of Library cards was useless as the new thing is to have them expire after a few years unless you go in person. Sucks as I live in a poor neighborhood and the rich town next door charges $150 a year for non-resident to get a card.
I use a a Kindle paperwhite .Nice thing about it is can take it with me everywhere as small and slim, battery lasts for ages. Have tons of ebooks on it to read whatever dark romantic ebook takes my fancy.And if I dont have my Paperwhite, can just use my phone instead.
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The folly of governments. That’s about it.
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Finished The Dark Forest, not as well-written as the first book but the final third took an unexpected turn that I enjoyed.
Currently working through Spinoza’a Ethics while I wait for the next shipment of books to arrive.
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What was those both books like @Salartarium ? Is the SW as good as the visual franchise?
Also,
I just can’t break the 1000 words per minute reading speed barrier no matter how hard I try. That’s why I stopped reading frequently. I don’t know what is the issue. I’m training via RSVP. I’m chunking and adjusting speed as well to no avail. 
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My mom could read a book in an afternoon. We asked her how she did it. She said that a lot of sentences and paragraphs only repeat other sentences and paragraphs and the trick was to recognize which ones to skip in the first place.
We found that very funny 
but didn’t make fun of her, she was very intelligent. She spoke 7 languages fluently.
Right now I’m trying to read these.
I don’t understand a word of it but it helps with my insomnia.
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You read the whole “Foundation” series by Asimov? Very nice! lots of interesting ideas.
1776 is a great book as well. All about George OG Washington and the fight against Britain in what will became the United States.
Another great book is Martin Eden by Jack London.
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Finally received my copy of Death’s End, looks like another departure from the structure of the two prior books, now there are several timelines overlapping and in tandem. We’ll see how it plays out.
Also got Declare by Tim Powers and the full Black Company series in a single trade volume. Inspiration for worldbuilding.
I’ll have to try that one.
I haven’t finished the series. I postponed it due to switching to other books first.
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Michael A. Stackpole is good at writing in an expanded universe and building a world with other writers. He’s not a great writer, but his take on Star Wars is refreshingly mature. Unfortunately, these novels require quite a bit of lore knowledge to appreciate, but it does feel like good old Star Wars when reading.
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I read Einstein when I can’t sleep but otherwise… I have started this one
I saw the movie based on the book back in the 90’s and want to see if they adapted it well.
So far it’s a good read. Lots of letters, like in the movie. It’s well written.
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Then I won’t be able to read them. I know nothing of Star Wars, except the 9 canon movies.
I searched for a reading order of Star Wars, trying to read from the beginning to make sense and search engines gave me this book as the first ever SW novel published:
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Well lets see, what does Zaera read?
On her Kindle Paperwhite , Reverse Harem Romantic Fantasy about struggles between good and evil, usually set in a high fantasy world with strong mythological elements.
But don’t tell anyone unless you want to be ganked.
I tried to read that book. It read like the ramblings of a drunk man on crack.
I think I got to page 35 and then used it to light my fireplace.