I noticed there was no thread for books so here we are!
I’ve been into books for years, mostly mangas, but last year a good friend of mine made me discover the Cosmere! I believe the series has around 18~ books right now, really fascinating!
My favorite book from the series right now is “The Hero of Ages”!
Have you been reading something recently?
What’s y’all favorite books? 
“Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card is probably my all-time favorite. My first read through was with my dad’s old copy, which was really nice.
I love sci-fi, and the book’s perception of the future from 1985 is really interesting to see (especially the internet!)
My favorite book is probably A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. It’s not really like any other novel I’ve ever read - it takes place in a world where humanity has allowed half their planet to nature, and follows a nonbinary monk named Dex on a journey through those wilds. The antagonist is wanderlust, is being dissatisfied with one’s routine, is a lack of novelty. That really spoke to me as one of those rare novelty-loving autistics.
I also really love Ender’s Game and am very sad about how OSC’s work developed as he aged.
The Green Mile by Stephen King is my favorite book of all time, I don’t read enough books tbh I always have such a hard time concentrating on the words, they get jumbled a lot.
Although in terms of Manga Berserk is my fav, with JJK as a close second (I know im a normie)
I just read this one last week! It was really good.
I’m one of those Autistics with ADHD so half of me craves novelty and the other half craves routine. Sometimes I feel a bit like Scorpius from Farscape because of it.
I suppose I should talk about books.
I really enjoyed reading Discworld, one of my favorites was Hogfather. So much so that I now quietly observe Hogswatch at Christmas time, and contemplate on the necessity of fiction.
I also listened to the entire Book of the New Sun series on audiobook when I would drive out to visit my now spouse before we moved in together. Audiobooks are great for long road trips, would highly recommend. I got into the series when I had Numenera as an intense special interest (it’s listed as an inspiration). It’s a long wandering narrative with an unreliable narrator who is a torturer turned Messiah figure on a far future Earth where humanity has somewhat regressed to something more resembling a medieval civilization.
My favorite book is The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss. It follows a homeless, neurodiverse girl (Auri) who lives in the underground halls beneath a prestigious university, and portrays her as she tries to scrape together a gift for someone she cares about from her limited resources while fitting into the proper way of things. It really, really spoke to me as someone with similar neurodivergence to Auri’s.
That’s my favorite book too! I love robots and nature a lot, so Mosscap is obviously my favorite character. I won’t say any more to avoid spoilers for anyone that hasn’t read it yet, but without a doubt my favorite book of all time.
My favourite book is The Last Magician from Lisa Maxwell
It’s a low fantasy book, takes place in 1902/1904, in a world where magic is slowly dying out, where the future is basically the same as the modern world (where the introduction takes place)
What I really like about this book is the world and the characters, both are amazing. I also love that era so yeah
The whole story is somewhat heavy, but everything falls into place, it’s clear that everything was thought out beforehand, it’s really good
I have yet to read past the second book, I read the first two in french, but the third and onward are just not available in french? I got the third one in English, but I don’t have time to read it…
Hello! I am the resident mystery novel enjoyer. I love trying to solve mysteries as I dive into various worlds. It’s not my favourite book, but I’d really like to recommend “The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle”. It’s about a guy who has seven lives, seven different chances, to solve the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle. You’ll see what I mean if you read the book. The mystery is interesting, and the actual solution is pretty cool. Highly recommend.
A book I read recently that felt like had a unique feeling to it was Sourdough by Robin Sloan. It’s a science fiction book but somehow it feels like magical realism I think, though I haven’t really read much magical realism so maybe take my assessment with a grain of salt. Anyway, it’s worth checking out. I kind of feel like I might not be able to convince anyone to read it without spoiling it a bit, but just try to take my word for it that it’s good.
If you like trying new foods, baking bread, biology, and food science you’ll have fun I think. There’s some mystery here, too, and an appreciation for the simple things in life.
I’m also a really big fan of the book “why fish don’t exist” and have gotten a bunch of my friends to read it. It’s kind of about someone trying to find meaning having grown up with a scientific worldview, and some of their difficulties with that, I found it very relatable. Pretty heavy at times though.
im the sort of person who hardly reads fiction, so the books i do read tend to be excruciatingly boring. however, combine this with a slight chronic inability to get things done and i read books through only rarely. Im currently down a rabbithole of the history of the british Liberal party, so the book i am trying to read is a book called ‘nonconformity in modern british politics’ (Koss, circa 1970 i cant remember the date). [tw from this point on for discussion of the history of christianity] Dont be mistaken by the moniker ‘modern’ - this book only deals with things until WW2. What I have learned so far is that british christianity from the reformation till the WW2 can be roughly divided into 3 groups based on political affiliation - the Anglicans, who supported the Anglican church being the established church in the UK, the Nonconformists or Dissenters, protestants that rejected the authority of the Church of England (these being a variety of sects including the Unitarians, the Quakers, the Methodists, etc) and the catholics, who were looked down on by the 1st 2 groups. The Anglicans tended to support the Tories (the conservative party), and the Nonconformists were usually divided - at times, they supported the Liberal party, but when the Liberals tried to do Irish home rule, a policy that was seen as good as undoing the reformation, and when the Liberals failed to stop state money subsidising Anglican schools, Noncomformist support was much weaker. However, before the Liberal party, there were laws in place that subjected officers of the Crown to a need to take communion with the church of england, barring dissenters from public office and the oxbridge universities. another remarkable thing is that there were various noncomformist ecumenical groups, not for any theological aim, but explicitly made as political campaigns at the beginning, and only stopped doing politics
tl;dr: religion was a very great force in victorian UK politics, and im reading a book to find out just how.
Shoot, I should’ve checked the the threads before making the book club.
Do I try to merge things. I honestly don’t know. But it’s slowly clogging up.
My favorite book might be Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, it’s about jumping spiders becoming smart and learning how to go to space on a terraformed planet, and a lot more, but I don’t think I can explain it concisely. That part of the story isn’t really character-driven though, and to the extent that it is character-driven it’s somewhat disjointed because people are going in and out of suspended animation and such. I feel like I should read more character driven stories.
I don’t really have a favorite book at the moment but there’s a couple of books I’m currently reading.
Those are Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Sharpened fangs of Lupine spirit and The house of leaves.
just finished Devil House this morning.
the things i was going to say about the book have sort of evaporated hitting the final chapter, because it’s such a nicely done package.
from both this as john’s other book i’ve read — Wolf in White Van, also a book about a writer but in a markedly different genre yet the same one somehow — the prose hooks me, the pacing of the text, and even where it reaches ramble in conveying a casual conversation in the manner you wouldn’t normally expect in a novel of all things, it still maintains coherence by its own rules.
it also just… becomes medieval in a couple sections, which was such a surprise (and a welcome one, to be clear).
what else can i say, without talking about the very end.
Devil House is a story about a house, i guess. technically. but it’s also a very well-written reconstruction attempt on a fictional history of an old, small town, and i enjoy that process as it goes.
@Arkida , since you mentioned wanting to hear about this book
reading Moonbound by Robin Sloan now, the narrator is a sentient fungal symbiote that talks to a person through their nerves. It's a very weird but fun book so far. (also there is a similar character in the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky)
(also the title glows in the dark)
Here is a page of it, it's very fantasy inspired but still deeply science fiction. There's a reason for that.
i cant think of a better place to post this, if i remember ill update this when the sell is done.
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They are a number of books on leftism, and radicalization! definitely worth reading them!
And to add to the thread in general!
A book i read semi recently!
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Its about disability advocation, and justice. Talks about a movement that centers disability amongst minority groups. Including their own disability and their own experiences in disabled spaces!
Very good read with a lot of really great points.
Finished reading one of the best works of the best writer of Brazilian Literature (Machado De Assis)
Its a really good critique on Sanism and also of a lot of other topics, the finale is really good and the edition that i bought came with some drawings from Malfeitona (transliterated as Badmadedona), which i really liked!
Also theres tons of notes for words of the period or of specific locations, entities or events, which is awesome!
Also the Preface is from a writer and journalist that i appreciate a lot (Daniela Arbex)
Any book fans should check out the book club we have going on :3
