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    American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Building a non anxious life by Dr. John Delony. The former being fiction and the latter being non fiction. To nobody’s surprise, they do not play well together.

  • I can’t read unless it’s completely quiet so I seldom even attempt to read a book. Mostly, I’ll read RSS and other short articles.

    The last book was “Extreme Privacy: Mobile Devices” by Michael Bazzell which I read in 2024.

    Before that was “The Passive Solar Energy Book” by Edward Mazria. Maybe 20 years ago.

    Combined = a very private, off-grid, homestead.

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    A thicker book, I just read part one and two of one story (“Human Phoenix” and “Human Man”).

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    Everything All at Once by Bill Nye

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    The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

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    Bill Nye must solve a series of mysterious crimes including theft, witch hunts, and murder on a 17th century East Indiaman ship. I’d read the heck out of that.

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    Do textbooks count? Last two books I touched were Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design and the ASQ Lean 6 Sigma Yellow Belt Handbook. I guess I end up with another reference book about designing parts with process optimization in mind? Actually, now that I say that, that’s pretty much just a DFMA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly) book.

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    19 hours ago

    1940s lesbian mystic sells her soul for love and helps Arthur become king while searching for Merlin?

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    Well, if we’re allowing the textbook that I’m going through chapter by chapter weekly in college, Legoshi of Beastars fame would probably be learning HTML and CSS so he can properly design a website. Don’t know why, but that sounds kinda funny.

    Textbooks not included, it’d be a weird mix of Bakuman ( a story about a couple of kids ( starting off near the end of 8th grade ) who wanna become mangaka ) and the world of Beastars, where anthros roam the streets. I wanna say at some point it was confirmed that humans do exist in the Beastars universe but are basically super rare or something like that, so it’s not completely out of the question.

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    The map of your face?🤔

    Its been a few months since i read anything lmao but i read the map of salt and stars and the beauty of your face last, tried to read the other zeyn joukhadars book abt being arab and a queer but it was just too much for me😅 i am not smart enough to read that lol

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    22 hours ago

    Isles of the Emberdark by Brandon Sanderson and The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

    Actually… actually I don’t think you’d have too hard of a time combining those two. A wildman from ancient China discovers outer space and aliens?

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      23 hours ago

      Many Americans read so little that they probably don’t.

      To many it would probably be Curious George or the alphabet.

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        Well, that’s kinda sad. I read quite a bit though. some months I’ll read 5 books, other months only 1. I suppose that’s already quite a lot.

        I think the problem with not remembering might be something personal, my memory tends te be very selective.

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        For some reason I’m unable to do so, but I could have a look at what books I recently read and have a okish recollection of their contents. Maybe my memory is just bad.