LoganNineFingers

I think OP meant to say

"his ace in the hole" but either speech to text or fat thumbs got in the way

Sincerely,

A guy with fat thumbs who uses speech to text

I use this on my Chromecast. It's far prettier than the monstrosity that is that Google Chromecast home screen

Dresden!

Just finished the First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Great book with a great take on time travel - highly recommend if you haven't read it.

The Cytoverse books are great - I haven't read the last one yet (even though I preordered it haha)

Just finishing "The Churn" before I start Expanse #5

I just preordered Stormlight 5 so a Stormlight Archives reread might be happening soon.

Left for Dead 3

Harry Potter The Martian The Cosmere (all for Sanderson's cosmere I've done a few times) The First Law Trilogy

One I will reread but just haven't yet: Uprooted Codex Alera Legends and Lattes

4 years ago next week marks my mom's diagnosis and the 10 months that followed. Watching your loved ones go slowly insane and become unable to speak and move in such a short time (she was mid 50s) when they should be healthy changes you. Everything I look at, everything I think about is now looked at under a different lense. And given my age, there just aren't a lot of people around me who have any idea what it's like and assume it's just handling the pain.

Like... no. I'm different now.

Before the reddit api, I used to read around 24-28 books a year depending on length (Sanderson's tomes will always change that number because it's like reading 2 or 3 regular books)

Last year I hit 35. I didn't really read books over 1000 pages much last year but I definitely know I'm reaching for a book when I would normally doomscroll reddit.

I found the Bear and the Nightingale slow and probably needed to pay better attention to the characters as sometimes they would use nicknames that were close to names. I'm sure its some people's cup of tea but it wasn't for me. I found Uprooted to be everything I wanted it to be. Bear is based on Russian folklore and Uprooted on Polish. So there were some similarities in styles but I found it just moved quicker and I found myself liking the characters more.

Lattes was fun. Nothing over the top but since it's supposed to be a story that takes place AFTER the sword is hung up it makes sense. It was enjoyable and it helped me completely understand the "cozy fantasy" sub genre that spawned from it.

"Between the world and me" was one of my 3-6 non-fiction reads of the year. I try to grab some that push me outside my norm/comfort zone (Swords, wizards, space lasers, etc). As a white man, not from the USA, it was interesting to read his perspective. On the flip side, I'm not sure why a teacher was almost fired over it (or at least that's why it was in the news)

I'm a dad for 3 littles so I have lots of down time to knock off books. Before them I had way less time for reading because I wasn't home bound everyday by 7:30pm haha

Welcome back friend! I was actually thinking of you the other day - I haven't seen a books thread in awhile (it probably has more to do with my sporadic Lemmy attendance)

Since Jan, I read some more of the expanse (just started book 4) and its been good.

I read book 1 of "The Bear and the Nightingale" and likely won't read the rest. Immediately afterwards I read the book "Uprooted" and it was So good. It was everything I wanted the bear to be.

Finally got around to Legends and Lattes, and I listened to (and laughed my ass off) to Seth Rogan's book.

I also read "Between the World and Me". It took me awhile as I don't generally like. Non-fiction (especially reading vs listening) but I wanted to give it a crack as I saw it was on the news for some book ban thing in the USA.

All in all, if anyone cares, check out Uprooted by Naomi Novik. It's a standalone novel and only around 400 pages. Moves and progresses nicely and the characters are good.

Start sending links to his Twitter account 😂

Thank you. I am seriously considering this instead as I think I minimum spend around $40usd buying 4tb blocks on sale. If I forget to grab during a sale, that bumps to $45 per tb

Thank you taking the time to respond with such a detailed response. I wasn't too worried about it as I don't do my shady stuff on mobile but figured it was worth the ask.

Other than a couple of bad faith actors here and there, I've found this community to be super tolerant and helpful - thanks!