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I got introduced to Kindle daily deals recently and since then my backlog has been growing. At least they aren’t taking up physical space. I’m also a bed time reader, how long I stay awake varies but it’s a nice way to drift off. |
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Nazo 1,951 posts
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Daddy-Doom-Bar 3,013 posts
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Registered 11 years agoNazo wrote:
I'm the same, I read to sleep. The only problem is I can now only get through a few pages before I start drifting, meaning it's taking years to read a bloody book!
I got introduced to Kindle daily deals recently and since then my backlog has been growing. At least they aren’t taking up physical space.
I’m also a bed time reader, how long I stay awake varies but it’s a nice way to drift off.
I also cannot read during the day anymore - I start getting sleepy! -
JoelStinty 9,530 posts
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Registered 8 years agoWell managed 45 minutes this morning outside in the sunshine. It’s a start! Tiredness may also be down to the weather too. -
Not-a-reviewer 7,686 posts
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Registered 7 years agoI found a while ago that making an hour a day to read something, and that could be split into several small chunks, is both easy and an easy way to get through loads of books (+some as audiobooks).
I’m averaging about 80 books a year over the last 3 years from that, and there’s free short books in there.
It’s a lot harder at the moment with lockdown and a child always home. -
Daddy-Doom-Bar 3,013 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI spent 8 years driving all day every day for a living, so I used to get through loads of audiobooks and podcasts. Now I'm a pre school teacher I get less time to read. -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI'm a slow reader, always have been, due to very slight dyslexia. If I manage 12 books a year I'm proud of myself. It annoys me because I really enjoy reading books, and I've recently (last few years) started reading non-fiction as well.
I read before I go to sleep, but also increasingly, during lull times after dinner. I try not to waste time away on my phone, and that's going better. I still find myself doomscrolling with a book open on my lap though, and I hate that I'm so weak.
My slow pace and the fact that I'm a non-native english speaker has put me off some books, mostly non-fiction, because they become such a chore. E.g., I'm quite keen on The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind but I fear I wouldn't be able to get through it.
Anyway, reading is a skill, and it's one I like to invest time in, but those damn phones and their easily accessible garbage are tough to beat. -
Drakesmoke 896 posts
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Registered 7 years ago@Tonka 'Doomscrolling', I like that.
'His tsundoku had reached emergency intervention level due to his pathological doomscrolling.' -
Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agoOn number 7 for the year now. Looking to get through 25 in 2021. Just finished Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky; I'd preordered this then cancelled it at the last minute due to the number of ebooks unread on my a kindle... Two weeks later and it's available for 99p. Glad I waited!
Anyone here on Good Reads? -
TechnoHippy 19,245 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYep - I'm on Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/11650-2021-reading-challenge -
Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years ago@TechnoHippy how odd. That link takes me to *my* reading challenge! -
TechnoHippy 19,245 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAH - try this one - https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/25123166 -
Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years ago@TechnoHippy that works. Connecting the dots now; I follow you on Twitter and noticed you’d read close to a hundred books last year! -
TechnoHippy 19,245 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI did just manage the 100 in the end .gif)
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Globalmeltdown 1,061 posts
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Registered 12 years agoMr Happy, a good read but a bit too complicated for me to understand but I enjoyed the pictures 😊 -
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Registered 18 years agoI have signed up for Good Reads, mostly as a way to track my Kindle backlog, as the UI is arse achingly slow on my 1st gen paperwhite. -
Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAnyone who wants to add me: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/26178092
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Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI’ve had real issues with the good reads app. Keeping finding myself on -1 or 0 books reading which makes it difficult to update my progress!
Anyway, currently reading The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton. He’s the author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, my favourite read of last year. -
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TechnoHippy 19,245 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI had the urge to reread Hyperion, but despite loving it the last time I read it, I abandoned it last night. Back to some easy Gemmel reading. -
dominalien 10,703 posts
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Registered 15 years agoLife Expectancy by Dean Koontz
My first book by Mr Dean, possibly my last. It came recommended as ‘better than anything by King’ and it has a lot of merit. Unfortunately, it starts much better than it ends and by the halfway point where it’s all SO INTERCONNECTED and SO MUSHY I lost most interest.
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Mola_Ram 26,187 posts
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Registered 9 years agoMurbs wrote:
I'd be interested to know what you thought of it. I didn't think it was nearly as interesting as his first one.
Anyway, currently reading The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton. He’s the author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, my favourite read of last year. -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAssassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Classic fantasy with plenty of old familiars. The orphaned (well bastard) boy who is taught (two times no less) by strict and/or eccentric teachers.
Evil strangers encroaching on the medieval europe-ish setting. DArk magic, noble people in the mountains are noble.
And yet it felt very original and fresh. I hate myself for not buying all three books in the trilogy straight away.
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Bigfoot Crank Stomp - Erik Williams - 7/10
Having consumed most of Carlton Mellicks bibliography I decided to branch out to some of the other writers on the Eraserhead press imprint. Bigfoot was a book that I had heard was a Bizzaro genre classic so I decided to dig in.
All in all it was a sterling horror crime story with terrible people doing terrible things for poorly thought through reasons with a rampaging bigfoot. Would recommend.
Next on the kindle. Nick Antosca's THE OBESE. -
PazJohnMitch 17,276 posts
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Registered 14 years ago@Tonka
First trilogy is great. (And I have heard good things about the other 2 main sequel trilogies but not read them).
I have also read the first side trilogy (Liveship traders) and that was also good. (But heard criticism of the second side trilogy which is actually 4 books). -
theone1 150 posts
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Registered 7 years agoRobin Hobb is great.
Though she treats Fitz like crap right until the end, bloke just could not catch a break. -
RyanDS 14,073 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI used to love Hobbs books, but post liveship traders it all just became such misery porn it really put me off. I would stop at those. -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoGood to hear that the rest of the trilogy is good. Will definitely read. I'm on bok two of a modern cyber punk trilogy now though. Null States.
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@RyanDS That's a fair summary. I can't really think of anything good that happens to any characters in any series after Liveship Traders. Just an endless series of miserable events for all until some are rewarded with a slightly happier or at least less miserable ending.
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