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Hello everyone! The weekly threads are back after a small hiatus.

I was reading Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire (first book in her October Daye urban fantasy series), picked it up again but bookmark had dropped somewhere and I couldn't find where I was, so may start from some earlier place.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?


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[–] Zebrafive@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 2 days ago

It fear and feel that I've been 'with' Don Quixote for the better part of 5 years. Listening to audio books before sleeping and forgetting where I left off and re listening. And then starting over completely. Or just starting a chapter over.

That is leading me into a rabbit hole of romantic novels. Romantic as in Chivalry because I feel as I though, while I love the hunour and now feel a strange closeness to Sancho Panzo, his aquire, his Horse, and Don Quixote himself-I jave done Cervantez a disrepect bu not digesting it fully.

Which is also becoming true of Master and Margarita.

Like Im reading and choosing books based on my insatiable drive (sometimes there sometimes not) to fill these made up gaps of knowledge (Chivalry Romance novels, European Classics, Russian Classics, at one point biographies and memoirs of big events such as a Vietcong Memoir....)