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    Books The Last Book I Read...

    Time for some book talk! This isn’t a “favorite book” list but you can certainly list favorite books if you want.


    The last book I read was Head On by John Scalzi. The previous book in the series is Lock In. Both really good, well paced crime/mysteries with a great near future scifi kind of cyberpunk twist.

    Scalzi admitted on Twitter that he doesn’t do ANY outlining or editing before he sends his books to his editors and that revisions after that are generally just a copy edit. I hate him a little. He’s really good. I also read The Collapsing Empire by him and it’s SO good (sci-fi space opera). Redshirts is good too, and a lot of fun.



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    Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez.

    Maddening but fascinating.

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    Currently reading the following:

    Insurgent (Divergent #2) by Veronica Roth - I devoured the first one, then was packing. I'm enjoying the series so far.

    Craftfulness: Mend Yourself by Making Things by Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin - It's an easy read. I'm not learning that much from it; but it's a good recap of how crafts are good for the soul.

    Witch: Unleashed, Untamed, Unapologetic by Lisa Lister - Her genital obsession is problematic as a reductionist view of women as well as being transphobic; but I still appreciate that she discussed the importance of both dark and light, instead of falling to the common pitfall of how anything that isn't sheer positivity is bad.

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    Can graphic novels count? <_<

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    Then it was The Legend of Korra: Ruins of the Empire Part 1. It is the second trilogy of graphic novels after the show ended that deals with the ramifications of what Kuvira did! There are political shenanigans abound!

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    Mine was honestly more of a re-read, since I went from the beginning of K6BD to the most current page. I love the art and story so much, and the character dev is amazing.

    The last book I read (from front to back) I think was Cleopatra's Daughter, by Michelle Moran.

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    I've just started The Lost Girls of Paris, a fictionalized account of actual WWII history, where women had been recruited to be spies and saboteurs in France to disrupt the Nazi efforts/network.

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    The last book I read was The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski. I need to read the other books in the series...

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    Today I went through The X-Files and Philosophy: The Truth is in Here, edited by Robert Arp.

    Besides a handful of compelling essays, most of it was frustrating and often sexist.

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    Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry by Suzanne Scott is one of the best books I have read about fan culture and creations, as well as issues of misogyny and harassment in popular culture and social media.

    It was released 2 months ago, and does a great job at addressing contemporary iterations of such issues.

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    I finished The Lost Girls of Paris - very intriguing story, based on actual events from WW2.

    Now, I'm back to a Kindle book called Human Errors, which is non-fiction and looks at all the ways the amazing human body is... weird. From needless bones in our ankles to how our retinas are basically wired backward! Nerdy stuff, haha.

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    I'm currently reading Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong. It is an interesting book so far; and I especially appreciate its interfaith aspect.

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    Reading Human Errors still, when I have my Kindle app open. Otherwise, reading The Radium Girls, non-fiction about young women who worked with radioactive material in the 1920s without any sort of protection... and the fight to find medical help for them when that ended badly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baska Tankreyd View Post
    I'm currently reading Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong. It is an interesting book so far; and I especially appreciate its interfaith aspect.
    I like Karen Armstrong.

    I'm reading Hiragana/Katagana for beginners.

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    I finally finished reading Insurgent by Veronica Roth (Divergent #2) and it really picked up in the end.

    Going to read Allegiant (#3) next.

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    I'm in the latter pages of Michael Crichton's Dragon Teeth.​ I wouldn't really recommend it.
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