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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? February 18 (discuss.online)

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Have been pretty busy last couple of weeks, so still reading Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson. Book 2 of second era of Mistborn.

Also started Wandering Inn, have read a few chapters, and while interesting, I am not a big fan of the main character. Maybe I have read too many (web) novels that I can't understand when people don't act like typical isekai protagonist, but still...

The world building is interesting, want to know more about what's happening. Will probably try to read at least the first volume and then decide whether I want to continue or not.

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Just finishing up Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long 2nd Century CE. It's taken me almost two weeks. Not because the material is poorly written, or not interesting; it's absolutely fascinating. But I converted it from a PDF to an EPUB, and the formatting is so utterly fucked that my reading speed is slowed to a crawl.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

If you enjoy fantasy Rome, have you checked out Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera yet? It started as a bet between two writers arguing whether good writing or novel concepts were more important. Jim Butcher came down on the good writing side and to prove it asked the other author to give him a tired writing trope and they chose the “lost Roman legion” trope. And then Pokémon got added in somehow to the challenge too.

It’s really good