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I’m on the last book in the Spread series by English horror writer Ian Rob Wright. I can’t wait to see how it all ends.
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And all that there is, is the absolute ugliness of being human. And you’ve got to love it. Or else you’re f**ked.
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Books I'm currently reading (meaning, I've partially finished them and do truly intend to complete them someday):

This Town Sleeps by Dennis Staples a gay, modern day Native American mystery.

Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis - lesbians in Uruguay under the dictatorship in the late 70s/early 80s. I read this previously, and am re-reading it now for a book club (which actually already occurred - I didn't finish in time). It's a good book, and really interesting reading about a country I know basically nothing about. I think the re-read is just a little slow without the suspense of not knowing what happens.

The Soul Of A Woman by Isabel Allende - Continuing the South American theme. I started this a while ago, but didn't finish before it was due at the library. Now I have it again but am in the middle of the other stuff too. Hopefully I'll finish before it is due again.

Metro 2035 by Dmitry Glukhovsky - the third book in a very dark trilogy. Read the first book because someone compared it to Ender's Game. Read the second to see if the comparison became more clear from that. Reading the third because I may as well finish it at this point (and still waiting on that comparison to pay off). But most of the time I'm either in too good or too bad a mood for this level of nihilism, so it's slow going.

Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer - This was really not what I expected it to be. I thought it was a novel, but it is written in a very documentary style.

Code of Honor by Radclyffe - Lesbian romance/political thriller. This is something like book 8 in a series. I read this author, including the rest of this series plus a bunch of her other work, very obsessively for a while, and then abruptly lost interest 70% of the way through this book, probably because it spends most of the story focused on totally new characters from the previous books in the series. But I feel like I have too much invested, and have clearly enjoyed her books enough overall, to not finish it eventually.

Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. I've been reading this series basically on repeat since I first discovered it in my mid-20s. It is good middle of the night reading - interesting enough to be readable and distract myself from whatever is stressing me awake, while frequently going off on scientific tangents that help put me back to sleep.

Next on my list (as it's another library book, so I'm on a deadline to finish it) is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Or, more likely, some fluffy WLW romance that catches my attention and that I can finish in a few hours.
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@moonbynight you might like All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews. It’s about a queer immigrant woman and it’s set in Milwaukee about a decade ago. I read it recently and enjoyed it.
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I just finished Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by Clara Zetkin, and I'm almost finished with Rock Tao by David Meltzer, a fantastic poetic exploration of American pop music.
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I just finished Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex, a terrific anthology of true stories.

"Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It is an intimate portrait of the lives of sex workers. A polyphonic story of triumph, survival, and solidarity, this collection showcases the vastly different experiences and interests of those who have traded sex, among them a brothel worker in Australia, First Nation survivors of the Canadian child welfare system, and an Afro Latina single parent raising a radicalized child. Packed with first-person essays, interviews, poetry, drawings, mixed media collage, and photographs Working It honors the complexity of lived experience. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hardboiled, these dazzling pieces will go straight to the heart."
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Wow, all of these answers blow me away. With what little reading time i have i just read fanfic, forever chasing something excessively fluffy and sweet and romantic that acts as a balm to my psyche
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Lilianna wrote: Mon Apr 17, 2023 4:42 am Wow, all of these answers blow me away. With what little reading time i have i just read fanfic, forever chasing something excessively fluffy and sweet and romantic that acts as a balm to my psyche
I have time to read because I'm retired, but reading and listening to music are my favorite leisure activities.

Because my formal education was interrupted I became an autodidact (I eventually got a high school equivalency diploma and later a B.A. degree.)

These days, I read a book a week.
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moonbynight wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 4:19 am ...Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. I've been reading this series basically on repeat since I first discovered it in my mid-20s. It is good middle of the night reading - interesting enough to be readable and distract myself from whatever is stressing me awake, while frequently going off on scientific tangents that help put me back to sleep...
I read the trilogy one after the other during lockdown. Robinson is my favorite of the current crop of sci-fi writers. The last one I read by him was New York 2041, a climate change novel, really smart.
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Lilianna wrote: Mon Apr 17, 2023 4:42 am Wow, all of these answers blow me away. With what little reading time i have i just read fanfic, forever chasing something excessively fluffy and sweet and romantic that acts as a balm to my psyche
I just want to say that this is incredibly valid!
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Lilianna wrote: Mon Apr 17, 2023 4:42 am Wow, all of these answers blow me away. With what little reading time i have i just read fanfic, forever chasing something excessively fluffy and sweet and romantic that acts as a balm to my psyche
I've spent most of the past several years primarily reading self-published kindle escapist fluff lesbian romance. That stuff doesn't end up on the list because I breeze through it and finish it quickly.
So it's the more literary stuff that I get bogged down on that ends up on the list 😂.

It's also influenced by the fact that I'll see something that sounds interesting, put it on my library hold list, and then suddenly they all become available within a short time.
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