What book are you reading?

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  • itchmyTwitch
    itchmyTwitch Posts: 4,019 Member
    AdahPotatah2024 wrote: »
    Immanuel Kant
    AN Answer to the Question: 'What Is Enlightenment?' (Penguin Great Ideas)

    Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large part of mankind gladly remain minors all their lives, long after nature has freed them from external guidance. They are the reasons why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor. If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on–then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me. Those guardians who have kindly taken supervision upon themselves see to it that the overwhelming majority of mankind–among them the entire fair sex–should consider the step to maturity, not only as hard, but as extremely dangerous. First, these guardians make their domestic cattle stupid and carefully prevent the docile creatures from taking a single step without the leading-strings to which they have fastened them. Then they show them the danger that would threaten them if they should try to walk by themselves. Now this danger is really not very great; after stumbling a few times they would, at last, learn to walk. However, examples of such failures intimidate and generally discourage all further attempts.
    I only read a little Kant once in school. His insistence that everyone has selfish motives for everything made me crazy 😂
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,261 Member
    @ itchmyTwitch I'm glad I never had to read it for school! This book is just a few of his essays and translated where I can understand it somewhat. It is a really short book! 114 pages 😅
    (I've really enjoyed all the Penguin Great Ideas books I've read. ****)
  • itchmyTwitch
    itchmyTwitch Posts: 4,019 Member
    AdahPotatah2024 wrote: »
    @ itchmyTwitch I'm glad I never had to read it for school! This book is just a few of his essays and translated where I can understand it somewhat. It is a really short book! 114 pages 😅
    (I've really enjoyed all the Penguin Great Ideas books I've read. ****)

    Yes! I always enjoy books more when they're not obligatory. You're inspiring me
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,991 Member
    On Audible I’m working through Wuthering Heights.

    On my Kindle I’m reading Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan

    Have just purchased a paperback copy of The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence and am going to read it soon
  • tuddy315
    tuddy315 Posts: 11,618 Member
    Michael Vey series #7 The Final Spark by Richard Paul Evans
  • artsrule
    artsrule Posts: 44 Member
    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,261 Member
    @itchmyTwitch Thanks!:D I'm all about these 100 page books since reading Grapes of Wrath, haha.There's a boxset on Amazon I'd like to buy someday with 6 of the Great Ideas series books.
  • melaniedscott
    melaniedscott Posts: 1,454 Member
    edited March 23
    I'm reading an anthology called Fantastic Hope edited by Laurel Hamilton and William McCaskey. Some of the stories are pretty good, some are meh. I was happy to see one (each) from Sharon Shinn, Patricia Briggs and L. E. Modesitt, Jr. I was surprised that I didn't hate the one by Larry Correia (I generally don't appreciate his stuff much).

    What I've recently (last two weeks) read: Laurel Hamilton's Smoulder (meh) and A Terrible Fall of Angels (interesting, promising, hoping she doesn't screw it up).
    Innate Magic by Shannon Fay, which was interesting.
    Inheritance by Nora Roberts; no satifactory closure, first in a trilogy. She usually does better than that. But...to be fair...It is a pretty good ghost story. If you like ghost stories (which I do).
    Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich; meh, more of the same but might (maybe) finish some long running threads. I hesitate to call them plot threads...
    The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella; good read (beach book?) and I think worth reading.

    I'm also halfway through Nora Robert's Weather the Storm, which is a reprint omnibus containing The Welcoming and Without a Trace...a couple of her old novels. Finished the first, a third of the way through the second. They're not bad but not great--this was a point in time between her bad, sappy romances and the beginning of her decent work where she thought she might want to be like early Tami Hoag (suspense-thriller-I hate you but must have you romances).
  • Hoax89
    Hoax89 Posts: 221 Member
    I am not a math person, but I love the Simpsons and I like to flex a different part of my brain, so I am reading this on someone's suggestion:

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    It's a bit complex in parts, but a lot of fun. Chapters are pretty short so it is manageable.

    I am also reading something lighter - not a complex book but a good semi-thriller that is entertaining:

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  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,261 Member
    edited March 28
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  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,261 Member
    edited March 30
    I'm going to try to find this at the library...
    Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease
    Herbert Fingarette

    I don't know why I want to prove Oprah wrong for some reason!😅
  • jcawelti
    jcawelti Posts: 16 Member
    Demon copperhead—- it’s quite good but I’m taking forever to get through it
  • tuddy315
    tuddy315 Posts: 11,618 Member
    The Amish Wife by Gregg Olsen
  • cowsfan12
    cowsfan12 Posts: 6,135 Member
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    Also listening to Rich Dad / Poor Dad audiobook on Spotify - that should be a mandatory read for high school students imo
  • GettingCut70
    GettingCut70 Posts: 35 Member
    Power & Thrones by Dan Jones.

    It is a new scholarly history of the Middle Ages.
  • itchmyTwitch
    itchmyTwitch Posts: 4,019 Member
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  • mmsl4jjs
    mmsl4jjs Posts: 2 Member
    I’m reading the name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss,so far I’m really enjoying
  • Hoax89
    Hoax89 Posts: 221 Member
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  • melaniedscott
    melaniedscott Posts: 1,454 Member
    mmsl4jjs wrote: »
    I’m reading the name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss,so far I’m really enjoying

    That's a good one. He is a pretty good writer.
  • KL1887
    KL1887 Posts: 117 Member
    Ultra Processed People by Chris Van Tulleken. Not a style of book I’d normally read, but so far it’s pretty interesting
  • Yourmomsproblem
    Yourmomsproblem Posts: 144 Member
    A court of wings and ruin. Book 3 in the acotar series.
  • rlpomeroy
    rlpomeroy Posts: 726 Member
    Dennis Lehane - Since we Fell
  • melaniedscott
    melaniedscott Posts: 1,454 Member
    edited April 21
    Just read LE Modesitt Jr's Quantum Shadows. I usually like his stuff. This one, less so. Better than his Spellsong Sorceress books but it is likely toward the bottom on my ratings list.

    Also read The Cold Eye by Laura Anne Gillman and Starter Villian by John Scalzi.

    The Scalzi is hilarious. He usually is. This one (and Kyjou Preservation Society [sp]) are really terrific. All of his stuff is (though, some people don't like profanity and his books may need some sort of warning).

    I think I'd read the Gillman before, it's worth reading, especially if you've read, and liked Silver On the Road. I was thinking this was the third book, which I haven't read but it's the second. Very Weird West (American Wild West + Magic + Monsters). This series reminds me a little (setting wise) of Territory by Emma Bull, which I liked a lot.
  • tuddy315
    tuddy315 Posts: 11,618 Member
    edited April 24
    And Then She Was Gone by Rosalind Noonan; also reading Lust Killer by Ann Rule
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,261 Member
    edited April 28
    The Great Depression: A Diary
    Benjamin Roth, James Ledbetter (Editor), Daniel B. Roth (Editor)
    ***
    In the early 1920s, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer fresh out of the army. He settled in Youngstown, Ohio, a booming Midwestern industrial town. Times were good - until the stock market crash of 1929. After nearly two years of economic crisis, it was clear that the heady prosperity of the Roaring Twenties would not return quickly.
    As Roth began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he set out to record his impressions in a diary - a document that would grow to span several volumes over more than a decade. Penning brief, clear-eyed notes on the crisis which unfolded around him, Roth struggled to understand the complex forces governing political and economic life. Yet he remained eager to learn from the crisis. As he wrote of what is now known as the Great Depression, "To the man past middle life it spells tragedy and disaster, but to those of us in the middle thirties it may be a great school of experience out of which some worth while lesson may be salvaged."
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6601224-the-great-depression
  • Yourmomsproblem
    Yourmomsproblem Posts: 144 Member
    A court of frost and starlight
  • Hoax89
    Hoax89 Posts: 221 Member
    edited April 28
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  • tuddy315
    tuddy315 Posts: 11,618 Member
    The Tattooist of Ausehwitz by Heather Morris
  • itchmyTwitch
    itchmyTwitch Posts: 4,019 Member
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    While I chaperone my youngest at his warhammer thingy
  • melaniedscott
    melaniedscott Posts: 1,454 Member
    The Lady in the Glass by Anne Bishop. I mostly like everything she's written, so this anthology is no different.

    Betrayals by Kelley Armstrong. I don't generally like her stuff, swore I was done reading her books and got sucked in. Still don't like her and am appalled by her basic lack of human anatomy function (severe concussion = severe pain, no sexy kissy cuddles when suffering from severe concussion, stab wound, recent (successful) CPR, and possibly hypothermia). And I'm not halfway through it.

    Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews--more a novella--which I liked a lot. They always make me laugh.

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