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Audiobook version, of course. I expect to be behind the wheel for at least 20 hours over the next week. I'll probably knock this one off before tomorrow and then maybe start on one mentioned in it. I've never actually read any Jules Verne or H.G. Wells.🤔

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e33abce6-31db-4442-b040-dc279debf5e3

I've been on a spree of reading this series of murder-mysteries. They are easy to read, have a layer of humour, a cast of likable characters, and have just a bit of magic in the background.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/22e0aa0a-4207-4bf0-8d66-47a609f66e7c

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Got confused and picked up The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, instead of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. But, that's okay. I'll just read both. #Books #Bookstodon #IAmReading

#iamreading "in Ascension" Martin MacInnes.and basically hating it.

Just finished this. It did get better. After hearing from a fedifriend that her work improved with later books, I will try another.

My goal is to read 100 books this year. So far I've read eight so I'm doing pretty well. #IAmReading #reading

#Iamreading The Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960 - Christopher Simpson

I never realized how much of the academic research into influencing and measuring group opinions was basically funded by the US Govermment. I had always assumed that this was largely something corporations were doing which then fed back into government and military circles. In fact the opposite is true.

#iamreading Psychological Warfare - Paul A M Linebarger (also known as Cordwainer Smith)

Mit dem Zeppelin in die Arktis.

Barbara Schennerlein: Aeroarctic
Eine #rezension:
https://www.findosbuecher.com/?p=9174

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Barbara Schennerlein Buchcover Aeroarctic Winterwork Edition

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I save reading recommendations that I see on here all the time, but I need to start noting who made the rec so that I can thank them when it turns out to be golden.

So, to the person who spoke about "The Dog Stars", by Peter Heller, thank you so very much. I am only a short way in, and except to break away to write this post, I am entirely captured.

#TheDogStars

David Zinn - Vorsicht an der Bordsteinkante: Neue Streetart

Eine #rezension:
https://www.findosbuecher.com/?p=966

#lenosverlag #wirlesenunabhaengig #buchbubble #books #leseliebe #lesetipp #buchtipp #reading #iamreading #literatur

David Zinn Buchcover Vorsicht an der Bordsteinkante - Neue Streetart Mitteldeutscher Verlag

Ghassan Kanafani: Das Land der traurigen Orangen - Palästinensische Erzählungen

Eine #rezension:
https://www.findosbuecher.com/?p=9157

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Ghassan Kanafani Buchcover Das Land der traurigen Orangen Lenos Verlag

I read a lot of books in 2025! Thank you, authors, for your brilliance and perseverance. I look forward to reading (and writing) more in 2026!

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A graphic showing 80 book covers representing all the books the poster read last year. Text reads: Book recap 2025. Thanks for a great year of reading!

Ok, tipsy reading and posting here, so getting loquacious. But there is something weirdly refreshing about the early US 1700s as "a bunch of native nations attempt to use the English, Dutch, French, and Spanish" in their own nation building, with varying degrees of success. Everyone's trying to get new folk to go war for them. It's both refreshing and ALSO my eyes glaze as much as they do with other war histories.

#books #bookstodon #IAmReading "Native Nations"

Currently reading "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America", by Kathleen DuVal. This is a *fascinating* book! Highly recommended. It centers the first nations of the US in history, setting them against a sweeping history including the rest of the world. So we learn at one point that neither Natives nor Europeans understood germ theory in 1585 (and wouldn't really until 3 centuries later), but that China was already practicing inoculation.

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So the Oxford University Press Word of the year is "rage bait" which narrowly fought off aura farming and biohack. Last year it was brainrot. Humanity's relationship with social media clearly isn't healthy. We need to show more discernment in our reading procurement. I would rather ask a librarian rather than Musk's or Zuckerberg's algorithms what to read next. An hour in your local library beats an hour scrolling. Your brain will thank you. #wordoftheyear #iamreading #OUP #readbetter https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewjxqvqzgyo

@ratatosk A lovely review. I was a huge #ArthurRansome fan in my childhood and recently re-read the 12 S&A series 35 years later and ashamed to say I haven't read this. That review has convinced me to hunt it out! #iamreading #goodreads