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Sonic Temple

Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
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Just curious what everyone is reading these days - I usually read a book a month so I thought I start this thread - unless one exists already - which I didn't find.

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Migration is book two of the Selection series.

This story delves into migrations from difficult and deadly circumstances to a dim hope for a future. Due to an increased world wide population coupled with an increasingly unforgiving climate, governments, cities, and civilizations have collapsed and people still surviving are forced to consider how they can continue on.
Several disparate groups embark on a trek westward to a rumored place of refuge where a future might be possible. Along the way they are met with deadly challenges and they hold to the idea that the mountains and the north may provide them with a life.
The influx of new comers that trickle into their world forces the mountain tribe and the people of Genomix West to reassess how they can continue on as well.
 

WandererRod

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Great initiative! I started I am a strange loop by Douglas Hofstadter last night. Gödel, Escher, Bach (GEB) has been intimidating me from my TBR list for over a decade. Want to strike it off this year. Doing the easier circuit with I am a strange loop before exploring the difficult one. Would definitely be doing GEB with the MIT course. The topic is consciousness. Will post a more detailed review once I'm done.
 

Radar1956

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Currently reading The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman, the fifth book in the Thursday Murder Club Mystery series. I have really enjoyed all the previous books and this one is off to a good start. I guess I can relate because the main characters are all seniors. He’s British and I always say the Brits write the best mysteries.
 

tvi

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I've recently read Parable of the Sower and the sequel Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler. Both incredible books written in the early 90's about a near future dystopian USA. Interestingly they seem to foresee what is happening currently in the States. There's even a presidential nominee whose motto is "Make America Great Again". All definitely worth reading.

 

ogibowt

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im mostly into bios
the last one i read was Be My Baby ..an autobiography of Ronnie Spector..lead singer of the 60,s group The Ronettes...Phil Spector was a horrible human being
earlier i read Shout Sister Shout...a biography abut Sister Rosetta Tharp,, a Blues shouter and gifted guitarist from the 40,s and 50,s

Im an unabashed and unapologetic Leftie..so i read books written by Naomi Klein and Linda Mc Quaig
 

BiggerTitsTheBetter

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Just curious what everyone is reading these days - I usually read a book a month so I thought I start this thread - unless one exists already - which I didn't find.

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Migration is book two of the Selection series.

This story delves into migrations from difficult and deadly circumstances to a dim hope for a future. Due to an increased world wide population coupled with an increasingly unforgiving climate, governments, cities, and civilizations have collapsed and people still surviving are forced to consider how they can continue on.
If you like ecological/sociological fiction, and haven't read them already, the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson is amazing. Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars. The quality is not consistent between them but still.
 
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Ponderling

Lotsa things to think about
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Flashes of Brilliance - Anika Burgess. The Genius of Early Photography.

And in a shorter format- The Economist magazine.

My wife is somehow on a side gig monitoring and reporting on targeted postal mail.
And for the past 2 months The Economist has landed every week.

About 80 pages a week, and I read about half the articles in detail.
They show what the intellegence and analysis published in most newspapers today has shrunk to a shame.

A big contrast from me in my youth, when I purported to read some 'magazines' for their 'articles'.
 
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