books

I’ve recently started a job driving a shuttle van across the city for the general public. I’ve got a wide amount of leeway, but the audiobooks I’ve been listening to have been… not hitting right. I started with “The Name of the Wind” which was extremely well reviewed. I liked it a lot for the most part, and for the...

Hello, I’m trying to find a book that I read a long time ago about a man who turned invisible because cosmic radiation hit his electric blanket while he was asleep. I’ve tried googling and chat GPT and neither of them turned up any results. Does this book sound familiar to anyone?

Hello everyone!...

I’m not sure how useful this’ll be to people, but on the off-chance that like me, you like to track your pages read daily (into something like Storygraph or Goodreads) and you happen to have an ereader, I’ve created a spreadsheet that may be useful....

I heard a lot of praise for Bulgakov’s oeuvre in the past, so I decided to give it a go....

I’m trying to read some more books (canon) set in the Metro universe. The books don’t have to be written by Dmitry Glukhovsky, I’m just looking for some recommendations to expand my knowledge of the lore. Bonus points for chronological ordering! Ty

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17146897...

Hiya,...

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/34435904...

I do not read books as often as I watch movies, but I am willing to create a habit of reading by taking a suggestion for a book from this community, and I want to start from this genre....

I’ve been feeling really lonely lately so I’ve been trying to find any romance books to distract me....

For me, the first time this happened was with The Royal Assassin Saga from Robin Hobb, and then Metro 2033....

At the start of the book, there’s an acknowledgement by the author, that goes something like:...

Any recommendations for left wing reads. Preferably something not depressing. Thanks!

Hopefully I’m in the right place....

hi, i recently wanted to look for the best psychology books in [www.goodreads.com] and website doesn’t allow me to sort them by ratings. is there any way to do this? i don’t want to end up searching “best psychology books” on web and look for ai generated blogs. thanks.

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12924678...

Looking for recommendations for books about off grid living, and ideally, earthship biotecture.

The book starts out with a girl with magic eye on a flying ship to catch magic sand only she can see. She has no memory of how she grew up. At the start of the journey a man destroys the ship, but safes her. During the book(s) it is reveled that the man and she herself are basically here to destroy humanity because humanity...

Hi everyone, I’ve always had a special interest in linguistics and have informally studied a couple of different languages from all around the world. The different writing systems such as radicals in Chinese, Kurdish scripts and reading from right to left, to Inuit glyphs are all fascinating in themselves....

How is the plot ? I can’t stand plot holes . Also in what order should i read ? I have watched season 1 and 2 of the series and thought it was average and won’t be bothering with season 3 as cavil is sacked after this anyway . Also i like the harry potter series as they have fleshed out characters and good plot with very...

I am looking for some neat book reading apps. Bonus points if it lets me know if a sequel is released.