>>24809748This month I finished Fathers and Sons - Turgenev (Edmonds)Crime and Punishment (Ready)Currently reading:I, Claudius - Robert GravesAn Ecclesastical History of the English People - Bede
>>24809748Between Two Fires cause Halloween
>>24809748So far I have read>The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel>Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu >The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu>The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto EcoCurrently reading Roadside Picnic.
>>24809748Use goodreads like a normal person dweeb
>>24809748Based readera enjoyer.
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>>24810310based Astérix enjoyer
I'm currently reading Dead Souls. It's great. Wish I had someone to talk about it with.I don't really plan what I read in advance, but I did buy a copy of Narziss and Goldmund for $4 today, so maybe that. I woke up late for the booksale so it was the only noteworthy book I bought, unfortunately.Or maybe The Age of Reason. I bought the trilogy on a whim, thinking it was kismet that all three books were together. Since then I've seen the trilogy in two other second-hand bookshops. Turns out when people donate one book in a trilogy they tend to donate all three. I feel stupid. Now it just sits on my shelf and I feel guilty every time I walk past it.
>>24810435It's so damn funny
>>24809748I started Count of Monte Cristo. Enjoying it so far, pretty simple novel. The narrator is making himself too apparent though
>>24810441Dead Souls? It really is. I picked it up after reading and enjoying The Overcoat best in a collection of short stories. I'm glad Dead Souls is similar in tone.I also read a snippet about Gogol's end of life, how he went insane with religious mania and burnt the second part of Dead Souls before starving to death. Respect. Wish more authors would go out this way, it's so admirable.
>>24809748Based readera
>>24809748FinishedA Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry(terribly sorrowful book)Book of the Prophet Isaiah (KJV)ReadingA Reverend's (1830s to 1860s) MemoirSalammbôBook of the Prophet Jeremiah (KJV)
>>24809748I've read a lot of Chekhov this month. Began reading slow learner by Pynchon as the next short story collection.I am currently finishing up A portrait of the artist as a young man and intend to follow it up with Borges' Fictions.I'll probably read more . I am looking forward to revisiting Saunders, exploring Gaddis and relaxing with Murakami. There are many authors that interest me currently.. >>24810435>>24810479Ah Gogol, I wanna jump into his works as well. Seems like a good lad.
>>24809748Based fellow ReadEra anon.
Much Ado About Nothing, will read three more of his stuff by the end of the monthMike Rapport's 1848Sodom and GomorrahAnd some sporadic readings here and there
The Heart is a Lonely HunterThe Temptation of St Anthony (Flaubert)The Orchard KeeperThe Passenger
>>24809748+ some Edgar Allan Poe
>>24809748Currently reading:Cyberfeminism Index by Mindy Seu.I wanted to read a doorstopper before the end of the year, and this one isn't disappointing at all.
>>24809748>>24810310>>24810491>>24812613readera chads, coming in
Saw everyone using this "Readera" app and thought oh cool so I can just put in what I'm reading and track what I've read. But no, it is basically a glorified PDF viewer for your phone, why on earth would I want to read on my phone? I have books, and if a book is too expensive (more than £100 for a copy) I just read it on my old Kindle.
>>24812807not everyone has dedicated device for reading other than their phone. kindle is fine. besides, readera is free
Gautier (Mademoiselle de Maupin, only interested in the preface for now), Bloy (Essays), Tocqueville (Democracy in America), Vauvenargues (Maxims and Lettres), Chaucer. but the general main focus is political philosophy.
>>24812813You can get an old second hand Kobo or Kindle for under £20 and then you don't have your eyes raped by bluelight. But ultimately, reading physical books is the best way. At this point in our tech infested contemporary world, part of the enjoyment of reading books is to escape from technology, escape from the blinding light, the brain-tumour developing phone; and short form content dopamine dependence. I only use my phone to text and call people. One day I hope to be able to stop using my PC for shit like 4chan which is the only vaguely social platform/forum I use anymore. Downloading more and more apps to fit each niche of your life is depressing, delete Readera and pick up a book.
>>24809748How do you guys read pdf on such a small screen. I fucking hate it. epub is tolerable but sometimes the formatting is all fucked up
>>24812930Have to agree, Readera sounds like my personal nightmare. Owning and reading physical books is unmatched, one of the last vestiges of the old world. I would rather skip a meal and buy a book second-hand for a couple dollars than read on my phone. I would rather never read again than read on my phone.
>>24809748I've been reading The Fountainhead for the last few weeks. I'm almost halfway in, currently on the chapter about Toohey's backstory. It's awesome, really enjoying it. Love the characters. Ayn Rand is a bit wordy, unnecessarily sometimes, but shes a really great writer. I also read Anthem by Ayn Rand earlier in the year, and that was decent.
>>24812930Too broke for one. But you're right, id rather save up to purchase physical books instead of buying a kindle. Bot for now, readera. >my phone has a cracked screen lol
I long ago surpassed my yearly goal so I've been digging into bigger books for a while.
>>24813061I don't know if I will ever find the courage to read Les Mis. Well done on reaching your goal, by the way :-)
>>24809748This month? I re-read PKD's Do Androids..., read Bartleby the Scrivener, Häräntappoase, Amusing Ourselves to Death, and am continuing my trek through IJ. I dropped Seitsemän Veljestä (arguably first Finnish-language novel ever) like a third in because fuck me it's dull.I'm really enjoying IJ still. Its descriptions of addiction are really powerful. I love the SoC whenever he gets all poetic, generally with something tragic happening. The sillier segments are a bit of a chore.
>>24809748>>24810310>>24810491>>24812613>>24812796Based fellow ReadEra chads (checking in here).
I read Konosuba volume 12 and 13, The Rainbow by Kawabata, Fifteen Dogs, and a third of an HP Lovecraft anthology.
>>24814357>and a third of an HP Lovecraft anthology.Nice. Which Lovecraft anthology? Also have you read any "Lovecraftian" anthologies, ie stories in the same vein but not by HPL?
>>24814366"HP Lovecraft Tales of Horror"I just picked it up at the bookstore because it had a cool cover but I had wanted to read Mr. Cat owner's work for a while.And no I've never read an anthology like him, do you know of any good ones?
>>24814389Yeah, this one's really good.
>>24809748finished reading Don Quixoteread Metamorphosis by Kafka and Demiancurrently reading Wuthering Heights
>>24814457How did you like Demian? I safely like Hesse, I finished Peter Camenzind recently and it was a cozy read. Nice descriptions of nature, made me yearn for mountain living. Peter was definitely gay for Richard.Metamorphosis is Kafka at his best. Have you read The Trial? I loved it, except the ending felt premature.
>>24814494I liked Demian, although I think that the questions raised by Hesse were more interesting than the answer he gave. From the beginning I really liked the explanation to how Sinclair viewed and divided the world, but I lost a bit of interest when the whole gnosticism/mysticism thing began. I don't know a lot about jungian psychology, so my enjoyment of the book was probably affected by that, too.I do have interest in reading The Trial by Kafka, but I'm not too sure when I'm actually going to get into it.
>>24809748Love readera, it's the only app I ever spent money on. I'm reading the swords trilogy by moorcock on my kindle, about halfway through the king of swords. I think I also finished Broken April this month
>>24809748>>24810310>>24810491>>24812613>>24812796>>24814349ReadEra bros...we're eating good!!!Right now I'm reading "The Castle" by Kafka, but here's a few of the books I plan to read afterwards.I love pirating books from Anna's archive and then reading them on ReadEra, it makes me feel like a mystical wizard
>>24814522> pic related
>>24814522>I love pirating books from Anna's archive and then reading them on ReadEra, it makes me feel like a mystical wizardGod bless, anon. Ereadercucks BTFO.
Is this a stealth marketing thread for ReadEra? Sell me on it.
>>24814580It's free, preddy sure its Android only. I began using it when my Kindle broke as a cope, but now I prefer reading epubs on my dumpy old android. Yellow tint the display and dim it down nice and comfy. I need everything to be formatted like a mobile width text column, or newspaper column width now. So I am a phone reader now idgaf.
>>24814580Does annotations, can organize all your books into collections, has no ads, is fast, free, works on basically every file format including cbr, displays multi-page images on magazines well (picrel).Has lots of options for formatting the appearance of epubs/mobis, can automatically trim margins for pdfs, does TTS, and it's easy to backup your metadata (collections, quotes, annotations, reviews, etc.)4 years ago I tried a bunch of e-reading apps on android and this was by far the best, and it's only improved since then
>>24814349Kek, why are you reading taxation in the middle of everything else. Degree?
>>24814522>love pirating books from Anna's archive and then reading them on ReadEra, it makes me feel like a mystical wizardUnfathomably based!
>>24814522checked and based
>>24815022it's a part of liberal arts, duh
>>24815063How could I be so foolish. I never knew the starving artist types could file and lecture me on taxes and insurance policies.
