What are y'all reading right now? Do you like it?
>War and Peace, a little over halfway through
>Tolstoy's understanding of psychology is extremely impressive, especially the way he wrote Natasha

>>40445450 (OP)
The Curse of Yig
I like it so far

>>fiction
Re-reading City of Ember with my girlfriend. Its very nostalgic. The audiobook is good. Excited to get to the other books iv yet to read
>>Nonfiction
Totality and Infinity. No comment

>>40445450 (OP)
In the heart of the Sea

>>40445450 (OP)
the abyss by marguerite yourcenar
for the moment i think it introduces too much too quickly but its interesting nonetheless

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non-fiction
Antigone’s Ghosts by Mark Wolfgram

kind of mid for a cultural studies book but interesting nonetheless. id say it’s worth a read if you’re into history and historiography and youre not a nazi/fucking retarded

it’s pretty good so far, im 143 pages in

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Fittingly I just started "And Quiet Flows the Don
" by Mikhail Sholokhov after I found a set of old of copies among the possessions of my now passed away uncle. Relatively less known Russian literature but I am enjoying it a lot so far. Picrel though not my photos, just identical covers from around the same time period.

>>40445580
>yourcenar
BASEDBASEDBASEDBASEDBASED

>>40445450 (OP)
Domestic Girlfriend.
I really wanted something like Scum's Wish (depression is killing me lately), and that's the only series that people said was akin to that masterpiece.
The harem side of it ruins a lot of interactions, since the protagonist can't have a strong preference for one or the other.
Other than that it's fun slop. It got me wanting to write a novel. I was trying to find a non autistic afab to write a relay novel with, because I know for sure that I will drop it as soon as I will finish the series, but for now /ftmg/ doesn't have any trauma induced pooners. Will check the femreppers.
I have Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel half finished.
Awful book, the worst novel I plan to not dnf this year. Started it because I wanted to see what all the fuss is about Dua Lipa being the currently best author interviewer.
Completely lacks substance and form.
I think it might feel so bad because spanish translators suck ass by a margin (if anyone is still reading this rambling, don't read the english version of Neruda's twenty love poems) and because I've read a phenomenal novel on the topic already, which was a rough read because the author actually lived through that shit.

"Dear Life" by Alice Munro. It's okay; the stories are well-told character pieces but jimminy jillickers how I miss STYLE. Looking forward to getting back into Gass's Tunnel in a few days.

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>>40446018
Much better taste than I expected to see in a place like this. Very cool, anons.

>>40445450 (OP)
Started reading Reasons and Persons
what other books have you read this year?

>>40447459
I've read Memoirs of Hadrian, Critique of Pure Reason, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gulliver's Travels, Augustus, Racine's Phedre, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and Middlemarch. I also started but have not finished Europe Central and The Ice-Shirt (working on it though). How about you anon?

>nevada
The main character is insufferable, but kinda me for real. Might be a good book to give to my parents when I come out to them
>sacred and terrible air
Just finished it, one of the most beautiful books I've ever read, real demanding, cant wait to reread it again. apparently the translation is slightly busted but i have no way of judging
>bhagavad gita
Very useful guide for life. I read the eknath easwaran translation which is clearly geared towards westerners looking to integrate it with new age / christian influenced spirituality

>>40447491
Which one is your favourite out of those and why?
I started reading Boredom: A Lively History some time in spring but have only gotten ~1/4 through it, aside from that nothing else, in general I tell myself I want/should/will read more but I'm afraid modern society has cooked my brain beyond belief

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just finished Murderbot Diaries, really liked them

>>40447795
Honestly I really liked the Phedre. Great illustration of what (pseudo)Calvinist theology means in practice. The Ice-Shirt is also really good, as is Gulliver's Travels (tfw will never be tutored by the noble HOUYHYNMS).
Middlemarch is honestly a genius work as well. The last hundred pages or so make it all worth it.