This includes articles, ebooks, audiobooks, etc. If you do, what genres and which books?

  • Kohen Shaw@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 years ago

    Audio books here. When I cook, when I’m at the gym, beginning of my shift while I go through my emails. I listen to mostly trashy sci-fi books, sometimes good / decent sci-fi. At the third book in the “Three body problem” trilogy now, it’s pretty damn good.

    I average at one - two books a month. Great majority sci-fi. I read only for fun, to disconnect, so my bar for quality is pretty low, there’s a loooot of fun stuff out there.

    • acabjones@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      3 years ago

      Three body books are monumental. They reignited my will to read. Also really enjoying the murderbot diaries which I bet will appeal to all the rad commies in here.

  • Kromonos@fapsi.be
    4·
    3 years ago

    Because I’m often on the train, it’s easier for me to take an e-book reader, than anytime carrying a book with me.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 years ago

    I try to aim for reading around 30 books per year. I tend to pick one fiction and non fiction to read concurrently. I tend to enjoy hard sci-fi the most for fiction, and politics/economics for nonfiction.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 years ago

    Currently I’m re-reading entertaining trash.

    • Dan Brown - Angels and demons. Basically indiana jones / national treasure on steroids. Very entertaining and good storytelling.
    • Agatha Christie - And then there were none. An extremely entertaining who-dunnit in a mansion, with lots of twists. Not too long, and keeps you on your toes the whole time.
  • overflow@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 years ago

    Yes economic textbooks, political science textbooks, computer science textbooks, science fiction novels, manga and visual novels

  • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    News articles from various sources, academic papers for university classes, discission threads on Lemmy and Reddit, various short form fiction.

  • Evan@lemmy.mlM
    3·
    3 years ago

    Leasure reading has fallen by the wayside. It’s a pity but I like a particular type of book that is rarely fulfilled. I mostly just read my subscribed RSS feeds

    If anyone has recommendations, I like surreal nonfiction and fiction (not too fantasy, think “his dark materials”), with an emphasis on storytelling and character development. I enjoy most densities, I occasionally dare read academia.

  • yxzi@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    I regularly go to the library to expose myself to reading & discovering new books without distractions

    • erpicht@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      I also frequent my local library! Great place to discover books. (To answer the original question: I read poetry, classics, comics, fantasy, sci-fi, history, and some specialist literature)

  • Nyaa@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever really did any dedicated reading since the Eragon series when I was still in school.

  • Reaton@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    I’m currently reading Immortel by J.R Dos Santos, I find it pretty good I don’t really know the genre tho. Otherwise I really like biographical genre.

    Btw I used to think that I couldn’t read books because I simply couldn’t focus but I’ve found a trick and now I love reading. The “trick” is that I must listen to a music from which I know the lyrics and I add some white noises to that, like that my mind can only focus on what I’m reading (or at least more than before).