That sounds nice. I have read a few history books here and there, but nothing containing proper history of Europe. How are you liking it?

Oooh, nice. Which design patterns book are you reading? I recently started Design Pattern by the Gang of Four, have studied design patterns, but never read the book, so finally taking care of that.

Perfect. Have 5 hard mode then!

Ah cool, do let me know how you like it.

There are some features for that in LT, power edit or something, though I haven’t actually explored them in depth, or even looked at them in years, so I could be wrong about those.

Ah, cool.

I checked at my local shop, they didn’t have first book of Goosebumps, so I picked up the second book, and am now waiting for the first one, should get it soon-ish. I have a thing about reading the series from first book, so going to wait for it to arrive before reading it.

Will let you know how it goes.

I have Dan Abnett’s Eisenhorn trilogy ordered, going to be my first Warhammer 40K book.

Yeah, Sanderson is one of my favourite author, and his secret projects are really good.

Heh, this sounds pretty fun.

Nothing wrong with that, everyone have their own tastes.

I find it pretty annoying when you don’t like something but people would insist that it’s your fault, and you should read/watch/listen it again. Personally, I won’t consider Weir as one of my favourite author, but he is definitely in the the list of writers whose book I’ll always read.

Yeah, sometimes it’s just not the right time for that book.

Hope you enjoy your next books more!

Thanks for the post (and for all your work on Book Bingo) @misericordiae@literature.cafe !

I have completed about 9 squares (4 hard mode!), and 10th will be done soon. That’s my next planned book. No bingo yet though, but there’s still plenty of time. Have also done one alternate tile, so can just swap it with some uncompleted one if I get stuck.

One question: For 1E: It takes two, can other author be illustrator? Or they have to be the “author”?

Ahan, thanks for info. I have become too lazy to work on any kind of rebellion, but it sounds like an interesting read.

Heh, well, there are bots, but I haven’t actually used any, and haven’t seen anyone using anything like remindme, so not sure.

Heh, well, Sanderson’s novels aren’t that long, well, not counting Stormlight Archive that is. Specially when you compare them to most books in fantasy genre.

As for Reacher novels, I haven’t read many action / adventure / crime novels, but those that I have read haven’t been very long, mostly around 300-400 page count, so Reacher’s length was a surprise. If it was a fantasy book, wouldn’t even have noticed it probably.

Yeah. BTW there are two different audiobooks, one are simple / plain, and other are dramatic something. Which one are you listening to?

Thanks for the info about Goosebumps, will check which ones I have at my local shop.

I just care about cataloging books, with proper info, and LibraryThing is great for that. My only non-complaint is that it’s not self-hosted, but I semi-regularly export my books, so it’s all good.

I can understand about not getting time to roll your own version. I have been trying to do that for a game cataloging app for over a decade, starts with some new tech every year or so then get busy with stuff and forget about it.

Sounds interesting, but it does sound like a rabbit hole where you can sink tons of hours. Don’t want to do that right now 😀

I’ll probably be going for the paperback. Can’t listen to audiobooks.

Thanks for the recommendation. Will start it soon.

Interesting. Will check it out.