Books - What are you reading?

Paul Jones is on here?!

I think you'll find that only pauljones_(pauljones) is on here.

I’m locked into Overdrive for reading ebooks from my library but can anyone recommend another app that I could use for reading books that I can download to my iPhone from other sources? Looking at noir stuff, haven’t checked Gutenberg yet.

I use Calibre to stick hooky books on my Kindle but I'm not sure if that's your question?

Hm thanks, haven’t thought of Calibre for years. All the free sites I’ve been to so far have links that flash when clicked on but there’s no evidence of a file anywhere (that I could find).

Usenet or bittorent have plenty if you can be bothered to learn to use them.
Calibre is great for book collections and then transferring them to whatever device in whatever format

I found the 3 body problem so disappointing. I'm not sure whether the translation is a bit off or something else but it's just the type of thing I should enjoy but it was just dull and hard work

Actually, it doesn’t look like it’s supported on iPhones.

I don’t have a laptop or desktop anymore, so I’m out of luck that front.

libgen.is

I use nzbleech and uTorrent on Android.

What does mirrors mean, how many feeds there are, or ?

a mirror is an alternative place where the file is hosted
if one doesn't work just try another one, but they're all the same file

Libgen and Calibre is the winning combo for a well read cheap skate

Finally finished Oliver Stone’s chasing the light. A great insight to his life and experiences with Midnight Express, Platoon, El Salvador.

Just started Maya Angelou - I know why caged birds sing

If anyone can recommend a good read around indigenous people I want to collect a bunch of stories from across the globe.

Polynesian
Australian
African
South American
North American

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is worth a read. It gives an interesting perspective of the spread of colonialism in Nigeria. I've got the follow up, No Longer At Ease, sat in my to read list.

I'll be interested in what others suggest actually, this has made me realise how little I read from authors who aren't European or American!

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Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun & The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who is a superb Nigerian writer.

Australian - Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence
The film is good too.

Do you want books about/by indigenous people? Or just extra-european authors?

I found the 3 body problem so disappointing. I'm not sure whether the translation is a bit off or something else but it's just the type of thing I should enjoy but it was just dull and hard work

It's just as bad in Chinese, unfortunately. It's so widely praised in China - people think it's AMAZING - but I found it tedious and nowhere near as smart as it thought it was.

Currently reading this. It’s very good. It feels like a really quick read. Sometimes books take forever to get through, this one flows nicely.

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I've started that so many times and always give up almost immediately .
Let me know how you get on.

70% of the way through and enjoying it. Although I can’t see where it’s actually going to end

I just finished The Hearing Trumpet, by Leonora Carrington, which I loved: funny, warm, and very strange. I found it through Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, and it's a bit similar in tone.

I'll have to give that a go, Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead is one of my favourite books. I've still not got round to watching Spoor, the film based on it though.

I’m re-reading In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

Nice to read a book again that I loved in my 20s and find I still love it but for different reasons.