I’m with you. Love Jack Reacher Novels
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Thanks for this. I love Jack Reacher novels, and was starting to feel a bit out of place hearing what some of us are reading. 
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They are good books and I re-read a lot of books too. In fact, after watching the TV series, I might go back and read some of the later ones to refresh my memories.
I just pulled out Sinclair Lewis “It Can’t happen Here” to re-read. I just hope my 1961 printed copy survives, the pages are yellow and may fall out. I may just go buy the e-book. 
Don’t feel out of place, we all like what we like!
If it makes you feel any better, my reading preferences are non-fiction and tend to lean to heavy stuff, but my tv choices are absolute trash. I mostly use TV as background noise and rarely watch a programme fully engaged. I basically have the viewing habits of my teenage self: at the moment I am re-watching Home Improvement (yes, the 90s show with Tim Allen that has seen better days - have to say I’m loving seeing all the old tech that’s now obsolete though! Phones with cords! Old computers!). That puts my copy of Heraclitus in context 
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That’s a good one!
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A friend loaned me a copy of Rick Bragg’s Where I Come From
I devoured it in two days and loved it, so I guess I will be adding a few more of his titles to my list.
I thought the book that will become season 4 was stronger than the previous three.
The book I’ve most looked forward to reading so far this year, Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis, became available today on the Kobo store.
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Does it discuss pixel-stained technopeasants?
See
International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day - Wikipedia for explanation.
Right now, I am reading Once Upon a Tome: Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller. I cannot remember where I saw it recommended, but I’m very glad I wrote it down. It is a delightful book about the author working at Sotheran’s bookshop in London over the course of many years and his many, many weird and wacky stories. In many ways, it’s a love letter to books and the people who collect them. Highly recommend.
I just finished Assassin’s Fate which is the sixteenth and final book in Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings fantasy series. All I’ll say is it’s the best written fantasy I’ve read, and I’ve never loved and connected with characters like I have with Hobb’s characters.
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I am currently slowly reading a “Complete tales” compilation from Jorge Luis Borges. Sadly (for a native Spanish reader) I hadn’t read much of him, and I just wanted to revisit “The Aleph” but got the whole bunch for my Kindle instead.
I like how he manages to create stories based on real people or facts that under his pen become totally different, you cannot tell when he’s citing real historical events that happened or he is making his characters impersonate the real persons. Reminds me of HP Lovecraft without the horror angle but more inclined to play with paradoxes based on logic and mathematics.
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Have you read Shaun Bythell’s books, Confessions of a Bookseller, etc.? (I think there are three in the series.) They’re funny, but also in places quite detailed about intrigues of bookselling (he also reads and discusses books written by other booksellers - including I think the book you’re reading - as well as making random literary references in his writing, which I always appreciate in a bookseller!).
I have not, but it’s been added to my TBR list. Thanks for the rec!
Updates to my list
ProGit - Still reading but more as a reference now as Git and I are not Gitting along very well.
Keys to Drawing Bert Dodson - Slowly working through the exercises about 1 a month sadly
Acellerando Charles Stross - Well started. This reminds me of a combination of Snow Crash and Windup Girl with a dash of Marching Morons thrown in.
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human race Walter Isaacson - barely started
Christmas Pie Jodi Taylor (not a short story, more novella) Debating whether to wait and add it back next Christmas 
New ones added to the list
The Relic Hunters David Leadbeater - Nearly half done. It’s a thriller and fast paced.
The 1 Page Marketing Plan Allan Dib so far a decent number of useful tips esp. for a solo business.
Atomic Habits James Clear time to re-read that as there have been major life changes and I need to rethink existing habits and potential future ones.
Finished
How to Commit the Perfect Murder Forensic Science Analyzed David Malocco Absolutely fascinating details about current modern forensic science. Illustrated by notorious murders where the suspect messed up and how they were caught eventually.
The Celtic Stone by Nick Hawkes This is the middle of a series. Heading back to start at the beginning. Sort of a light mystery/romance/adventure novel. Hard to describe but very good light reading.
Blood of Victory by Alan Furst Very nice light historical fiction set during WW2 The events are real, the characters are mostly not but based on real people although often a combination of real people. Quick easy reading. I now have 4 more books of his that a friend is loaning me.
Genetic Conservation of Domestic Livestock Volume 2 by Lawrence Anderson and Imre Bodo Finished. Quite good. I did read the sections on other species far less critically and with far fewer notes than the ones on sheep.
Practical Color Genetics for Livestock Breeders D. Phillip Sponenberg Finished reading all of it. I started with the sheep section, but he references the goats first because they show more of the color patterns and you need that background before discussing sheep color inheritance. So I backed up and started at the beginning. I was glad I had finished before Dr. Sponenberg gave a presentation to the American Black Welsh Mountain Sheep Association about why we are now seeing some color variants (white, chocolate brown and a color we called badger face but is actually probably the lateral stripe version of the agouti gene)
By the folks who did Game of Thrones, on Netflix. Previews look spectacular.
But you’ll want to read the books anyway, I’ll bet.
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Not attempting all 7 volumes of Proust?
Me either, don’t think I have sufficient decades life ahead…
Reading/Re-Read;
- Master and the Emissary “ Professor Iain McGilcgrist (left brain/right brain functionality & need to balance human values against the relentless drive for logic only living and materialism.
- Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.-* Haruki Murakami
- Cadre Country - John Fitzgerald (China politics)
- The White Ship - Charles Spencer
- “The Master and Margarita” - Mikhail Bulgakov-
- Monaco (F1 race) and city - Malcolm Folly-
- C.S Lewis - multiple books (re-reading)
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I’m almost done with Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, next I plan Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge by John Willis and after that The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil.
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I read War and Peace last year and I enjoyed it. Its long, but a fun and interesting read. Just finished reading Cormac McCarthy’s All the pretty horses and then started reading Blood Meridian and after that I reckon I’ll finish his border trilogy. The guy didn’t like punctuation… In parallel, I’m listening to David Brin’s Startide rising in audiobook format.
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I’m an English Teacher and my kids are doing a book report on a book list of their choice. Trying my best to read all their options I have not read which include
- The Fault in Our Stars
- Little Women
- The Summer I turned Pretty
- The Handmaids Tale.
For my own personal reading there is a canon Star Wars Trilogy coming about the first year of the Empire from the POV of Mon Mothma and Bail Organa that I really hope is good.
Audible has some Mark Twain Titles voiced by Nick Offerman I am looking forward to checking out.
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Ferrol Sams is a delight to read. Especially if you need a laugh.