Weekend reading

[nanila]

(How is it the weekend again already?!) What do you plan to read this weekend?

Everything counts! Whether it's a book, the Sunday paper, an article you opened in a new tab and promptly forgot about, or the labels on your washing.

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[nanila]

I received some non-fiction/engineering-themed books as a surprise present from a friend! I'm going to read Jet, which is perhaps unsurprisingly a history of the invention of the jet propulsion engine, this weekend.

[ironed_orchid]

Whee!

I hope it's as engaging as that short history of Cluster that you wrote once upon a time.

[veritas_poet]

I am working my way through Steinbeck's 'East of Eden'. I have poor luck with classics, but I'm enjoying this one so far!

Well, in the way you enjoy a story where everyone seems to be miserable. But the language is beautiful, and there are some insights into human nature that I had not considered before.

[ravengown]

Working through a couple of books on mindfulness and procrastination, along with a couple of ya novels. hoping to finish up a few things on the car trip I'm taking back on Sunday!

We'll see how much I can get through because the self-help books are a lot harder to work through.

[weaverbird]

Going to try to finish Howard's End, plus the usual baseline, and reading/bookmarking/closing browser tabs, and weaving patterns.

[thamesynne]

oh wow, i've really lost touch with this whole thing... not been reading much, of late. too much panic around moving / family issues (mainly rediscovering that i don't have one that's worth a damn). i was hoping to read a lease agreement or two this weekend, but that's not apparently going to happen; so now it looks as though the main reading i'll be doing, aside from the guardian's weekend bits, is of the list of films i have to decide whether to keep and file in a wallet or give to a charity shop. and the labels on all my other dvds, to make a list of them. and probably the spines of all my books, to do a similar filtration job on them... starting from the basis that if i moved here with it and haven't read it yet, i'm probably not going to.

some charity shop is going to end up with about 15 carrier bags of unread books to sell at some point...

[ironed_orchid]

Oh :-(

I hope maybe you will read some good to let advertisements.

[ironed_orchid]

It's my birthday weekend, so I plan to read recipes for cakes and the alcohol content on the labels of bottles.

I'm also re-reading Conrad's Fate by Diana Wynne Jones as my before sleep book, and that is going steadily, getting through several chapters a night.

[st_aurafina]

I finished reading an Agent Carter fic. I've had no concentration lately, so I'm pleased to have done that. And thank goodness for the AO3's download function so I could chip away at it in paragaph-sized bites

(I just read the name of this comm as 'bite-size dreading', which actually sounds like something I would do. *sigh*

[sunflowerinrain]

I'm alternating Children of the Lens (bit silly) with Simenon stories in French.

Somehow I don't read as much as I used to, which is sad.