Finished When Moon Hits the Eye by John Scalzi.

The book is divided so that each chapter is a new day, and it’s from perspective of new people. So there is no story of certain people, rather it’s about the “event” and we see things from different people’s point of view throughout the book.

I didn’t know that, so it took some getting used to, but once I had come to terms with that it was a very interesting book.

Highly recommended for soft sci-fi fans.

What about all of you, what have you been reading or listening to lately?


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  • steel_for_humans@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    I started A Crown of Swords yesterday :)

    It’s a pity that I am unable to read such long series, it takes me years and I forget most of what I read before because of how much time passes for me between each book. I have to read plot summaries for all the previous books when I start the next one and the further I go the more I have to catch up. At least there’s the WoT Compendium app.

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      7 days ago

      It sure is a project. Sometimes I read another fiction book in between. And then I can start on the next book. Usually it comes back to me what previously happened. Thanks for the tip, I’ll look into the compendium. Keep on reading!

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        6 days ago

        Sometimes I read another fiction book in between.

        Ah, so you keep reading WoT almost book after book. I read book 6 one and a half year ago and started book 7 a couple days ago. In the meantime I probably read a dozen other books in different genres. That’s why I don’t remember.

        I forgot that

        Tap for spoiler

        Rand was abducted by Aes Sedai

        in book 6. That seems important, right? ;)

        Thanks for the tip, I’ll look into the compendium.

        https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.silvermast.wotcompendium

        I don’t know if there’s an iOS counterpart. It’s a super useful app.

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          6 days ago

          Well, there have been times I wanted to abandon the series. Now I decided I want to finish the entire series. I already have the remaining books on my ereader, that helps.