Curious to see what the Lemmings are reading this year.

I’ll say my favorite this year was “The People of the Deer” by Farley Mowat, a novelization of the authors time spent in the Canadian North.

An incredible read with some wonderful prose.

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    Red rising, it’s been so long since I read a book like ender’s game but I do always enjoy the story of youth in a violent world coming to terms with the society they live in, but this one had so much more than I was expecting.

    I was worried it was going to be some pale imitation of ender’s game but instead it was an entirely new story that ended up providing a more brutal look into the viscera of a sick society.

    Honorable mention: Logan’s run which I finally read a couple days ago. Brief but wildly exciting.

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      You know I have this book sitting on my shelf for a few months but haven’t gotten around to it yet. I heard good things about it, but I just kinda forgot about it

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      Red Rising had some excellent world building and I really enjoyed the early books. The further along it went, the less I enjoyed, but that may be me. I found myself lost a few times and Brown keeps on chugging.

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        The further along you went just in that book, or in the series?

        That is interesting, I was pretty captivated the whole time and read it in a few days basically when I had any free time, but two of those times were walking around drunk during back to back snow storms listening to the audiobook, so if a particular scene was slow I may have missed that hahaha.

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            Oh okay. I stopped at four. The first trilogy was pretty satisfying for me and I don’t think 6 was out yet, so I’m taking a break from then for now