# What are you reading? **URL:** \ **Category:** Movies/TV/Book/Music/Etc\ **Tags:** Book\ **Created:** [September 28, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398 "2020-09-28T18:54:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 141
**Author:** ![Hip\_tiger](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/hip_tiger/32/447_2.png) [@Hip\_tiger](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Hip_tiger)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 11:55pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2819 "2026-03-19T23:55:40Z")
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn This is a grim reminder of how grateful I am not to be in communist Russia. ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2820 "2026-03-20T17:02:29Z")
3,653 days! ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2821 "2026-03-20T17:03:33Z")
yesterday I saw on twitter a lady saying she was about to start reading Blood Meridian and if people had advice or comments. now half my feed is people talking about McCarthy. ---
**Author:** ![Papasmurf](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@Papasmurf](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Papasmurf)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2822 "2026-03-21T13:52:49Z")
Finished **Jane Eyre** despite it not really being my thing. 19th century christian morality and romance are maybe just lost on me. I can see the appeal though. I started listening to **A Brief History of Time**. I’m already lost at chapter 2 when he started talking about the curvature of spacetime. I don’t always focus as deeply on audiobooks as I listen to them while cleaning, folding laundry or walking the neighborhood. Probably need the physical copy of this one. ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2823 "2026-03-21T15:03:24Z")
> [@Papasmurf](#): > > I started listening to **A Brief History of Time**. I’m already lost at chapter 2 when he started talking about the curvature of spacetime. One of the “most bought” but “least finished” books ever. I bought it when it first came out but did not find it very entertaining. My science background is weak ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2824 "2026-03-21T15:19:34Z")
In my his dark materials, the boy is reading that right now. ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2825 "2026-03-21T15:21:56Z")
I actually took general relativity in college, and it was at least a thousand miles above my head. Turns out being good at math is not the same thing as being Einstein. It was mostly math. And the math was mostly manipulating tensors, which are like if you took a matrix but instead of 2d grid, it’s an n-d grid of equations that obey some rules like linearity. And the spacetime metric, which is sort of like a 4d object in 5d space but without assuming a 5th dimension exists. Anyway, it’s really really really dense. I get the same feeling when I look up quantum mechanics. Some parts make a lot of sense, but at some point you are just nodding along, vaguely following the calculus, some of which you can do, but you couldn’t get there by yourself, nor could you tie the simple answer back to far-reaching conclusions about the nature of reality. I think it might have been possible, if I were a little smarter, and took 10 more math classes, and really didn’t care about anything but math. I’d love to go back and try again, but there’s no way I’m as smart as I was back then. Anyway, it’s not much like normal science, I think. (Except maybe fluid dynamics?) The math is so hard, and most of the weird conclusions just come directly from the math. Sometimes actudonks joke about how hard real analysis is, and this was like real analysis except way realer. ---
**Author:** ![Triweasel](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/triweasel/32/159_2.png) [@Triweasel](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Triweasel)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2826 "2026-03-22T17:19:26Z")
> [@Papasmurf](#): > > Finished **The Dark Forest** , which is the sequel to The Three-Body Problem. The last section was amazing, but the first 2/3 were a bit of a slog. Not sure if I’ll complete the trilogy as book 3 is even longer and I’ve heard complaints of sloginess. Third book is really good imo. Agree the dark forest bogged down a bunch. Deaths End has tons of fun ideas all happening at once and it really comes together well iirc. ---
**Author:** ![Papasmurf](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@Papasmurf](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Papasmurf)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2827 "2026-03-24T13:19:42Z")
I’m reading a book called **The Rings of Saturn** which describes a mediative walking tour in England. It’s basically a series of tangents as he walks through old seaside towns. I’m having trouble focusing as there isn’t really a plot. Also started **One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This** (audiobook) per a review from someone (or multiple people) on here. ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2828 "2026-03-24T14:59:38Z")
> [@Papasmurf](#): > > Also started **One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This** (audiobook) per a review from someone (or multiple people) on here. Great book, as were his two earlier ones. ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 10:13pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2829 "2026-03-24T22:13:33Z")
I have ready many fantasy novels by Murakami and Ishiguro so wanted to try another Japanese author. Just finished **Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon** by Mizuki Tsujimura. Great read! Highly recommend it to fans of this genre. The book is a short novel in five parts. The first four chapters are first-person accounts from four different characters seeking an opportunity, and having, one last conversation with someone they’d lost. The fifth chapter retells these first four stories from the perspective of the young go-between who arranges the meetings with the deceaseds. The reasons for the encounters are very different and fascinating. The fifth chapter nicely closes the loop on the stories from a different vantage point. ---
**Author:** ![OldTimer](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/8797f3/32.png) [@OldTimer](https://community.goactuary.com/u/OldTimer)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2830 "2026-03-24T23:34:25Z")
Just finished _Everybody Wants to Rule the World_ by Ace Atkins. Set in Atlanta mostly, around the time of the Reagan/Gorbachev Switzerland summit on SDI/Star Wars. The young protagonist thinks his mother’s boyfriend is a Russian spy. The story is a pretty light read, but there is a bunch of murder and mayhem as well. Very few re what they seem. Would make an excellent movie. Only complaint is that in order to make it feel like 1980’s Atlanta, the author drops one or two references to stores, streets, people, etc., about every paragraph that isn’t dialogue. Got real old very fast. Might be very fun if you live/lived in Atlanta. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_Rock](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@Kid\_Rock](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Kid_Rock)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 1:58am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2831 "2026-03-31T01:58:34Z")
Just finished the 6 books in Red Rising. Wow. We all hold onto the youth favorites as never being able to be surpassed just like we all tend to like the music of our generation. I enjoyed this as much as Star Wars movies and LOTR books. The world is incredible. The characters are mostly all flawed and all heroic, but not equally. I am feeling a letdown now that I am done and need to wait on the finale. After 6 books I don’t know how this ends. In LOTR you know they will make it. In Star Wars you knew good would triumph. In Red Rising, most sides have shown good (couple exceptions) and all have shown evil, or at least evil capability. In some cases, the choice to do evil for the better good is even questionable. The way the story was told, in the first person for 3 books and then chapters from POV of key characters was really cool. I wasn’t sure I liked it at first when there were a bunch of chapters without Darrow, but then I got why. The history lessons, mythology, and astronomy were great. I was looking things up in middles of chapters (what would Sun look like for, Mercury? What about a Jupiter moon? What does Jupiter look like from Io?…). Also had to search fan art for characters Can’t recommend enough. ---
**Author:** ![Ezekial\_Cumberland](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ezekial_cumberland/32/178_2.png) [@Ezekial\_Cumberland](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Ezekial_Cumberland)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2832 "2026-03-31T12:55:32Z")
Interesting….I read the first and didn’t love it. Maybe I’ll have to give the series another shot. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_Rock](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@Kid\_Rock](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Kid_Rock)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 2:50am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2833 "2026-04-03T02:50:28Z")
Red Rising sets a nice foundation but, for me, the hook is the next book. After that I couldn’t stop. I was finding time to read 4-5 pages at a time mid day. Starting Leviathan series now. ---
**Author:** ![Papasmurf](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@Papasmurf](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Papasmurf)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2834 "2026-04-03T13:48:10Z")
Have been in a bit of a reading slump so revisiting one of my favorites, **Kafka on the Shore**. ---
**Author:** ![Papasmurf](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@Papasmurf](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Papasmurf)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2835 "2026-04-06T15:01:50Z")
I grabbed a handful of books from my Grandma’s collection after she recently passed away. Just started **The Good Earth**. ---
**Author:** ![Ling](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ling/32/70261_2.png) [@Ling](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Ling)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2836 "2026-04-06T15:26:46Z")
The one by Pearl Buck? ---
**Author:** ![Papasmurf](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@Papasmurf](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Papasmurf)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2837 "2026-04-06T16:46:15Z")
Yes. I actually hadn’t heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2026, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398/2838 "2026-04-06T17:08:31Z")
working through A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism (Truth to Power) by Daniel Sjursen. i just got to andrew jackson [Previous page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398.md?page=140) [Next page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/what-are-you-reading/398.md?page=142)