What are you reading in 2025?

[overgeeked]

About 1/3 of the way through How to ADHD by Jessica McCabe. She has ADHD and runs one of the biggest ADHD channels on YouTube. The book is well written and has quite a few nerd references which helps keep it engaging. I’d definitely recommend this one for people wanting to learn about ADHD. It’s a good read for those with it, those who know someone with it, and the idly curious.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

About 1/3 of the way through How to ADHD by Jessica McCabe. She has ADHD and runs one of the biggest ADHD channels on YouTube. The book is well written and has quite a few nerd references which helps keep it engaging. I’d definitely recommend this one for people wanting to learn about ADHD. It’s a good read for those with it, those who know someone with it, and the idly curious.

They're really missing out on the obvious joke by not periodically inserting word searches, coloring book pages, short essays about completely different topics and lyrics to old songs.

 

[overgeeked]

They're really missing out on the obvious joke by not periodically inserting word searches, coloring book pages, short essays about completely different topics and lyrics to old songs.

It’s a book about understanding disability, so it makes sense that they’re not going for the LOLs or stereotypes. That said, the book has footnotes and every time I come across one I think the tangential info should be in the body of the text rather than at the end of the chapter.

 

[WayneLigon]

The Book That Held Her Heart - Mark Lawrence - Library Trilogy Book Three. Loved it. I don't normally like time travel and this book has a lot of time looping back and forth as our heroes untangle the mess that Livira's book has caused, but I could follow it easily and didn't get frustrated with it. I'm fairly certain I figured out what Wentworth is, but maybe not; if so, it was mildly irritating it had to be explained to me later. Good conclusion to a great series.

 

[jian]

Read A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon, which is quite short and quite Korean - existential, blunt, self-conscious. It does a brief but effective bit of worldbuilding and deconstruction of a certain sort of superhero universe - magical girls exist and are empowered with specific themes by ineffable cosmic forces, and they’re often created by trauma, which is why they’re often women - but doesn’t really have space to do much more.

 

[cbwjm]

I don't think I've ever read any Jules Verne so in an effort to kickstart me getting back into reading I've started 20,000 leagues under the sea. I'm only around a quarter of the way in, but I'm really enjoying it. I've a few others of his works to read afterwards like the mysterious island and journey to the centre of the earth.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I don't think I've ever read any Jules Verne so in an effort to kickstart me getting back into reading I've started 20,000 leagues under the sea. I'm only around a quarter of the way in, but I'm really enjoying it. I've a few others of his works to read afterwards like the mysterious island and journey to the centre of the earth.

HG Wells is also really good.

 

[cbwjm]

HG Wells is also really good.

The only one of his I can recall is the time machine (also one which I've not read), sounds like another author to add.

Henry Rider Haggard was an entertaining author, I went through a few of his Allan Quartermain books a while back. The book "She" is one I would highly recommend if you haven't read it.

 

[overgeeked]

I've bounced off Verne's 20,000 Leagues a few times. It should be right in my Venn diagram of interests, but nope. I should try it again sometime.

I took a class on H. G. Wells in college. So many short stories, novellas, and novels. We barely had time to talk about them we were reading so many in such a short time. Time Machine, Moreau, Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, Sleeper Wakes, First Men in the Moon, Food of the Gods, Modern Utopia, Shape of Things to Come, on and on and on. Lots of great stuff in there along with quite a few duds.

H. Rider Haggard is a great action-adventure writer. He did some great stuff. Gotta watch out for the racism and colonialism, but really ripping yarns. Roughly similar writers to check out are Dumas, Edgar Rice Burroughs, A. Merritt, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rafael Sabatini, and so many more.

 

[cbwjm]

I've bounced off Verne's 20,000 Leagues a few times. It should be right in my Venn diagram of interests, but nope. I should try it again sometime.

I took a class on H. G. Wells in college. So many short stories, novellas, and novels. We barely had time to talk about them we were reading so many in such a short time. Time Machine, Moreau, Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, Sleeper Wakes, First Men in the Moon, Food of the Gods, Modern Utopia, Shape of Things to Come, on and on and on. Lots of great stuff in there along with quite a few duds.

H. Rider Haggard is a great action-adventure writer. He did some great stuff. Gotta watch out for the racism and colonialism, but really ripping yarns. Roughly similar writers to check out are Dumas, Edgar Rice Burroughs, A. Merritt, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rafael Sabatini, and so many more.

There are a few books/authors that I've bounced off. I can't read Tolkien and I ended up putting down Foundation. Both sound exactly like what I should like, but I just can't get throigh them.