I’ve read both and highly enjoyed both. I read The Martian after I saw the movie and I still recommend it even if you saw the movie already

That series is the one series I wish I could read all over for the first time again. I hope you enjoy the ride!

Still working my way through The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman. I’m about 80% through now, I’ve been reading less than usual this week with life stuff going on.

I really enjoyed Redshirts by John Scalzi. I enjoy pretty much everything I’ve read of his, but Kaiju Preservation Society is still my favorite.

I used to have a 2 cats who did and both of those girls looked just like your cat

I love mine too. It’s great for my back, but I get why others find them uncomfortable.

I literally had this reaction from a someone recently. I commented that I had trouble installing a specific program, so I switched back to windows for now. I was not looking for advice, it was just a post asking about recent Windows user’s experience switching to Linux, so I shared my experience and that I had the intention to try again because I want off Windows.

Dude commented like I’m just a dumb dumb who didn’t follow the numerous instructions online (I did) because it’s so easy to install on Linux (doesn’t change my issue) that their mom could do it (again, still doesn’t change that I had issues).

I’ll be trying again soon, but I can understand why some folks would be turned off of Linux because of that.

Precisely!

I always carry 2 items on me; a sharpie and pretty butterfly stickers.

Sharpie is kind of obvious. I use it to write phrases on places where people will see them. Just last night, I saw a “trump is a pedo” on an electric box, that one wasn’t me.

There were a few incidents of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other hateful stuff in my area. I saw a sticker on the back of a stop sign that said “reject woke nonsense”, so I bought pretty butterfly stickers to cover things like that. I try to cover that kind of hate with something beautiful.

I have contributed to this act of trolling and I fully approve 😆

I do that too. I buy a bag after Halloween at a deep discount, then it lasts me a couple of months. I even like it a little stale.

I’m a little over halfway through The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman. It’s been a slow reading week, but I’ll probably finish the book this week.

I love it so much :)

What a cutie pie! Please give scritches!!

That happened to me when I reread the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman. Those books really influenced a lot of my thinking in a good way.

Working my way through The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman, it’s the second book in the Book of Dust trilogy.

I’m loving it. So much.

I’ve read a lot of Ken Liu’s short stories and I really enjoyed them. All That We See or Seem was the first novel I read of his and I liked it. Sometime this year, I’ll get to his Dandelion Dynasty series. I hope you like his work!

I read too many books to remember all of the plots. I recommend books to people based on the vibe I get from a book. “Oh! You like dystopian romance? Try out the Mercenary Librarians books! I don’t remember what happened, but I loved them!”

You’re the pineapple blossom post! That’s such a nice picture.

I’ve been intentionally trying to be less of a lurker and more active in comments. [email protected] is one place that I’ve tried to be more active because I love reading, thinking, and talking about books. I was also posting updates about a green lynx spider on my lemmy.world account before I switched to piefed, this is a good reminder for me to post an update on my girl (RIP) and her beautiful little babies.

Lots of us lurkers need to be more active, myself included.

I really enjoyed Memory Police!

I just started The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman today. I’m only a few pages in, but it picks up about 20 years after The Book of Dust and 8 years after The Amber Spyglass. I have no doubt I will love this book as much as the last one.

I also just finished My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Niagara Kabi. I have started grabbing short books randomly at the library and this was my last pick up. It’s a memoir manga and a pretty quick read.

I get the second part, my TBR is basically my book collection and this year I’m trying to get the read to unread ration better. It’s pretty bad now.

Reading more diversely is a good thing. I started doing that a few years ago and I found a lot of great authors and stories out there.

Good luck on both your goals!