A thread to discuss the non-Doctor Who books we are diving into.
I’m currently reading The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
Oooh nice topic!
I organize a yearly reading challenge with friends where we have to read 15 books in certain categories. I started the year with Murakami’s ‘After Dark’, but then the EDAs sidetracked me horribly.
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I love Murakami! And that book is a good one, I will say.
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I’m on a mission to read all of Murakami! I love the vibes of his work. I think ‘After Dark’ is a very good one for anyone who wants to start reading his stuff.
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I wish I had time to read much, and if I do then I aim for Doctor Who. But here are some of my favourite non-DW book series:
Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett
The Long Earth series of novels
His Dark Materials
I also really enjoy short story collections - horror and science fiction are my favourite.
I’ve read almost everything by Luke Smitherd, which are weird, dark horror stories 
Oh and I’ve been seeking out Rob Shearman’s work, love it, and I have the whole “We All Hear Stories in the Dark” book set which is cool.
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I read in general one DW book and one ‘‘normal’’ book in rotation because I find I burn out on DW books if I read them in a row.
I just am about to start West With the Night which is a memoir by Beryl Markham, who was the first pilot to fly non-stop over the Atlantic ocean 
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I really enjoy his short story collections, “The Elephant Vanishes”, “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, “First Person Singular”, and “Men Without Women”. As someone who likes media that leans towards the slice of life, character-driven aspect of things, I have a particular affinity for the Japanese style of writing (prose and poetry). Absolutely “nothing” can happen and yet it will still be engrossing or thought-provoking.
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Red Sonja Consumed by Gail Simone
Currently halfway through.
Really good characterization of the ‘she devil’: a strong person who just is who she is without any care for what others want her to be. The story is a true tale from the Hyborian Age. Really liking it so far.
I also bought the audio version so I can listen to it while walking. It’s brilliantly narrated by Felicia Day.
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I feel the same. May I recommend Banana Yoshimoto’s work, if you haven’t read her already? ‘Kitchen’ is one of my all time favorites. Unassuming, soft, and incredibly tender.
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I’m alternating a bit between Who books and other books. I’m reading Who books for the clubs and usually other fantasy or sci-fi in between. I’m slowly working my way through the Cosmere, but there are a lot of books, and they are very long, so I don’t want to burn myself out in them, so it’s currently on a break.
I’ve been reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman. It’s good fun. I just finished book three, The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, and I’m about to start the fourth book, The Gate of the Feral Gods. After I’ve finished the seven DCC books, I’ll probably give The Gentleman Bastards trilogy by Scott Lynch a go.
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There is something like reading other Things?! Anyway I am similar to sircarolyn, but instead of Rotating between a regular Book and a Who Book. I usually just read whatever I still have left, which can be at times Comics that I haven’t gone around to it (outside Who!). At times, it is also a regular Book, typically a classic one that I have never gone around reading. Currently thinking if I maybe should try to read a few of the Bond Novels, after tipping my toes into the Franchise (and still far away for having finished most of them 
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Another Fun Fact: I have been trying to read “The Years of Rice and Salt” for a good while now and my progress on that book is slow, then again it’s like over 900 Pages long so…
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Slowly reading To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Really enjoying it
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I do have her work in my to-read pile! Like you said, I hear a lot of praise for her books.
I’ve been reading other kinds of writing for the past couple of years now, but I definitely intend to get back into reading Japanese authors because I have way too many books from them I haven’t read yet!
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One of the best ever!!! 10/10!!!
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I’ve tried reading multiple books at once, and it just doesn’t work for me. What I’ll usually do is read a lot of who books in a row, then take a break and read some non-who stuff. With the EDAs, I’ve been timing these breaks to be after “season finales” so it feels a bit more organic
Anyway, I recently started “This Is How You Lose the Time War”
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I’ve been slowly making my way through Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere
Have currently read (in order I read them)
Mistborn Era 1
The Final Emipire
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
Elantris
The Emperor’s Soul (Arcanum Unbounded Short)
Warbreaker
The rest of the Arcanum Unbounded shorts apart from Edgedancer
Mistborn Era 2
The Alloy of Law
Shadows of Self
The Bands of Mourning
The Lost Metal
The Stormlight Archives
The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
Edgedancer (Arcanum Unbounded Short)
And currently reading Oathbringer (Stormlight 3)
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Haha, what a coincidence since I’m also reading Murakami. I’m currently about halfway through A Wild Sheep Chase.
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A man of taste, I see. I love the Discworld series too, just the right balance of fantasy and clever humor. I’m a particular fan of the Death novels, with Reaper Man and Hogfather being some of my favorites.
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I’ve just been putting whatever I’m reading (Doctor Who or not) in the other thread (What are you currently reading?). I am going to set this to the Books category though.
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I’ve interpreted the Books category to be for those that are Doctor Who-oriented, which is why I originally had this in off-topic. It’s like the “TV Time - (But Not Doctor Who!)” topic which is in the off-topic category and not the Television category.
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