Currently reading the second novel of Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

I'm enjoying it because I enjoyed the series but, honestly, the show feels superior to me. Basically the show gives you everything the novels do, and the translation is much more expressive. I still do enjoy the books as they do give some bits of depth in character backgrounds that wasn't properly explained in the series. But the anime gives you amazing directing by Noboru Ishiguro, incredible voice acting and elevates what is, frankly, a strong but unremarkable series of novels. It's getting much better with volume 2, however, now that a lot of the world-building is out of the way.

I'm rereading The Karankawa Indians of Texas: An Ecological Study of Cultural Tradition and Change and learning so much more than they ever taught us in elementary school. It turns out I had a lot of misconceptions about these people. I thought they were primitive cannibals.

Cert Guide CompTIA Security+ SY0-401 Third Edition.

American Gods by  Neil Gaiman? That from what i remember was such an trippy book. Enjoy.

Thanks to my E-reader am reading too much/many crappy smutty romance books...so on a quest to read some more serious stuff... I read All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.
Which was a very interesting look at what life trends are poplar for a large number of  American women currently. With a lot of background on how this section of society has impact the USA,...my summary is crap but the book is interesting.

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

It's meh.

I am glad that you are enjoying it!

In addition to reading tons of smut! I a few weeks ago, I read a book about transportation in the USA called, Door to Door, then Weapons of Math Destruction: which is about how all the use of algorithms and the internet are impacting society. Now that I think about it, its unsurprising how both of them mentioned the Amazon as an example; I just thought about it.

I read some of Terry Pratchetts Going Postal. It was hilarious! I got a long list of books I have yet to read.

I'm reading Animal Farm, which I haven't even looked at since like middle school. I hated it then, but with the same burning rage I felt for anything I was forced BY THE SYSTEM to expose myself to.

There's been a lot of talk about 1984 and how relevant it is right now, but I have to say Animal Farm feels more on the nose just now. Maybe it's the more juvenile writing and setting? Or that the system is maintained less by fear than by inflicted ignorance. But it's definitely a lot more valuable this time around, especially with the current US 'government' so consciously rewriting the commandments and saying things that happened didn't.

I'm enjoying it more now. The absolute best way to make me hate a book is force me to read it, so a lot of otherwise great novels just have bad juju for me because of the miserable way I had to read them.

The Scarlet Letter still sucks, though.

I've never read The Scarlet Letter, though since I'm not done with high school yet I may be forced to one year
Kind of a topic derail, but one book I absolutely hated that I was assigned to read was A Separate Piece. I hated the main character so much, and the fact that he reminds me a little of me didn't help, lol.

I'm reading the months-old that I haven't got to reading yet new Bakemonogatari novels. I'm a fan of the Bakemonogatari anime, mostly because I'm a pathetic weeaboo but ALSO cause I like how it blends folklore/mythology with personal problems. As for the rest of the Monogatari series... it's all mehh... and there are a lot of parts that made me feel uncomfortable (not to start any thread derailment so I'll just leave it there).
BUT YEah the translation is pretty wonky in my opinion. Some sentences just don't flow, I guess? I dunno.

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I finally finished Demian. It was really gay. It was also very interesting and brought me some insight to my own life and how I might start a cult around Abraxas. Also, Demain x Emil.

Ps, the Hebrew translation was really good! Usage of high language was hard for me to read at the start, but fitting for a book of this nature.

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Stardust by Niel Gaiman. First book of his I'm reading. I know, I know, I haven't even read Coraline (yet!).
I still need to finish Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas... I stopped right at Part 2 and haven't started back up again. Some books on my to-read list are Catch 22 and Push.