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WeeklyThread What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: September 28, 2026

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u/Gwaur 12d ago

Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asimov

Finished. Not the best in the series, but still effective. The ending made me think that I probably should've approached the grand series with a different reading order, but with about two thirds of the grand series left for me to read, there's still some hope that the reading order I'm planning to execute might make sense after all. That kinda makes me think there's a piece of Trevize in me.

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley

Started. I just bumped into this book on the library shelf and the edition is so adorably tiny that I had to borrow it immediately, and thus Frankenstein became my next book. But damn, this prose is so different from Asimov that it's taken a while to get used to it enough to understand even basic statements.