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Hey, I’m Gamma he/him 👋 I like gamedev and writing fiction! Haven’t written anything shareable in a while since I’ve been working on a few Playdate games this year. I like to talk about most anything. Any book recommendations? Fiction or nonfiction, but preferably audiobook because libby might have it 🤞
Does your Libby have the same shit as mine?
Recently listened to The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow, Wendell Berry: Unsettling of America, Steve Coll: Directorate S, also Coll: Shadow Wars, Raven by Tim Reiterman, Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakaeur,The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel. We Carry Their Bones by Erin Kimmerle.
All non-fiction but all good. The two books by Coll are two of the best books I've ever read, if you're at all interested in the Afghan war or the CIA. And David Graeber is definitely a favourite of mine as well.
Also, if you don't know about it, Librivox is a cool source for audiobooks. It's all volunteer-read from Project Guttenburg. The quality can be a little rough if you're used to profressional audiobooks, but some of the readers are really good and there's a lot of great stuff. A reader I really like on that platform is called Expatriate, loved his reading of Don Quioxote.
Found a few; Stranger in the Woods, Dawn of Everything. Added We Carry Their Bones to a notify list so I hear when it comes in. The last one kinda reminds me of Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, that was a good listen!
Haven’t heard of Librivox, I’ll have to check it out when I run out of stuff at the library 😆 Thanks for all the recs!
Just finished The Stranger in the Woods, it was really good! The Dawn of Everything should be up soon, I’ll get to it after The Winners 😄
Pretty amazing story eh? Imagine what his winters were like, for so many years! Peculiar guy.
Having grown up in Montana, the coastal deep freeze is something I’d rather not experience 🥶 especially by myself in the woods! Insane to think that he was so close to people the whole time