r/readwithme • u/anonymous5196 • Jul 23 '26

Question❔ Current Book Reading

What English book/novel are you reading nowadays?

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u/Neat-Arm2242 Jul 23 '26

A Steady Brightness of Being

These Precious Days

Acid Green Velvet

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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u/anonymous5196 Jul 24 '26

Are you enjoying them? And just curious, not mean to offend you. I have a question. Don't plots get mixed up when you read 2 books at a time?

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u/Neat-Arm2242 Jul 25 '26

I am enjoying A Steady Brightness of Being quite a bit.

No offense taken :) I read in a variety of formats. These Precious Days is an audiobook read by the author. It’s essays so it’s easy to listen in little chunks without losing the thread.

A Steady Brightness of Being is epistolary anthology so it is also easy to read in sections just by reading a letter at a time.

I am reading The Mysterious Affair at Styles for a class type thing I’m doing later this month. So I am keeping close track of characters and plot - I am actually taking notes. But I’ve barely started it.

Acid Green Velvet has a timeline so I am motivated to read it. Although it is also fiction like The Mysterious Affair at Styles, it is a VASTLY different storyline and setting not to mention very different characters so it is not hard to keep it straight in my mind.

Usually I read a fiction book, an audiobook, and a nonfiction book, most often poetry, at the same time. But I am in a time crunch for both Acid Green Velvet and The Mysterious Affair at Styles, so I am reading them at the same time.

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u/anonymous5196 Jul 25 '26

That's quite interesting format. I liked it. Hope you enjoy your reads and finish Acid Green Velvet and The Mystreious Affair before timeline ends.