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Originally Posted by CRussel
I personally don't understand! The pandemic has not made me even a _little_ more inclined to read anything dark. In fact, the opposite. I find myself doing marathon re-reads of old favourites and series. For example, I'm now working my way back through the Honor Harrington books. Mostly as audio, but sometimes switching over to my Kindle. But I also started a new series, The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells. I'm not sure quite why they're working for me, but they are. However, they're seriously overpriced at Amazon (>$10 for a novella of 150 pages???), so I'm having to be patient at the Library.
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This reflects my mood for the year pretty well. I've been picking stuff that I already know I like, or stuff that isn't too dark.
Even the Murderbot comment matches. I read the first (bought on special) a while ago and was entertained enough that I will be happy to read more, but not enough to pay the premium prices currently being asked for what are barely novellas. Maybe they'll come down before my battery runs out .. or not - publisher's choice, I have plenty of other stuff to read.