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Fiction

Bobstandard

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3. Finishing Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle

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Sun Aug 17, 2025, 11:53 AM

Aug 17

Fascinating speculative historical fiction set in the Age of Enlightenment. Stephenson is wildly creative, tremendously erudite, and flat out fun to follow through the three ‘bricks’ of the trilogy (each volume weighs in at over 800 pages!).

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What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 17, 2025? [View all] hermetic Aug 17 OP

Still working on "The Sacred Bridge" by Anne Hillerman Ritabert Aug 17 #1

Love those stories hermetic Aug 17 #2

I would read her first two ones to get a surprising twist Ritabert Aug 17 #10

Finishing Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle Bobstandard Aug 17 #3

An impressive feat hermetic Aug 17 #4

No spoilers on Coded Justice, please. Still cbabe Aug 17 #5

Not strictly fiction - The Harlem Reader. LoisB Aug 17 #6

Reading, The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides on the recommendations of my sisters. Polly Hennessey Aug 17 #7

Sounds fun hermetic Aug 17 #8

Beautiful library pic. Discovered that book 26 of Spencer Quinn's Chet and Bernie mysteries txwhitedove Aug 17 #9

Enjoy the flight. hermetic Aug 17 #11

Falling is a heckuva thriller. Newman knows her stuff. cbabe Aug 17 #12

Yes, indeed. An FBI agent character is biting her nails like i am now, OMG! txwhitedove Aug 17 #17

Half-way through "Medicus" by Ruth Downie Number9Dream Aug 17 #13

Yes, adorable little kitties hermetic Aug 17 #15

Marble Hall Murders by Horowitz unc70 Aug 17 #14

I did not know hermetic Aug 17 #16

I'm reading A Crowning Mercy by Bernard Cornwell. rsdsharp Aug 17 #18

Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that hermetic Aug 17 #19

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