Books.

I absolutely adore reading and I spend most of my time with my head in a book!  I mostly read thrillers but I also love horror and recently I've been branching out and reading some contemporary/literary fiction books.

Some of my fave books are:

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth 
• The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
• Small Favors by Erin A Craig 
• The Push by Ashley Audrain
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito 
• Salt To The Sea by Ruta Sepetys
• The Broken Girls by Simone St James
• The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
• I Let You Go by Clare Macintosh 
• The Lighthouse Witches by CJ Cooke

I LOVE reading! And I have tons of favourite books! I am currently reading Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas  I also have a bookstagram that I update with my current reads, reviews and anything else .

I’m a HUGE paperback lover! But I do love my kindle too! I only buy my favourites in paperback after reading them on the kindle to see if I enjoyed them and if I would reread them again  x

I'm reading the Hobbit

Even you Brutus against me?

I say it often to some jumping off the shelf tin of tomatos, after I was trying to put it there  

That sound excellent, mate. I'll look into it. Thank you.

Have you read ''Quo vadis?'' by Henryk Sienkiewicz ? I looked it up, there is english translation, It's a novel about Rome when Nero was Caesar

Tom Holland's two books on the latter days of the ancient Roman Republic and the first emperors. Great reads both.

Today I just finished the first book in a series I started recently. It’s called The Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings. It’s the first in a fantasy series called The Belgariad. It was excellent and I have the second on my bedside table ready to start tonight. I can’t wait. It was nice to get lost in a book again.

Hi

I've loved reading books since I was a little sprog. My favourite book is The Starless Sea. Best book ever IMO

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Starless-Sea-Erin-Morgenstern-ebook/dp/B07KBW4BKY/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=338TH4RNE82WE&keywords=the+starless+sea&qid=1673171962&sprefix=the+starl%2Caps%2C760&sr=8-1

But at the moment I'm reading Mister Monday by Gareth Nix. It's a good book so far

I'm reading "Night Without End" by Alistair Maclean which I picked up second hand recently. I love books but don't own my own home so need to limit my personal possessions to some extent. I read a lot of young adult fiction despite being almost 50.

I don't read a lot of fiction, but cookery and diy, i've got loads. When i go to the librabry i'll often borrow biographies. I does'nt have to be just anyone famous or a celebrity, but rather read just an ordinary everyday person. Perhaps an old person writing about their adventues growing up, as a child during the War ,the dangers of the blitz all around . Or a mans story about leaving home and going to fight for his Country as a 17yo, when none of them had ever travelled more than a few miles from home before.  And yet they came through all the bad times and often made friends for life.

I have written a couple of Sci-Fi pastiches for online fan sites. I think my world-building, plot-lines and characters were good, what I could not do was write flowing, natural sounding or believable dialogue - at least to me it seemed clunky and false. Perhaps this is what they mean with 'difficulties with social imagination'.

Steven said:

stereotypical view of the mathematically-minded autistic genius

as the only autistic version is wrong, it's just one of autistic faces, 

just because it's to complicated to describe it and to communicate it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it only means there are no means to explain it in an easy mannner yet.

More pleasingly:

'This paradox led researchers at the universities of East Anglia and Stirling to study creativity and autistic traits in a large group of both autistic and non-autistic individuals. Their tests of creativity involved coming up with as many innovative uses for common objects or interpretations of vague pictures as they could in one minute. The total number of suggestions was recorded, and they were rated on how unusual they were.

The authors found that individuals with higher levels of autistic traits made fewer suggestions than those with lower levels of autistic traits. Surprisingly, however, the suggestions from those with higher levels of traits had greater originality. It seems that being on the autistic spectrum is associated with being able to generate suggestions that were more creative.

Why is this particularly interesting? Given the plethora of reports of autistic difficulties and deficits, I always think that research on the strengths of autism is important. But this finding is intriguing because, even when considering autistic talents and ability, it doesn’t quite fit with the stereotypical view of the mathematically-minded autistic genius who lacks flexibility of thought and imagination.'

theconversation.com/autistic-people-are-more-creative-than-you-might-think-46107

I went on Google to see if there'd been any studies of autistic imagination; before I'd finished typing the sentence, the top result appeared: 'Can autistic people have imagination?' 

I found time to read books again out of nowhere seemingly  Whenever I go outside smoking I take a book with me, instead of my phone, so reading moves forward in 10min long intervals, allowing me to finish 1k pages book in a month. 

I continue to keep contact with one of my ex-workmates because he is the most understanding and accepting allistc I have ever met, we chat via whatsup now and than. He recommended I read a chinese scifi trilogy by Cixin Liu ''Three-body problem'', ''The Dark Forest'', ''Death's End'', and I am almost at the end of 3rd tome finding it most captivating with many innovative ideas.

In ''Death's End'' they encounter an area in space outside our solar system where 4D space manifests into our 3D space. If you want to find details about why, who, and when read the book. I wanted to talked about description of 4D space in a book only, as it is peculiar. Peculiar in way that's almost identical with my system of imagining I imagined, which I mentioned many times without specifics. Free-roaming ghost-like/bodyless perception in 3D space that can see through walls, more or less. Or described differently: internal, personal 3D Autocad-like Imagination. I've never told any specifics to anybody.

I wonder would that be something autistic related?? Would that indicate Cixin Liu is autistic as well?

The way our imagination works, except it's very difficult to describe it in words, so there isn't many trying. 

That sounds cool. I really want to try and get into audiobooks - but I haven't yet. Would like to try one at some point though.

Now the gap's on my part Estrella as I missed this message.

I like magic realism too.

However my favourites are Russell Hoban (just some of his books) especially Turtle Diary.  And Primo Levi  - particularly The Periodic Table and some of his short stories.  I love the Periodic Table because he tells anecdotes about relatives and people he knew in Turin, and relates their human qualities to the properties of whichever element the chapter is named after.

I like Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolfe, I think partly because it's short!  My attention span is not what it once was.

I liked TIme's Arrow by Martin Amis - I do like thinking about time, and time-travel though I don't believe in it.

I also listen to an audio-Bible that has wonderful narrators like Michael York.  And non-fiction by people like CS Lewis and Fran Schaeffer.

Lately I've been reading some Katie Fforde for some fun 'chick-lit'.

That seems like an eclectic selection, and not much very recent!  

I’ve had the world of books opened up to me through audiobooks. I just thought that I couldn’t spell or retain what I read very well. It was only after autism came to town that I realised that I have dyslexia. 
I’ve just listened to A kind of Spark and Show us Who You Are, both are by Elle Mcnicoll. Elle is autistic and both books are written around autistic lead characters. There are two more books that I’m planning to read soon. Elle spends a lot of time in schools, her books are used by many schools as teaching aids. She often posts updates showing some of her visits and how neurodivergent children are so included and not made to feel as the weird person in the class.