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Hello! My name is Francis and this is my reading blog, where I'll post the stuff that I've read or currently reading(if I even read). I am not a very active reader as I read books I generally find interesting or books that I fine appealing to my sense of interest, but I do enjoy to read short stories and made up stories by different people, not like novels.

Books I am currently reading:
- Neptune's Inferno
- Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time

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