Finished Legends and Lattes this morning. The last 20-30 pages really picked up the pace and boosted the book's overall rating from 3.5 to 4. A very fun and relaxing read, without too much depth or plot. But that can be allright too!
Maybe I'll pick up the new book by the same author too. Anyone started with that already?
I'm reading EX-WIFE (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2142191.Ex_Wife) by Ursula Parrott. Written in 1929, the language is so 2023 modern despite being written 100 years ago. Name checks Fitzgerald & Hemingway in the book who are Parrott's contemporaries. @internetarchive has it available. A++ Would recommend.
“We can't do anything without each other. But it's the greedy ones, the cruel ones, who hold together and strengthen each other. And those who won't join them stand each alone...Nobody can be free alone. Not even a mage. All of them working their magic in prison cells, to gain nothing. There's no way to use power for good.”
Exactly my thoughts about the Creator and the state of the world
"But there were things to suggest to a thinking man that the Creator of mankind had a very oblique sense of fun indeed, and to breed in his heart a rage to storm the gates of heaven...
...The mugs, for example.
They had legends on them like A Present From the Holy Grotto of Ossory, or To The World’s Greatest Daddy" #SmallGods#terrypratchett#discworld#discworldquotes#reading@bookstodon#books#amreading#literature
I #amreading the book Little Fingers by Filip Florian. The paragraph I'm reading is over 6 pages long. It is a translation, but really, someone learn what paragraphs are and how they work.
I like the book, but it's one of those where it can be hard to pick up and start but enjoyable once you do.
The Past is red by Catherynne M. Valente was a great read and my first 5-Star book for this month.
It easily manages to be fun and depressing, makes some great points about our behaviour without being preachy and gifted me with a couple more fun insults.
I can definitely recommend it, as it's a short read with no fat whatsoever. Love me a well paced book.
Yesterday I started Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour without really remembering what it's about. About an hour and a half into the audiobook, I'm thinking to myself "I've MET these people." If you've ever worked in direct sales, you know what I mean. Think Boiler Room, but updated by about 20 years.
@kimlockhartga@bookstodon Not spooky, no, but third in a new-to-me series by Naomi Klein featuring snarky Poppy McAllister. This one’s called Restaurant Weeks are Murder. Definitely a fun #cozymystery read.
What a fucking BOOK holy heck.
I’ll need to find a hard copy of it so I can devour it again and again, and inevitably lend it out and lose it forever. But it’ll be WORTH IT.
Up there with Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs for beautiful stories that split and twist like braided rivers before spilling back into the ocean.
Might have a new top five book ay