My wife's friends are all talking about The Alice Network and how good it is. I never made the connection between that book and The Huntress, which I just started after having it on my TBR for the past four years, until I saw the cover of The Huntress up close.
Only about an hour into the 19 hour #audiobook, but liking it so far. This is going to take a while. 🙄
I present to you: my September TBR! I think it's pretty reasonable but then again I'm cheating and starting today with Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Not shown is my digital TBR which consists of Gideon the Ninth of which I have read three quarters already.
Really looking forward to Pet Semetary by Stephen King. Heard very good things about Pachinko but the size scares me a bit.
Ok Bookworms, we are past the halfway point of 2023.
3 questions:
-Are you looking forward to reading a specific book?
-How’s your reading been this year?
-What are you reading now?
I’m looking forward to reading The Wager by David Grann (already out) & Ana Turns by Lisa Gornick (Netgalley ARC). My reading this year has just been ok, not meaning the books (those have been good & often great), but rather my time reading. Currently I’m reading Rabbits by Terry Miles & recently started Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. #books#amreading#booktoot#photography@bookstodon
Full moon tomorrow night, but even the waxing gibbous tonight should be an excuse to do this:
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“Walk out onto the planet tonight. Even the moon is giving back your share of borrowed light and you take it back, in the name of everything you can’t take back in your life.”
Started this some months ago, but didn’t get far (yes, fine, if you must know I did lose it and had to return it to the library by the time I found it)
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson is a fun read so far. The brief history behind the dialect that inspired International Talk Like a Pirate Day (mark your calendar) alone makes it worth picking up. #Books#Bookstodon#FridayReads#AmReading#Pirates#NonFiction#Arrrr@bookstodon
It’s not fair to books that may not have that attractive of a cover, but it is what it is-most especially when it’s an author or title I am unfamiliar with. The book below is evidence of this. This cover completely grabbed ahold of my attention. Not only did I read the synopsis, but I also knew I wanted to paint the other half. This is an older picture, but I’ve finally started reading it. While the synopsis is not one I’d gravitate towards, I’m giving it a chance, & all b/c of the initial attraction to the cover.#books#amreading#art#photography#randomhouse#delrey#ballantinebooks@bookstodon
Head cold from hell all week so I've been reading while sooking about being sick for the first thing in ages. First up is Problem Solved: True Stories from a Blind Private Eye
Traded in some books & came home with some new ones. Trade-size editions are my favorites. In fact one of these is a trade for the same book that was a hardback (my least favorite reading format).
I manage to read a chapter per day of A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. It is a good book, but the prose somehow is difficult to read... at least to me. Well, at least that way I'll manage.