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.
Happy birthday to #ChawtonHouse! Chawton House is celebrating 20 years open to the public! It provides a research library on women writers from 1660 - 1850. An exhibit, “Treasures of Chawton House.,” will run from September 13 - April 28, 2024.
Started another #book that's been sitting on my TBR list for a while. I added The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach to my TBR over a decade ago. I recall it being all the rage back then, so I guess it's finally time to see what all the fuss was about. I haven't even read the back of the jacket, so besides being about baseball (or at least baseball-adjacent) I have no idea what to expect. That can be a good thing. #Bookstodon#Books#AmReading#FridayReads@bookstodon
reading the news about the flood here in Norway and wiki pages on the revolution in Iran converged into a bizarre dream during my nap: i'm a spy fighting the regime and the flood simultaneously, there's danger everywhere and i must save people (from either fanatic theocrats or masses of water, choose your poison), pew-pew 🦸♀️
all i wanted was to refresh my memory of what happened in Iran during that time, so i'm not... erm... so disoriented to read Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (see what i did there? 🥁🥴)
@MichiganPal I’ve just started the Red House by Roz Watkins. I’m only a few chapter in but am so far enjoying it, after a couple of false starts on books that failed to keep my interest. It is about a dark topic but hopefully will be suspenseful rather than grim.
It does have the below quote, which my greyhound-adjacent part-whippet would resent if she could bestir herself from her bed…
"Another man sat at the corner of the desk in a blue leather chair, a cold-eyed hatchet-faced man, as lean as a rake and as hard as the manager of a loan office. His neat well-kept face looked as if it had been shaved within the hour. He wore a well-pressed brown suit and there was a black pearl in his tie. He had the long nervous fingers of a man with a quick brain. He looked ready for a fight." #Bookstodon#AmReading#Books#RaymondChandler@bookstodon
Well over 60% through Demon Copperhead, which I will say I’m confused as to why Trust by Hernan Diaz also won the fiction Pulitzer Prize, especially when it was alongside DC. But whatever, I digress. I started reading Unscripted by James B. Stewart & Rachel Abrams last evening to see what the writing style was like. I don’t read a lot of non-fiction, but I think this is going to be a good one. It’s about CBS, Sumner Redstone & it’s said if you liked the TV show, Succession, then you will enjoy this. https://share.libbyapp.com/title/8998907 #books#amreading#booktoot@bookstodon
I started Demon Copperhead at the beginning of July, but put it down b/c several library books came in. I’m back at it & it’s definitely a good one. #friday#books#kindle#fiction#amreading@bookstodon