This is turning out to be a book I'm not terribly excited about: The Dog Of The South by Charles Portis. The tone sort of reminds me of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but set in Texas and Mexico and without the hardcore drugs. Parts are funny, but mostly it kind of drags and I'm not sure what the point is. If I wasn't already more than halfway through, I'd probably add it to the DNF pile. #FridayReads#AmReading#Books#Fiction#Bookstodon@bookstodon
I #amreading Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell and my heart is breaking at the beauty of her words describing an untenable reality of climate change. This is a book I will read read slowly to savor. @bookstodon
#WhatchaReading ? I haven't been posting about books much, been kind of in a meh mood. Still slowly reading Demon Copperhead, which is amazing but a LOT. Listened to Carrie Soto is Back, which was a bit of a hard sell because of the unlikable narrator but very enjoyable in the end. And just finished The Prisoner's Throne which I enjoyed but kind of forgot about as soon as I'd finished it.
I know I have several ero rom authors and readers as connections, so here we go! I looked at my spreadsheet and I have a few books ready to go. 🙀 So I'm asking readers to let me know which one they'd like to see first.
If you’re a fan of podcasts, there are over dozen pBookstodonicated to #JaneAusten and the Brontes. If I’m missing any, let me know so I can update the list!
The #JaneAusten and #Bronte Newsletter Issue 10 is out! In this issue, I list all the upcoming #virtual events happening this summer. This page is regularly updated so keep it bookmarked!
Hi, folks! I've got a set of nano-reviews up at Nerds of a Feather!
Live Long and Evolve: A non-fiction book by an evolutionary biologist about what life on other planets might look like, charmingly interwoven with relevant Star Trek lore.
The Extractionist: a very Cyber futurist heisty type book, which I found well constructed but somehow dull
THe Frame-Up_Magical art thieves. Perfectly fine, but not special.
Martin Edwards
Madhulika Liddle
David Crystal
Terry Pratchett
P. G. Wodehouse
Margery Aliingham
Cecilia Peartree
C. J. Cherryh
Iona Whishaw
Francis Vivian
10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre
I read The Second by Carol Anderson, and woof, what a devastating book! A history of how racism was the driving force behind the Second Amendment and how it continues to be enforced as a tool of white supremacy.
A short and fairly easy read, except for emotionally.
Listening to the audio of This Is Your Brain On Sports by L. Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers.
I wish I had read it closer to its 2016 pub date. 8 years later, parts are a little outdated. Example: in a list of active QBs at the time, several had yet to reach their peak. Now they're seasoned veterans or retired.
Amusingly, when quoting PK Subban, the narrator gave him a French accent. Subban grew up in Toronto.
Was out today and had unexpected free time but no book!
I opened my @omnivore app on my tablet and read the short story "The Mausoleum's Children" by @aliettedb in @UncannyMagazine. It was so good!! I'm so glad I discovered both the story and the magazine here. Moral of the story - do your best to always have something good to read!
Two books I loved, part 1: Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda, which is about four entrants in a classical piano competition in Tokyo, and the characters are all interesting and charming but best of all it just has wonderful writing about music -- like the title itself as a description of how a particular player makes a particular piece sound. It's beautiful, and unlike many books with multiple POVs, I loved all the protagonists equally and was never annoyed by a switch at the wrong time. Just beautiful stuff.
This one was a mixed bag for me. I really loved some of the characters and thought a few of the arcs were perfectly executed, but there was simply too much going on. It's the longest Discworld novel and felt much too long, particularly at the end. I loved the working class characters but found the racial politics surprisingly regressive for Pratchett. I did learn a lot about football, though.
Book 18 of 2024: Illuminae Files_01 by Kaufman & Kristoff
4 stars
I expected garden variety sci fi romance and this surpassed those expectations. Lots of well-paced twists and turns with interesting characters and themes. The romance was a little flat for me, but the innovative art design is what truly shines. The most stylistically interesting book I've read in a long time. I never thought I'd read an ergodic YA novel, but I'm very glad to be proven wrong!
A rare case where the sequel is better than the first book! I found the romance in this one more compelling, and the characters a little better-drawn and realistic. The ergodic elements continued to be interesting and well-integrated with the visual design. Several plot twists made me gasp aloud. I'm now impatiently waiting on my library hold for the final book in the trilogy to come through!