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sarahf , 8 months ago to bookstodon

This is very sad news! RIP #A.S.Byatt.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/17/as-byatt-author-and-critic-dies-aged-87

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Arlenecw , 8 months ago

@sarahf @bookstodon Possession is one of my favorite books. So sad to hear she is gone.

kimlockhartga , 8 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon I don't know how you all cure a reading slump, but I just loaded up on as many graphic novels as I can get for free. It usually works. Bonus: getting to read some new graphic novels!

Arlenecw , 8 months ago

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Historical Fiction always gets me out of a slump. My go tos are Alison Weir, Phillipa Gregory or Kate Quinn. Always works.

stephenwhq , 8 months ago to bookstodon

So a dilemma. A book with a great premise, written with panache, should be in my love zone, by a small press I admire.... doesn't land for me.

I don't particularly like posting meh reviews, unless they're big authors who can take it. It has a hefty number of reviews which really like it. And I'm not an edgelord who just wants to be a contrarian.

So, do I give it a three stars review for trying.

#writerlife #reading #readersofmastondon #booktoot #mastobooks @bookstodon

Arlenecw , 8 months ago

@stephenwhq @bookstodon I would give it three stars. Any fewer and it looks like you hated it!

kimlockhartga , 8 months ago to bookstodon

You know the drill, @bookstodon Whatcha reading this weekend? ❤📚👀

I finished WE ARE THE CRISIS, the excellent second installment of Cadwell Turnbull's Convergence Saga. NO GODS, NO MONSTERS was the first book.

I'm currently reading Ed Park's bizarro SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS.

Next up: THE FUTURE, by Naomi Alderman, author of THE POWER.

Arlenecw , 8 months ago

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon I will be starting Never Let Me Go and Study of Obedience this weekend.

lunalein , 8 months ago to bookstodon

October #books roundup part 1:
Ponyboy - Eliot Duncan*
The Witness for the Dead/The Grief of Stones - Katherine Addison
Land of Milk and Honey - C Pam Zhang*
If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery
Silver Nitrate - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Tomb Sweeping -Alexandra Chang
What Kind of Mother - Clay McLeod Chapman
Blackouts - Justin Torres*
Lute - Jennifer Thorne
Moonrise Over New Jessup - Jamila Minnicks

*tell me if you’ve read these, i love them.

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Arlenecw , 8 months ago

@lunalein @bookstodon I Just finished If I Survive You which I loved.

kimlockhartga , 9 months ago to bookstodon

All right, @bookstodon what are you reading this Friday the 13th, and is it a spooky read? 🎃❤📚 #books #bookstodon

Arlenecw , 9 months ago

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon I don’t know if it’s spooky or not, but I will ne starting Birnam Wood.

kimlockhartga , 10 months ago to bookstodon

Okay, kids, it's FRIDAY! So whatcha reading this weekend? 📚😎📚

I've got a load of new books to read. I don't even know where to start. A friend gifted me a copy of the graphic novel Black Hole, by Charles Burns, so probably that and another graphic novel Flights, which has like six volumes, and somehow I'm starting with vol. 2. edited by Kazu Kibuishi. And I plan to fit in The Vaster Wilds by the incomparable Lauren Groff.
❤📚❤ @bookstodon #books #BooksWorthReading

Arlenecw , 10 months ago

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon The Fraud by Zadie Smith!