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brucy , 6 months ago to bookstodon

Doing a pinned #Books thread of my reading for 2024. Goal is 40 books, which is for sure low, but I also believe in playing games on "easy" mode. Audiobooks count, sorry.
Feel free to mute this if not your ball of wax.

Book stuff, but in app form.
Goodreads :
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/20783138
Story Graph : https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/brucy
#bookstodon @bookstodon

18+ mrcompletely , 3 months ago

@brucy @bookstodon the second one is a profoundly brilliant book. The third one, imo, is an equally profound disaster. Quite a rollercoaster

18+ mrcompletely , 3 months ago

@brucy @bookstodon perceptive review. A necessary but sterile book.

18+ mrcompletely , 1 month ago

@brucy @bookstodon right? I thought this one was brilliant, much better than the first.

bourgwick , 1 month ago to bookstodon

restarted a book i thought i maybe didn't like, but turns out i was just in an airport experiencing interminable delays when i tried before. @bookstodon

mrcompletely , 1 month ago

@bourgwick @bookstodon nice!

bourgwick , 1 month ago to bookstodon

recent-ish reading/rereading. #books @bookstodon

mrcompletely , 1 month ago

@bourgwick @bookstodon how'd you like Hyperion? One of the supposed "modern classics" I can't write dig like most SF fans

mrcompletely , 1 month ago

@bourgwick @bookstodon well, it's the Canterbury Tales In Space With A Monster, so it's definitely old fashioned! But I know what you mean. Left me cold as well. I assume you know Sterling is on Mastodon?

mrcompletely , 1 month ago

@arghdos @bourgwick @bookstodon I actually didn't think it was good 😁 but anyway

CultureDesk , 2 months ago to bookstodon

Until high school, Kate Feiffer believed that her mother Judy's novel, "A Hot Property," was about real estate. Then a boyfriend plucked the book from the shelves, started reading passages aloud, and revealed it was a piece of 1970s erotica. From then until just a few years ago, Kate considered "A Hot Property" to be her literary Waterloo — the book she'd hoped to conquer but never been able to. But on her mother's death, she picked up the novel and — between bouts of screaming and cringing — found something more thoughtful and reflective than she was expecting. Here's what she wrote for LitHub.

https://flip.it/cbERa2

#Books @bookstodon #Family #Lifestyle #Bookstodon

mrcompletely , 2 months ago

@CultureDesk @bookstodon if you've never gotten your nose all the way up in there, are you even really trying?

mrcompletely , 2 months ago

@SarahSingsank @CultureDesk @bookstodon the book or the review?

bourgwick , 2 months ago to bookstodon

#NowReading - adored every damn page of steve waksman's "this ain't the summer of love," broadly about the unceasing #metal / #punk / #underground collision, but beautifully granular, connecting micro-scenes to #musicology. it equally brought alive conversations i know about in detail (punk), ones i don't (metal), & made me thirsty to read more #zines, listen to more #music, etc.. combined with his masterful "live music in america," i now wanna read everything waksman has written. @bookstodon

mrcompletely , 2 months ago

@bourgwick @bookstodon oh nice. That was my crossover. I was a metal kid, I knew classic rock and some current radio music but at like 12 (in '81) I got heavily into the British News Wave Heavy Metal - Iron Maiden and Judas Priest - their dramatic aesthetic fit my Dungeons and Dragons mindset. But at 13-15 I started going out and experiencing all ages live shows which meant punk of all flavors and fell in love with the energy of it. Then at 16 the Dead jumped the line in the biggest possible way

mrcompletely , 2 months ago

@bourgwick @bookstodon and the scene interactions were absolutely not entirely friendly or peaceful. Most visible around Corrosion of Conformity, an early crossover band that attracted both punk and metal crowds, before "thrash" was a well understood venn diagram overlap between them. Both are hard drinking subcultures given to expressing their feelings in a physical way.

joyce , 5 months ago to random

Tonight I decided I needed to read something comforting. So I'm rereading The Last Unicorn. OMG it's good.
#Today

mrcompletely , 5 months ago

@joyce there's a stealth category of Supposed Kids' Books That You Should Absolutely Read As An Adult and that's my number two all time book on that list, the first being The Thirteen Clocks by Thurber - I know @neilhimself is a fan as well - an absolutely masterful book on every level. Everyone should get to know the Golux and the Todal. Anyone who loves The Last Unicorn is likely to love this book too

mrcompletely , 5 months ago

@KShortill @joyce I would certainly list the younger-audience works by @neilhimself to start with. He writes with respect for the minds of younger people, which is the key quality of a work like this. Calvin & Hobbes is a canonical text of this type, as are the first few Earthsea books by LeGuin. The Princess Bride novel is not, which surprises many who see the movie first. I've never written out an actual list so I'll have to think about it to recover a few more examples.