Some recent books posts from the community.
Finished reading: The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis 📚
Books Read: The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny 📚★★★★☆
Finished Listening: How To Write Funny by Scott Dikkers 📚
Finished reading: Om uträkning av omfång 1 by Solvej Balle 📚
Currently reading: The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim 📚
Currently reading: Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage by Tim Robinson 📚
Currently reading: The House by the Sea by May Sarton 📚
Currently reading: Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee 📚
Finished Reading: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao 📚
Finished Reading: The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang 📚
Finished reading: 成瀬は天下を取りにいく by 宮島未奈 📚
妙な事を思いつき、ひたすら実践しどんどん実現していく主人公の成瀬。彼女の姿と若さがすがすがしく、帯のAマッソの加納さんの「成瀬になりたくて、なれなかった。だから芸人になった。」はまさにという感じ。他人がから見るとなんでも実現していく天才だが、最終話で本人視点で葛藤や悩みも描かれているところが深い。
Currently reading: The Shortest History of Greece: The Odyssey of a Nation from Myth to Modernity (Shortest History) by James Heneage 📚when in er, Greece
📖 Starting A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab
Books Read: Grape, Olive, Pig by Matt Goulding 📚★★★★☆
The perfect preparation for our Spain trip later this year. Parts of the book are also an Apple TV+ show (Omnivore) now.
Finished reading: Blood Meridian, Or, The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy is bleak, nihilistic, and compelling 📚
Currently Reading: Consiglieri by Richard Hytner 📚
Don’t buy this book on Apple Books. The formatting leaves a huge empty strip on the right hand side that makes it extremely frustrating to read. I’ll slog through it but it’s extremely annoying…
Finished Reading: City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett 📚
★★★★★
After completing the authors Founders Trilogy, I’ve now started his “Divine Cities” trilogy. Fabulous world/System building as always, but Bennett’s books always just have just such goddamn richly written characters
Just a joy.
Finished reading: This Fierce People by Alan Pell Crawford 📚💙💙💙💙🖤
I’m about 75% through Robin Sloan’s Moonbound and I don’t want this book to end. Moonbound’s world is smart, zany, and consistently surprising. I’m not ready to leave it. 📚
Finished reading: A Catalogue for the End of Humanity by Timothy Hickson 📚
A fantastic collection of sci-fi and fantasy short stories. Especially loved On the Beach of Forgotten Things and Trickle Down Lobotomies.
Finished reading: バカと無知 by 橘玲 📚
読了。バカは自分がバカと気付けないからバカである。そして世界には存外にバカが多いにも関わらず、世界は理性や科学で社会が運営されていると信じられている。体感では感じていたことだが言語化してくれた本。バカには注意しましょう。
Want to read: A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr 📚
Eager to check out this novel after hearing it being discussed so enthusiastically on the lit podcast Across the Pond.
Currently reading: The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson 📚
Finished reading: Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper 📚
Currently reading: Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson 📚
Currently reading: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson 📚
Lendo: Baixo Paraíso de Isabella de Andrade 📚
Currently reading: Bearing God’s Name by Carmen Joy Imes 📚 Currently at the third chapter and enjoying it a lot. Dr. Imes is a very witty writer and has some great insights.
Finished reading: A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler 📚
This was a beautiful, little book I got on a whim from the library.
Finished reading: This Other Eden by Paul Harding 📚An excellent novel. There is child abuse, which normally means I stop reading a novel, but I can see that it was integral to the story and the overall message of the book is both beautiful and sad. A beautiful island Maine setting in early 1900s.
Currently reading: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt 📚
Currently reading: Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman 📚
Finished reading: What Is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 📚
This is a very interesting book about the problem of property and equity. It is an excellent exercise for people’s minds.
Finished reading: The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis 📚.
The restoration of all things. This is all but a shadow.
It’s all in Plato, all in Plato: Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools? - Digory Kirke.
Finished reading: God and the Cosmos by Harry Lee Poe 📚
Currently Reading: Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez 📚
Finished reading: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway 📚A very fun sci-fi / detective noir read. Interesting world building, fun characters and a good story. Highly recommended.
Finished reading: The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism by Mark D. Jordan 📚
A little dated in certain respects, but perhaps not as much as one might think.
Finished reading: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi.
What a remarkable book. I love academic memoirs, & this fits within that genre—but pushes well beyond it as well. It’s also a profound meditation on cancer, mortality, healthcare, poetry, faith, love, & family. Highly recommended. 📚
Finished reading: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon 📚
I enjoyed this and as a debut novel goes it’s written well. I’m certainly keen to explore what the author did next.
Currently reading: The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis 📚
Finished reading: Amulet 3: The Cloud Searchers by Kazu Kibuishi 📚
Finished reading: Star Mage Corps: Star Sorceress: Book Four by D. L. Harrison 📚
★★☆☆☆
Finished reading: Fine Structure by qntm 📚
Currently listening: How To Write Funny by Scott Dikkers 📚
Finished reading: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha 📚
👍🏻 - I liked this.
Took me a long time to finish reading, but not because of the story. I enjoyed it, and there were quite a few ideas in there tailor made for me, or taken straight from my head from various story and game ideas I’ve had.
Finished reading: Way Station by Clifford D. Simak 📚
A sci-fi classic with a unique premise, that I couldn’t put down. If a returned US Civil War soldier who doesn’t age working as a stationmaster for aliens from across the galaxy doesn’t intrigue you, then I don’t know what to say. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Finished reading: The Collected Poems by Robert Frost 📚
Currently reading: Way Station by Clifford D. Simak 📚
Finished reading: The Year of Less by Cait Flanders 📚
Finished reading: The Box Man by Abe Kōbō 📚
Sticks are fine things. You can dabble in ponds with them. You can throw them for dogs to fetch. And if they’re of the right build - stout, with a hand-snug end - you can stride through the woods using one as an aid, not just for the walking but for the general quality of the experience.
— From Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚
Finished reading: The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie 📚
Finished reading: Prooi by Deon Meyer 📚
Ergens halverwege begon ik scènes tegen te komen die me bekend voorkwamen, maar zonder dat ik me het grote verhaal kon herinneren. Ik vraag me nu af of ik het boek al eens gelezen had 🤔
Finished reading: Fleet Mage: Star Sorceress: Book Three by D. L. Harrison 📚
★★☆☆☆
Finished reading: Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel 📚
