Daytime: Canadian Food Words by Bill Casselman . I bet you don't know what damper dogs are! It's not just funny words (along with their etymology) and the foods they designate (along with their ethnic origins); it's a history of Canadian migration and settlements. Bedside: The Fourth Hand by John Irving. It's not my favourite, so far; liked Garp and Owen Meany much better.
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman. I wanted to go see the movie, but I couldn't. So I figured I'd read the book. And I'm really enjoying it so far! Hopefully it isn't one of those books with a disappointing ending. But so far, I'd definitely recommend it.
Fire and Fury by Micheal Wolff. Holy shit this is such a poorly written/edited book. I heard a bit of controversy concerning its accuracy and everything but woooow literally no one talked about how badly written it is. So many glaring typos and the language is so confusing, sometimes almost impossible to read because it's so oddly written. It was clearly a very rushed book, meant to start a media firestorm and move copies more than anything else. I'm about 60 pages until I'm done, and it's starting to turn into a struggle to get there.
End of Watch. I can't figure out if I'm disappointed or not, at least at this moment in time. To be fair, I knew it was going to be something like this, but I think a part of me was hoping it would be different.
Monkey is really good. I find it very hard to put down. Planning on reading the Chinese epic Three Kingdoms once I finish Monkey.
Finished Fire and Fury a few days ago. I briefly read A River of Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea the other day (try to guess what it's about if you think you can) and composed a review of it for my dumbass new blog. You can read that review on my blog here if you want. I'll get around to writing my thoughts out on the Fire and Fury sometime.
I'm pretty sure this thread exists but I couldn't find it so I thought I make a new one. The question is a pretty simple one, whatcha reading?
So I develop brain damage and decided to purchase Empress Theresa by Norman Boutin. on Kindle for $2.99. Wish me luck! My next Kindle purchase will be the Dune series however. I own the physical copies but still want the digital on kindle.
You're right in that we already have a thread like this: https://www.writingforums.org/threads/what-are-you-reading-now.8536/ I suggest you head over there since that's where everyone else goes.
Currently reading Empress Teresa by Norman Boutin, because I hate myself. It's basically about a Good Catholic Girl, with no sex nor violence, lol, except for when there is, plus cursing too. Teresa is narcissistic and a Mary sue. It's beautiful.
Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories edited by Daniel Halpern...all those short stories and not one inspires me, but I'm only on page 110. Meh. Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey...is it me or does she seem to break out of third character and go into second? It's kind of humorous the way she openly addresses the reader, but no, get on with the story, woman! Ha! Or maybe my sleepiness is playing tricks on me? Perhaps she doesn't talk to the reader(s)? Oh well, can't remember. I've been reading this ever since September or October of last year. Ugh.
she does in a lot of books - the most famous example is "reader I married him" at the end of P&P .... its a style thing for the time at which she was writing
Currently reading Ottessa Moshfegh's, Homesick for Another World. So far, I'm blown away. The writing is clean and precise, the characters damaged enough to be interesting.
The second Expanse book, whatever it's called. It's okay. Fairly generic. Lots of big numbers and overkill. I don't know. The characters suck, but they did in the first book too, so I shouldn't be surprised. Come to think of it, I have no idea why I paid money for this and continue to read it. Maybe I'll have a beer.
Isnt this the stuff @Wreybies raves about ... maybe it gets better if you stick with it (or drink enough sangria)
I enjoyed these books, tbh. They won't change your life. They won't alter how you perceive your humanity. They don't answer any of The Big Questions™. They're old-fashioned space adventure*. And - no reason to lie - I saw the show first before reading the books and already had a massive crush on Frankie Adams who plays GySgt Bobbie Draper. Yes, I'm as gay as the day is long, and it doesn't matter one bit. I just want to be part of her unit, in full armor, weapons ready, screaming my soldier fury into the ether, woe be unto anyone or anything in range of my plasma rifle. * No, that's not really a genre. No, I don't want to engage anyone in a what is and what isn't in the genre conversation.
The Expanse, or Caliban's War (the second book), by James S A Corey, is that the one? Read the first (Leviathon Wakes), which I enjoyed, but then the tv series came along and haven't managed to get into the second. The tv series is excellent. Just getting through my first magazine of short stories, Asimov's magazine. Also just downloaded a Henry James novel, because I have never read any of his books, and because it was free on kindle. Also still working my way through Steppenwolf.
Yeah, he thinks one of the actors in the show is hot. The books aren't bad, just... blah? It feels like 10k people are getting killed on every other page. The numbers almost feel mad-libbed to me with no substance behind them. And the gushing about power armor and space ship specs gets old in a hurry. Kind of like a poor man's Forever War or Starship Troopers, but at least Haldeman and Heinlein had something to say about humanity... or anything else.
I'm conflicted now - you really enjoyed american gods too which I thought was kinda meh ( I got about a third of the way in and gave up) , on the other hand I like adventure in space or elsewhere ( I like Old mans war, starship troopers, etc ) I may have to get the first one and see how it goes
I thought it was the engineering dude... Amos? Or are you double dipping now? Oof... that's as different as different gets.
On topic I just reread dogs of war - I didnt enjoy it as much as i did before i started writing - I kept picking up redundancies in the text, and plot holes etc that I didnt notice before ... it wasnt bad, but it wasnt as good as i remembered
