I didn't even know that was possible. I thought Amazon would keep reminding you it was there until you bought it or they just took it back. "Buy it or lose it, bub. Don't keep us hangin'." Besides, it wouldn't be possible for me. Things in my shopping cart usually spend only minutes there. I only get on Amazon if I'm going to buy something. I don't usually go there to browse.
Technically it's not in my shopping cart. It's in that save for later part. I have probably 40-50 books sitting in there, waiting for me to have time to read them. If I don't keep some kind of list, I'll forget all about it and never read it.
I'm 2/3 into "The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex." It's the true story of a whaleship that was rammed and sunk by a rogue sperm whale, leaving 28 men on three boats in the middle of the Pacific in 1821. A harrowing story of survival. Spoiler -- only 4 men survived, 2 each on separate boats, starved and dehydrated and almost dead. The incident is said to be the inspiration for "Moby Dick" and I can see that. At the same time the PETAish side wants to sees a rough justice in the incident, since the men had already butchered a dozen or so whales and were about to kill this one when it -- very unusually -- turned the tables and seems to have deliberately rammed the ship.
I love Herman Melville's take on it. The White Whale has been a fascination of mine for a long time! I'm a kaiju freak so I like the idea of the whale that destroyed Essex being something unusual, even preternatural; an atypically large and violent sperm whale with a ghostly pallor and an unquenchable spite would, indeed, be a terrifying thing to face as a member aboard a wooden sea-vessel.
I've recently finished Babylon's Ashes myself, after reading it immediately after Cibola Burn and Nemesis games (did that one in 5 days). I bought Persepolis Rising a couple of months ago, but I'm saving it until my exams are done as a reward. I have so many questions, especially regarding one character who's been pivotal in the most recent books, and some latent romantic part of me is hoping the "will they/won't they" dilemma between two of the characters is resolved. I'm afraid to start it because I have to wait until December for the next novel and whenever they show Season 3. Got done with Misery by Stephen King a couple of days ago, really enjoyed it. Spoke a little to me about the struggles of writing. Sometimes feels like I've got an Annie Wilkes in the room with me. Found myself reading it on the train, making dinner, and stopping whatever I was doing for a chapter.
I think you can store books and things in your wishlist if you don’t want to buy it now. I’ve had things stored in there for years and forgot I even had them there. That reminds me..
I am alternating between two books on productivity (Deep Work by Cal Newport and Productivity Ninja by Graham Allcott) and for fiction I'm reading The Three Musketeers.
^This. As a neuroscience student who one day wishes to join the "fight" against neurological disorders, this book is quite fascinating. And I finally took the dive and brought, Book buddies swear by this series. And as I was lacking a "fun" book to read, I picked it up last night. Excited to sit down later and give it a go.
The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub. I owned black house for years but didn't want to read it until I read this. So far I'm loving it.
The SVF is a pain in my ass, so I picked this up as a stepping stone until I learn Ancient Greek and Latin.
The Dark Queen by Susan Carroll. It's a good and easy read, though, once the story reached the 3rd act, my interest started waning. Like the cheesy things here and there that I found cute in the beginning are now bothering me as the story builds up to the big serious conflict, so I'm having trouble finishing it. I wanted to read the whole Dark Queen Saga since I accidentally bought the 4th book (I think) before the 1st one anyway, but I'm on the fence with whether I'll stick to that plan. If it ends in a way where I'm still interested in what happens with all the characters (who I like for the most part), but overall still feel lackluster about the story, then I'll still continue the series, just probably not as quickly as I thought I would.
You might also like An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, by Kay Redfield Jamison. She was a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and developed manic depression.
I'm re-reading it, but the webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons by Abbadon is a top read. Extremely creative, interesting style, brimming with lore-relate side-content. Fascinating.
The first of the Infinity Engines called Anachronist by Andrew Hastie, one of the better time traveling novels I've read.
Last month some serious book lovers published an anthology with 70 Swedish short stories written between 1838 and 2014. I am amazed that there are both fantasy and horror stories from more than 150 years ago. We had a spelling reform around 1906 so it's nice to see real texts with that old spelling. There is one from 1857 that I will use as inspiration for a story someday. When I am not reading that I read/reread: James Wood, how fiction works. And James Scott Bell: Plot & Structure.
Doesn't look like a Pulitzer, but damned if it is. My sister had gotten me an autographed copy. I should probably thank her . . . it's really outstanding. I find some of the lines funny as hell. "Eat," Ethel snapped, depositing in front of Joe a stack of black rectangles and a pool of yellow mucilage that she felt obliged to identify for him as toast and eggs. He popped a forkful into his mouth and chewed it with a circumspect expression behind which Sammy thought he detected a hint of genuine disgust. Sammy performed the rapid series of operations—which combined elements of the folding of wet laundry, the shoveling of damp ashes, and the swallowing of a secret map on the point of capture by enemy troops—that passed, in his mother's kitchen, for eating. Then he stood up, wiped his lips with the back of his hand, and pulled on his good wool blazer. "Come on, Joe, we gotta go." He leaned down to embed a kiss in Bubble's suede cheek.
Stiff by Mary Roach. Quite interested in the subject. I've also read Caitlin Doughty's two books and The Worm at the Core.
Emma Donoghue, Room. I'm relieved and honestly a little surprised that apparently no one's ever read this book for parenting advice...
