Hi there, @bookstodon , what are you reading these days? I'm half-way through Normal Rules don't Apply, Kate Atkinson, and it's really good! (a collection of interconnected short stories) Deliciously ominous, with unexplained deaths and weird job interview / date questions. "If you were a (sandwich / vegetable / disease), which would you be?" #amreading#bookstodon#shortfiction#stories
@ferngirl@bookstodon "Murder Road" by Simone St. James (a favorite author), which I am thoroughly enjoying! She writes paranormal thrillers, so very creepy but not straight up horror.
After that will be, "The Dead Detective" by William Heffernan, about a detective with the ability to hear "the postmortem whispers of murder victims." Okay, then.
Plus, a collection of short stories, "Memphis Noir," which caught my attention because I live in Memphis.
@ferngirl@bookstodon Some "golden age" mysteries- the current one is "Touch and Go", a Patricia Wentworth thriller/mystery from 1934. I find them soothing, and some of them are even good!
The Rincewind stuff by #Pratchett does not get me, I am sorry. Managed my way through the series including/up to "Eric" and no, this one was the worst, I am done with Rincewind. Much too stereotypical, whimsy, uncapable and yet involuntarily "funny" Male Of The 80ies.
Now will dive into the industrial revolution series, starting latest Friday with "Moving Pictures" :), as an audio book, like the others.
Oh, and on paper I started to read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret #Atwood [again, already read it in 2017] since there is The Testaments, its sequel that came out almost parallel to Trumps installment as POTUS, in 2017. The Testaments is requested by another library user and I have to give it back on the 22nd of June so I am in a bit of a hurry with those two, as I like it. 🥳 #bookstodon@bookstodon
I've only read one Ian McEwan book, On Chesil Beach, donkey's years ago, and I'm afraid I didn't see what all the fuss was about, but the premise of this one looks interesting, and it's short at least. #books#bookstodon@bookstodon
@bookstodon Maybe everyone already knows this, but in case you don't: there is a great way to search for library e-books you might like.
If you have Libby, do a filtered search for whatever you like in general. While perusing the results, tap on any book you have already read and enjoyed. Scroll down past the description, and it will give you suggestions of other books you might like. This really helped me.
This only works in filtered search, not direct search.
@kimlockhartga@bookstodon I'm not opposed to getting recommendations, and I have found new favorites, but that usually comes from you or others I'm following on SM. Then I will investigate, but I don't feel the need to seek a "if you like X you should check out Y" sort of search. I have more than I will ever read already, a print library of at least 1500, maybe 1200 on Kindle, some of those being duplicates.
I finally finished The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh. I meant to finish it during AANHPI month, but I got busy and distracted, so there’s that. I wanted to finish it by mid-June though, so I could start reading queer novels for Pride Month.
I’d give this book 4 stars. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
As the first person in my family to be born in the U.S., it was interesting reading the perspectives from the different generations of women (the refugees who fled to America during the Vietnam War and the first generation Americans who grew up having to toe the line between assimilating into American society and respecting familial traditions).
I learned some new Vietnamese words that I didn’t know before. For example, đặc biệt means special. In the book, someone’s mom always called her special in a demeaning way. I know đặc biệt from ordering rice and noodle dishes at Vietnamese restaurants.
@maxmm77@dbsalk@bookstodon NOT AT ALL. Short of reading Ayn Rand as a paean to communism I doubt it's possible to "read something wrong" - reading is subjective and personal and one's own opinions and reactions are ALWAYS right, for each of us. Vive la différence, chacun à son goût etc. 😀
Feel free to point out how many of those are answered in the piece (shoddy signal atm)
I hope at least the first
If not the second then it's not worth opening anyway
I don't necessarily agree 100 percent with the premise
I posted it so that others might read it and use it as a jumping-off point for their own exploration of the ideas presented, not as an endorsement of the ideas presented
Just finished that Hendrix book. Intriguing how people who die unexpectedly sometimes do have death on their mind immediately before. Is it coincidence? There's no indication his death was anything other than misadventure, but do people perhaps get more, wrong word but still, careless in such moments? His career was at a crossroads, similar but also differently to say, Ian Curtis. What would he have become? His music was possibly heading out of fashion. Glam and producer-led teeny pop was around the corner. Bowie was the new superstar. How would he have adapted? Some of his later writings namechecked Wagner and Strauss. The possibilities are tantalising. The waste of talent is what remains, though. #books#bookstodon@bookstodon
@Schnuckster@bookstodon A little later we saw Marc Bolan fall pretty much completely out of fashion I guess. But most of those blues influenced guitarists did at least ok.
@keefeglise@bookstodon There's a sentence where he says he wants to get his head down and study music theory and composition. He clearly had big visions. Whether he could've achieved them though...