Missoula: Rape and The Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer had been on my TBR since 2015, a couple years before the Me Too movement kicked off. I'm so glad this book surfaced in my reading rotation. I'm only about a fifth of the way through and am transfixed by so much: the horror and trauma these young women experienced, juxtaposed with such stoic narration and brilliant writing. I hate it and I can't stop listening. #Bookstodon#FridayReads#AmReading#Books@bookstodon
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There are three books I'm reading at the moment and all have drawn me in in their different ways:
Botticelli's Secret by Joseph Luzzi - an account of the commission the artist Sandro Botticelli was given by a member of Florence's powerful Medici family to illustrate all hundred cantos of Dante's Divine Comedy
The Housekeepers by Alex Hay - a terrific revenge heist story pitting downstairs vs upstairs masterminded by a former housekeeper of a grand London Mayfair house who has a hidden agenda
Into the Forest - an anthology of retellings of Baba Yaga stories by a wide range of horror and fantasy writers
I'm a sucker for time travel books, but not convinced they work well as audiobooks. It's not as easy for me to follow the time jumps - or in the case of Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell - the various temporal versions of the main character without the pages in front of me.
I do like the concept of this book, which is a murder mystery where all the suspects are the same person.
I admit when it comes to knowledge of Peter Straub's work, I am lacking. I know of him thanks to his collaborations with Stephen King (The Talisman, Black House). When Straub passed away last Sept, I felt I had missed something by not enjoying his writing while he was still on this earth.
Many said at the time that Shadowland is his best work. I'm reading it now. Slow going, but good so far.
"We lived on this earth. Don’t entrust it into the hands of the destroyers, the barbarians and the ignoramuses." - from a note that was found in Konstantin Paustovsky's writing desk after his death in 1968
I've just started reading Paustovsky's The Story of a Life, which is a collection of the first three of six books of the Ukrainian/Russian writer's memoirs published by NYRB earlier this year. It's kind of a doorstopper, but I already don't want it to end.
With more than 7 hours on a plane for a business trip this week, I couldn't take any chances with my reading material. I wanted to make sure I had a REALLY GOOD book, so I went with a re-read of one of my recent favorites: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. It has so much to love: romance, adventure, fantasy, a nasty villain, a feisty heroine with circumstances definitely not in her favor. It's wonderful. #Bookstodon#Books#AmReading#Fantasy#FridayReads#LasVegas@bookstodon
Good LORD—Kevin Lambert's Querelle of Roberval was incredible. As I said on my (personal, not #podcast) Goodreads/LibraryThing accounts this morning, I imagine Lambert as being an entirely fearless author.
I'm having a bit of a hard time with Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. I knew going in that some of the short stories were going to be a bit "out there." A few are quite good, but most I think are not really my taste. I'm about 60% of the way through and hope to have it done this weekend. Really, the sooner, the better.
I know Palahniuk has written a bunch of books. This is the first of his that I've picked up.
Today's #FridayReads: Watchers by Dean Koontz. And I see why it's a fan favorite, equivalent to The Stand for Stephen King fans. I can see why Koontz acknowledges in the author's notes that many people may never think any other book of his is as good, however many he writes. Very glad I read it, and if you pick it up, you will be too. #SFF@bookstodon
What a happy coincidence that #TheStoryGraph pulled Las Vegas Noir from my TBR for me to read. I'm off to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for work. The city - or at least the part we see the most - is constantly reinventing itself, so the #LasVegas represented in this book is very different from the one that exists now, 15 years after it was published.
Jason Reynolds will be the keynote speaker for the Virginia Library Association Conference next week so today I read Long Way Down (powerful) and Ain’t Burned All the Bright (poignant). #FridayReads#poetry@bookstodon@librarians
I've been looking forward to Sea of Tranquility by #EmilyStJohnMandel for a while, but I felt the need to re-read Station Eleven and Glass Hotel first, and then had to wait a bit for SoT to be available from the library. I started it on Wednesday and I am NOT DISAPPOINTED. I just got to the twist (is it a true twist? there was definite foreshadowing) and now I'm worried this book is going to be over way too soon. #FridayReads#Bookstodon#AmReading#Books@bookstodon
After I finish a book that's a bit of a slog (or, most recently, DNF), I like to treat myself with something awesome that I can really dive into. Yesterday for a palate cleanser, I decided to resume my stalled re-read of the Dark Tower series with Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower 5) by Stephen King. Mr. King is ridiculously reliable when it comes to providing something good to read. #Books#Bookstodon#AmReading#FridayReads#StephenKing#TheDarkTower@bookstodon
I am all "booked" this holiday weekend 📚😍. I am looking forward to winding down, relaxing, and catching up with some reading. My book pile ranges from different genres, so I'll be entertained during this #3DayWeekend!
📚What are you reading during this long weekend? 📚 Share in the comments below!
My wife's friends are all talking about The Alice Network and how good it is. I never made the connection between that book and The Huntress, which I just started after having it on my TBR for the past four years, until I saw the cover of The Huntress up close.
Only about an hour into the 19 hour #audiobook, but liking it so far. This is going to take a while. 🙄
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson is a fun read so far. The brief history behind the dialect that inspired International Talk Like a Pirate Day (mark your calendar) alone makes it worth picking up. #Books#Bookstodon#FridayReads#AmReading#Pirates#NonFiction#Arrrr@bookstodon