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
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.
After his husband dies from a Tantalus-3 addiction in 2079, David Greenbaum pulls himself out of despair with an outrageous plan. He couldn’t save Ramon, but he might make a difference in other lives cut short. He hijacks his brother Nate’s time machine, the SlingShot, and jumps to 1934 to save George Gershwin from the brain tumor that killed him at age thirty-eight.
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.
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.
@dbsalk@bookstodon oh yeah, but its also the most artful example of it he ever did. Like, Pygmy is a book about a south asian refugee who carries out a campaign of vengance against the US and I can only describe it as tasteless. Snuff is about making a snuff film but its also a "oh boy Chuck, you have a lot of thoughts about feminism" sort of book.
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
@paulpap@dbsalk@hsgilchrist@bookstodon Bag of Bones... I thought the setting was nice, but it was too old-school haunted house for me, and a tad too much Rebecca
@movation@dbsalk@hsgilchrist@bookstodon I know what you mean. I did not enjoy all the “visions”. For me the main appeal were the (living) human characters and their relationships.
@PatternChaser@dbsalk@bookstodon It's a change in idioms, usually. I know the first Harry Potter got renamed to Sorcerer's Stone in the US because the publishers figured no-one would know what a Philosopher's Stone was.
While I understand that reasoning, to me part of the joy of reading is discovering new turns of phrase.
Yes, reading is perhaps the best way to extend our vocabularies. The hard bit is to remember to have a dictionary handy, and to use it when you come across a new word. 😀 👍
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
It's Friday, which means #FridayReads. I'm currently about halfway through the audio for The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. The pace is a bit slow, but the narration is ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ and I'm enjoying it overall.