KateOfMind

KateOfMind, 8 months ago

@Princejvstin @NerdsofaFeather @bookstodon Indeed!!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

KateOfMind, 10 months ago

@12thRITS @owlislost @Enema_Cowboy @bookstodon Yeah, I like Dubliners best. I've read everything except Finnegan's and the stories in Dubliners are his most accessible and enjoyable. I partake of Ulysses every year for Bloomsday but as much out of habit as love at this point, though I still find new things to like at each time.

But if you don't think Joyce is for you, ignore the peer pressure. Life is too short to spend on "should" reads while there are still so many "wanna" reads!

KateOfMind, 10 months ago

@owlislost @bookstodon
I'm reading the Autobiography of Mother Jones on my phone (i.e. when I'm stuck in waiting rooms etc)
Also just started SAVAGE CROWNS, third in Matt Wallace's inclusive and trope-busting epic fantasy trilogy on ebook;
DEATH'S END by Cixin Liu (Tr by Ken Liu, narr PJ Ochlan) on audio;
And still have a bit to go on EARWIG by Brian Catling on dead tree. It's a slim trade paperback and my hands aren't having it, although it's wonderful and weird and the one I'm most into.

KateOfMind, 10 months ago

@owlislost @bookstodon The audio edition of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's SILVER NITRATE is slow going because she keeps convincing me all these cool made-up Mexican horror films are real and I wanna watch them. Also still paging through a paper copy of EARWIG by Brian Catling but I have trouble holding/turning pages so I'm forced to savor it instead of gobbling it like I want. It's very, very Catling.
And I just started Olaf Stapledon's THE STAR MAKER on eReader. Been saving that for a stuffy day.

KateOfMind, 10 months ago

@Zwieblein @owlislost @bookstodon I just discovered Knausgard last year - I loved The Morning Star - and I've been eyeing My Struggle. I kind of told myself I'd start it after I'm done with the five-volume Joseph Frank biography of Dostoevsky because maybe just one giant nonfiction epic at a time but I do keep thinking about it. It must be intriguing for you to be sticking with it so far in!

KateOfMind, 10 months ago

@jarulf @owlislost @bookstodon I adore Ogawa but haven't read that one yet! She's never disappointed me so I'm treating it like a sure thing. I save those for reading slumps. I don't always succeed in saving those, though!

KateOfMind, 11 months ago

@owlislost @bookstodon Looks good! I've paused the Lymond re-read to give my emotions a break. Not quite done with I Have Some Questions for You (Rebecca Makkai), listening to audio of Paolo Bacigalupi's The Ship Breaker and just started All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and me (Patrick Bringley, who had a full career there as a guard!).

KateOfMind, 11 months ago

@owlislost @bookstodon The Ship Breaker is very good though a bit bleak, because "no war but class war" isn't going away in a post-apocalypse.

KateOfMind, 11 months ago

@owlislost @bookstodon Audio: I'm most of the way through a re-read of Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles. Started The Ringed Castle (my favorite one, though Pawn in Frankincense tape blew me away this time) last night.
Ebook: I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Dead Tree: Earwig by B. Catling, my favorite New Weird fiction writer, whom we lost last year 😢

KateOfMind, 11 months ago

@owlislost @bookstodon I Have Some Questions is fucking me up a little. I was a naive cop's kid Wyoming girl on scholarship at Bard College in those years. Except for the preppie clothes, Bard (an art school, not a sports school) felt A LOT like Granby.

KateOfMind, 11 months ago

@owlislost @bookstodon Ooh, I love a good nonfiction comic. Have you read any of Jim Ottaviani's stuff? He's especially great on science and scientists. Wire Mother made me cry and cry. This one you've mentioned is going on my hunt list. And ThriftBooks rules!

KateOfMind, 11 months ago

@owlislost @bookstodon I actually got to meet him at a convention and we hung out a bit because he's indie and everybody was mobbing Marvel, like they do. He was delightful company and I bought one of all of his books at the time. Not a dud among them!

KateOfMind, 11 months ago

@owlislost @bookstodon He's written some biographies of scientists, including Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman, in comics form. I hope he gets a bump from the Oppenheimer movie.

KateOfMind, 11 months ago

@Abibliophobia @owlislost @bookstodon Those Robot & Monk books are so delightful! They're good medicine. I'm about to finish The Book that Wouldn't Burn, by Mark Lawrence, and I'm a third of the way through a re-listen to Pawn in Frankincense, kind of the middle of Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles (a strong candidate for Best Series Ever).

KateOfMind, 11 months ago

@owlislost @Abibliophobia @bookstodon Dunnett frequently gets called "The only author you'll ever need" because her books are infinitely re-readable and you often want to, say, go back to the first Lymond or Niccoló book as soon as you've finished the last one (I think Gene Wolfe is like this, too]. I loved what she did with the theory that Macbeth and Thorfinn the Mighty might have been the same guy. Last time I read KH I read the Orkneyinga Saga alongside, which was awesome!

KateOfMind, 11 months ago

@jarulf @Abibliophobia @owlislost @bookstodon I keep trying to think of other books that have made me feel that good and it's difficult. Maybe the Oz books, but how much of that is actually nostalgia. Though I suppose Robot & Monk reading is a kind of nostalgia for a future we wish we could have?

KateOfMind, 11 months ago

@jarulf @Abibliophobia @owlislost @bookstodon wait, yes I can: Walter Moers! More whimsical than hopeful, still so delightful that they qualify as good medicine.

KateOfMind, 11 months ago

@owlislost @jarulf @Abibliophobia @bookstodon Watch out: it's short, and impossible not to finish far too quickly!