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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2022 18:31:52 GMT
Kind of like the music thread, but for books! Tell us what you are reading, update us on what you thought when you finished!
Currently re-reading a book I remember enjoying when I was a teenager- The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. So far it is an enjoyable enough story, albeit with some problematic white woman writing, not as good as I remember it being when I was a teenager. Nevertheless, something easy to get through.
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Post by olivetti on Mar 22, 2022 0:55:31 GMT
I'm reading too many books at the same time. But our book club is currently reading "The Yellow Wife" and so far it's not half bad.
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Post by SPECIALEDITION on Mar 22, 2022 13:00:10 GMT
I have had such a hard time getting back into reading. I have so many books that are just sitting unread. I think I'll pull out Lord of the Rings and start there so that I have something easy and familiar to get back into practice with.
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Post by monad on Mar 22, 2022 18:10:25 GMT
I'm reading Dune Messiah (the sequel to Dune, one of my favorites). I find it hard to find time to read between everything else going on, so my recent discovery of how well I absorb the information from audiobooks has been wonderful. I've gotten through much of the book just washing dishes, so I will definitely be picking up more audiobooks in the future.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2022 18:19:46 GMT
I'm reading Dune Messiah (the sequel to Dune, one of my favorites). I find it hard to find time to read between everything else going on, so my recent discovery of how well I absorb the information from audiobooks has been wonderful. I've gotten through much of the book just washing dishes, so I will definitely be picking up more audiobooks in the future. I forget about audiobooks. This might even convince me to do the dishes... |
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Post by stu on Mar 22, 2022 18:31:30 GMT
I am reading parts of The Letters of St Antony by Samuel Rubenson. I downloaded from the Z-Library.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2022 17:16:49 GMT
I just finished ré-reading The Secret History by Donna tartt. Still one of my favourite books ever. I've just begun reading Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I don't know why but this one reminds me of SPECIALEDITION already. |
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Post by SPECIALEDITION on Apr 1, 2022 23:29:19 GMT
I just finished ré-reading The Secret History by Donna tartt. Still one of my favourite books ever. I've just begun reading Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I don't know why but this one reminds me of SPECIALEDITION already. I loved that book so much - I have a copy. I think I may have sent a copy to kgal years back. |
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Post by stu on Jul 30, 2022 19:09:41 GMT
Currently reading " Motherlines" by Suzy McKee Charnas (1978) and it is a good read. Part of the list recommended by Donna Haraway in her philosophical treaties "the cyborg manifesto". There are no human male characters (at least up to page 200). |
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Post by stu on Aug 6, 2022 21:18:47 GMT
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Post by kgal on Aug 7, 2022 11:54:57 GMT
I used to be a huge fan of Anne McCaffery and I went looking for this book. I noticed a few comments having mixed reactions. Did you enjoy this book about the Ship? I ended up tripping down memory lane with looking at so many of her stories that I've read. I hadn't realized she had passed on to the next life. I also didn't know this about her. It's no wonder I gobbled up many of her stories! From Wiki: "The first Pern story, "Weyr Search", was published in 1967 by John W. Campbell in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It won the 1968 Hugo Award for best novella, voted by participants in the annual World Science Fiction Convention.[4] The second Pern story, "Dragonrider", won the 1969 Nebula Award for best novella, voted annually by the Science Fiction Writers of America.[4] Thus she was the first woman to win a Hugo for fiction[8] and the first to win a Nebula.[41] |
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Post by stu on Aug 8, 2022 15:11:14 GMT
So....the ship who sang is actually a collection of novellas about the ship (who sang) and looking at my reading list in occurs to me that Haraway may have only intended the first story of the collection as it focuses on the cyborg nature of the ship. I am on the forth story so and it is engaging. The ship is a woman and seems the teleological trajectory is that shew will acquire a more functional human body. So far in the list the most engaging novel has been Kindred by Octavia Butler, her books are in a much greater demand and I did not buy the others on the list as they go for 16 to 20 bucks a pop. I reasoned that if I wanted to read them all ( and have them all) I should concentrate my efforts on the cheaper paperbacks which are mostly out of print. Motherlines was also very good...and the Neveryon series was enlightening. I can see why a lot of these books never fell into my lap back when I was an avid Sci fi reader. Then I was into Herbert, Clark, Asmov, and Dick. I read alot of LeGuin but it didn't occur to me to read what she recommended (I am a bit of a moron).
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Post by kgal on Aug 8, 2022 21:15:09 GMT
So....the ship who sang is actually a collection of novellas about the ship (who sang) and looking at my reading list in occurs to me that Haraway may have only intended the first story of the collection as it focuses on the cyborg nature of the ship. I am on the forth story so and it is engaging. The ship is a woman and seems the teleological trajectory is that shew will acquire a more functional human body. So far in the list the most engaging novel has been Kindred by Octavia Butler, her books are in a much greater demand and I did not buy the others on the list as they go for 16 to 20 bucks a pop. I reasoned that if I wanted to read them all ( and have them all) I should concentrate my efforts on the cheaper paperbacks which are mostly out of print. Motherlines was also very good...and the Neveryon series was enlightening. I can see why a lot of these books never fell into my lap back when I was an avid Sci fi reader. Then I was into Herbert, Clark, Asmov, and Dick. I read alot of LeGuin but it didn't occur to me to read what she recommended (I am a bit of a moron). Hahahahahahaha!  We're all hard headed at times aren't we? Octavia Butler is pretty amazing too. I am reading a sample of Robert Heinlein's book called The Door In To Summer. It's SciFi involving time travel and a guy and his cat named Petronius(Pete). They both go in to cryo sleep for 30 years. In the first chapter the author had me laughing out loud....so....I think I'm hooked and will get it. Look how old it is and yet it sounds contemporary so far. I was born that year. hah "The Door into Summer is a science fiction novel by American science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (October, November, December 1956, with covers and interior illustrations by Kelly Freas). It was published in hardcover in 1957.[1]
The novel was made into a film by Takahiro Miki in 2020.[2]"~wiki
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Post by kgal on Aug 8, 2022 23:17:10 GMT
Someone in a redditt thread suggested Book Riot as a source for new material. They have podcasts too. bookriot.com/ |
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Post by kgal on Oct 3, 2022 15:54:07 GMT
This book contains real life people receiving verifiable information independently from one another and then connecting as they realize they're hearing from Billy who had died. A fascinating story on what it can be like in the Other World (the Afterlife).  The Afterlife of Billy Fingers by Annie Kagan.  |
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We're all hard headed at times aren't we? 