Oh, today is #WorldBookDay!
What's everyone reading? If I finish my book promo prep in time, I'm diving back into Sanora Babb's Whose Names Are Unknown. And after that? Jennifer Egan's The Candy House. What about you~~~?
@j0n Morning Jon! 💫 Do you have a book on the go, or just a nice strong cuppa? ☕
@MLClark Little of both…. Been reading Tom Clancy’s Net Force 😉
@j0n Ah, nice! Fun, engaging reading to get the mind going even while it's relaxing for a few. Sounds great!
@MLClark I'm reading Intentsity and Velocity by Dean Koontz for an online course on Power Words.
@TPrice Ah, I love a good targeted reading exercise! I hope this choice, for your class, serves your needs well.
@MLClark 📚 I enjoyed The Candy House.
Currently reading:
- Eifelheim by Michael Flynn (for book club)
- The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
Recently Finished:
- Chocky by John Wyndham
- Balloon: Altitude by Christopher Keith
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- This is How You Lose the Time War by by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (holy cow - excellent!)
@codeWhisperer !! Oh, terrific. I never read Flynn's novel-length version, but I remember the original novella, and I was thinking about it last year while noodling with a draft alien-in-medieval-ages story myself.
What a wonderful range of recent reads. I don't doubt there was something to take away from each of them!
@MLClark Cool. The novel is fascinating, although I've already heard from several book club members that they will not finish it. Has LOTS of seemingly unnecessary detail, but I will persist in the hope that it all ties together. Don't get me wrong, still enjoying it! And it's best on Kindle since it contains MANY archaic words to look up (which is fun for me).
As for Time War, just wow. One of my new top 10 books of all time. (but I am also weird, so...)
Chocky was also a pleasant surprise.
@codeWhisperer @MLClark Not so weird. Time War is definitely fantastic.
@MLClark
Happy World Book Day! I'm reading N.K. Jemisin's The World We Make.
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@TomeReader Ah! I was just reminded of TWWM the other day. I'm looking forward to it, too. How are you finding it so far?
@MLClark
I'm loving it. It's making me miss NYC.
@ITKV Deep in a series that you love, and know will satisfy. That's a great place to be, ITKV. 👌 Happy reading!
@MLClark wrapping up Keri Blakinger’s memoir “Corrections in Ink” on her experiences, from figure skater to heroine addict, from inmate to investigative journalist. A rousing piece on resilience and of life in the incarceration state for women.
@MLClark and because I do know how to type, heroin addict. Not heroine addict. Though she may be, that is not discussed.
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. It’s a long read, and I am enthralled.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56783258-cloud-cuckoo-land
@JanMoleski Ooooh! Now that's a Doerr I've never "knocked on"! 😉 Glad to know it holds up to his other work!
@MLClark Love the pun. 😂
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber & if i tire of that, i pick up a book of short stories by Jo Nesbø called The Jealousy Man
@richquaal Very nice! I've never read Jo Nesbø's short stories. Same tone as the longer work? Different cadence?
I've read The Bat, The Son, & The Snowman, all interesting & twisty enough to keep me reading Nesbø when i come across his work.
The first story in The Jealousy Man is a conversation between a man & woman seated next to each other on a plane. She admits to having contracted a company to assist her suicide, irrevocably. The conversation continues & the couple try to figure out a way to avoid her death and stay together.
Conversations & monologues are present in other stories too. Fun
I like Egan. I think I read Candy House but I would have to look it up.
I'm deeply into The Winners by Fredrik Backman (Beartown #3). I love all his stuff.
@MLClark G’Morning❣️☕️📚