CastlevaniaNut18 Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Gwendy’s Final Task by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. Should be a quick one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeluge Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden I’ve (sort of) joined a book club, and this was the pick of the month. Well-researched and paints an accurate picture, but hell, that ending really reinforces everything that I thought this novel was slyly critiquing. Also completely unbelievable. Sinks the whole thing. Morbidly curious about the film, in spite of its additional issues. 14 by Peter Clines My buddy won’t shut the fuck up about this, so I decided to give it a shot. It’s fine. Runs entirely on plot. Characters are pretty thin, and constantly joking or making light of the seriousness of the situation, which I found irritating. The climax has some exciting stuff, but I don’t know if I would have gotten that far if it hadn’t been for a friend. In the midst of: Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon - Loving it. I reckon I'll always keep a Pynchon in the rotation because the mix of the absurd with the inspired is always refreshing. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk - Another book club read. Way better. Unforgiving terrain with a main character who’s got a big heart and a slipping psyche. Top-notch prose. Excited to read more of her. Birds of America by Lorrie Moore - One of my plane books. Halfway through. Really delightful. Giving me a new appreciation for short stories. She drops some of these narratives off hard and I love it. Carpenter’s Gothic by William Gaddis - Another plane book. I think I’m a fourth of the way through. Thought I’d start with his shortest (I think?) but fuck, he’s a tough one. Hard to parse with the walls of dialogue and the way he constantly elides certain actions, but I’m enjoying the challenge and change of pace. The different characters' voices are so distinct off the page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Still making steady progress in Washington, but I started another nonfiction tonight: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantù. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Current fiction: Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour. Seemed like a good read for Pride Month. I’ve completed 53 books on the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Now onto Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskins. I also think I’m gonna start Everything’s Eventual by Stephen King. Do some short stories for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 added A Man Called One and Big Bad (upcoming Buffy book) to my current reading list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 On 6/4/2022 at 10:39 PM, thewhyteboar said: I read about 20 more chapters of Moby Dick, then decided on a change of pace. The Keepers of the House, by Shirley Ann Grau. Took me awhile to get through that one, felt like it started slow but then really picked up. Up next is Election, by Tom Perotta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 A Man Called Ove was great..pretty much ignored everything else while reading it. Added Just Tyrus into the mix now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 Finished Blood Meridian. Not the most uplifting thing I’ve read. I’ve now got the newest La Carre novel, or a fun crime thriller to read as a bit of fun, along with a teaching book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Stayed up too late this morning finished Nothing More Dangerous, it was worth it. Reading Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon on my Kindle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Have to say I'm enjoying Tyrus's book quite a but, the dude has had an interesting life, but damn this guy should not have narrated the book himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 On 6/21/2022 at 10:36 PM, thewhyteboar said: Took me awhile to get through that one, felt like it started slow but then really picked up. Up next is Election, by Tom Perotta. That was a fun and quick read. Next up is Bluebird, Bluebird, by Attica Locke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 Now reading The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle that Brought Down the Klan by Laurence Leamer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Current fiction: What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman. Thinking about starting Needful Things by Stephen King. Been reading 3-4 books at a time lately, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 Started "The Absolute Book" by Elizabeth Knox. Almost gave up on it after a few chapters as "not my kind of thing" but then it takes a pretty sharp turn and pulled me in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 Silverview: La Carre. I might be missing something as the reviews called this, vintage, smart and clever, a triumph…and I found it just a bit shit really. I picked up Billy Summers by King so reading that now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 On 6/25/2022 at 9:25 PM, thewhyteboar said: That was a fun and quick read. Next up is Bluebird, Bluebird, by Attica Locke. Finished that, time to finally read Don Winslow's latest, City on Fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Needful Things by Stephen King Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 On 7/3/2022 at 2:27 PM, thewhyteboar said: Finished that, time to finally read Don Winslow's latest, City on Fire. I guess I forgot it was based on the Iliad. I enjoyed it. The upcoming sequel must be his version of the Aeneid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 I think I’ve found a new favorite with Needful Things. That was awesome. I’m torn between two books for my next read: Savages by Don Winslow or The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 listened to the upcoming Hotel California book, which features a series of short stories with each story titles after a track off the Eagles album. (even features a new Jack Reacher story) The title story was absolutely brilliant. The author managed to work in tons of the lyrics from the song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Doctor Sleep by Stephen King We Own This City by Justin Fenton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 On 7/10/2022 at 11:57 AM, thewhyteboar said: I guess I forgot it was based on the Iliad. I enjoyed it. The upcoming sequel must be his version of the Aeneid. Forgot to update this: reading The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago, my first ever by him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Finished Billy Summers and really enjoyed it. We’ll paced with a decent ending (which hasn’t been a feature of much King in the last decade). Now reading The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman which is a fun read so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury33 Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 Found out Andy Serkis did a narration of the Lord of the Rings. So listening to that to get myself in the mood for the show this fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 Reading Twin Loss". I wish this book was available when I was in HS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 Started reading The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin and am loving it. Great fantasy, and its use of second person POV (I know!) is actually really great. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said: Started reading The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin and am loving it. Great fantasy, and its use of second person POV (I know!) is actually really great. Man, I’ve been in a reading funk lately, and I might just end up reading this trilogy again. It’s so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 1 hour ago, TheLeon said: Man, I’ve been in a reading funk lately, and I might just end up reading this trilogy again. It’s so good. I just finished the second book in the Books of Babel quadrilogy, and I would highly recommend giving the first book a try. It's called Senlin Ascends, by Josiah Bancroft. Beautiful prose and interesting concepts. It's kind of victorian/steampunk fantasy, but that plays a backseat to the world of the Tower of Babel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Still working on multiple books but finished up a book called Influencer Island which is was an insane Hunger Games meets Fyre Festiva, and started Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi...which I have no doubt will be compare by many to IT, and I wouldn't argue as there are definite similarities. About halfway through and have to say it's damn good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Still working on No Ordinary Time, but my current fiction books are Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson and The King of Lies by John Hart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rc0101 Posted July 30, 2022 Author Share Posted July 30, 2022 Got side tracked but finished Crusader by Ben Kane. Unsure what to start next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Finished Yellow Wife last night and started Four Past Midnight by Stephen King when I got off work this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokra Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 I found a book club here in Portland and we're going to read Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. I'd read another of his books, The Underground Railroad, for my book club back in Germany in 2018 and I remember enjoying it at the time, but now for the life of me I couldn't tell you anything of the story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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