I’ve just picked these up from a local charity shop.
Magic, sci-fi, royalty, queer characters. A bargain for £1 for the lot.
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You’ve reminded me, I need to start reading some Christie. A local girl to me where I grew up. & I’ve been to Greenway House where she lived. & an episode of Poirot was filmed there.
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Finished Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner a couple weeks ago and it’s amazing! Highly recommend.
Currently reading a few different manga along with The Blood Cell. My main manga right now is slowly but surely reading Dr Slump before I do a Dragonball reread for the like 100th time
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I’m kind of in the mood to stimulate my Titanic phase again, so I’m deliberating on which book I want to read this time.
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Out next Thursday 27th March
Death At The White Hart
by Chris Chibnall
Debut novel from the ex Doctor Who showrunner and creator of Broadchurch.
CID detective Nicola Bridge returns to the Dorset village of Fleetcombe only to find a grisly crime scene.
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the discworld books are incredible! every single time i reread one of them, i always discover something new, a reference or joke or connection i didn’t notice before, i love it. they’re also some of the books that can almost always pull me out of a reader’s slump
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Hogfather is a strong contender for my favourite novel ever, it’s a close competition between it, The Martian, and Touched by An Angel
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i just finished ‘just one damned thing after another’ by jodi taylor, and really liked it - i guess me and time travel media just get on well XD
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Finished Fern Brady’s Strong Female Character memoir yesterday (audiobook). Really good book, lots of upsetting and heartbreaking stuff in there and found lots of it deeply relatable as an autistic person. Some really good dry wit too. Definitely can recommend
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Just finished reading Antimatter Blues by Edward Ashton, the sequel to Mickey7. That ending was actually kind of crazy, I wasn’t sure what was going to happen. I really enjoyed this series, it had some really profound things to say about life and personhood within the context of work. The way Mickey feels and thinks about his own position and how that shifts was honestly beautiful to witness. I liked it so much that I’m sad it’s over! I hope I can keep finding books that surprise me like this.
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My library has Mickey7 so I’ll definitely be borrowing it at some point! Very curious about these after loving Mickey 17
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I’ve been reading a lot more than I ever have been recently.
For years, I didn’t really read anything, caught in an near decade long reading slump until I started actually picking up these funny little Doctor Who books I’d been collecting for a few years off my shelf and reading those.
Last October, my brain must’ve broken or something because I realised other books existed and started picking them up. I have now discovered that I can read books relatively fast if I schedule a daily word count and am now comfortably making my way through a number of novels.
So far my favourites have been Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings, which was an utterly transcendent reading experience, and Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, which scared the ever loving shit out of me.
I am currently most of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring and planning to read the rest of the trilogy directly afterwards and I would tell you my opinion but it might cause every fantasy fan on the planet to try and kill me.
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I’m very much not a fantasy person but love Lord of the Rings. If you plan on reading The Hobbit, maybe try the Andy Serkis-narrated audiobook.
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I’m now reading two vastly different books at one time. The latest addition (number two) in Swann’s Way by Proust. I’ve wanted to read it since I listened to Year of the Pig (Peri had already read the In Search of Lost Time series and Six was binge reading it). I’ve since obtained a free copy and thought I’d join their little book club.
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Read a quick little book this afternoon: Yemen Proud: Past and Present by Gamiel Yafai and Abdulalem Alshamery. It’s mostly pictures, but is about both the country of Yemen and its relationship with the British. All the text and captions are in both english and arabic. It’s kinda cool.
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Started an enjoyable book about President Gerald Ford titled Write It When I’m Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford by Thomas M. DeFrank of Newsweek. It’s quite easy reading and an easy conversational writing style.
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Just recently finished If on a Winters Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino! Currently reading 1984 (for a class), and devil in the white city. I also want to read children of ruin soon because i loved children of time. And ive been making my way through the discworld books for the first time!
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Very very very slowly making my way through Heavenly Tyrant, the sequel to Iron Widow
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After putting it off since early January I finally started the Odyssey. I’ve only read the first chapter so far and I’m already liking it.
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Finished Write It When I’m Gone. Very good book that’s well-written and easy to read. Yes, it covers historical events and is semi-biographical, but it’s also also very personal and is a glimpse into Gerald Ford the man and his successes and failures, triumphs, doubts and regrets. The last bits about his last days and death did have me tearing up a bit. With this book, you get to feel like you knew President Ford personally through the relationship between Ford and the author, Newsweek reporter Thomas DeFrank. This was a great book for those interested in history, politics or just good memoirs.
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