Just finished book five in the Bosch series. I am hooked on these! Just started book six!
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I like Michael Palin; let me know how you find this book.
Yesterday, I bought a few more books by Frances Hardinge.
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That's a lovely book… been with me for many years… decades even.
Hope you enjoy it.
Just finished book five in the Bosch series. I am hooked on these! Just started book six!
I'm a big fan also.
[doublepost=1538247403][/doublepost]Decided on 'The Book Hunter of Katpadi' by Pradeep Sebastian, a mystery about rare books.
Interesting. I'm a big fan of Palin, he's done some great history/travel type TV in addition to his other amazing body of work.
We watched The Terror (which was fantastic), on AMC, which was based on the Dan Simmons novel, which is a fictional account (with some implied supernatural goings-on) of the last voyage of the HMS Terror and Erebus. Interested to read a more grounded take on the event, especially from Palin.
Truthfully the only book of hers I have read is The Death and Life of Great American Cities — and that was 1985-ish.
It was certainly a much needed wake up call for the time — indeed still is. The untrammelled destruction of cityscapes by developers and government had to be pulled up short.
But yes, as I said, it's been a long time since I read it.
Last night I finished Campo Santo a collection of WG Sebald pieces.
Though I seem to be re-reading a lot lately, I am tempted to go and pick up Austerlitz again.
That was exactly the book I had in mind when I asked you whether you had read anything by her (Jane Jacobs); if memory serves, it was rightly regarded as a classic - and a pioneering and policy-changing classic - when it was first published.
I have it, but have yet to read it, but it is in the "must read" section of books to be read.
i have been reading novels from smashwords.com
with the settings:
categories = Fiction, sort by newest, price = free, Length = >100K words, download = epub
i suggest the adult mode setting if you are.
the smashwords site downloads fast quick into my iPhone and the app "Books" works as expected.
i can take a read while waiting the train, coffee break, any time. "Books" saves my page. I can read with out wifi or cell reception.
with the settings:
categories = Fiction, sort by newest, price = free, Length = >100K words, download = epub
i suggest the adult mode setting if you are.
the smashwords site downloads fast quick into my iPhone and the app "Books" works as expected.
i can take a read while waiting the train, coffee break, any time. "Books" saves my page. I can read with out wifi or cell reception.
I’m reading the controversial Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite.
I typically don’t read novels or this type of genre. I have to say Brite’s writing is pretty amazing dispite the raw topic. It’s the most shocking, graphic, gross, violent, demented, repulsive, and obscene things I’ve ever read. It’s not a book to open lightly or by mistake. I understand Brite now writes amusing pieces. Ok.
And to think Harvard made readers ask for Bukowski at the desk...
I typically don’t read novels or this type of genre. I have to say Brite’s writing is pretty amazing dispite the raw topic. It’s the most shocking, graphic, gross, violent, demented, repulsive, and obscene things I’ve ever read. It’s not a book to open lightly or by mistake. I understand Brite now writes amusing pieces. Ok.
And to think Harvard made readers ask for Bukowski at the desk...
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Can anyone recommend a good quality, floor standing, reading lamp? I currently have one from IKEA but find I want something a little better. I've seen these one's advertised in the Sunday Newspapers but they are a little too expensive. Any recommendations most welcome.
https://www.seriousreaders.com/products/high-definition-floor-light
Can anyone recommend a good quality, floor standing, reading lamp? I currently have one from IKEA but find I want something a little better. I've seen these one's advertised in the Sunday Newspapers but they are a little too expensive. Any recommendations most welcome.
https://www.seriousreaders.com/products/high-definition-floor-light
For those of us who are fans of Science Fiction and Fantasy, October is looking to be a banner month for new releases. I know I'll likely be adding a few of these to my collection. Most notably John Scalzi's "The Consuming Fire". I read the previous book in this series(?) and it was a good read. Can't wait to get this one. So may other's out there, too. Including a new "Murderbot" novella from Martha Wells. This month has something for every fan!
https://io9.gizmodo.com/fly-far-away-from-reality-in-the-pages-of-octobers-new-1829344463
https://io9.gizmodo.com/fly-far-away-from-reality-in-the-pages-of-octobers-new-1829344463
With the exception of the current run of books I have been reading, I am a huge Science Fiction/Horror/Fantasy reader. Thanks for the link!!!
Fascinating book about a spacecraft recovery and reconstruction effort, after the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry on February 1, 2003, leaving a trail of large and small fragments and the remains of her crew strewn along what was to have been her glide path home to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Of course the incident and early recovery efforts were reported globally, but the work of 25,000 searchers to retrieve 40% of the shuttle -- in 84,000 pieces, some the size of a thumbnail-- and for NASA to reconstruct enough of the left wing to finalize a report on cause of the failure, went on for six months. A closeup of the organizations, professionals, and ordinary folk of small towns in East Texas and Louisiana who made the recovery and some closure possible for families and NASA workers.
The Legends of Luke Skywalker by Ken Liu. Mr. Liu has several uninteresting characters on a ship talk about myths and legends they've heard or experienced in regard to Luke Skywalker. Liu is a very talented writer crafting each tale in a different genre (often first person or being since it's Star Wars), but you have comedy, war etc.. Some stories are interesting, but like so much with Disney Luke, just not feeling it. And yet I almost tempted to buy the Hot Toys Acht To Luke...pffbttt.
To be fair, I haven't really liked Luke in the majority of the SW novels and stories since the EU emerged almost 30 years ago (almost funny PTB are actually tapping into it now). Glad I didn't have to pay for this one.
To be fair, I haven't really liked Luke in the majority of the SW novels and stories since the EU emerged almost 30 years ago (almost funny PTB are actually tapping into it now). Glad I didn't have to pay for this one.
Very well written. Not my bag of tea though.
He's moved into the "dark humor" genre according to his Wiki page.