Aww, c'mon, tell us what you really think...
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Spoilers What Book Are You Reading?
- Thread starter Huntn
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Aww, c'mon, tell us what you really think...
Taking a break after reading Children of Blood and Bone and Children of Virtue and Vengeance. Next up is Children of Anguish and Anarchy, the final book in the Legacy of Orisha trilogy by Tomi Adeyemi.
🤣🤣🤣 To be honest, me tooTried that. After 1/2 (0.5) of a page I decided that this was the worst written book I had ever read (worse even than the Gor books I read as a post-adolescent...).
I much prefer the "50 Shades of Gray Dulux Style)
'nuff said
This isn’t a book to read from start to end. Anyone who are even the slightest familiar with Rumi, knows that. It’s an inspiration, walking into a forest, jungle, climbing a mountain or even walking into an ocean. If I have any conceptions, they disappear when reading Rumi ♥️
Re-reading this one.
I’m part way through Soulstar by C. L. Polk. It is the final volume The Kingston Cycle fantasy trilogy.
“In an original world reminiscent of Edwardian England in the shadow of a World War, cabals of noble families use their unique magical gifts to control the fates of nations”
The magic backdrop is for basically a political theme story with heavy emphasis on class struggle. Each volume of the trilogy follows a different main character (who remain secondary characters in the other volumes) involved in different murder mystery with a little romance, while the background political storyline advances through all 3 volumes (not just the same story from different viewpoints). Loads of fantasy elements (magic, ghosts, witches, fairies) that are essential elements to the world building. Note: There are many non-binary characters throughout the series, but that is not what the story is about.
It is a very very good series. It seems like the author might be re-telling the same story 3 time, but that is definitely not the case. It’s a very interesting and novel approach for defining a trilogy (instead of just breaking an epic story into multiple parts). The trilogy needs to be read in order (Witchmark then Stormsong and finally Soulstar), to avoid spoilers.
“In an original world reminiscent of Edwardian England in the shadow of a World War, cabals of noble families use their unique magical gifts to control the fates of nations”
The magic backdrop is for basically a political theme story with heavy emphasis on class struggle. Each volume of the trilogy follows a different main character (who remain secondary characters in the other volumes) involved in different murder mystery with a little romance, while the background political storyline advances through all 3 volumes (not just the same story from different viewpoints). Loads of fantasy elements (magic, ghosts, witches, fairies) that are essential elements to the world building. Note: There are many non-binary characters throughout the series, but that is not what the story is about.
It is a very very good series. It seems like the author might be re-telling the same story 3 time, but that is definitely not the case. It’s a very interesting and novel approach for defining a trilogy (instead of just breaking an epic story into multiple parts). The trilogy needs to be read in order (Witchmark then Stormsong and finally Soulstar), to avoid spoilers.
As a retired librarian, the minute I heard about this book I placed my name on the "holds" list at my local public library.... It was worth the wait! Aside from all the casual mentions of little details about day-to-day operations of libraries and such, which presumably only librarians would geek-out over, the storyline itself is most intriguing and presents a slowly developing and increasingly suspenseful, not to mention sinister tale, focusing on the rather uneasy relationship between two women working in the library. Each has her secrets she wishes to protect, but secrets have a way of escaping custody.....
(Image of Book Jacket courtesy of Amazon.com)
(Image of Book Jacket courtesy of Amazon.com)
When Breath Becomes Air
I read this book and truly love it. This is a posthumous work by a brain doctor before he died of cancer. This book is more like a letter to his daughter, but it made me more understand the meaning of life.
@Scepticalscribe asked me post a link to some books I recommended in another thread, so if anybody wants to read about the history of Israel, mostly post-1948, you can look here:
Last edited:
Many thanks, and very much appreciated.
Earlier, elsewhere (in the "what's on your mind?" thread), @yaxomoxay had requested recommendations for intelligent, informed and (above all) balanced books and material about the Middle East, and @KaliYoni, very kindly put together a number of suggestions, which I, for one, am very grateful for.
This is not remotely my own area of expertise, and my recommendations (dating from the time of the Kuwait war, over thirty years ago, which is when I last immersed myself in the study of the history and politics of this region - they included works by Robert Fisk, and Conor Cruise O'Brien, intelligent, informed, well written and well researched, but not remotely impartial, and, not contemporary) are (presumably) rather dated.
Anyway, I asked @KaliYoni to post these suggestions here, the books & reading thread, firstly, because this is where I (and, I assume, others) tend to head to, whenever we want to recommend books, or confirm books read or recommended by others, and secondly, I feared that it would become lost (and forgotten, overlooked) in the busy traffic of the "what is on your mind" thread.
Thanks again.
Last edited:
Huge thanks to @KaliYoni for his recommendations. I’ll definitely check many of the titles out.
@yaxomoxay; @KaliYoni, @Crowbot:
Actually, another recommendation that comes to mind, which is recent (published in 2018) and that I found excellent (I read it a few months ago) is a biography of Benjamin Netanyahu:
"Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu" by Anshel Pfeffer.
Actually, another recommendation that comes to mind, which is recent (published in 2018) and that I found excellent (I read it a few months ago) is a biography of Benjamin Netanyahu:
"Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu" by Anshel Pfeffer.
Thanks, but I know all I need to about him.
Well, you had (earlier) referred to Entebbe, and, that was what prompted me to wish to read more on the subject.
I hadn't known - at all - about the Entebbe link, until a colleague gave me a book which contained David Remnick's profile of Bibi (if memory serves, it was published in Vanity Fair well over a decade ago) to read.
I appreciate it. Because I have family there, I have been loosely following Israeli politics for years. I might get in trouble with the Mods if I say more.
Fair enough, and I hear you.I appreciate it. Because I have family there, I have been loosely following Israeli politics for years. I might get in trouble with the Mods if I say more.
However, when I read the profile of Bibi in the book of a selection of David Remnick's writing from Vanity Fair (a colleague gave it to me as a gift), I was struck very forcibly by the thought that their father (Bibi's and Yoni's - that is, his brother Yonatan Netanyahu - father) was an appalling individual.
The bio of Bibi served to confirm this - to my mind.
Anyway, for those unfamiliar with the subject, it is a work that I recommend.
Last edited:
No question he is an interesting and charismatic person. I just don't agree with him\s politics. But it is difficult living up to an older brother who is a national hero.
Absolutely agreed.
Not just dashing national hero (that James Dean thing of dying young and dramatically, but being forever young and horribly handsome after your death), but handsome, erudite, a serious scholar (studied at Harvard), soldier-poet-philosopher, with an extraordinary military career until his dramatic death.
Yes, how does one ever live up to that?
Actually, that angle hadn't ever occurred to me until I read David Remnick's profile (and later, Anshel Pfeffer's biography), and, ever since then, I think that it has been a major driving force in his (Bibi's) life and motivations.
Last edited:
Bibi is an extremely polarizing figure. It is difficult for me to imagine any discussion of him will be unbiased.
Agree that it won't be, and - most probably - cannot be.
However, I think it a good idea to try to know more about him, and thus, to read more about him, and - perhaps - try to understand more about him, his life and his times.
A good morale booster.
A good morale booster.
And note the original Hebrew title of the movie...