Lea’s Comments (group member since Jan 04, 2017)

Lea’s comments from the 2022 ONTD Reading Challenge group.

Rochelle wrote: "I'm not nearly done with my February book, but I want to read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for this month. What I want to learn more about is the ways in which the Roman Ca..."

WHOA, the Gibbon book?? that's quite an undertaking.

I think Bart Ehrman has some books on the subject you want, but I don't know how good they are.

Sophie wrote: "Ended up reading Faro's Daughter (Lea recommended it to me!) which was a lot of fun and really cute. I'll have to read some more Heyer, maybe Arabella next since she was introduced in this book."

I'm so glad you liked it! The Arabella in Arabella is a different one though. However it is a really great book and I definitely recommend it if you want to read it next! ;)

Dainey wrote: "I read The Princess Bride and ended up with so many conflicted feelings along the way.

Some scenes were better in the movie, some were better in the book, and I did like that all t..."

The author bits are part of the book! I mean it, they're all part of the story, it's all fiction. There are no editions without them (although the author did write an additional intro for the 30th anniversary edition, which is ALSO fictional). And there is no sequel either, it's fake! There is only that "one chapter", because the sequel is supposed to be "long lost" (but it never existed).

The whole thing is basically a huge practical joke, and that's part of the charm of the Princess Bride. Here is more about this whole thing: https://tothelamppost.wordpress.com/t...

Hello everyone, if you still haven't chosen a book for January, more adaptations have been announced:

Dracula
A Christmas Carol
This Is Going To Hurt
Noughts + Crosses
Dublin Murders
Elizabeth Is Missing
Tom Jones
His Dark Materials
The Luminaries
The War Of The Worlds

Source:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Waterstone...

Julie wrote: "Made it through Little Women this week for the first time. In grade school I had somehow managed to read the British version which is only Part 1 in most versions. So after seeing the 9..."

what. there are two versions? now that I think about it, I read it in Portuguese and it was a very small book. then I saw the Puffin in Bloom edition and it is HUGE looking. I was like, where did all these pages come from? maybe I read a translation of this small version too and didn't know it. HUH

Hannah wrote: "Still waiting on my hold for The Proposal, but To All the Boys I've Loved Before came in, and that totally counts as a romance, right?"

Yep, it's romance

Rochelle wrote: "Rochelle wrote: "I am planning to read One Day in December!! I hope it delivers a lot of feelings!"
Soooo the queue for this one is LONG! I'll give it about a week or so then i migh..."

Reese Witherspoon recommended it on her book club, so it's very popular rn lol

We're counting on your romance recs, Juliana! Please keep an eye on ontd!

Hey everyone, it's totally my fault the post is delayed but I'm working on it RIGHT NOW!! Really sorry!!!!

It's normal on the ios app

And I looked it up to see if the BBC was going to come up with any more Christie adaptations in 2019 and they just announced Death Comes at the End for 2019. Apparently it's a historical fiction + mystery set in ancient Egypt! So, that sounds pretty neat as well.

Oh shit, is it? Then I guess it doesn't.

I just saw on ONTD that Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders is being adapted by Amazon! Comes out in February. Yes bitch, I know what I'm reading!

Kim, if you check out the Ontd post for this month, there are 3 lists linked in the sources. Other people left lists in the comments too

Wow, this is great, MJ! Thanks!

And this reminds me, Juliana started a romance reading challenge, if anyone is up for it: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
It's going to be fun!

I don't believe Circe is coming out in 2019. it's only just been optioned. as far as I was able to google it's not in production yet

Use this post to discuss your January picks! The ONTD post with suggestions is here: https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com...

So, everyone, what would you say your favourite reads of 2018 were overall?

Mine, in no particular order:

- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (fantasy)
- This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay (memoir)
- Bath Tangle and Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer (historical romance)
- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (fiction)
- The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature by Viv Groskop (non-fiction)
- Blackout / All Clear by Connie Willis (historical fiction / sci-fi)

Use this topic to talk about books generally. What have you been reading outside of the challenge? What do you recommend? Need any recs? Seen any articles or lists online about books that you want to share?

Undine wrote: "Dainey wrote: "That's funny because I REALLY did not like The Martian! It's right up there with The Da Vinci Code in terms of "what the fuck book did everyone else read?!?" (uh, turns out I had strong feelings about this) (view spoiler) At least the movie has a disco soundtrack...Anyway, I like that Murderbot isn't just pandering to bros, and I was kinda worried it would be because it was also widely talked about!"

Well, what I didn't like about the Martian wasn't the science stuff (I frankly would not know if anything was accurate or not), it was the grating "how do you do fellow kids" style, the nerdy Internet slang overuse. This bothered me about the Martian (and I think it's very much part of what made it so bro-y) and All Systems Red (it got less bad as the story went on though) and, now that I think about it, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (that one I literally couldn't finish).

So it's something I've been noticing in contemporary sci-fi and that I just find really annoying. Clearly many sci-fi readers appreciate it though, judging by the popularity of these books.

Yeah, I wasn't crazy about All Systems Red, it reminded me of The Martian - another book I thought was just alright. Maybe I just don't like this kind of science fiction very much.

And the post is up!

https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com...