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[Don]

People are attacking other people's Ice Cream ! "The Tin Roof Challenge". can anyone recommend a book to restore lost hope ?

[Judy]

I just finished the travel book Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy. It is a remarkable read by a remarkable woman. It is the story of Murphy's journey in 1963 from Dunkirk France to New Delhi India by bike. The book is mostly about her adventures in Afghanistan and Pakistan, two countries which she loved, much to her own surprise. She has written many travel books since then, almost all of them recounting a journey in a controversial country by bike, or donkey, or mule. I'm going to read her book Ethiopia By Mule next (I may not have the title exactly right.)

[HeyT]

I just finished Children of Time which I loved so now I'm going to treat myself to going through the BotM threads for it. I seem to be lopsided on my fantasy to sci fi ratio this year so despite still being half way through Wheel of Time I've picked up Snow Crash to try and get more sci fi onto my read this year list.

[Don]

"Full Tilt" sounds good, thanks

[YouKneeK]

I finished All You Need Is Kill last night. Since this is a current group read, I’m not going to post any thoughts here for the sake of people who are trying to avoid reading about it until they finish it themselves. There’s a review on my profile, and I’ve posted many rambling thoughts in the spoiler thread.

Next up, I plan to start Dune which is one of the upcoming group re-reads. This will be my first time reading it, and I look forward to finally shedding my appalling Dune ignorance.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

YouKneeK wrote: "I finished All You Need Is Kill last night. Since this is a current group read, I’m not going to post any thoughts here for the sake of people who are trying to avoid reading about i..."

Would you say that you're no longer going to be a dunece about this book?

[YouKneeK]

LOL Allison, I think that would be an accurate statement! Unless I end up hating the book, in which case many people may think I’m still a Dune dunece…

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

YouKneeK wrote: "LOL Allison, I think that would be an accurate statement! Unless I end up hating the book, in which case many people may think I’m still a Dune dunece…"

Dune't blame yourself if you don't like it.

[Anthony]

Allison and YouKneek, I think it’s fair to say that by extending this punnishness, you’ve dune your worst to us. And you should be punnished.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Aha! Or, is my punnery itself some sort of punishment?

As they say, the spite must flow!

[YouKneeK]

Haha, save your punitive action for Allison. All of the youkneek puns came from her.

[Escapes in Dune buggy before I can get caught up in the punishment.]

[Gabi]

I guess I can just copy-paste my comment from further up: Thank you, Anna! I read your second rec Amatka by Karin Tidbeck and it hit the mark similar to "Memory of Water".
I only wanted to start it today, but then I literally had to change my complete schedule, cause there was no way I could stop listening to it (thankfully it is a short book, otherwise I would have gotten into trouble with work).
Now I have to pull myself together to read Perdido Street Station, which was my intent before I picked up Amatka, cause everything in me wants to go for the next Emma Newman book. Amatka got me in a similar kind of feeling like Planetfall did.

[Leticia]

I was reading which was like The Hobbit but with cats, but I could not really get into it.

[Anna]

Gabi wrote: "I guess I can just copy-paste my comment from further up: Thank you, Anna! I read your second rec Amatka by Karin Tidbeck and it hit the mark similar to "Memory of ..."

Yay! I didn't love it as much, but it sure is different! I actually kind of want to reread it now that people are talking about it in the BR.

[Beth]

Anna wrote: "And yes, I also like my Kindles nude. I can't imagine having to hold it with a cover."

I've never considered Kindle nudity before this, have always used one of those covers with elastic bands to hold the device. Maybe I'll give it a try!

[Karen]

I've been eating up the Doctor Who audio novellas, getting additional Matt Smith and David Tennant as my favorite doctors fixes.

Curious about all of the hoopla, I picked up Where the Crawdads Sing. So many people raving about it, recommending it, etc that I caved. It was a good book just not rave worthy.

I have pulled How Long 'til Black Future Month? from my TBR pile and will be starting it today.

[Anna]

Beth wrote: "I've never considered Kindle nudity before this, have always used one of those covers with elastic bands to hold the device. Maybe I'll give it a try!"

I usually hold my Kindle in weird ways that would be uncomfortable if it had any extra thickness, and since I don't take it out of the house, it doesn't need protection. I read on my phone when I'm not home.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Beth wrote: "Anna wrote: "And yes, I also like my Kindles nude. I can't imagine having to hold it with a cover."

I've never considered Kindle nudity before this, have always used one of those covers with elast..."

I have been trying so hard not to make raunchy jokes, and you're not helping me.

I liked Lud-in-the-Mist! I would recommend fans of fairies and/or Gaiman to check it out.

Dawn was fascinating and upsetting and likely my last attempt at Butler. I just don't mesh well, even though I recognize her talent.

All the Birds in the Sky was a trip! I liked it quite a bit.

Listening to Becoming and loving it. I just started The Bone Doll's Twin and haven't gotten far enough to have an opinion.

[Anna]

Allison wrote: "I just started The Bone Doll's Twin and haven't gotten far enough to have an opinion."

Yaasss!! Did your library finally get it, or did you have to buy it?

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Anna wrote: "Allison wrote: "I just started The Bone Doll's Twin and haven't gotten far enough to have an opinion."

Yaasss!! Did your library finally get it, or did you have to buy it?"

I bought it and Travis lent me the other two.

I'm not sure why but this copy smells divine. It smells like perfect bookishness, so that makes me happy.

[Anna]

I hope it's worth it for you!

[Wen]

I just finished Remembrance of Earth's Past Series and ah, I don't know how to process it, take a breath. I like it mentions a lot Math/Physics, and that’s all.

[Jacqueline]

I’ve been trying to find Lud-in-the-Mist but can’t find it anywhere. I shall keep looking.

After finishing Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning and loving it I decided to start Faefever last night. We went out for tea and Hubby put the bedroom TV on when we got home so he could watch the Rugby League State of Origin. I fired up the iPad and started reading instead with a few glances at the TV when something interesting happened. My team beat his and won the series so that was good even though we thought they’d lost it, again, up until the final 20 seconds. But I got nearly a third of the book read.

I can’t work on pages because I have the writing bigger than it should be and I have 650 pages instead of 350 lol One book I read had 900 pages on the iPad but less than 300 in the book. That writing must have been tiny.

I had to have a day or so resting my eyes after reading primarily from the iPad for the last week. Hubby was insisting on more days but I agreed to one because I’m actually in the mood to read and I can’t ignore that. I had some sort of eye infection last week (well a sinus/eye infection teamed with high barometric pressure) and it’s slowly getting better but reading isn’t helping. I probably should listen to an audiobook but I never remember to do that at home. I’m still listening to Dragonflight in the car.

[Trike]

About halfway through The Underground Railroad which rolls on effortlessly. In this day and age, a white author would not have been allowed to write something this frank.

[Dj]

Brick wrote: "YouKneeK wrote: "Dj wrote: "Survived? That seems like damning with faint praise"

It wasn’t intended to be praise at all, faint or otherwise. :)

Brick wrote: "This week I tried digging into The Lo..."

Never a bad idea to try a book yourself. Everyone has different likes and dislikes when it comes to things like that

[Dj]

Lowell wrote: "Heh. I used to travel with a kindle, at least 2 phones, a tablet, and 2 laptops. Airport security gave me the absolute stink eye for holding up the line with all the electronics.

Having to double..."

You need to include a couple of hand held gaming counsels to really get them to edge towards apoplexy. LOL

[CBRetriever]

Jacqueline wrote: "I’ve been trying to find Lud-in-the-Mist but can’t find it anywhere. I shall keep looking.

After finishing Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning and loving it I decided to start Faefever last night. W..."

$3.99 for US residents in Kindle format on amazon.com

https://www.amazon.com/Lud-Mist-Hope-...

they also have paperbacks as cheap as $2.14

[Dj]

Allison wrote: "I...am so confused, I thought the US were supposed to be the violent ones. Y'all Finns seem so nice and cuddly and yet all your literature seems about mutilating people. I'm onto you.

I liked Lowe..."

I read this online comic for a while about the Scandinavian States, each country was represented by a person. Finland always showed up with a Knife. Kind of made me think.

But then I have read a few things about the Winter War, so I can't say I would blame them for being a little edgy considering who their neighbor is.

[Dj]

Mike wrote: "Allison wrote:
"...37 by not men, 20 by men (4 books from having the "not men" authors equal the books I've read by authors who are men)..."

My apologies, but I'm not following this. Did you grow..."

I think I am reading that New Math book now. It is called Alice in Wonderland

[Jacqueline]

Thanks CBR. Unfortunately I’m not a US resident. Also don’t have a Kindle. And I have a thing about ordering from the internet. It’s very rare that I do. I hear too many horror stories about not getting them. I’ve probably ordered 3 books from overseas in the last couple of years and they were must haves. Also we aren’t allowed to order through Amazon US anymore. Our government has cracked down on them not paying tax to Australia so we can usually only order through Amazon Australia which is like a third world country compared to the US version.

[Anna]

Dj wrote: "Finland always showed up with a Knife."

Sounds about right.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Dj wrote: "Allison wrote: "I...am so confused, I thought the US were supposed to be the violent ones. Y'all Finns seem so nice and cuddly and yet all your literature seems about mutilating people. I'm onto yo..."

Haha! Scandinavia vs. the World? I love that comic! I still tease my Canadian friends about being our hat.

Idk, maybe when I was in Helsinki everyone was on their best behavior. Maybe all the knife wielders were on holiday elsewhere. Everyone I met offered me champagne, teased me about my choice of beer and asked if we wanted to go dancing?

Anna tells me none of this is a thing, but I was there for a whole 2.5 days so I feel like my knowledge of Finnish culture is robust.

[CBRetriever]

Jacqueline wrote: "Thanks CBR. Unfortunately I’m not a US resident. Also don’t have a Kindle. And I have a thing about ordering from the internet. It’s very rare that I do. I hear too many horror stories about not ge..."

here it is on amazon.com.au

https://www.amazon.com.au/Lud-Mist-Ho...

the Kindle version is the cheapest and you could use a free reading app (link below the Kindle price) to read it or use the Cloud Reader which uses a browser:

https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/help/cus...

[Jacqueline]

All a little rich for my taste....one day....

[Wen]

Allison wrote: "...Everyone I met offered me champagne, teased me about my choice of beer and asked if we wanted to go dancing?”

What a dream place^^

[Dj]

Allison wrote: "Dj wrote: "Allison wrote: "I...am so confused, I thought the US were supposed to be the violent ones. Y'all Finns seem so nice and cuddly and yet all your literature seems about mutilating people. ..."

Was that what it was called. I think I might have to look it up again. Thx

[Anthony]

After a very very very slow start to my 2019 reading, I’ve been catching up with a vengeance, and happily have been pretty satisfied recently.

I just started Trail of Lightning and I seem to remember there was a buddy read for it last year, but I wasn’t able to find that thread so I could necropost. Anna or Allison, could you help me locate it? Thank you!

[Pam]

Finished a massive historical novel by Sharon Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2887886157.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Anthony wrote: "After a very very very slow start to my 2019 reading, I’ve been catching up with a vengeance, and happily have been pretty satisfied recently.

I just started Trail of Lightning an..."

Thank goodness for Anna and her spreadsheets! Here you go, Anthony. It was moved to a series read!

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Anthony]

Hmmm, that looks like it’s just for Storm of Locusts...

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Anthony wrote: "Hmmm, that looks like it’s just for Storm of Locusts..."

Hmm, no, I think the first page at least is ToL! I didn't read Storm of Locusts, so I can't have had thoughts on it haha!

We did convert it to the second book/series read when folks wanted to continue though.

ETA: Storm starts at comment 40

[Anthony]

Ah ok, thank you!

[Phrynne]

A free short story which is really worth reading.
My review of A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies by Alix E. Harrow

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Leah]

I have set myself a NYE resolution this year to read all the Wheel of Time books and I can finally say that I am halfway done! Just finished A Crown of Swords. 7 of the books in 3 months...phew. I tried to read this series back in HS and fell off around this point so from here on out it is all new territory for me. :D

I've also been peppering in less dense books here or there (got on a real trashy romance kick for a hot minute and blew through the Wallflowers series by Lisa Kleypas - super cute and super cliche but a fun set of popcorn books.)

Felt an itch for a crime thriller so I finally started the Naked in Death series by J.D. Robb after hearing about it for so long. Thus far I am intrigued.

Last one I am currently reading is a memior by my favorite comedian Iliza Shlesinger Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity. It's just ok but I'm only about half way through.

[Pam]

Phrynne wrote: "A free short story which is really worth reading.
My review of A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies by Alix E. Harrow [bookcover:A ..."

Thanks Phyrnne, have now read it and reviewed it here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2893196723.

[Phrynne]

My review of Exit Strategy by Martha Wells. Book 4 in the excellent Murderbot Diaries

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Trike]

Phrynne wrote: "My review of Exit Strategy by Martha Wells. Book 4 in the excellent Murderbot Diaries

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show......"

Murderbot, Murderbot, murders bots a whole lot
Watches soaps all the time, sometimes it solves a crime
Look out, here comes the Murderbot!

Is it strong? Listen bud: It’s got robotical blood
Can it hack your PC? Take a look at security
Hey there! There goes the Murderbot!

[Jemppu]

I definitely wouldn't mind Spiderverse type animation of Murderbot.

[Anthony]

Just finished Trail of Lightning and while I remain more convinced than ever that it’s a great and necessary thing that so many more mythologies than that of the Western European variety have populated the worlds of our modern fantasy literature, I still want the writing of these books to be better. I’m looking at you, Jade City, and you The Poppy War, and you Home.

I’ll remain hopeful and supportive of this movement. But I want to not be so disappointed in its efforts.

[Gabi]

Anthony wrote: "Just finished Trail of Lightning and while I remain more convinced than ever that it’s a great and necessary thing that so many more mythologies than that of the Western European va..."

I can recommend The Way of Thorn and Thunder