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IX. Currently Reading?
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What are you currently reading (or just finished)?
Larry wrote: "Congratulations. Now you have to face the task to promote it. Create a website. Build a following on facebook, twitter, and instagram, etc. Get some critiques. Decide if you are going to only put i..."🤣😂🤣 so true... it took me 1 year after the book was finished just to get it edited and all of that set up
hi all, I have recently finished the silent patient, and I really loved it. Not naturally a Thriller reader, I was very impressed with Alex's work and felt I should share.
Read my first two books of 2022:The Book of Dragons by E Nesbit, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4427119697
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volume 3 in N K Jemisin's trilogy, The Stone Sky - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4415009215
Read The Map of the Known World by Steven Smith and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4445763147and
Eye of the Witch by Dana E Donovan - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4455884067
Finished reading
late last night. It certainly kept me engrossed from beginning to end. If you love post apocalyptic Grace Hamilton has lots of different series to read, and I highly recommend her.
Currently reading Chinese epic fantasy
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 1 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, which was adapted into the wildly popular action drama series "The Untamed" (available on Netflix). The novel is now a New York Times bestseller. I watched "The Untamed" twice and absolutely adored it.
I am overreading right now. I am posting reviews for anything I think highly of and just rating the others. I just finished https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... and it was fun. I have gone through a number and have started a new series. I finished https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... and have gone on to the third book. I also reread Lovecraft this week and was reminded of his vision and given some pause that even great writers became greater over time.
The Practical Empath by Catherine Kane. Applicable for developing strategies for empathy for all humanity.
I loved the insight of Raspberry Rainbows by Pinkie Paranya. But now I have started reading The Anthropocene Revisited by John Green. I am not convinced about this book; it seems to be a brag about how much random knowledge the author possess. That being said, he has made some interesting points. For example, here's is cautionary tale for writers: Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was not recognized until WWII when the State Dept. send 150 K copies to the troops in Europe. In 1936 Fitzgerald's royalties were ~$80. He died at 44, mostly impoverished and forgotten. By 1960 Gatsby was selling 50K copies and currently sells ~ 500K per year. These insights by Green emphasize the rapid change in Homo Sapiens in the 20th century. We are just a small cog in a massive machine.
Read a short story by Isaac Asimov, recommended on another group - The Gentle Vultures - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4477659075
Just starting on The Every by David Eggers, the follow-up to the Circle. Slightly in two minds about that novel, but I do want to read his work, so there is something there that works!
A recent writing assignment for a blog takes me to Claire Stewart's "As Long as We Both Shall Eat: A History of Wedding Food and Feasts." (2017)Claire's prose glides into the 20th century from the Gilded Age (which will grip us when HBO MAX starts its "The Gilded Age" series this January, 2022). We might think "wedding cakes," but this book is rich with richest fare from the sea to the farm and ranch. Royal and royal-ish weddings are covered (including Jumping the Broom in African-American weddings.
Fun and informative!!
Just finished reading Mitch Albom's The Stranger In The Lifeboat.Currently reading Phantoms by Dean Koontz.
The Day When I Didn't See MyselfA gift for book lovers. :-)
Free on Amazon Prime reading and Kindle unlimited.
Nightbitch - Amazing and creative exploration of contemporary motherhood.People Love Dead Jews - A must-read in light of rising antisemitic hate crimes in the United States.
I've returned to Norman Vincent Peale. Now that I know from The Secret of the law of attraction, I find many references to manifestation in Norman.
I just started a murder mystery. (...Higgins Clark)
I haven't read her in a while. Taking a break from D. Maccomber, so I can complete my own and 4th Christian Romance novella.
I haven't read her in a while. Taking a break from D. Maccomber, so I can complete my own and 4th Christian Romance novella.
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Loved it. Read it in a day as didn’t want to put it down.