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[DivaDiane]

I am reading The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne and loving it! Medieval Germany Pagan vs. Christian and my beloved Hildegard of Bingen is at least mentioned. She may even make an appearance, because Mary read so many books by Hildegard as research for this book.

[Bonnie]

by Jodi Picoult right now. My last fantasy type books were Cackle (wasn't sure about this one initially as the MC seemed so young and clueless - considering her actual age- but it turned out very unique and good) and Other Birds (more magical realism, loved it and the characters from the get go.)

[CBRetriever]

I'm reading Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban and it's really slowed down my reading with its language

Time back way way back 1 time it wer Ful of the Moon and a man and woman sqwatting by ther littl fire. Sqwatting by ther littl fire and afeart of the nite. The dog wer in the nite and looking tords the fire. It wernt howling it wer jus looking at the fire. The man and woman seen the fire shyning in the dogs eyes. The man throwit meat to the dog and the dog come in to them by the fire. Brung its eyes in out of the nite then they all lookit at the nite to gether. The man and the woman seen the nite in the dogs eyes and thats when they got the 1st knowing of it. They knowit the nite the same as the dog knowit.

Hoban, Russell. Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition (pp. 17-18). Indiana University Press. Kindle Edition.

[Jim]

Hi everyone,

I am reading my way through all the Alien series of books. I have finished Out of the Shadows, Sea of Sorrows, River of Pain, The Cold Forge, Prototype.

Currently on Isolation. Each book is taking a different angle of the alien universe and expanding it, sometimes filling in gaps between movies or just trying to create a new story further in the future or past.

As they are all written by different authors, it's hard to know what the book will be like in advance, although most are doing a reasonably good job of creating new material.

When I finish these, I will be going on to reading more Lit-RPG books as the Lit-RPG genre is something I want to try writing after having written an epic fantasy novel just this year.

[Rick]

The Hanging Artist is... interesting.

Instead of what happened in Kafka's The Metamorphosis (""As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect"), this novel asks "What if Kafka woke from a delirium only to find himself cured of tuberculosis but with Gregor the cockroach as a companion only he could see... and they became detectives?"

[Michelle]

CBRetriever wrote: "I'm reading Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban and it's really slowed down my reading with its language

Time back way way back 1 time it wer Ful of the Moon and a man and..."

I'm not certain that I could deal with that for more than two paragraphs tops. You're a better reader than me 🙂

[CBRetriever]

Rick wrote: "The Hanging Artist is... interesting.

Instead of what happened in Kafka's The Metamorphosis (""As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself t..."

I read that one - it was very interesting much to my surprise

[CBRetriever]

Michelle wrote: "CBRetriever wrote: "I'm reading Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban and it's really slowed down my reading with its language

Time back way way back 1 time it wer Ful of th..."

it gets easier and there's a guide/annotations to it that someone told me about here:

http://www.errorbar.net/rw/

[Sam]

Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the first in the Expanded Star Wars Universe, was a really amazing sequel to Star Wars: A New Hope and an awesome prequel to The Empire Strikes Back. The interesting part about this is that it was written as a secondary novel, with the intention of being adapted as a basis for a low-budget sequel to Star Wars in case the film was not successful enough to finance a high-budget sequel when in reality it truly was and still is.

I really love the awesome crystal artifact on Mimban. This crystal is used as the primary source for all light-sabers. Other elements from the book, such as the planet Mimban, are present throughout the Expanded Universe. Looking at the concept art for Rogue One, it included Mimban as a name for the city that eventually developed into Jedha (another source of kyber), and also, if you've maybe seen Solo, a planet called Mimban featured in that film. Additionally, Marvel's The Rise of Kylo Ren featured Ben Solo traveling to Mimban, where he learns of the Mindsplinter—possibly the Kaiburr crystal by another name.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

I'm nibbling books. if you like Midnight Library, may I recommend Colorful by Eto Mori

[Jacqueline]

OMG Sam…memories or what. I have both the original Star Wars novel and Splinter of the Minds Eye in a box in my shed. I bought them when I was in High School in the late 70s.

The Mindsplinter is probably a call back to this story.

[Sam]

Jacqueline wrote: "OMG Sam…memories or what. I have both the original Star Wars novel and Splinter of the Minds Eye in a box in my shed. I bought them when I was in High School in the late 70s.

The Mindsplinter is ..."

Do you really? The edition I just read from the library is the 1990s Classic Star Wars reprint.

[Michelle]

Jacqueline wrote: "OMG Sam…memories or what. I have both the original Star Wars novel and Splinter of the Minds Eye in a box in my shed. I bought them when I was in High School in the late 70s.

The Mindsplinter is ..."

I have my old copy on my shelf :)

[Jacqueline]

Yep Sam. They’re both a little the worse for wear. I read them a lot and they’ve moved a lot with me. The glue was pretty crap on the spines too and they are falling apart a bit. So is my original Battlestar Galactica book. I think it was a 70s thing as a number of my Mums books from then have the same problem. They were on my shelf until a couple of towns ago. We live in rural NSW, Australia and move around the state a lot for Hubbys work. They didn’t make it out of their box again around 10 years ago when the books were left at my parents place. They made it to my place last year but the boxes are still in the shed. I have nowhere to put them in the house anyway as I’ve accumulated a pretty good selection of books in the last 5 years since I started reading again and I’m out of shelves for them too. I’m going to have to sort the boxes out actually. My parents whole house is in my shed.

[The Joy of Erudition]

Sam, I read Splinter of the Mind's Eye earlier this year, and I'm planning on reading some of the other early Star Wars books, too, like the Lando and Han ones.

[Sam]

Are you really? Me, too.

[The Joy of Erudition]

Sam wrote: "Are you really? Me, too."
Yeah, I like all of those wildly different ideas they were trying out before the lore was really solidified into what we know today, and getting a glimpse of where things might have gone if things had happened slightly differently.

[Bryan]

I just finished The Final Empire, and it was really good. I'm looking forward to continuing the series.

I just started Fire & Blood, and The Sword of Shannara, but The Silmarillion is also calling me, lol. So many books, so little time.

[Kirsten]

I'm reading Nicholas Sparks' latest Dreamland

[Michelle]

Kirsten wrote: "I'm reading Nicholas Sparks' latest Dreamland"

My oldest daughter is a Nicholas Sparks fiend!

[SFF in NH]

Bryan wrote: "but The Silmarillion is also calling me, lol. So many books, so little time."

I grew up reading Lord of the Rings every year with my family, and it took a few tries to get into the Silmarillion, but it definitely paid off. It finally clicked for me when I realized Tolkien was writing oral history -- the switch from a written to a spoken cadence transformed the words for me.

[Sam]

I'm just getting started with not only the next two Star Wars films, but I also happened to run into TekWar. I just looked at the first few pages seeing how bad it really was...and, yes, it's incredibly bad!

[Beth]

Mid-month roundup brings us... not very much. Again! Let's see if I can turn things around in the last couple months of the year.

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things: a collection of blog-post like anecdotes and essays. Jenny Dawson's sense of humor and mine don't intersect much, but the more serious parts about her struggles with mental illness were quite affecting. (review)

The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story: this had some cool battle sequences, and what I thought was a really interesting theme. But I felt its pacing was off, and the overlong denouement weakened its impact as a standalone novel. (review)

[Anna]

The 2022 runner-up polls are up, voting starts on November 1st!

(Chatting/scheming in the poll comments starts now! Turn notifications on for both polls to keep updated.)

[Michelle]

Shouldn't Ryan have started scheming by now?

[Anna]

Yes, I am a little worried about him, maybe he needs vitamins or something.

[Michelle]

Send out an APB!

[Sam]

I've noticed lately on Goodreads that they keep on recommending me The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That is one of the many books I hate with a burning passion and have no desire to read. I think it's the stupidest book ever. At least I have read other good stuff, such as Rendezvous with Rama, and am planning to read Ready Player 1 and its sequel. I'm staying far away from Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide 'cause it just seems as bad. It's worse than Twilight...

[Sam]

I'm sorry but I've never liked Douglas Adams or his works in particular...

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

we all have things that work and don't work for us! you're entitled to your feelings about it :)

[Marc]

it's october, I shift genres and read horror, finished Joe Hill's NOS4A2 and Stephen Graham Jone's Mongrels, now reading Joe Hill's Horns

[Ozsaur]

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter - mashup of Sherlock Holmes and the C'thulhu Mythos. I'm having a lot of fun with it since I'm a fan of both. Leans more heavily towards the Lovecraft side of things.

[Dj]

Sam wrote: "I've noticed lately on Goodreads that they keep on recommending me The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That is one of the many books I hate with a burning passion and have no desire to read. I th..."

While I don't agree with your opinion of Hitchhiker's guide, I will say that if you go into Browse and Recommendations and it is hiding out there, you can choose the option for not interested and it will stop showing up. Hope you enjoy your upcoming reads.

[CBRetriever]

Dj wrote: "I will say that if you go into Browse and Recommendations and it is hiding out there, you can choose the option for not interested and it will stop showing up."

I've had book keep popping up again and again even when I mark them Not Interested. Those Soosie Stackhouse books were like playing What a Mole.

[Michelle]

I'm reading The First Binding, and holy smokes it's like a copy of The Name of the Wind

[Sam]

I'm also looking at some comic books and some graphic novels. I am planning to read DC's first graphic novel, Star Raiders, which marked the beginning of the Modern Age of Comic Books. I am also planning to read Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen. I am a comic book lover, and I think I will love these DC imprints.

[Beth]

CBRetriever wrote: "Dj wrote: "I've had book keep popping up again and again even when I mark them Not Interested. Those Soosie Stackhouse books were like playing What a Mole."

Ah, Goodreads, how we love (view spoiler)[griping about (hide spoiler)] your wonky ways.

[Michelle]

For me it was persistent Harry Potter recs. I finally got them to go away!

[Sam]

At least the Douglas Adams recs have finally disappeared for me.

[Dj]

CBRetriever wrote: "Dj wrote: "I will say that if you go into Browse and Recommendations and it is hiding out there, you can choose the option for not interested and it will stop showing up."

I've had book keep poppi..."

I am pretty sure it is Whack a Mole. A fun game can get lots of tickets to get bigger prizes. LOL. Too bad that only works in an Arcade and not on the Goodreads sight. Sorry, that keeps happening.

[Jacqueline]

Sam wrote: "I've noticed lately on Goodreads that they keep on recommending me The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That is one of the many books I hate with a burning passion and have no desire to read. I th..."

I happen to love Douglas Adams and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in particular. And all of its sequels. And the radio show, TV show and the movie. He wrote the lot of them and each incarnation told the same basic story but concentrated on different parts of the story. I first read it when I was 17 or 18. I say read it but it was more it was read to our English class by the English Master who said we were under too much pressure in our last year of school (Australia has some brutal final exams) and that once a week we were to lay with our heads in our arms on our desks and listen to him reading the Hitchhiker's Guide. It was 1981. The class 2 years below us had to read it that year. I loved it and jumped on Restaurant at the End of the Universe when I saw it after it was released and then all of them after that.

Can't say I've read Twilight. My daughter did and even though we usually read what our kids read so we could answer questions they might have we let her older brother have that one. That was just before the first movie was released. We did get dragged to the movie and I actually enjoyed it and Hubby and I went with her on release day (or as close as possible) for the rest of them. I still watch Twilight some days when I can't be bothered finding something else to watch. It's just one of those movies you can leave on in the background. Basically though unless you're a teenage girl you're probably not who it's aimed at.

I don't believe there are bad books. Just ones that aren't to your taste.


Dj wrote: "CBRetriever wrote: "Dj wrote: "I will say that if you go into Browse and Recommendations and it is hiding out there, you can choose the option for not interested and it will stop showing up."

I've..."

I'm sure Chessie knows it's Whack a Mole Dj. Probably just a typo. I've got to the stage where I don't even notice what shit they're recommending anymore.

[CBRetriever]

Jacqueline wrote: "I'm sure Chessie knows it's Whack a Mole Dj. Probably just a typo."

it was a spell check error

[Raucous]

Jacqueline wrote: "... I still watch Twilight some days when I can't be bothered finding something else to watch. ... . Basically though unless you're a teenage girl you're probably not who it's aimed at. ..."

We tried watching this mostly because it's set in a nearby town. And, yeah, we were so not the target market. The town benefited from a nice surge of tourism, though, while the movies and books were popular. Every visitor who came by with a teenage girl in tow ended up there at some point.

I'm currently reading The Difficult Loves of Maria Makiling in an attempt to branch out into other mythologies. This one is based on Filipino mythology. The characters are interesting, in an edgy sort of way, but I'm finding it a bit disorienting overall. I think that's mostly from a lack of familiarity.

[Jacqueline]

Bloody spell check/autocorrect Chessie. Some days no matter how much you check your phone is still going to say what it wants to say and not what you want to say lol

[Dj]

CBRetriever wrote: "Jacqueline wrote: "I'm sure Chessie knows it's Whack a Mole Dj. Probably just a typo."

it was a spell check error"

Ah, spell check the curse of the modern era's version of editing. LOL.

[Colin]

Halloween is coming and I wanted a break from heavy stuff, so I picked up The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna. This is the story of a lonely 31 year-old witch who winds up in a Mary Poppins role for 3 young witches and a most unusual found family. It's light. It's fun. It's sweet. At the same time, it's pretty predictable and the characters are mostly stereotypes. Still, I liked it. This is a real "feel-good" book and will work well when you need one of those. Recommended for those who like magical realism, witch stories, or feel-good books. One note is that I would not recommend for young readers because of the generous sprinkling of f-words and an explicit sex scene. I didn't find those necessary to the story and almost wonder if the author was determined that the book be perceived as for "adults."

[Ellen]

Just finished Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz. I thought it was an interesting take on the Frankenstein story. It had plenty of horror, spooky and creepy for a Halloween read.

[Nicci]

Just finished Blake Crouch, Upgrade. Was surprised at how much I enjoyed the book. I’m not a hardcore science fiction reader. The author made the discussions on cell modification interesting. The thriller aspect was good, but I appreciate the most is Logan’s struggle between the old Logan and the new one.

[Phrynne]

This is my kind of book!!!
My review of Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Anna]

Yaaasss!

Check out the Clockwork/White Rat universe buddy read extravaganza!

Series: World of the White Rat by T. Kingfisher