Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
If you like it i here there are 49 more sequels.
Interesting article on how many Oklahoma teachers are afraid to talk about Killers of the Flower Moon in their classrooms because of the state CRT law. Surprising in that the book is just factual and well-researched rather than providing opinions.
next genre up - Womenās Fiction
Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch - Haywood Smith
Ditto. The concept was better than the execution, for me.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August was similar for me in that I liked the concept better than the execution, but the execution was better.
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I stopped reading Never Let Me Go after about 15%. Guess I need to finish it instead - just re-loaded it to my Kindle.
reading the Sanditon ā¦ that was done by the people who did the TV show
it isnāt the worst Austen fanfic Iāve read, but itās so obviously in the structure of a TV series I can hear the ads that go in the breaks. And itās so obviously 21st century.
I prefer a different Sanditon completion, that at least used Austenās manuscript for the beginning. This one just uses the character names and the setting, and thatās about it.
I never read Charlottes Web.
Iām ordering the book for Amazon rn
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some pig
yum
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I was at Barnes and Noble for the first time in a while yesterday. I was noting a bunch of titles I thought I"d be interested in, but, of course, none of them are available in audiobook yet. I guess I have my to-read-in-a-couple-years list set now.
Makes me think of:
The Never Ending Story
Star Trek episodes (janeway doctor, moriarty on the holodeck?)
Starless Sea by morganstern
Stranger than fiction
The Gunslinger (bleh) by Stephen King
A few sci-fi stories where people āupload their brainsā. (One I found funny was where the character kept committing suicide shortly after being āuploadedā.)
Tweedle Deeā¦
ā¦I also used to have some pet theologies that involved variations on this idea.
Anyway, Iād like to see what you produce. I think there might? be a lot of room to innovate on the concept. Afaik, itās never been handled rigorously, or in a complex manner, or with especially compelling characters.
Finished the Kalevala, Iliad, the Scottish tales collection, the Tain, and Starlight Enclave. Also read Sophoclesā Electra, Glacierās Edge (2nd to most recent Drizzt book), and Sophoclesā Oedipus at Colonus. Halfway through The Odyssey, also started the Mabinogion, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Sandersonās Elantris (my first Sanderson).
Iām readingā¦ way too many books right now. I need to wrap up some of these 60%+ finished books soon.
| Book | Author/Translator |
|---|---|
| The Arabian Nights | Muhsin Mahdi |
| On the Road: The Original Scroll | Jack Kerouac |
| Tales of the City | Armistead Maupin |
| Lolthās Warrior | R. A. Salvatore |
| The Odyssey | Emily Wilson |
| The Mabinogion | Sioned Davies |
| Elantris | Brandon Sanderson |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh | N.K. Sandars |
| Alcestis | Euripedes |
| Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs |
| Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction | Edith Wharton |
| Candide | Voltaire |
| Kalila and Dimna | Nasrallah Munshi |
| The Complete Fables of Jean de Fontaine | Norman R. Shapiro |
| Russian Fairy Tales | Aleksandr Afanasev |
| Italian Folktales | Italo Calvino |
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In addition to my epic mythology reading, I decided I want to read all of the extant Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman plays. Iāve read all of Aeschylus (and Prometheus Bound), am halfway through Sophocles, and about to start Euripedes. Then Aristophanes and Menander, Plautus, Terence, and Ennius. Oh yeah, and Seneca the Younger. So Iām about 10% of the way done, rofl.
Picked up How to turn into a bird. Which is about a guy who moves into a billboard. Itās not a great book, but I like that I just wished this book into existence.
We were on a vacation and I told my wife that I liked the idea of Fight Club. Not necessarily the fighting but the anti-consumerist bent. She pointed out that the books is more Red-Pill, anti-woman, machoism, self-made men, etc. I said āyeah, but doesnāt everyone want to quit their shitty job, blow up their nice apartment, and live in a squat?ā She said, āyes, but thatās hardly the point of the book.ā And I said, āI wish someone would make that book.ā Of course thereās Thoreau, Bohemia, the Beatsā¦ The Beats come close but theyāre 50 years out of touch, and also chauvinistā¦ And then we randomly found this book. Which is about rejecting all of the noise of civilization, but also not making a big fucking deal out of it, and ranting about trees or women or tramping or independence or whatever else is on your mind.
Not reading yet but just purchased Radclyffe Hallās The Well of Loneliness.
My This Day in Womenās History calendar says on this day in 1928 an obscenity trial began for this book. Too homosexual or something.
Iām just enough a lover of banned books and a rebel at heart that I had to see if it was readily available. Got the kindle from my library & the audio from Audible.
Charlotteās Web (FINALLY)
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Out Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng.
I finished Lessons in Chemistry. I liked it. Itās hard to imagine it being made into a series without losing a lot, but I suppose Brie Larson seems like a reasonable enough choice for the main character.
I think Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood is next.
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I donāt ever want to read anything else by Margaret Atwood. Nit saying I wonāt, but probably only if itās for book club.
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Have you read her Maddaddam trilogy? Atwood writes in a variety of styles. Her humourous side is hilarious.
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