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So impressive, @Catfish_Fan !!! 43 books before St. Pat's is astounding. I like the Martin quote too. I try to roam the world while reading, but I've been less adventurous with genres so that's what I'm trying to expand at least a bit. I'm not sure I would have stuck with Dark Matter without you and the tv series as…
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I've just started volume 1 of Outlander, looking forward to getting in deeper. And Dark Matter is fun too!
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Heading into the library tomorrow for the first Outlander and Crouch's Dark Matter. So looking forward to some engaging FUN!!
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@Btrflydog Exactly!! Can't wait to hear your review of Babel (I mean, I "can" wait cuz of the TBR issue we just discussed, but I'll read it with interest when you get there). I've started Hotel Lux. It's interesting and he weaves a lot of threads into the larger picture of foreigners drawn to the Russian revolution. But I…
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Sounds great, Catfish! I've got several books "burning a hole in my pocket right now." Especially excited to read a couple recent additions to the pile (the non-fiction Hotel Lux about some non-Russian "revolutionaries" in Moscow in the 1920s and Compartment No. 6 based on the Finnish author's studies in Russia in the…
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Wish I could somehow read more books at once…. Mount TBR just never gets smaller!
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Every Day sounds fun! This goes WAY back, but I remember enjoying the Animorphs series as much as my children did because they so vividly depicted life as other species.
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It had some minor imperfections, but I really enjoyed The Forbidden Garden. Next up? Hmmm... Sergei Lebedev, Oblivion, and at least 1 book from the Tin Tin series, which comes highly recommended by two friends.
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I finally finished Babel. Whew. I was disappointed... Now I'm reading a nonfiction book about a world-famous seedbank in the Soviet Union during WWII: The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice. It's an amazing story.
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Another Chicago series... I need to get that!
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Glad to get another recommendation. Thanks! I'm almost through Babel. It has moments of inspiration, but overall I've found it quite a slog. But I'm in it for the "win" so I will keep going....
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You're making an excellent case for Crouch. I need something really engaging!
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Oh, my gosh, someone just recommended that Pines trilogy to me. I didn't realize it was the same guy who wrote Dark Matter. He must have the knack! The Outlander series is definitely going on my list now.
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I learn so much on MFP! I'm embarrassed to say that I had no idea that Outlander was a book series?! I only knew about the film versions, which I haven't watched much of. (BTW I also fell for the Hulu Disney trick...) And Dark Matter was the first and only time I'd heard of Blake Crouch! So, as usual, more to go on the…
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My son showed me the show (mostly to see his neighborhood), and it looked like a great book. So imaginative! That came across in the series. But season 2?!? And, yeah, I'm not paying for yet another streaming service!!!
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Putting Dark Matter by Blake Crouch on my TBR list. My son lives in Chicago where the book is set and by chance they filmed some of the scenes one block from his apartment. He says they must be doing another season of the series they made of it because the film crew is back!
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Woo hoo, @Catfish_Fan!! Impressive! I finished The Sellout and would indeed recommend it, @Btrflydog. It was outrageous on every page, but witty and I appreciated the fact that while he spared no one, the book wasn't mean-spirited or full of cheap tricks. I'd love to hear your opinion if it eventually makes it off Mt. TBR.…
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Several people at work recommended Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang very highly. Historical fantasy set in Oxford and focused on the complexity of translation? Putting it on my list...
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Finally finished The Time of the Child so I've taken up The Sellout again. It's SUCH broad humor, really over-the-top satire, in-your-face challenging prose mocking every single stereotype about race in the US. His pop cultural references are also very broad--from Brer Rabbit to Mr. Green Jeans and Nancy Chodorow to Marcus…
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Will do! Too soon to rule definitively, but so far the authorial voice is a very distinctive and well worth reading!
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Sounds lovely!
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I've got so many books going at one time, but for some reason I just keep going. I finished All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley and I just started The Sellout by Paul Beatty last night. Completely different works in very different veins, but both are quite compelling, despite (in part because of?) some flaws!
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I agree. Other hobbies are a good idea! Not that I actually have them, mind you. But I occasionally gesture in that direction.... You're a gardener and a cook so those count for sure!
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@Btrflydog I agree with the reviewer. I didn't care for the book and was very surprised at how much I'd apparently missed (or they added!) when I watched the series. I've just started reading Peach Blossom Paradise by Ge Fei. The translator is coming to town so I decided to see what the book is about.
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Started reading two additional books: All the Beauty in the World and Meditations for Mortals. Those were the books I bought while shopping for others before Christmas... o:) o:) o:)
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Happy New Year! Reading Kidnapped, which covers Scottish politics from the 1740s in more detail than I expected. As luck would have it, there was a question about a decisive 1745 battle in our New Year's Eve Trivial Pursuits game. It went to the other team, but still.... Never hurts to keep reading!
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Finally finished A Wilder Shore about RLS and his wife Fanny Osborne and started Stevenson's own Kidnapped.
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Amazing feat, @Catfish_Fan !!! Well done! Best wishes for the holidays to all. May the new year be peaceful! 🎄🎇🎄🎇🎄🎇
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As for books under the tree, I went to the store for gifts yesterday and...well, you know how this is going to end. :D
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TBR mountain it is! Best to you both, @Catfish_Fan and @Btrflydog !
