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Just came in here to post about this book, there are some amazing sentences.


This one in particular I haven’t been able to stop thinking about: “His black shoes tapped on wood, were silenced by the plush give of an area rug, resumed their sound.”

I love when writers capture movement in subtle ways.

 

Sellout by Dan Ozzi is great and should be required reading for Chorus forum members.

 

I got a bunch of stuff for free secondhand from a family friend. pretty excited to check out White Noise by Don DeLillio especially!

 

love white noise

 

Just got a Bookshop gift card as a wedding gift and made a big haul here’s what I got

The Opposing Shore - Julien Gracq
With My Dog Eyes - Hilda Hilst
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky - Joy Harjo
The Madness of the Day - Maurice Blanchot
Crossing the Water - Sylvia Plath
Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
The Robber - Robert Walser
Too Late the Phalarope - Alan Paton
My First Summer in the Sienna - John Muir
Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong

 

Found myself in a reading slump of flying through thrillers but not really loving any of them. Decided I was craving a longer, horror, coming of age story that would remind me of Stephen King. I was doing some googling.

I settled on Summer of Night by Dan Simmons. About 50 pages in and this is exactly what I was crazing.

 

I’ve got this one and it’s sequel on my shelf. Let me know how it goes!

 

Excellent choice. Simmons is a master. There's also a sort of sequel, A Winter Haunting, which I remember liking more.

 

I've definitely kinda been in a slump in the sense where I mostly just want to read YA/Teen/YR and just kinda want to turn my brain off for the most part

 

Finished The Cipher by Kathe Koja and holy shit. A very disorienting - and quite frankly grimy, to the point of feeling a need to shower - read that had me confused but extremely into it the entire time. Highly recommended and I can’t wait to read more of her stuff, although I definitely want to let some time pass before I read something as visceral as this one.

Started Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. I haven’t read The Glass Hotel but I did read Station Eleven a couple months ago and liked but didn’t necessarily love it. SoT is very good and intriguing so far, and it seems like a fast read.

 

Looooove Station Eleven. Disliked Glass Hotel a lot.

 

Meant to also ask what thrillers you read through?

 

Some recent ones I didn’t love:

The Overnight Guest - Heather Gudenkauf
Moon Lake - Joe Lansdale
The Night Shift - Alex Finlay
The Resting Place - Camilla Sten
The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave
A Flicker in the Dark - Stacy Willingham (this one was pretty decent but wasn’t like AMAZING)
The Sanatorium - Camilla Sten

There were a few DNF’s in there but I forget which ones they were lol

 

I think the only one of these I've heard of is The Sanatorium. I'll look into the rest since we tend to have similar interests

 

Yeah maybe you’d end up liking them! Here’s a few I recently read which I did really enjoy:

The Whisper Man - Alex North
In My Dreams I Hold A Knife - Ashley Winstead
A History of Wild Places - Shea Ernshaw
The Nothing Man - Catherine Ryan Howard

 

I can't exactly describe how, but the new Ocean Vuong poems have nostalgic emo/pop-punk energy and I'm 100% here for it

 

Instant buy for me. I had forgotten it was coming.

 

Absolutely loved Sea of Tranquility. I thought it was a much better novel than Station Eleven, if I’m being honest, and one of the best I’ve read in a bit.

 

Almost 500 pages through The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann and I'm torn on how I feel about it. Brilliant, while also maddeningly slow, grandiloquent, and frustrating. So many moments I want to put the book down until I realize I'm meant to feel the way I am while reading. Sort of psychologically torments you, in a way, and feels especially prescient during today's COVID-era. The writing is spectacular; tons of it admittedly goes over my head, but I think I'll be glad to stick through it until the end.

 

Just finished this one. I'm up to speed on Towles now...



Starting this one now...

 

one of my favorites

 

I, uh, wrote a book of poems about living through a pandemic. I also made a playlist of corresponding songs because of who I am as a person.

 

so proud of you. it's great

 

thanks for all your years of help and inspiration

 

That’s amazing, Garrett. Congrats on the release (and amazing accompanying playlist). Went ahead and bought a copy!