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I tried to start them like seven or eight years ago but I made it through about 150 pages of the first book and never went back. It wasn’t even that I didn’t like it. I just think I was in a different headspace with reading back then. Reading long books or a series of long books gave me so much anxiety and I can’t explain why. I’m the opposite of that now so I may set some time aside to dive back in.

 

Gonna be starting Horror Movie by Tremblay tomorrow. Excited!

 

I totally get that! I LOVE getting into a book series and love a long book as well, but admit it’s extremely intimidating sometimes and just finding the courage to say “okay … I’m starting it” is hard to come by. But once you’re in, man do I love it.

I think it was some point in March we were taking about House of Dragon (which I haven’t seen yet) and it brought me back to the GOT world. I figured enough time has passed since its ending to read the books where plot lines would be a little blurred. I’ve had a great experience reading them

 

I’m on the waiting list at my library for it!

 

FINALLY got Angel of Indian Lake here in Aus, I am going to devour this book

 

Okay. I have picked up Lonesome Dove from my library. Let’s see if it is finally time.

I finished playing RDR2 yesterday so am very into that vibe right now, so let’s see if I do it

 

Good luck. I’ve tried twice but I’m never in the right mood for it I guess. I wanna get to it eventually

 

I am reading my 7th Star Wars canon novel in a month. Tearing through these.

 

This is where I need to be

 

Granted most of these are like 325-400 pages and pretty easy reads lol

 

Picked these up for 20 shipped from this online store called The Stone Circle.

 

Very cool Pale Fire's been sitting on my table for a couple months

 

our book club just picked Fairy Tale by Stephen King for the next read. I've literally only read It so more King will be nice

 

Will be finishing Pale Fire in the next week or two and it’s…maybe my favorite book ever? Lolol, probably hyperbole but easily the most fun book I’ve read in decades. I feel like a child again in the sense of what this book is showing me books are capable of. The perspective just keeps changing and making me wonder what it’s REALLY about. Edge of my seat since its initial premise revealed itself, couldn’t recommend more.

 

Wish I loved it as much as you, but glad you’re digging it! I thought the best part of it was the poem itself.

It’s so amazing when you find a book that reinvents form. I’m actually in the middle of one right now that uses typeface to indicate a change in perspectives, which happens every few paragraphs, and one of the POV’s is the environment itself. It’s dizzying but so dope.

 

What book is this? I'm such a sucker for things like that.

 

It’s a translated novella, All That’s Left to You, by Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani who was assassinated at age 36 in the ’70s. It’s my first book I’ve read by a Palestinian author and it’s a page-turner with some truly stellar prose. The story itself is somewhat thin but feels like an allegory, and the author does a lot with a little—it’s about a man burdened by shame and anger, who abandons his home in Gaza to cross the desert on-foot into Jordan. The novella is part of a collection, and I wanted to start small and light with Palestinian literature before broaching denser texts, so this is perfect for that.

Another is The Natural Order of Things by Portuguese author António Lobo Antunes. It also does wild things with perspective and form. Incredibly unique, surreal family saga with prose that soars, sentences that wind and fall on the page like poetry.

 

I just finished this. Would love to know your thoughts!

I loved how the narrative when from now and then and also spliced in the screenplay from the titular Horror Movie. It did a good job setting up the last act, which really took me by surprise.

In the acknowledgements, Tremblay says Stephen Graham Jones showed him this video and it helped inform Horror Movie:

 

Oh yeah, I loved it. Thought it was really well done, I wish the movie in the novel was real, haha. I've always wanted to be on the set of a horror movie and watch everything come to life so it was a really cool read to me. That last act was wild. I still have to read the acknowledgements, I got lazy lol

 

Don’t be deeply uncool like my younger cousin who sent this response to my IG story which reviewed the book. She seems to have felt threatened by me reading Palestinian fiction enough to post this passive-aggressive Israel-centric response, to something that isn’t even about the war

 

What a weird way to respond to your story. Deeply uncool is right

 

finished this today. Great summer read. Very romantic take on baseball. Super easy read. White privledge-y for sure, but was written in 02

 

I really hate when people politicize everything. Like... not everything is a political statement or an "us vs. them" sorta thing. Sometimes I just wanna read a book or watch a movie and not make a political statement lol I know several people who can't understand that.

 

I recently read Murder On The Orient express and enjoyed it, so I had a look at some other Poirot novels and bought Death On The Nile. I’m only 60 pages in, but I already love it, more so than Murder On The Orient Express so far.

 

Is this a novel or nonfiction?