It's Monday once more, this week starts with me finishing off "It Came From The Multiplex" edited by Joshua Viola What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #MondayReads #BookSky #TBR #AmReading - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

bigbeardedbookseller.com • 6 days ago

It's Monday once more, this week starts with me finishing off "It Came From The Multiplex" edited by Joshua Viola

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #MondayReads #BookSky #TBR #AmReading

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savagedaughter56.bsky.social•5 days ago

Have temporarily put aside ‘The Books of Jacob’-Olga Tokarczuk, struggling with it for some reason. Have picked up my very well used copy of ‘The Solace of Open Spaces’ - Gretel Ehrlich, which years ago put me on a two year trip around the US living out of my van.

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meersalt.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave. Dark and weird and strangely tender; not for everyone, but if you like his other stuff, you’ll probably enjoy this one. It’s more Stagger Lee than Ghosteen.

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mdibo324.bsky.social•6 days ago

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bthemurph.bsky.social•6 days ago

I love this book. I've read all of her work multiple times

mdibo324.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is the first time I’ve read her work. I can’t put this book down.

bthemurph.bsky.social•6 days ago

No spoilers, but you have to do all of the books and pay attention to all of the characters. And once you are done, if you have access to Max on streaming, Station Eleven was a limited series in 2021.

mdibo324.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thank you for the recommendation. I don’t have Max but I would definitely get a subscription for the month. Better yet, free trial and binge.

bthemurph.bsky.social•5 days ago

That is a pro move

btchmaster.bsky.social•5 days ago

The Winter King by Thomas Penn. It's a biography of Henry VII

garethcoates.com•6 days ago

I’m indulging a special interest by taking on “The Great Railway Revolution” by Christian Wolmar. It charts the development of the American railway network.

sidneypaget.bsky.social•6 days ago

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writeleighso.bsky.social•2 days ago

Particularly enjoying "Letter Perfect: the marvelous history of our alphabet from A to Z" by David Sacks. I've read other alphabet-themed books before, but this one is detailed, funny, and *illustrated*! #BookSky

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privateer.pictures•6 days ago

"The Well of Ascension" by Brandon Sanderson

ladyjedi.bsky.social•6 days ago

I am going to start "Inverted World" by Christopher Priest. I have been aware of this author but this is the first book of his that I am reading.

edwinbeatnik.bsky.social•6 days ago

It is rather interesting.

gryffinbird.bsky.social•6 days ago

Currently reading Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Barduo! Only about 100 pages in, but I'm loving it!

fifigoesnom.bsky.social•5 days ago

SO preferred the Six of Crows duology to the whole Shadow and Bone series!

gryffinbird.bsky.social•1 day ago

They're both so good! I have the King of Scars duology to read next. I'll make my final decision then lol

jemfcross.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Bluestockings by Susannah Gibson

kitkatgirl.bsky.social•5 days ago

Just finished The Wedding People by Alison Espach-very good! Excited to start Back After This by @lindaholmes.bsky.social !

magicgareth.bsky.social•6 days ago

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kreesullivan.bsky.social•6 days ago

I just finished The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong, so I get to pick my next book today 😍

c-t-w.bsky.social•6 days ago

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ! 🙏🏼 collected banned books while i still can

ljfspinningbooks.bsky.social•6 days ago

I am listening to Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer and A Witch Come True by James Nicol and I am reading The Last Caesar by Henry Venmore-Rowland

alittlebitlaura.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm still re-reading Throne of Glass, about a third of the way through the tandem read of Tower of Dawn and Empire of Storms. It's amazing how much slower the percentage advances when you combine two already long books! I'm also reading (and crying along to) the Tiny Beautiful Things audiobook.

peakrillpress.bsky.social•6 days ago

A zillion books at once! But in particular, I've recently got very into Peter Vansittart, and I'm reading his autobiography "Paths from a White Horse". Also reading Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning".

hejparry.bsky.social•6 days ago

Peter Vansittart fan here too! But a very long time since I read any of his novels. What do you think of his autobiography?

peakrillpress.bsky.social•5 days ago

I find all of his stuff very hard going, but it really rewards the effort put in. The autobiography is slightly easier reading, and it puts some of his other work in context. I haven't got very far with it yet, still in his childhood.

hejparry.bsky.social•5 days ago

I’m the same, but I’ve only read a couple of his later novels so I wondered how representative they were. I will look out for the autobiography; I’m glad to know of it, thank you!

carolann.bsky.social•6 days ago

This has worked its way to the top of my tsundoku

Not sure if it’s appropriate or inappropriate timing

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bthemurph.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just got this from my library yesterday.

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sheriseg.bsky.social•6 days ago

Delicious fiction by Juliette Cross. Escapism is my favorite sport

norfolkbookworm.bsky.social•6 days ago

Morning all!
I'm hoping our sunny weather continues even if it cuts my reading as I spend more time outside.
This week I'll be reading Agent Zo by Clare Mulley & Tilt by Emma Pattee.
Oh and waiting for the Women's Prize long list!

Happy reading!
💙📚 #BookSky

hejparry.bsky.social•6 days ago

Morning! I am reading Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb. My cat tried to eat it so I know it will be good.

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bookishsff.bsky.social•6 days ago

Such a good series, one of my absolute faves!

barbaralee-bbogner.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (brilliant)
and
Jo Nesbø's The Snowman
I thought I'd be more into The Snowman than I am. 12 days in and I'm at page 68😐😑😐

robatk.bsky.social•6 days ago

I picked up my first Adrian Tchaikovsky this weekend and started with Children Of Time.

rainbowfinch.bsky.social•6 days ago

I love that book, hope you have a good time!

robatk.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thank you! I'm about 100 pages in and finding it absolutely fascinating!

selenekapsaski.bsky.social•6 days ago

About halfway through Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

greeniezona.bsky.social•5 days ago

I stayed up WAY too late reading Blood Sisters by Kim Yideum. Disturbing but compelling read!

juliecohen.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m reading Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

katwomankali.bsky.social•6 days ago

Illusions - the adventures of a reluctant Messiah most excellent.

strangenothings.bsky.social•5 days ago

That's one of my favorite books! The sequel is good too!

katwomankali.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh, didn’t know there was a sequel! Thank you 💜

laurafearnart.bsky.social•6 days ago

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

privateshufti.bsky.social•6 days ago

Continuing my rereads of the Wallender books in order - now on One Step Behind. Queued up: Orbital by Samantha Harvey, Under The Eye Of The Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami

iridescentwords.bsky.social•6 days ago

"Sensations from your past fill you up and you think that there should be a word for this very feeling, the one that sneaks up on you and is then everywhere, for when you come back to a place that was once your home and it still holds something of you & returns it slowly, achingly." Patrick Holloway

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bemuse1919.bsky.social•6 days ago

Good morning from Ottawa!

I'm halfway through "The Children's Book" by A.S. Byatt.

It may be the best book I've ever read!

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iridescentwords.bsky.social•6 days ago

This book so good! And you got a different cover 😯

emmavardy2.bsky.social•6 days ago

That's on my shelf but never read!

bemuse1919.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's beautiful! Literary, creative, spellbinding, with both joy and sadness. Not like anything I've ever read.

abbaetha.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m reading E.R. Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros, which is complete and utter lunacy. This book resembles nothing so much as what happens when an Edwardian fantasy writer, already on laudanum, decides to lick a toad. I love it.

alas-not-me.bsky.social•6 days ago

And it revels in its lunacy.

abbaetha.bsky.social•6 days ago

I love it. Demonland has just made a stupid sally against the stronghold of Witchland, and the defender just yelled, “He that would sup of the crab of Witchland must deal with the nippers ere he assay the shell!” I am in awe. Also, I want that as an email signature.

alas-not-me.bsky.social•5 days ago

Or in a fortune cookie.

abbaetha.bsky.social•5 days ago

Lolololol

Dying

alas-not-me.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's an amazing book. It can take a while to get into the flow its 16th/17th century prose, which Eddison is pretty adept at for someone from the 20th century, but the moment when it finally becomes clear what the ouroboros is all about is rather mindblowing.

nicolevienna.bsky.social•6 days ago

May All Your Skies Be Blue by Fíona Scarlett and Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Loving both. ❤️

jlkaufmann.bsky.social•5 days ago

I’ve just finished Peter S Beagle’s The Innkeeper’s Song. Everyone knows The Last Unicorn but good Lord everything ELSE he wrote too.

gjholmes.bsky.social•5 days ago

Sorry bit late with the post but I’m reading this currently. Fairly enjoyable

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gfrancie.bsky.social•6 days ago

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill. It was suggested to me by a friend of my sister. It feels appropriate at the moment.

thistleflat.bsky.social•6 days ago

Loved this! 😊

ruxide.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m reading Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb, and Jade City by Fonda Lee. Both are great so far.

rainbowfinch.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. I was very distracted this weekend by the new Monster Hunter game, so I haven't read.

pandroid21.bsky.social•6 days ago

How is the game? I was debating yesterday whether or not to download it.

rainbowfinch.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm loving it. I've seen people complain about it not being as hard as previous games, but difficulty isn't a thing I really care about. I play with my best friend and it's been a lot of fun. I enjoy the cinematography and story especially.

pandroid21.bsky.social•5 days ago

Right on. I'm the same way. I enjoy difficult (some d2 stuff).. but I also like just cruising through a game.

laurenalwyn.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta. It's very good, I'm enjoying reading it. Trying to read wider than Horror and SF, though this one is Post Apocalyptic, but in a very non sensational sort of way, stories of ordinary liives after an extraordinary event.

loadofolbobbins.bsky.social•6 days ago

Finished the fabulous Between Two Rivers by Mouhdy Al-Rashid last week and just embarked on How the World Made the West by @josephinequinn.bsky.social 30 minutes in and already riveted, so many eye opening things!

josephinequinn.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thankyou!

flostadt.bsky.social•6 days ago

Kanal Basu‘s The Minaturist is my read for the week…

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flostadt.bsky.social•6 days ago

And that should have read Kunal Basu of course…

remotecore.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm reading Ludluda by Jeff Noon and Steve Beard in paperback. And conscious I've been doing badly at keeping up with short stories in the last few years, I'm consciously reading September's issue of Asimov's magazine. 💙📚

garethsouthwell.bsky.social•6 days ago

Is that the followup to Gogmagog? I'm just reading that now.

bigbeardedbookseller.com•6 days ago

It is

garethsouthwell.bsky.social•6 days ago

Am enjoying it, though finding it a stranger mix of genres.

bigbeardedbookseller.com•6 days ago

Same, really enjoyed Gogmagog but not the brain power for the follow up right now

remotecore.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm still early enough into it that its picking up from Gogmagog. But certainly Noon has habit of hitting an odd mix across his body of work and the little I've read by Beard was a mixed beast.

garethsouthwell.bsky.social•5 days ago

Not read any Beard at all. I think I tried Vurt, but gave up on it - in part because of how strange it was.

alleyrose73.bsky.social•6 days ago

Finishing up The Color of Magic before moving on to The Light Fantastic.

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iridescentwords.bsky.social•6 days ago

Brilliant, I'd like to watch the film soon!

saraiether.bsky.social•5 days ago

Physical: The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor. About halfway through. I enjoyed their Binti trilogy more. There have been some thoughtful moments.

Audio: Havenfall by Sara Holland. I'm just starting and haven't gotten to the meat of it yet.

roq11.bsky.social•5 days ago

An anthology with 33 poems, songs, letters and essays from and about the French Résistance during WW2.

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thoggatt.bsky.social•5 days ago

Love that cover.

xonjie123.bsky.social•6 days ago

Old school mystery:
Holy Disorders (1946) by Edmund Crispin

thenextpage.bsky.social•6 days ago

Echopraxia
by Peter Watts

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lottieplot9.bsky.social•6 days ago

Tearing through Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, picked up from the library on the recommendation of someone on this thread a couple of weeks ago, and The Hidden Ways by Alistair Moffat as I continue to reconnect with the Scottish Borders.

libraryrat.bsky.social•6 days ago

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

Might be my favorite of his. Not to the all-out horror yet, but love the creeping dread. And the characters are great. They're frustrating in very true-to-life ways.

silverandblonde.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m reading “Doppelgänger” by @naomiaklein.bsky.social It’s fascinating and definitely not by Naomi Wolf. #booksky
💙 📚

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welshie12.bsky.social•6 days ago

Currently reading Intermezzo by Sally Rooney whilst listening to Alice Roberts' Buried on eaudiobook whilst practicing the painting.

edelsemple.bsky.social•6 days ago

In the mood for a detective story, so starting “The Bookseller”, part of the excellent DS Cross series which is set in Bristol #Booksky 💙📚

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carolann.bsky.social•6 days ago

I loved this, and all the other DS Cross books

pgbellwriter.bsky.social•5 days ago

Having picked up the first ten volumes on sale recently, I'm starting Christopher Fowler's Bryant & May series of mysteries, beginning with Full Dark House.

debpoole13.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ooohh...enjoy! One of my favorite series!

pgbellwriter.bsky.social•5 days ago

Really enjoying it so far.

kristyisreading.bsky.social•5 days ago

Potato by Rebecca Earle from the Bloomsbury Object Lessons series & a re-read of Blubber by Judy Blume

jeevanicharika.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just finished Wish You Weren't Here by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch. It was very funny and exactly what I needed.

strangenothings.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm reading Teller of Small Fortunes, and Atomic Habits currently. I'm also listening to the audiobook version of James, which I'm enjoying a lot.

samthebookseller.bsky.social•4 days ago

On the Calculation of Volume 1, Solvej Balle. It's wonderful.

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thistleflat.bsky.social•6 days ago

This week I'm reading Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid and listening to A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang 😊

mariannedoherty.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m listening to @jasbinderbilan.bsky.social’s Nush and the Stolen Emerald which I’m loving and is brilliantly narrated by Manjeet Mann.

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bgradl.bsky.social•6 days ago

The house of sand and fog

phoebexavier.bsky.social•6 days ago

If this book exists you're in the wrong universe - Jason Pargin

treehousebookshop.bsky.social•6 days ago

I am reading Erasure, having caught the Percival Everett bug quite badly, and having loved the film American Fiction that's based on it.

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roq11.bsky.social•5 days ago

I just started The Trees, he’s incredible. Erasure is on my list too, as is James of course.

treehousebookshop.bsky.social•5 days ago

Both The Trees and James are outstanding. The Trees should have won the Booker that year!

roq11.bsky.social•5 days ago

Looking up his other work atm, the variety quite something.

roq11.bsky.social•5 days ago

That Strom Thurmond book looks wild too.

joblarney.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah, that particular bug’s a good one to catch. He’s a great writer - and funny but very (justifiably) angry as well.

stuhennigan.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh my goodness that's magnificent.

treehousebookshop.bsky.social•5 days ago

What a writer.

stuhennigan.bsky.social•5 days ago

I don't use the word as a rule but he is a proper bona fide genius, i think, intellectually; and his writing is pretty much flawless on a technical level. Touch of the Baldwin about him, i think, in that combo of furious intelligence and virtuosic skill; but howlingly funny on top.

treehousebookshop.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yes! I feel ashamed that I hadn't heard of him before The Trees...will now work through the back catalogue.

stuhennigan.bsky.social•5 days ago

He was virtually unknown in this country until Influx started publishing him; that's when I got into him, whichever the first of those was. His back catalogue is fucking HUGE, when you look (another reason I think he's a genius when you look at the scope and range of all that on paper).

meganmoschops.bsky.social•5 days ago

Started A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll this morning - half way through it already and it’s brilliant. Listening to A Court of Thorns and Roses on Audible by Sarah J Maas. The jury is out on that at the moment, it’s very repetitive.

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emmavardy2.bsky.social•5 days ago

My daughter loves @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social books!

meganmoschops.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s brilliant! So well written and the way the characters explain different behaviours like stimming is just so good. It’s been on my TBR list for ages and then one of my class (Year 5) was reading it and asked me if I’d like to borrow it. I love my class of bookworms!

doctorgraw.bsky.social•6 days ago

Finishing a reread of Mickey 7 in prep for movie and just picked up Orange Eats Creeps and a copy of a mystery novel with sheep as the detective

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libraryrat.bsky.social•6 days ago

I loved Orange Eats Creeps. Always bummed me out that she never wrote another book (that I know of. Haven't looked in ages).

crazybuslady.bsky.social•6 days ago

Still reading ‘The Overstory’ by Richard Powers, it’s really long, and somewhat disheartening😕

chronically-online.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ok new week. I try to have one paper and one ebook .

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readingthislife.bsky.social•6 days ago

Both are amazing reads!

markbridgman.bsky.social•6 days ago

Julia is still on my TBR pile, but thought that Our Wives Under the Sea was spectacular. Enjoy!

mumsyface.bsky.social•6 days ago

I've read Julia and it's excellent. 👍🏻

chronically-online.bsky.social•6 days ago

I've heard good things about both of these
😀

mumsyface.bsky.social•6 days ago

Lol, I take my mum to a keep fit class and I sit in the cafe with a book while I wait. Today, I've left my book (US Against You -Fredrik Backman) at home. So, I've downloaded a sample of Wives Under The Sea. As if my tbr pile isn't already huge! Thanks! 🤣🤣🤣

jillianreadsbooks.bsky.social•6 days ago

Butter, Asako Yuzuki 2017

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bethanangharadl.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m still on that one, too.

alottie.bsky.social•6 days ago

Really enjoyed this, never went where I expected.

iketle.bsky.social•6 days ago

Such a great book!

michaeljongen.bsky.social•6 days ago

I loved this

noveldeelights.bsky.social•6 days ago

Hoping to finish The Midnight King by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social today.

duncanbatey.bsky.social•6 days ago

Nearly finished The Hanging Tree, book 6 in Ben Aaronovitch's splendid Rivers of London series, concerning the frequently disparaged and disastrously understaffed Wizarding Division of the London Metropolitan Police. This time, it's posh teenagers (okay yah).

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janestr.bsky.social•6 days ago

One of my very favourite book series. The audio books with Kobna Holbrook Smith are excellent

duncanbatey.bsky.social•6 days ago

I concur with m'learned Blueskyer.

wendybm.bsky.social•4 days ago

I love these books. They're my go-to when I need some easy reading which is actually good! (I love the talking foxes.)

duncanbatey.bsky.social•4 days ago

I've been ploughing through the lot as audiobooks - I've not had this much fun since devouring all of the Slough House/Slow Horses audiobooks in a row! I concur about the talking foxes.

drewgum.bsky.social•5 days ago

I’m reading Broken Biscuits @adamjfarrer.bsky.social and The Instant by Amy Liptrot. (After watching the film The Outrun.)

Both are confessional memoirs but very different. Both brilliant.

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drewgum.bsky.social•5 days ago

(It’s a Canadian kobo I’m reading it on…)

rickyreads.bsky.social•6 days ago

Madame Bovary.

tonalee.bsky.social•6 days ago

Still reading Familiaris- really long book!

robcave.bsky.social•6 days ago

Started the News: a user’s Manual by Alain de Botton, because I really enjoyed his book The Art of Travel, but I haven’t really got into it yet and may change to something else…

typhaneyb.bsky.social•6 days ago

Physical: Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan

Audio: Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (murderbot diaries book 4)

rowandelacroix.bsky.social•6 days ago

Im reading the thirteenth koyote; it's a splatter horror

surfincow.bsky.social•6 days ago

Rudy Rucker-Software. A lot more fun than I thought it would be and now I need to find more of his stuff.

toomuchbrudders.bsky.social•5 days ago

Starting off ☘️ March with a memoir. 📚💡

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citizengeographer.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m still reading The House on the Strand and loving it so far.

workoutwoman.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just about to start Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst which is this month’s book club pick

emmavardy2.bsky.social•5 days ago

Another book by Joan Barfoot called Exit Lines.

queenofpentaclesny.bsky.social•5 days ago

“The Uncommon Reader” 👵🏼 by Alan Bennett and still working on “The Screwtape Letters” 😈by CS Lewis

barbaralee-bbogner.bsky.social•5 days ago

How funny--- I just finished Screwtape Letters a couple weeks ago. I'll give you a tip-- I read along with John Cleese reading the book (I think I found it on youtube?). Made it SO MUCH MORE interesting to me. He's all personality. - here's the link. Hope it helps!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA8BAC9375345E6C7

queenofpentaclesny.bsky.social•4 days ago

Oooh I love John Cleese that’s a great tip!

jondennis.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s taking me a while.

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caitlinrozakis.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just finished @zenaldehyde.bsky.social's "The Friend Zone Experiment". Manages to thread the needle of complicated family politics and business politics and politics-politics while still delivering a satisfying romance.

asl31324.bsky.social•6 days ago

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bookdragonaries.bsky.social•5 days ago

I am reading The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn by Tyler Whitesides.

It's really good. Ardor Benn is a ruse artist who has been hired by someone to...say it with me, pull off a ruse.

Add in dragons, stuff called Grit that has different uses, formed by said dragons and you have a great story.

edwinbeatnik.bsky.social•6 days ago

I am reading Other Lands by Jonathan Wylie. We follow Zoe, a woman who has started a new life after a domestic abuse situation. Only, the love of her life falls into a coma and then multiversal things start happening. It is awfully good.

pookamac.bsky.social•6 days ago

Descent into Hell, by Charles Williams.

ann-graham.bsky.social•6 days ago

rereading Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women

jimbutler.bsky.social•5 days ago

Currently reading Duma Key by Stephen King, really enjoying it so far.

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nheu.bsky.social•6 days ago

North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher.

maddoguk.bsky.social•6 days ago

3 Body Problem.

Started with the tv version, then the graphic novel and now working through the books. Outstanding!

befuddledpanda.bsky.social•6 days ago

Finally going to read The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett.

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jjjmm.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Violin Conspiracy, trying to finish it before book club Thursday, but I'm hung up on a section that reminds me of deep heartache, so it might be a skip that section or I DNF

undervaluedvagina.medsky.social•6 days ago

I read it. Just skip that section (it still haunts me)

jjjmm.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thanks! How much should I skip?

undervaluedvagina.medsky.social•5 days ago

It’s been about a year since I read it. I’m not sure - just a couple of pages of you are reading the enslaved sequence

maximahighness.bsky.social•3 days ago

Busy schedule so short reads this week

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lafetedugevaudan.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just finished King’s On Writing this morning (superb)! Next up is Apocalypse Cow by @michaelloganbooks.bsky.social and I can’t wait!

joblarney.bsky.social•5 days ago

I am reading what started out as a very funny book and has now become a truly terrifying book - Every Arc Bends Its Radian by Sergio De La Pava. I’ll finish it in the daylight.

iketle.bsky.social•6 days ago

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rodgerkibble.bsky.social•6 days ago

A fine anger : a critical introduction to the work of Alan Garner by Neil Philip

lauraland9.bsky.social•6 days ago

Back to the audio Calypso for me. #DavidSedaris is soothing like home 💕

michaeljongen.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm enjoying a fresh queer take on New York and mob life in the 1930s just after prohibition has ended

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michaeljongen.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oops it’s set in Chicago

carri08.bsky.social•6 days ago

The midnight line by Lee Child

librarymary.bsky.social•5 days ago

Listening to the audiobook of Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker. #booksky #currentlyreading 💙📚

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lkhx.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m still reading Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny, from 2017. I started it, carried it round in my coat pocket, put it down somewhere, and now can’t find it.

beautifulcosmos.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just about to start Dip My Brain in Joy this week.

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stuhennigan.bsky.social•6 days ago

I read Comsmopolis by Don DeLilo yesterday 👌

bethanyrc.bsky.social•6 days ago

Currently reading Embassytown by China Mieville

rickyreads.bsky.social•6 days ago

How are you finding it? I've both loved and hated Mieville's books, so I'm curious about Embassytown.

bethanyrc.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'm only about 10% in and finding Embassytown quite interesting so far. I loved The City & The City, my first Mieville, but wasn't high on Perdido Street Station. Probably won't return to the Bas-Lag series, sadly.

rickyreads.bsky.social•5 days ago

I felt the same way about those two. Also high marks for Railsea, which is kind of a Moby Dick on trains.

bethanyrc.bsky.social•4 days ago

Adds Railsea to list. 😀

rachaelscotson.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m reading @markbowsher.bsky.social’s The Boy Who Stole Time (ahead of his book launch on Weds). I’m listening to @benaaronovitch.bsky.social’s Whispers Under Ground. I’m also reading @johannhari101.bsky.social’s Stolen Focus Why You Can’t Pay Attention, which is such an eye opener.

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adalorema.bsky.social•5 days ago

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bigbeardedbookseller.com•5 days ago

looking forward to Sangu's next book coming out this year

morgandelaney.bsky.social•5 days ago

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. Tough read but excellent so far

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dorkymum.bsky.social•6 days ago

Morning! Just finished A Life in Houses by Margaret Forster and starting Tremor by Teju Cole.

jcmrva.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just finished One Morning by Jessica Hagy @thisisindexed.com - follow the interconnected lives of 12 women over 12 hours in a toxic, crumbling former coal mining town.

Seems to be out of print, unfortunately.

cavaterra.bsky.social•5 days ago

(I'm not joking, this is a great writer.)

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cavaterra.bsky.social•5 days ago

Brilliant sparkling wit. His "Bluffer's Guide to Antiques" is equally good.

alliemamabird.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just finished Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (loved it). Starting Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

carolann.bsky.social•6 days ago

I loved Stone Yard Devotional

cliohathaway.bsky.social•5 days ago

Just started “Wild Faith” by @swordsjew.bsky.social. Excellent so far!

mr0mega.bsky.social•5 days ago

#MondayReads #AmReading #BookSky 💙📚

Starting up The Undersiders by G.R. Hastings. It’s a historical fiction book based on the lost colony of Roanoke Island. Not my usual genre, but the author sold me on it with a quick summary about the lost colony.

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theaudhdwitch.bsky.social•6 days ago

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gryffinbird.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is on my reading list for this year. It's been sitting on my shelf for too long!!

theaudhdwitch.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m halfway through and I highly recommend it. Already checked my library to make sure they have the next book

olepaladin.bsky.social•5 days ago

Fighting For Space by @amyshirateitel.bsky.social

epicmilitaryfantasy.com•5 days ago

Just finished A Cursed Son (Dey Leiato) and am happily rereading The Shadow Rising ( #WoTSkies ) while editing two #WIPs Those I need to read about 50 more times...

#TBR #MondayReads #Booksky #AmRrading

staggerlee42.bsky.social•6 days ago

Currently reading (and very much enjoying) Angela Carter’s ‘Nights at the Circus’. #BookSky💙📚

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tindogpodcast.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://amzn.eu/d/hhtDUfh

Try this... its free

sarahjp.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh, I loved this so much!

staggerlee42.bsky.social•6 days ago

I have loved many of her short stories but this is my first of her novels. Beautifully written. The voices it creates feel utterly authentic and I love the humour!!

sbisson.com•5 days ago

Today I am continuing my Stainless Steel Rat re-read with Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You. More subversively pacifist SF. These books are the genre's Catch 22.

franfuller.bsky.social•5 days ago

I love The Stainless Steel Rat books!

alisa-ardini.bsky.social•5 days ago

The Birth of Venus

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eastcroft.bsky.social•5 days ago

I remember loving this one. I've loved all of Sarah Dunant's books.

alisa-ardini.bsky.social•5 days ago

Good to know! I couldn’t put this one down, read it in about 3 days which is so not like me 😂

casslily.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m dipping my toes into The Legend of Drizzt with R.A. Salvatore’s Homeland. I’ve read so much fantasy lately though, I need to jump into some science fiction next!

tapsiful.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ilium by Dan Simmons. I like it a lot, but I can really feel those little grey cells getting their exercise.

cuculain42.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just started The Other Emily by Dean Koontz.

beckyanne.bsky.social•6 days ago

I finished Kindred yesterday by Octavia E. Butler.

I've now started Fervor by @almakatsu.bsky.social

almakatsu.bsky.social•6 days ago

😊😊😊

francoanglophile.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yellowface by R F Kuang. Almost finished, hoping there’s some kind of twist in the last 20 pages, otherwise it’s been interesting but not mind blowing. About to start David Nicholls You Are Here

bonj.bsky.social•6 days ago

The book has a lot of hype but I really didn’t like it. Like at all. I finished it, but barely. Gave it a 1 star rating.

philmarsden.bsky.social•6 days ago

New Grub Street by George Gissing
Damned if I do by Percival Everett
Underworld by Don De Lillo
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez

clintspoon.bsky.social•5 days ago

Might take a while….

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