My belated best-books-I-read-in-2024 piece over on Dorian's blog! (Belated because I didn't write it until 2 weeks ago) - ThreadSky

causticcovercritic.bsky.social • 1 day ago

My belated best-books-I-read-in-2024 piece over on Dorian's blog!
(Belated because I didn't write it until 2 weeks ago)

Hell yeah, Friday night drop of @causticcovercritic.bsky.social’s year in review!

eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2025/02/21/j...

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causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

The books discussed:

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Featuring, among a bunch of dead folk, the still-living @katekruimink.bsky.social, @antonhur.com, @valliard.bsky.social

valliard.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think “living” is pushing it, in my case. Anyroad, partially delighted and partially annoyed, because “Failure, Artistic, Afterlives of:” is a much better title. DAMN YOU.

(MAINLY delighted, obviously. 🍷)

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hahaha, well, you deserved it!

katekruimink.bsky.social•1 day ago

Would've been awkward if I'd died while you wrote this comment

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hahaha, true. Fortunately my eldritch powers have a short geographical range.

katekruimink.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm glad!!! I just looked at your list - thank you for including me twice, for god's sake!

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

You publish 2 in a year, what am I supposed to do?

roq11.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh no, I only have four of those.

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

MUST TRY HARDER

roq11.bsky.social•1 day ago

This was so entertaining (I knew it would be).

As for the gofundme, unfortunately I‘m broke (the guest blogs are not helping here, @ds228.bsky.social ), but just in case you don’t know this one, maybe a little something for the Joseph Roth donation box. https://thedublinreview.com/article/on-translating-joseph-roth/

roq11.bsky.social•1 day ago

True to form, it is the one with the slightly pulp cover I just ordered first.

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•20 hours ago

The Allbrand?

benjaminoc.bsky.social•1 day ago

I love that you are a fellow Roth-phile. I have the Kempowski (two copies, in fact), and look forward to picking it up soon. Oddly, I could have sworn Cahokia Jazz was on my year-end list, but it isn’t. It continues to grow in my memory.

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same. It was extremely clever but also just huge amounts of fun.

matt-keeley.bsky.social•1 day ago

I own and have not read so many of these books!

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

The battle is half won!

bookwormnorth.bsky.social•1 day ago

James continues a (checks notes) 7 year streak of making me buy too many books. Great choices and "Astraea" deserves a gorgeous, hardcover edition to elegantly weep over

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hells bells yes! Such a great book!
(And thank you!)

aptronym.bsky.social•1 day ago

Shall read tonight. The piece, that is. Not all the books.

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

No, read the books, it is compulsory

aptronym.bsky.social•1 day ago

Just read. I only own one of the ones listed (Enchi), and my big problem with reading your post is that you make everything sound good regardless of whether it's my type of thing or not. You are *very* good at selling a book.

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ha, thank you! I hope I don’t mislead!

aptronym.bsky.social•1 day ago

I shall read your post again tomorrow and do some interwebs searching about some of the titles.

Short pithy reviews with the occasional dip into taking potshots work for me, and you're good at them.

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Cheers! I always worry that I am going on too long, so I didn’t talk about a bunch of older science fiction I remember fondly from my youth and reread with sone nervousness (fortunately it was almost all still great).

aptronym.bsky.social•1 day ago

You're not the boss of me!

ssacks.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wonderful stuff, thanks for this

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yay!

fizzles.bsky.social•1 day ago

great to see. i was wondering whether you were going to do one the other day, so this was a nice saturday morning surprise!

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you!

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

A have abandoned ILX due to general shittiness of certain posters, so it's nice to still be in touch with one of the good ones!

fizzles.bsky.social•1 day ago

right back atcha!

pfunkboy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who were you on ILM? I cant keep up with different usernames for everyone!

causticcovercritic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Tsar Bombadil/James Morrison; how about you?
I’m the sort of person who, when someone changes their avatar or username, it’s like I never met them in my life before.

pfunkboy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, I know who you are now. Atm I'm Toshiro Nofune. I have been in the past many different display names over 25 years nearly. pfunkboy, Algerian_Goalie, Cosmic Slop, Odysseus , herman g neuname and a few others.

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