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Posted on 9/12/23 at 11:04 am to SW2SCLA
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All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby
Good Book, but some of the words he uses seem like he's trying to flex his vocabulary.
I'm reading
Posted on 9/13/23 at 3:20 pm to BluegrassBelle
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Just finished Killers of the Flower Moon. Still sitting with me a few days later.
I listened to the audiobook earlier this year. I had no idea of this history and was just shocked. Governments and powerful people continue to do bad things. I shouldn't have shocked me as that's what powerful people (mostly men) have done throughout history. If anyone doesn't know this story, it should be required reading.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:03 am to LaLadyinTx
Saturn Run
John Sandford
Very mixed reviews. 15 chapters in and I’m enjoying it! I love realistic SF like The Martian and Project Hail Mary….and also like a good race (space race, nuclear race etc)
Anyone have recommendations for something similar?
I also love survival stories.
John Sandford
Very mixed reviews. 15 chapters in and I’m enjoying it! I love realistic SF like The Martian and Project Hail Mary….and also like a good race (space race, nuclear race etc)
Anyone have recommendations for something similar?
I also love survival stories.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 5:11 pm to The Levee
The Wright Brothers - David McCullough
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:08 am to SW2SCLA
Posted on 9/24/23 at 11:59 am to LordSnow
Waco Rising - Kevin Cook
The Devil's Hand - Jack Carr
The Devil's Hand - Jack Carr
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:14 am to SW2SCLA
Posted on 9/27/23 at 12:13 am to Dubosed
Posted on 9/28/23 at 4:11 pm to biglego
Posted on 9/30/23 at 10:48 am to edclark
The story takes place in Minnesota 1958. The prologue describes the Alabaster River and concludes, "Although their are many kinds of fish who make the Alabaster their home, the most aggressive are channel catfish. They're mudsuckers, bottom feeders, river vultures, the worst kind of scavengers. Channel cats will eat anything. This is the story of how they came to eat Jimmy Quinn."
Pretty good hook, I thought.
This post was edited on 9/30/23 at 10:50 am
Posted on 9/30/23 at 6:15 pm to Adajax
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji.
Japanese author and the book is sort of an homage to Agatha Christie, a locked room mystery or “chalet in a snowstorm” as he calls it. Pretty good so far.
Also reading Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor. It’s a book about how to breathe correctly. We all think we know how to do it because we do it all day but he talks about how evolution has shrunk our sinuses to make room for our brains and now nobody breathes properly. I’ve already started to use it in everyday life and during workouts and it’s working.
Japanese author and the book is sort of an homage to Agatha Christie, a locked room mystery or “chalet in a snowstorm” as he calls it. Pretty good so far.
Also reading Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor. It’s a book about how to breathe correctly. We all think we know how to do it because we do it all day but he talks about how evolution has shrunk our sinuses to make room for our brains and now nobody breathes properly. I’ve already started to use it in everyday life and during workouts and it’s working.
Posted on 10/1/23 at 2:36 pm to Stonehog
Waking Up by Sam Harris
Posted on 10/11/23 at 2:02 pm to TAMU-93
Just got The Mysteries yesterday. Co-credited on this is Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbes fame. I was not expecting anything resembling C&H, but with how wild Bill's imagination is and with how deeply philosophical he can get in just a few panels, I was really expecting something moving.
But it's not. It's 72 pages, and each spread consists of basically two sentences on the left and some artwork on the right. The artwork is definitely evocative, and the best part of the book, but still below what I would consider Watterson's best (think Spiff landscapes, or dinosaurs).
The story is very weak. It mildly conceals a theme of environmental destruction--which Watterson touched on with much better wit in C&H--and a reminder that time and space move on without us. But there's no catharsis. The first half of the story is generally interesting, maybe even a dash suspenseful, but it doesn't go anywhere.
In case it needs to be plainly stated, the entire book can be read in about five minutes or less. It's a very weak final product after waiting 28 years for some new material from one of the truly great editorialists and cartoonists of my lifetime.
The binding is cool though (I mean that earnestly). Black felt on the hardcover. It'll look really good on display.
But it's not. It's 72 pages, and each spread consists of basically two sentences on the left and some artwork on the right. The artwork is definitely evocative, and the best part of the book, but still below what I would consider Watterson's best (think Spiff landscapes, or dinosaurs).
The story is very weak. It mildly conceals a theme of environmental destruction--which Watterson touched on with much better wit in C&H--and a reminder that time and space move on without us. But there's no catharsis. The first half of the story is generally interesting, maybe even a dash suspenseful, but it doesn't go anywhere.
In case it needs to be plainly stated, the entire book can be read in about five minutes or less. It's a very weak final product after waiting 28 years for some new material from one of the truly great editorialists and cartoonists of my lifetime.
The binding is cool though (I mean that earnestly). Black felt on the hardcover. It'll look really good on display.
Posted on 10/12/23 at 3:07 pm to messyjesse
I needed a new book so I saw the other thread on here abotu scary story recommendations and decided to pick up Ghost Story by peter straub. I went in blind knowing nothign about it and am about halfway so far. There's a lot of different storylines going on at once but I'm digging it, I'm excited to see how it all comes together.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 10:52 pm to WG_Dawg
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Posted on 10/15/23 at 12:07 am to TAMU-93
I just finished "Red Seas under Red Skies" by Scott Lynch
My first read of the gentleman bastard series and I'm sad I didn't read them a long time ago. I usually read something in-between books in a series, so I will read something else before I pick up "The Republic of Thieves"
I'm interested in "America Fantastica" by Tim O'Brien and may pick that up when it comes out next week
My first read of the gentleman bastard series and I'm sad I didn't read them a long time ago. I usually read something in-between books in a series, so I will read something else before I pick up "The Republic of Thieves"
I'm interested in "America Fantastica" by Tim O'Brien and may pick that up when it comes out next week
Posted on 10/15/23 at 2:31 pm to StTiger
Finished Bird Box. Pretty meh. Started Earth Abides
Posted on 10/15/23 at 11:43 pm to kook
Just started the first Mistborn book and having trouble getting into it, surprisingly.
Posted on 10/16/23 at 10:27 am to biglego
A Time Of Blood by John Gwynne. Book 2 in Of Blood and Bone series.
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