The Reader’s Nook - The N&G Book Thread

BjorgenFjorgen said:
Haha, to be fair, reading Ulysses is really hard and definitely takes all of someone's attention!
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Yeah I got through it when I was an undergrad! Doing a history degree that involved only 12 hours in class a week definitely led to a massive increase in my reading!
 
Holy shit, Cari Mora was BAD. Two dimensional characters in a paper thin plot that felt like it was written for the sole purpose of being transferred to screen. I could almost see existing characters and actors reprising their former roles in it. If anyone watches Preacher, Herr Starr was perfect as the bad guy in this. Fortunately it was short.
 
GritNGlitter said:
I haven't read it yet, but I thought I'd give it a plug here anyway, because I support my friends:

My friend Kali Wallace's novel Salvation Day came out this week. It's sci-fi, and the working title for the last few years was "Ship Full O' Corpses" if that helps describe the tone. I'm still having a hard time getting through entire novels, but I will read this, even though I'm scared.

I have very cool, successful friends.
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My wife really liked this book. Thanks for the heads-up!
 
I'm getting into a gothic novel swing this Fall. First up, Wuthering Heights. Next are The Monk and Turn of the Screw.

Also, I pre-ordered the audio book for The Testaments, Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. Looks like Ann Dowd and Bryce Dallas Howard read it, I'm really excited to start.
 
Currently reading Sourdough! About halfway through, really enjoyable and a fast read so far.
 
ayayrawn said:
I'm getting into a gothic novel swing this Fall. First up, Wuthering Heights. Next are The Monk and Turn of the Screw.

Also, I pre-ordered the audio book for The Testaments, Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. Looks like Ann Dowd and Bryce Dallas Howard read it, I'm really excited to start.
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I remember The Monk being dark AF, really good read though. I've just moved on to Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in The Castle. I'd never heard of it tbh until it came up on a Kindle daily deal for 99p so I thought I'd give it a go and it's superb so far, a real 20th century gothic treat.
 
ayayrawn said:
I'm getting into a gothic novel swing this Fall. First up, Wuthering Heights. Next are The Monk and Turn of the Screw.
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I love this genre and time period. The Monk is one of my all-time favourites, I hope you enjoy it but it does take a while to get going. If you end up in the mood for more I recommend The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe and The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. The Castle of Otranto is considered the first gothic novel and it's neat how many elements of that novel became genre conventions.
 
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Finished my first audio book yesterday. Not feeling very satisfied with the process of paying $15 for it, the catalogue/subscription model would be much nicer.

Not sure how I feel about the book itself, it's very strange but wasn't so long that that was an issue. Leaves a lot feeling unresolved which is obviously intentional, but the parts that were 'resolved' didn't speak very much to me.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Today is the release date for the English translation of the 6th & final volume of Karl Ove Knausgård's My Struggle opus. Anybody up to date on those? @Tyr ?

(P.S. I know he's controversial as a possibly shitty dude, I've just tried to avoid reading too much *about* him so that I can approach it myself without some of those preconceived notions.)
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The first installment has sat on my shelf for like 3 years. Not sure when I planned on reading it, but it'll happen at some point, right?
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Today is the release date for the English translation of the 6th & final volume of Karl Ove Knausgård's My Struggle opus. Anybody up to date on those? @Tyr ?

(P.S. I know he's controversial as a possibly shitty dude, I've just tried to avoid reading too much *about* him so that I can approach it myself without some of those preconceived notions.)
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Thank you for the information! I'm not 100% caught up but I need to be. If I recall I was like 60% of the way through the 4th volume when I stopped. But I do so love the writing and the stories.

I'll get my butt in gear and get caught up so I can pick up the final volume. Thank you
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Same here. In the meantime I also bought A Time for Everything and his recent Seasons quartet. I've basically been using the fact that the last book was unreleased as my excuse for not getting started, but now that excuse is gone. I *love* his writing style in some of the short pieces I've read elsewhere, but My Struggle is a daunting thing to have staring back at you from a bookshelf.

But yeah...at some point ;)
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One of the coolest things I had happen to me last year was going over to a buddy's house and seeing Vol 1 & 2 on his bookshelf. The cool part was he hadn't even read them, they belonged to his girlfriend. So she and I started up a rousing conversation on Karl Ove and ended up bonding over those books. It also *forced* my buddy to read them :)
 
Read The Handmaid’s Tale in a couple of days and then jumped into The Testaments right away. Overall it’s a different style in a way to THM, but it’s one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read this year. I’m almost finished with it. It just keeps building and expanding the world, while keeping it still contained within a few perspectives. I can only hope that what they choose to do with this adaptation is to fold it into the Handmaid’s Tale tv show cause that thing has been frustrating me this year. It needs all of this great amazing stuff to get it moving again.
 
Bennnnn said:
Read The Handmaid’s Tale in a couple of days and then jumped into The Testaments right away. Overall it’s a different style in a way to THM, but it’s one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read this year. I’m almost finished with it. It just keeps building and expanding the world, while keeping it still contained within a few perspectives. I can only hope that what they choose to do with this adaptation is to fold it into the Handmaid’s Tale tv show cause that thing has been frustrating me this year. It needs all of this great amazing stuff to get it moving again.
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THT is my fave book. I have hesitated to pick up The Testaments because I'm scared it won't live up. And I don't want to tarnish the place THT has in my mind. I will eventually. But I'm reading Vox right now. Similar but inferior to THT.
 
Teeeee said:
THT is my fave book. I have hesitated to pick up The Testaments because I'm scared it won't live up. And I don't want to tarnish the place THT has in my mind. I will eventually. But I'm reading Vox right now. Similar but inferior to THT.
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THT is so good. I had only watched the show before reading it, but god does it strike a much more impactful tone than the show. It made me want to go back and rewatch season one though.

The Testaments I think is honestly a very worthy sequel. It just feels like it was done for the right reasons rather than cashing in on the show's popularity. Also, it's clearly a sequel to the book, not the show, so it's nice to see that thread from the book carry into this one. Again, I do think it's told differently, like the writing is different. But it's so engaging and compelling I just haven't wanted to put it down. Yet I am trying to savor it.
 
after largely two years of not being able to read leisurely, i've finally picked up a book i *want* to read:

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Indymisanthrope said:
Speaking of, has anybody here ever read Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October? Apparently it's a "thing" where people read a chapter a day in the month of October each year. I just bought a copy; anybody up for doing a group read? (It's only 288 pages total, so it's a commitment of <10 pages a day on average).
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Sounds fun! I’m in, just bought it for kindle.
 
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