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

Mr Moore said:
Looks beautiful, Grae. As much as I love my Kindle, there's nothing quite beats a bookcase full of books. I was looking at the Vitra Eames chairs recently and in a nice leather they set you back nearly 10k. I'll have to get the kids through school before I even start a conversation with Mrs Moore about one of them!
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The chair came in at under $1,000 AU, so under £500? Australia doesn't give a shit about copyright on these things, so we can get then dead cheap.


Here's the difference - $200 for 4 replica dining chairs! The replica I got is below.

 
LeSamourai said:
Who else is in the read-several-books-at-once club? I know a lot of people go one at a time, but I like having different things to choose from, pretty much always a short story collection among them.

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I usually have a book of poetry, at least two non-fiction and a fiction on the go — with a liberal sprinkling of graphic novels and conic trades
 
LeSamourai said:
Who else is in the read-several-books-at-once club? I know a lot of people go one at a time, but I like having different things to choose from, pretty much always a short story collection among them.

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Yeah I'll typically have

• One fiction
• One non-fiction
• One biography
• Poetry

All going at once, that way I never lose the momentum and get stuck if one book is slow going. Currently already on book # 8 of the year!
 
LeSamourai said:
Who else is in the read-several-books-at-once club? I know a lot of people go one at a time, but I like having different things to choose from, pretty much always a short story collection among them.

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I try not to be, but I think right now I'm juggling:
  • a readthrough of Don Quixote, of which I read part 1 then read ~5 books in the interim
  • part 3 of 2666; I read two parts sporadically last year and want to finish at least one more part this year, if not the whole thing
  • two poetry books
  • two short story books which I read one piece from between books.
All of the above are why my book count last year was lower (relatively for me), and my book count may be goofily inflated this year.
 
Has anyone ever tried reading every year's winner for a particular award or superlative? Storygraph introduced the ability to create challenges or add to existing ones, like Nebula winners or Booker prize winners (and even pop culture lists like Patti Smith or Rory Gilmore reading lists). Thought it might be fun to make a run chipping at one occasionally over the course of a few years.
 
Bull Shannon said:
Has anyone ever tried reading every year's winner for a particular award or superlative? Storygraph introduced the ability to create challenges or add to existing ones, like Nebula winners or Booker prize winners (and even pop culture lists like Patti Smith or Rory Gilmore reading lists). Thought it might be fun to make a run chipping at one occasionally over the course of a few years.
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I try to do this for the Booker. I need to go back a few years but I think I’ve read every winner of the last 5-7 years and have been big fans of most of them. It’s fun to follow along with the award and have an additional reason to get a new book when it comes out
 
Bull Shannon said:
Has anyone ever tried reading every year's winner for a particular award or superlative? Storygraph introduced the ability to create challenges or add to existing ones, like Nebula winners or Booker prize winners (and even pop culture lists like Patti Smith or Rory Gilmore reading lists). Thought it might be fun to make a run chipping at one occasionally over the course of a few years.
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I used to try to do this with the Giller and Gov General prizes here in Canada. I always read the winner of each and then try to work their their short lists (there was often some overlap). I have not tried to do that in years
 
Bull Shannon said:
Has anyone ever tried reading every year's winner for a particular award or superlative? Storygraph introduced the ability to create challenges or add to existing ones, like Nebula winners or Booker prize winners (and even pop culture lists like Patti Smith or Rory Gilmore reading lists). Thought it might be fun to make a run chipping at one occasionally over the course of a few years.
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jamieanderson1968 said:
I used to try to do this with the Giller and Gov General prizes here in Canada. I always read the winner of each and then try to work their their short lists (there was often some overlap). I have not tried to do that in years
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Our national broadcaster does a thing every year called Canada Reads, where they have five different public figures each defend a book a through an elimination style showcase until there is ultimately one winner each year. I used to try and get through all fiv, but nowadays I'm a few years behind on even just the winners.
 
I've got a shelf/tag on Goodreads for Booker and Giller winners that I use to track; so far only 8 and 4, but I would definitely like to read all of them before I die.

I didn't know about that new Storygraph feature. That's cool. I've been using that site a lot more than Goodreads recently. I like the actual user-sourced info on vibes, pacing, etc.
 
BjorgenFjorgen said:
I've got a shelf/tag on Goodreads for Booker and Giller winners that I use to track; so far only 8 and 4, but I would definitely like to read all of them before I die.

I didn't know about that new Storygraph feature. That's cool. I've been using that site a lot more than Goodreads recently. I like the actual user-sourced info on vibes, pacing, etc.
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I've made a commitment to using both in parallel; I like Storygraph's design, the structure of reviews, and the independence from Amazon. I'm still hanging onto Goodreads through the sheer momentum of everyone defaulting to it; the social aspect is truly a double-edged sword.
 
BjorgenFjorgen said:
Sometimes, you can find gold in a Little Free Library.

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Honestly I won't be surprised to find many of these in LFLs in the future; the gulf between McCarthy's mainstream acceptance and these books' (at least The Passenger from my experience) difficulty is wide. Def keeping my eyes open for a Stella Maris; I want to finish the duology but found it dry, challenging, and disinterested in any sort of catharsis/plot.
 
Finished Empire of the Summer Moon. What a fantastic read. Brutal, breathtaking, tragic. I've driven through a good portion of the parts of the book that involved Quanah. Going to move next to Hymns of the Republic as I was wanting to dive more into Civil War history and it is written by the same author as Empire.

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