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kimlockhartga, 8 days ago to bookstodon

Since we are coming up on June, it seems like a good time to check in with everyone here on @bookstodon regarding favorite reads of 2024 so far. Whatcha got?

My top five reads of 2024 so far:

The Criminal series of graphic novels by Ed Brubaker (ten primary works)

James, Percival Everett

The Book of Love, Kelly Link

Poor Deer, Claire Oshetsky

Prequel, Rachel Maddow

lilithsaintcrow, 13 days ago to random

I was today years old when I finally read Merrill's THE PUSHCART WAR and I am ever so glad I did.

Sometimes one just needs a little hope.

lunalein, 13 days ago to books

@bookstodon I’m looking for nonfiction recommendations that are:

• not self-help or politics
• not US history
• available and enjoyable (in english) on audiobook

thoughts?

#books

franksting, 19 days ago to bookstodon

Natasha Brown’s Assembly is quite the Novella. “I've watched with dispassionate curiosity as this continent hacks away at itself: confused, lost, sick with nostalgia for those imperialist glory days - when the them had been so clearly defined! It's evident now, obvious in retrospect as the proof of root-two's irrationality, that these world superpowers are neither infallible, nor superior. They're nothing, not without a brutally enforced relativity. An organized, systematic brutality that their soft and sagging children can scarcely stomach - won't even acknowledge. Yet cling to as truth. There was never any absolute, no decree from God. Just viscous, random chance. And then, compounding.” @bookstodon #bookstodon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58600914

lunalein, 25 days ago to books

Tom Lake is not my favorite Ann Patchett book (and has one late reveal i rolled my eyes at), but the audiobook read by Meryl Streep is (predictably) beautiful. Very soothing, never boring. #books @bookstodon

ablueboxfullofbooks, 27 days ago to books

From the author of the cult hit Boy Parts comes a chilling, brilliantly told story of murder among a group of teenage girls—a powerful and disturbing novel as piercing in its portrait of young women as Emma Cline’s The Girls.

#book #books #bookstodon #littlefreelibrary

@harperperennial @bookstodon @bookstodon

lunalein, 1 month ago to books

April reads (asterisks for my favorites, but there was nothing I didn't like this month):

Wandering Stars - Tommy Orange
Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan*
Lost on Me - Veronica Raimo
The Appeal - Janice Hallett
Learned by Heart - Emma Donoghue
This Is Amiko, Do You Copy? - Natsuko Imamura
Behind You is the Sea -- Susan Muaddi Darraj*
The Rainbow - Yasunari Kawabata
Pay As You Go - Eskor David Johnson*
A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine*
I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman*
The Extinction of Irena Rey - Jennifer Croft
The Hollow Places - T Kingfisher
The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett*

#books @bookstodon

lunalein, 1 month ago to books

The Extinction of Irena Rey made me look up more words than any book i’ve read in probably decades. Which is fair, since it contains so many different books within itself. Puzzling in the best way. #books. @bookstodon

kimlockhartga, 2 months ago to books

@bookstodon I am making a very long list of suggested book pairings, and I wondered if you all had any interest in them? These are read-alikes specifically in the sense of "If you liked this book, you 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 also like this other book." I plan to alphabetize them by the titles of the first books in the pairings, so you can easily look for your favorites.

My criteria are my own (I even match up traditional books with graphic novels or short story collections) and it's super subjective, just by definition. But, you would be able to add your own book pairings as well. Books can be alike in (sub) genre, style, subject, thematic elements, even in ways that are not readily apparent.

#books #bookstodon #BooksWorthReading #BookList

lunalein, 2 months ago to books

“Down below in Skyler Square the trouble was passing quickly from door to door, mothers telling mothers, not speaking aloud but somehow saying: baby gone, bad man, wild animal.”

• the knockout first line of Ordinary Human Failings, by Megan Nolan. #books @bookstodon

lunalein, 2 months ago to books

If anyone’s thinking about reading Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange, I highly recommend reading/rereading There, There first. I didn’t revisit it, and while the new book is beautifully written, it relies heavily on the it’s predecessor for story cohesion. I definitely didn’t remember enough detail to get the most out of it. @bookstodon #books

CultureDesk, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to books

In celebration of the 50th birthday of Stephen King's first novel, "Carrie," NPR polled its readers on their favorite King books. Here's what they chose. Which is your top pick? Tell us in the comments if there's a gem that didn't make the cut.

https://flip.it/f9sriI

#StephenKing #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Fiction #Reading #Poll

inkishkingdoms, 2 months ago to books

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

33% so first love the French vacations. Second I hate her father and stepmother 🙄🙄 third they talk in French and I understood 🥹🥹🥹 @bookstodon #books #BookClubRead

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f459f9b4-8cef-41fd-aee9-2311fa8bd3de

lunalein, 2 months ago to books

March #books read (* for favorites of the month):
Cursed Bunny - Bora Chung
Hot Springs Drive - LIndsay Hunter
The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman - Molly Lynch*
Here in Avalon - Tara Isabella Burton
The Hunter - Tana French
Confidence - Rafael Frumkin
Filterworld - Oksana Vasyakina
Where You End - Abbott Kahler
The Berry Pickers - Amanda Peters
What Feasts at Night - T. Kingfisher
The Nigerwife - Vanessa Walters
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer*
Nightbloom - Peace Adzo Medie
Womb City - Tlotlo Tsamaase
Anita de Monte Laughs Last - Xochitl Gonzalez
Big Time - Ben H Winters
The Lost Daughter - Elena Ferrante
Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash*
North Woods - Daniel Mason*

@bookstodon

timrichards, 2 months ago to books

A fun bit I just read in The Mating Season by PG Wodehouse...

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #Book #Books @bookstodon

golgaloth, 2 months ago to writing

#WritersCoffeeClub 26/03
In your opinion, name a book, movie or TV show where the ending spoils the story.

I mean, are we all just going to dogpile on Game of Thrones?

Does anyone remember ALF? This funny, cat-eating alien kids show. And one season ended with him getting carted off by the government for experiments. Then the show got cancelled and that was actually the horrific, dark ending of the entire show.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #writing

lunalein, 5 months ago to books

2023 in #books, inspired by https://shereads.com/traci-thomas-best-books-of-2023/ and I'd love to see other people answer these, too!

Two books I loved, part 1: Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda, which is about four entrants in a classical piano competition in Tokyo, and the characters are all interesting and charming but best of all it just has wonderful writing about music -- like the title itself as a description of how a particular player makes a particular piece sound. It's beautiful, and unlike many books with multiple POVs, I loved all the protagonists equally and was never annoyed by a switch at the wrong time. Just beautiful stuff.

@bookstodon