mahsdad's (Jeff) 2024 Thread - Q4
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1mahsdad
Welcome to 2024 Q4 and my little corner of the world
Hi, I'm Jeff. I live in San Pedro California. Moved out from Pittsburgh in 1989. I'm an avid reader. My wife might say I'm bordering on the obsessive. But then, I think that could apply to a lot of us in this group. I also enjoy photography, movies, hiking and playing games and hanging out with my family. Book-wise, I have a pretty eclectic taste in what I read and I hope to give you not so much reviews but my impressions about what I read.
What you will find here is mostly my rambling thoughts, a whole mess of lists I'm keeping track of, my Wishlist and TBR pile temptations and a smattering of my photography. I don't really make a plan for what I'm going to read thru out the year. Its mostly what strikes my fancy from the TBR piles.
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Hi, I'm Jeff. I live in San Pedro California. Moved out from Pittsburgh in 1989. I'm an avid reader. My wife might say I'm bordering on the obsessive. But then, I think that could apply to a lot of us in this group. I also enjoy photography, movies, hiking and playing games and hanging out with my family. Book-wise, I have a pretty eclectic taste in what I read and I hope to give you not so much reviews but my impressions about what I read.
What you will find here is mostly my rambling thoughts, a whole mess of lists I'm keeping track of, my Wishlist and TBR pile temptations and a smattering of my photography. I don't really make a plan for what I'm going to read thru out the year. Its mostly what strikes my fancy from the TBR piles.
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2mahsdad
2024 Statistics - Q4
🎧 - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
December
102. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 🎧 :
101. Tiger Chair by Max Brooks :
100. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi :
99. Lisey's Story by Stephen King 🎧 :
98. A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King/Stewart O'Nan :
97. The Answer is No by Fredrick Backman (K) :
96. The Natural by Bernard Malamud :
95. Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde 🎧 :
Favorite : Homegoing
November
94. Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster (K) :
93. Regeneration by Pat Barker :
92. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 🎧 :
91. Fighting Back by Rocky Bleier :
90. My Favorite Thing is Monsters Vol 2 by Emil Ferris (GN) :
89. Father and Son by Larry Brown :
Favorite : Father and Son
October
88. Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki 🎧 :
87. Starter Villain by John Scalzi :
86. Men without Women by Haruki Murakami 🎧 :
85. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood :
84. If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien 🎧 :
83. Wild New World: the Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores :
82. Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth :
81. Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 🎧 :
80. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 🎧 :
79. Orbital by Samantha Harvey 🎧 :
Favorite : Starter Villian
🎧 - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
December
102. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 🎧 :
101. Tiger Chair by Max Brooks :
100. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi :
99. Lisey's Story by Stephen King 🎧 :
98. A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King/Stewart O'Nan :
97. The Answer is No by Fredrick Backman (K) :
96. The Natural by Bernard Malamud :
95. Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde 🎧 :
Favorite : Homegoing
November
94. Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster (K) :
93. Regeneration by Pat Barker :
92. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 🎧 :
91. Fighting Back by Rocky Bleier :
90. My Favorite Thing is Monsters Vol 2 by Emil Ferris (GN) :
89. Father and Son by Larry Brown :
Favorite : Father and Son
October
88. Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki 🎧 :
87. Starter Villain by John Scalzi :
86. Men without Women by Haruki Murakami 🎧 :
85. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood :
84. If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien 🎧 :
83. Wild New World: the Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores :
82. Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth :
81. Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 🎧 :
80. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 🎧 :
79. Orbital by Samantha Harvey 🎧 :
Favorite : Starter Villian
3mahsdad
2024 Statistics - Q3
🎧 - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
September
78. Crash by JG Ballard :
77. Angels of Rome by Jess Walter 🎧 :
76. Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara :
75. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin 🎧 :
74. A Brotherhood of Spies by Monte Reel 🎧 :
73. Midnight Library by Matt Haig :
72. Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde 🎧 :
71. My Favorite Thing is Monsters Vol 1 by Emil Ferris (GN) :
Favorite : The Angel of Rome
August
70. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley :
69. Universal Harvester by John Darnielle 🎧 :
68. Flag of Our Fathers by James Bradley :
67. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle 🎧 :
66. Reading the Constitution by Stephen Breyer 🎧 :
65. The Change by Whoopi Goldberg (GN) :
64. Double Star by Robert Heinlein 🎧 :
63. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin :
Favorite : A Manual for Cleaning Women
July
62. The Living Dead by George Romero/Daniel Kraus 🎧 :
61. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian (GN) :
60. Saga Vol 11 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
59. Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin 🎧 :
58. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair :
57. Sheep Look Up by John Brunner 🎧 :
56. Saga Vol 10 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
55. Binge: 60 stories to make your brain feel different by Douglas Coupland 🎧 :
Favorite : The Jungle
🎧 - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
September
78. Crash by JG Ballard :
77. Angels of Rome by Jess Walter 🎧 :
76. Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara :
75. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin 🎧 :
74. A Brotherhood of Spies by Monte Reel 🎧 :
73. Midnight Library by Matt Haig :
72. Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde 🎧 :
71. My Favorite Thing is Monsters Vol 1 by Emil Ferris (GN) :
Favorite : The Angel of Rome
August
70. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley :
69. Universal Harvester by John Darnielle 🎧 :
68. Flag of Our Fathers by James Bradley :
67. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle 🎧 :
66. Reading the Constitution by Stephen Breyer 🎧 :
65. The Change by Whoopi Goldberg (GN) :
64. Double Star by Robert Heinlein 🎧 :
63. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin :
Favorite : A Manual for Cleaning Women
July
62. The Living Dead by George Romero/Daniel Kraus 🎧 :
61. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian (GN) :
60. Saga Vol 11 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
59. Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin 🎧 :
58. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair :
57. Sheep Look Up by John Brunner 🎧 :
56. Saga Vol 10 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
55. Binge: 60 stories to make your brain feel different by Douglas Coupland 🎧 :
Favorite : The Jungle
4mahsdad
2024 Statistics - Q2
🎧 - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
June
54. James by Percival Everett 🎧 :
53. Saga Vol 9 by Brian Vaughan :
52. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch 🎧 :
51. Night Shift plus... by Eileen Gunn :
50. Saga Vol 8 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
49. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 🎧 :
48. My Real Children by Jo Walton :
47. Growing Up Yinzer: Memories from Beloved Pittsburghers by Dick Roberts :
Favorite : My Real Children
May
46. Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay :
45. Saga Vol 6 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
44. Saga Vol 7 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
43. Clear by Carys Davies 🎧 :
42. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham :
41. Wicked by Gregory Maguire 🎧 :
40. Whalefall by Daniel Kraus 🎧 :
39. UR by Stephen King (K) :
38. A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham :
Favorite : A Wild Swan and Other Tales
April
37. Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu 🎧 :
36. Walkaway by Cory Doctorow 🎧 :
35. Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah :
34. Saga Vol 5 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
33. Erasure by Percival Everett 🎧 :
32. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers 🎧 :
31. Cut and Thirst by Margaret Atwood :
30. Saga Vol 4 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
29. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 🎧 :
28. Unexpected Weather Events by Erin Pringle (ER) :
27. Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka 🎧 :
Favorite : Chain Gang All-Stars
🎧 - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
June
54. James by Percival Everett 🎧 :
53. Saga Vol 9 by Brian Vaughan :
52. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch 🎧 :
51. Night Shift plus... by Eileen Gunn :
50. Saga Vol 8 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
49. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 🎧 :
48. My Real Children by Jo Walton :
47. Growing Up Yinzer: Memories from Beloved Pittsburghers by Dick Roberts :
Favorite : My Real Children
May
46. Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay :
45. Saga Vol 6 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
44. Saga Vol 7 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
43. Clear by Carys Davies 🎧 :
42. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham :
41. Wicked by Gregory Maguire 🎧 :
40. Whalefall by Daniel Kraus 🎧 :
39. UR by Stephen King (K) :
38. A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham :
Favorite : A Wild Swan and Other Tales
April
37. Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu 🎧 :
36. Walkaway by Cory Doctorow 🎧 :
35. Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah :
34. Saga Vol 5 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
33. Erasure by Percival Everett 🎧 :
32. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers 🎧 :
31. Cut and Thirst by Margaret Atwood :
30. Saga Vol 4 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
29. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 🎧 :
28. Unexpected Weather Events by Erin Pringle (ER) :
27. Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka 🎧 :
Favorite : Chain Gang All-Stars
5mahsdad
2024 Statistics - Q1
A - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
LL - Life's Library
March
26. The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl (A) :
25. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII by Iris Chang (A) :
24. Saga, Vol 3 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
23. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu :
22. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman (A) :
21. Saga Vol 2 by Brian K. Vaughan (GN) :
20. Danny Champion of the World by Roald Dahl (A) :
19. Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser :
18. The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson (A) :
17. As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem (A) :
18. Saga Vol 1 by Brian K. Vaughan (GN) :
Favorite : Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
February
15. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller (A) :
14. Kindred by Octavia Butler :
13. Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros by Michael Chabon (A) :
12. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes : And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughy (A) :
11. Nothing. Everything by Virginia Montanez :
10. The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow/Charles Stross (A) (A) :
9. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi :
8. Manga Stories #1 by Haruki Murakami (GN) :
7. The Woman Who Died A Lot by Jasper Fforde (A) :
Favorite : Kindred
January
6. IQ84 by Haruki Murakami :
5. The Yellow Wall-paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (K) :
4. Return of the King by JRR Tolkien (A) :
3. Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman (GN) :
2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (A) :
1. Two Towers by JRR Tolkien (A) :
Favorite : IQ84
A - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
LL - Life's Library
March
26. The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl (A) :
25. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII by Iris Chang (A) :
24. Saga, Vol 3 by Brian Vaughan (GN) :
23. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu :
22. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman (A) :
21. Saga Vol 2 by Brian K. Vaughan (GN) :
20. Danny Champion of the World by Roald Dahl (A) :
19. Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser :
18. The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson (A) :
17. As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem (A) :
18. Saga Vol 1 by Brian K. Vaughan (GN) :
Favorite : Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
February
15. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller (A) :
14. Kindred by Octavia Butler :
13. Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros by Michael Chabon (A) :
12. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes : And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughy (A) :
11. Nothing. Everything by Virginia Montanez :
10. The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow/Charles Stross (A) (A) :
9. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi :
8. Manga Stories #1 by Haruki Murakami (GN) :
7. The Woman Who Died A Lot by Jasper Fforde (A) :
Favorite : Kindred
January
6. IQ84 by Haruki Murakami :
5. The Yellow Wall-paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (K) :
4. Return of the King by JRR Tolkien (A) :
3. Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman (GN) :
2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (A) :
1. Two Towers by JRR Tolkien (A) :
Favorite : IQ84
6mahsdad
Audiobook Narrators
Andy Serkis - Two Towers, Return of the King
Jake Phillips - A Christmas Carol
Emily Gray - The Woman Who Died A Lot
John Lee - The Rapture of the Nerds, Shades of Grey, Count of Monte Cristo
Caitlyn Doughty - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
George Newbern - Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros
Stephen Graybill - Chip War
David Aaron Baker - As She Climbed Across the Table
Donald Corren - The Lost Weekend
Peter Serafinowicz - Danny Champion of the World
Nick Offerman - Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
Anna Fields - The Rape of Nanking
Chris O'Dowd - The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Mozhan Marno
Jim Meskimen - Notes on an Execution
Miranda Raison - Lessons in Chemistry
Dion Graham - A Hologram for the King
Sean Crisden - Erasure
Corey Brill
Joy Osmanski - Paper Menagerie
Kirby Heyborne - Whalefall, Men without Women
John Mc Donough - Wicked
Russ Bain - Clear
George Guidall - Gravity's Rainbow, The Lathe of Heaven
Jon Lindstrom - Dark Matter
Dominic Hoffman - James
Stefan Rudnicki - Sheep Look Up, Rocannon's World
Bruce Davidson/Lori Cardille - The Living Dead
Lloyd James - Double Star
Stephen Breyer - Reading the Constitution
John Darnielle - Wolf in White Van, Universal Harvester
Paul Michael - A Brotherhood of Spies
Edoardo Ballerini/Julia Whelan - Angel of Rome
Sarah Naudi - Orbital
Michelle Zauner - Crying in H Mart
Bernadette Dunne - Haunting of Hill House
Dan John Miller - If I Die in a Combat Zone
Alyssa Bresnahan - Time's Mouth
Chris Harper - Red Side Story
Mare Winningham - Lisey's Story
Nicholas Guy Smith - Remains of the Day
Andy Serkis - Two Towers, Return of the King
Jake Phillips - A Christmas Carol
Emily Gray - The Woman Who Died A Lot
John Lee - The Rapture of the Nerds, Shades of Grey, Count of Monte Cristo
Caitlyn Doughty - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
George Newbern - Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros
Stephen Graybill - Chip War
David Aaron Baker - As She Climbed Across the Table
Donald Corren - The Lost Weekend
Peter Serafinowicz - Danny Champion of the World
Nick Offerman - Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
Anna Fields - The Rape of Nanking
Chris O'Dowd - The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Mozhan Marno
Jim Meskimen - Notes on an Execution
Miranda Raison - Lessons in Chemistry
Dion Graham - A Hologram for the King
Sean Crisden - Erasure
Corey Brill
Joy Osmanski - Paper Menagerie
Kirby Heyborne - Whalefall, Men without Women
John Mc Donough - Wicked
Russ Bain - Clear
George Guidall - Gravity's Rainbow, The Lathe of Heaven
Jon Lindstrom - Dark Matter
Dominic Hoffman - James
Stefan Rudnicki - Sheep Look Up, Rocannon's World
Bruce Davidson/Lori Cardille - The Living Dead
Lloyd James - Double Star
Stephen Breyer - Reading the Constitution
John Darnielle - Wolf in White Van, Universal Harvester
Paul Michael - A Brotherhood of Spies
Edoardo Ballerini/Julia Whelan - Angel of Rome
Sarah Naudi - Orbital
Michelle Zauner - Crying in H Mart
Bernadette Dunne - Haunting of Hill House
Dan John Miller - If I Die in a Combat Zone
Alyssa Bresnahan - Time's Mouth
Chris Harper - Red Side Story
Mare Winningham - Lisey's Story
Nicholas Guy Smith - Remains of the Day
7mahsdad
Pulitzer's Read
Ongoing bucket list to read all the Pulitzer winning novels.
Bold : On the Shelf
Strikeout : Completed
Total Read - 38
2024 - Night Watch
2023 - Demon Copperhead
2023 - Trust
2022 - The Netanyahus
2021 - The Night Watchman
2020 - The Nickel Boys
2019 -The Overstory
2018 -Less
2017 -Underground Railroad
2016 - The Sympathizer
2015 -All the Light We Cannot See
2014 -The Goldfinch
2013 -The Orphan Master's Son
2012 - NO AWARD
-Swamplandia - Nominee
2011 -A Visit from the Goon Squad
2010 -Tinkers
2009 -Olive Kitterridge
2008 -The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2007 -The Road
2006 -March
2005 -Gilead
2004 - The Known World
2003 -Middlesex
2002 - Empire Falls
2001 -The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2000 -The Interpreter of Maladies
1999 -The Hours
1998 - American Pastoral
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer READ
1996 -Independence Day
1995 - The Stone Diaries
1994 - The Shipping News
1993 -A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
1992 -A Thousand Acres
-My Father Bleeds History (Maus) (Special Awards & Citations - Letters)
1991 - Rabbit at Rest
1990 - The Mambo Kings
1989 - Breathing Lessons
1988 - Beloved DNF
1987 - A Summons to Memphis
1986 -Lonesome Dove
1985 - Foreign Affairs
1984 -Ironweed
1983 -The Color Purple
1982 - Rabbit is Rich
1981 -A Confederacy of Dunces
1980 -The Executioner's Song
1979 -The Stories of John Cheever
1978 - Elbow Room
1977 - NO AWARD
1976 - Humboldt's Gift
1975 -The Killer Angels
1974 - NO AWARD
1973 - The Optimist's Daughter
1972 -Angle of Repose
1971 - NO AWARD
1970 - The collected Stories of Jean Stafford
1969 - House Made of Dawn : DNF
1968 -The Confessions of Nat Turner
1967 - The Fixer
1966 - The Collected Stories of katherine Anne Porter
1965 - The Keepers of the House
1964 - NO AWARD
1963 - The Reivers
1962 - The Edge of Sadness
1961 -To Kill a Mockingbird
1960 - Advise and Consent
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1958 - A Death in the Family
1957 - NO AWARD
1956 - Andersonville
1955 - A Fable
1954 - NO AWARD
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea
1952 -The Caine Mutiny
1951 - The Town
1950 - The Way West
1949 -Guard of Honor
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific
1947 - All the King's Men
1946 - NO AWARD
1945 - A Bell
1944 - Journey in the Dark
1943 - Dragon's Teeth
1942 - In This Our Life
1941 - NO AWARD
1940 -The Grapes of Wrath
1939 - The Yearling
1938 - The Late George Apley
1937 - Gone with the Wind
1936 - Honey in the Horn
1935 - Now in November
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom
1933 - The Store
1932 - The Good Earth
1931 - Years of Grace
1930 - Laughing Boy
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary
1928 -The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1927 - Early Autumn
1926 - Arrowsmith
1925 - So Big
1924 - The Able McLaughlins
1923 - One of Ours
1922 - Alice Adams
1921 - The Age of Innocence
1920 - NO AWARD
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons
1918 - His Family
Ongoing bucket list to read all the Pulitzer winning novels.
Bold : On the Shelf
Total Read - 38
2024 - Night Watch
2023 - Demon Copperhead
2023 - Trust
2022 - The Netanyahus
2021 - The Night Watchman
2020 -
2019 -
2018 -
2017 -
2016 - The Sympathizer
2015 -
2014 -
2013 -
2012 - NO AWARD
-
2011 -
2010 -
2009 -
2008 -
2007 -
2006 -
2005 -
2004 - The Known World
2003 -
2002 - Empire Falls
2001 -
2000 -
1999 -
1998 - American Pastoral
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer READ
1996 -
1995 - The Stone Diaries
1994 - The Shipping News
1993 -
1992 -
-
1991 - Rabbit at Rest
1990 - The Mambo Kings
1989 - Breathing Lessons
1988 - Beloved DNF
1987 - A Summons to Memphis
1986 -
1985 - Foreign Affairs
1984 -
1983 -
1982 - Rabbit is Rich
1981 -
1980 -
1979 -
1978 - Elbow Room
1977 - NO AWARD
1976 - Humboldt's Gift
1975 -
1974 - NO AWARD
1973 - The Optimist's Daughter
1972 -
1971 - NO AWARD
1970 - The collected Stories of Jean Stafford
1969 - House Made of Dawn : DNF
1968 -
1967 - The Fixer
1966 - The Collected Stories of katherine Anne Porter
1965 - The Keepers of the House
1964 - NO AWARD
1963 - The Reivers
1962 - The Edge of Sadness
1961 -
1960 - Advise and Consent
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1958 - A Death in the Family
1957 - NO AWARD
1956 - Andersonville
1955 - A Fable
1954 - NO AWARD
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea
1952 -
1951 - The Town
1950 - The Way West
1949 -
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific
1947 - All the King's Men
1946 - NO AWARD
1945 - A Bell
1944 - Journey in the Dark
1943 - Dragon's Teeth
1942 - In This Our Life
1941 - NO AWARD
1940 -
1939 - The Yearling
1938 - The Late George Apley
1937 - Gone with the Wind
1936 - Honey in the Horn
1935 - Now in November
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom
1933 - The Store
1932 - The Good Earth
1931 - Years of Grace
1930 - Laughing Boy
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary
1928 -
1927 - Early Autumn
1926 - Arrowsmith
1925 - So Big
1924 - The Able McLaughlins
1923 - One of Ours
1922 - Alice Adams
1921 - The Age of Innocence
1920 - NO AWARD
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons
1918 - His Family
8mahsdad
Hugo's Read
Ongoing bucket list to read all the Hugo winning novels.
Bold : On the Shelf
Strikeout : Completed
Total Read - 42
2023 - Nettle & Bone
2022 - A Desolation Called Peace
2021 -Network Effect
2020 - A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
2020 -This Is How You Lose The Time War - Novella
2019 -The Calculating Stars
2018 - The Stone Sky
2018 -All Systems Red - Novella
2017 - The Obelisk Gate
2016 - The Fifth Season
2016 -Binti - Novella
2015 - The Three-Body Problem
2014 -Ancillary Justice (DNF)
2013 -Redshirts
2012 -Among Others
2011 - Blackout/All Clear
2010 -The Windup Girl
The City & the City
2009 -The Graveyard Book
2008 -The Yiddish Policemen's Union
2007 - Rainbows End
2006 -Spin
2005 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2004 - Paladin of Souls
2003 - Hominids
2003 -Coraline (novella)
2002 -American Gods
2001 -Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2000 - A Deepness in the Sky
1999 -To Say Nothing of the Dog
1998 -Forever Peace
1997 - Blue Mars
1996 -The Diamond Age
1995 - Mirror Dance
1994 - Green Mars
1993 - A Fire Upon the Deep
Doomsday Book
1992 - Barrayar
1991 - The Vor Game
1990 - Hyperion
1989 - Cyteen
1988 -The Uplift War
1988 -Watchmen - category : Other forms
1987 -Speaker for the Dead
1986 -Ender's Game
1985 -Neuromancer
1985 -The Crystal Spheres - David Brin - Short Story
1984 -Startide Rising
1983 - Foundation's Edge
1982 - Downbelow Station
1981 - The Snow Queen
1980 - The Fountains of Paradise
1979 - Dreamsnake
1978 - Gateway
1977 - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
1976 -The Forever War
1975 - The Dispossessed
1974 -Rendezvous with Rama
1973 -The Gods Themselves
1972 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go
1971 -Ringworld
1970 -Left Hand of Darkness
1969 -Stand on Zanzibar
1968 - Lord of Light
1967 -The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
1966 -Dune
This Immortal
1965 - The Wanderer
1964 -Way Station
1963 -The Man in the High Castle
1962 -Stranger in a Strange Land
1961 -A Canticle for Leibowitz
1960 -Starship Troopers
1959 - A Case of Conscience
1958 - The Big Time
1956 -Double Star
1955 - The Forever Machine
1953 -The Demolished Man
Retro Hugos - this are given for years when no award was given (more than 50 years ago). Of those...
1939 - The Sword in the Stone
1951 -Farmer in the Sky
1954 -Fahrenheit 451
Ongoing bucket list to read all the Hugo winning novels.
Bold : On the Shelf
Total Read - 42
2023 - Nettle & Bone
2022 - A Desolation Called Peace
2021 -
2020 - A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
2020 -
2019 -
2018 - The Stone Sky
2018 -
2017 - The Obelisk Gate
2016 - The Fifth Season
2016 -
2015 - The Three-Body Problem
2014 -
2013 -
2012 -
2011 - Blackout/All Clear
2010 -
The City & the City
2009 -
2008 -
2007 - Rainbows End
2006 -
2005 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2004 - Paladin of Souls
2003 - Hominids
2003 -
2002 -
2001 -
2000 - A Deepness in the Sky
1999 -
1998 -
1997 - Blue Mars
1996 -
1995 - Mirror Dance
1994 - Green Mars
1993 - A Fire Upon the Deep
Doomsday Book
1992 - Barrayar
1991 - The Vor Game
1990 - Hyperion
1989 - Cyteen
1988 -
1988 -
1987 -
1986 -
1985 -
1985 -
1984 -
1983 - Foundation's Edge
1982 - Downbelow Station
1981 - The Snow Queen
1980 - The Fountains of Paradise
1979 - Dreamsnake
1978 - Gateway
1977 - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
1976 -
1975 - The Dispossessed
1974 -
1973 -
1972 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go
1971 -
1970 -
1969 -
1968 - Lord of Light
1967 -
1966 -
This Immortal
1965 - The Wanderer
1964 -
1963 -
1962 -
1961 -
1960 -
1959 - A Case of Conscience
1958 - The Big Time
1956 -
1955 - The Forever Machine
1953 -
Retro Hugos - this are given for years when no award was given (more than 50 years ago). Of those...
1939 - The Sword in the Stone
1951 -
1954 -
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Nebulas Read
Bold - On the Shelf
Strike - Finished
2023 - - Babel, Or, The Necessity of Violence, An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
2022 - A Master of Djinn
2021 - Network Effect
2020 - A Song for a New Day
2019 - The Calculating Stars
2019 -This Is How You Lose The Time War - Novella
2018 - The Stone Sky
2017 - All the Birds in the Sky
2016 - Uprooted
2015 - Annihilation
2014 - Ancillary Justice DNF
2013 - 2312
2012 - Among Others
2011 - Blackout/All Clear
2010 - The Windup Girl
2009 - Powers
2008 - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
2007 - Seeker
2006 - Camouflage
2005 - Paladin of Souls
2004 - The Speed of Dark
2003 - American Gods
2002 - The Quantum Rose
2001 - Darwin's Radio
2000 - Parable of the Talents
1999 - Forever Peace
1998 - The Moon and the Sun
1997 - Slow River
1996 - The Terminal Experiment
1995 - Moving Mars
1994 - Red Mars
1993 - Doomsday Book
1992 - Stations of the Tide
1991 - Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
1990 - The Healer's War
1989 - Falling Free
1988 - The Falling Woman
1987 - Speaker for the Dead
1986 - Ender's Game
1985 - Neuromancer
1984 - Startide Rising
1983 - No Enemy But Time
1982 - The Claw of the Conciliator
1981 - Timescape
1980 - The Fountains of Paradise
1979 - Dreamsnake
1978 - Gateway
1977 - Man Plus
1976 - The Forever War
1975 - The Dispossessed
1974 - Rendezvous with Rama
1973 - The Gods Themselves
1972 - A Time of Changes
1971 - Ringworld
1970 - The Left Hand of Darkness
1969 - Rite of Passage
1968 - The Einstein Intersection
1967 - Babel-17
1966 - Dune
Bold - On the Shelf
2023 - - Babel, Or, The Necessity of Violence, An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
2020 - A Song for a New Day
2019 -
2018 - The Stone Sky
2016 - Uprooted
2013 - 2312
2012 - Among Others
2011 - Blackout/All Clear
2009 - Powers
2007 - Seeker
2006 - Camouflage
2005 - Paladin of Souls
2004 - The Speed of Dark
2002 - The Quantum Rose
2001 - Darwin's Radio
2000 - Parable of the Talents
1998 - The Moon and the Sun
1997 - Slow River
1996 - The Terminal Experiment
1995 - Moving Mars
1994 - Red Mars
1993 - Doomsday Book
1992 - Stations of the Tide
1991 - Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
1990 - The Healer's War
1989 - Falling Free
1988 - The Falling Woman
1983 - No Enemy But Time
1982 - The Claw of the Conciliator
1981 - Timescape
1980 - The Fountains of Paradise
1979 - Dreamsnake
1978 - Gateway
1977 - Man Plus
1975 - The Dispossessed
1973 - The Gods Themselves
1972 - A Time of Changes
1969 - Rite of Passage
1968 - The Einstein Intersection
1967 - Babel-17
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National Book Award Winners
2015 - Fortune Smiles
2014 - Redeployment
2001 - The Corrections
1988 - Paris Trout
1985 - White Noise
1983 - The Color Purple - hardback award
1981 - The Stories of John Cheever - paperback award
1980 - The World According to Garp - paperback award
1953 - Invisible Man
Man Booker Books
2024 Orbital READ
2023 Prophet Song
2022 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
2021 The Promise
2020 Shuggie Bain READ
2019 The Testaments
2019 Girl, Woman, Other
2018 Milkman READ
2017 Lincoln in the Bardo READ
2016 The Sellout READ
2015 A Brief History of Seven Killings READ
2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2013 The Luminaries
2012 Bring Up the Bodies
2011 The Sense of an Ending
2010 The Finkler Question
2009 Wolf Hall DNF
2008 The White Tiger
2007 The Gathering
2006 The Inheritance of Loss
2005 The Sea
2004 The Line of Beauty READ
2003 Vernon God Little
2002 Life of Pi READ
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang
2000 The Blind Assassin
1999 Disgrace
1998 Amsterdam
1997 The God of Small Things
1996 Last Orders
1995 The Ghost Road
1994 How Late It Was, How Late
1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1992 The English Patient
1992 Sacred Hunger
1991 The Famished Road
1990 Possession
1989 The Remains of the Day READ
1988 Oscar and Lucinda
1987 Moon Tiger
1986 The Old Devils
1985 The Bone People
1984 Hotel du Lac
1983 Life & Times of Michael K
1982 Schindler's Ark
1981 Midnight's Children READ
1980 Rites of Passage
1979 Offshore
1978 The Sea, the Sea
1977 Staying On
1976 Saville
1975 Heat and Dust
1974 The Conservationist
1974 Holiday
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur
1972 G.
1971 In a Free State
1970 The Elected Member
1969 Something to Answer For
International Booker Prize
2023 Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria) : trans. Angela Rodel Read
2022 Tomb of Sand - Geetanjali Shree (India) : trans. Daisy Rockwell
2021 At Night All Blood Is Black - David Diop (France) : trans. Anna Moschovakis
2020 The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Netherlands) : trans. Michele Hutchison
2019 Celestial Bodies - Jokha al-Harthi (Oman) : trans. Marilyn Booth
2018 Flights - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) : trans. Jennifer Croft
2017 A Horse Walks Into a Bar - David Grossman (Israel) : trans. Jessica Cohen
2016 The Vegetarian - Han Kang (South Korea) : trans. Deborah Smith Read
2015 - Fortune Smiles
2014 - Redeployment
2001 - The Corrections
1988 - Paris Trout
1985 - White Noise
1983 - The Color Purple - hardback award
1981 - The Stories of John Cheever - paperback award
1980 - The World According to Garp - paperback award
1953 - Invisible Man
Man Booker Books
2024 Orbital READ
2023 Prophet Song
2022 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
2021 The Promise
2020 Shuggie Bain READ
2019 The Testaments
2019 Girl, Woman, Other
2018 Milkman READ
2017 Lincoln in the Bardo READ
2016 The Sellout READ
2015 A Brief History of Seven Killings READ
2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2013 The Luminaries
2012 Bring Up the Bodies
2011 The Sense of an Ending
2010 The Finkler Question
2009 Wolf Hall DNF
2008 The White Tiger
2007 The Gathering
2006 The Inheritance of Loss
2005 The Sea
2004 The Line of Beauty READ
2003 Vernon God Little
2002 Life of Pi READ
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang
2000 The Blind Assassin
1999 Disgrace
1998 Amsterdam
1997 The God of Small Things
1996 Last Orders
1995 The Ghost Road
1994 How Late It Was, How Late
1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1992 The English Patient
1992 Sacred Hunger
1991 The Famished Road
1990 Possession
1989 The Remains of the Day READ
1988 Oscar and Lucinda
1987 Moon Tiger
1986 The Old Devils
1985 The Bone People
1984 Hotel du Lac
1983 Life & Times of Michael K
1982 Schindler's Ark
1981 Midnight's Children READ
1980 Rites of Passage
1979 Offshore
1978 The Sea, the Sea
1977 Staying On
1976 Saville
1975 Heat and Dust
1974 The Conservationist
1974 Holiday
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur
1972 G.
1971 In a Free State
1970 The Elected Member
1969 Something to Answer For
International Booker Prize
2023 Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria) : trans. Angela Rodel Read
2022 Tomb of Sand - Geetanjali Shree (India) : trans. Daisy Rockwell
2021 At Night All Blood Is Black - David Diop (France) : trans. Anna Moschovakis
2020 The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Netherlands) : trans. Michele Hutchison
2019 Celestial Bodies - Jokha al-Harthi (Oman) : trans. Marilyn Booth
2018 Flights - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) : trans. Jennifer Croft
2017 A Horse Walks Into a Bar - David Grossman (Israel) : trans. Jessica Cohen
2016 The Vegetarian - Han Kang (South Korea) : trans. Deborah Smith Read
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100 SFF/Fantasy Reads as compiled by NPR
https://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fant...
1. The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien READ
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams READ
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card READ
4. The Dune Chronicles By Frank Herbert READ
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series by George R.R. Martin
6. 1984 A Novel by George Orwell READ
7. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury READ
8. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov READ but only the 1st one
9. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley READ
10. American Gods By Neil Gaiman READ
11. The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman READ
12. The Wheel Of Time Series by Robert Jordan
13. Animal Farm by George Orwell READ
14. Neuromancer By William Gibson READ
15. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons READ
16. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov READ
17. Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein READ
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles BY by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut READ
20. Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick READ
22. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood READ
23. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King READ
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey BY by Arthur C. Clarke READ
25. The Stand By Stephen King READ
26. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson READ
27. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury READ
28. Cat's Cradle By Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman READ
30. A Clockwork Orange BY by Anthony Burgess READ
31. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein READ
32. Watership Down by Richard Adams
33. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein READ
35. A Canticle For Leibowitz By Walter M. Miller Jr. READ
36. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
37. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea By Jules Verne
38. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes READ
39. The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells READ
40. The Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny
41. The Belgariad By David Eddings
42. The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. Mistborn Trilogy Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld by LARRY NIVEN READ
45. The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin READ
46. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Once And Future King BY by T.H. White
48. Neverwhere by NEIL GAIMAN READ
49. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact by Carl Sagan READ
51. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust by Neil Gaiman READ
53. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson READ
54. World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks READ
55. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
56. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman READ
57. Small Gods A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle READ
62. The Sword Of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind
63. The Road by by Cormac McCarthy READ
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
65. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson READ
66. The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
67. The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series by Robert E. Howard and Mark Schultz
69. The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
70. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger READ
71. The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
72. Journey To The Center Of The Earth by Jules Verne READ
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series by R. A. Salvatore
74. Old Man's War by John Scalzi READ
75. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson READ
76. Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke READ
77. The Kushiel's Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey
78. The Dispossessed An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire READ
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen series by Steven Erikson
82. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde READ
83. The Culture Series by Iain Banks
84. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
85. Anathem by Neal Stephenson
86. The Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher
87. The Book Of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe
88. The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
90. The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
91. The Illustrated Man By Ray Bradbury short works collection
92. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
93. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
94. The Caves Of Steel by Isaac Asimov READ
95. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle READ
97. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
99. The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
https://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fant...
1. The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien READ
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams READ
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card READ
4. The Dune Chronicles By Frank Herbert READ
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series by George R.R. Martin
6. 1984 A Novel by George Orwell READ
7. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury READ
8. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov READ but only the 1st one
9. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley READ
10. American Gods By Neil Gaiman READ
11. The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman READ
12. The Wheel Of Time Series by Robert Jordan
13. Animal Farm by George Orwell READ
14. Neuromancer By William Gibson READ
15. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons READ
16. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov READ
17. Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein READ
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles BY by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut READ
20. Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick READ
22. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood READ
23. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King READ
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey BY by Arthur C. Clarke READ
25. The Stand By Stephen King READ
26. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson READ
27. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury READ
28. Cat's Cradle By Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman READ
30. A Clockwork Orange BY by Anthony Burgess READ
31. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein READ
32. Watership Down by Richard Adams
33. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein READ
35. A Canticle For Leibowitz By Walter M. Miller Jr. READ
36. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
37. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea By Jules Verne
38. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes READ
39. The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells READ
40. The Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny
41. The Belgariad By David Eddings
42. The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. Mistborn Trilogy Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld by LARRY NIVEN READ
45. The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin READ
46. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Once And Future King BY by T.H. White
48. Neverwhere by NEIL GAIMAN READ
49. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact by Carl Sagan READ
51. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust by Neil Gaiman READ
53. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson READ
54. World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks READ
55. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
56. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman READ
57. Small Gods A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle READ
62. The Sword Of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind
63. The Road by by Cormac McCarthy READ
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
65. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson READ
66. The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
67. The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series by Robert E. Howard and Mark Schultz
69. The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
70. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger READ
71. The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
72. Journey To The Center Of The Earth by Jules Verne READ
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series by R. A. Salvatore
74. Old Man's War by John Scalzi READ
75. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson READ
76. Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke READ
77. The Kushiel's Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey
78. The Dispossessed An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire READ
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen series by Steven Erikson
82. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde READ
83. The Culture Series by Iain Banks
84. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
85. Anathem by Neal Stephenson
86. The Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher
87. The Book Of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe
88. The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
90. The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
91. The Illustrated Man By Ray Bradbury short works collection
92. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
93. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
94. The Caves Of Steel by Isaac Asimov READ
95. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle READ
97. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
99. The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
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100 Horror Reads as compiled by NPR
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/632779706/click-if-you-dare-100-favorite-horror-s...
1. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley READ
2. Dracula by Bram Stoker
3. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
5. Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
6. The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James
7. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
8. The Monkeys Paw by W. W. Jacobs
9. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
10. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman READ
11. Oh, Whistle, And Ill Come To You, My Lad by M. R. James and Darryl Jones
12.The Werewolf Of Paris By Guy Endore
13. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson READ
14. Let The Right One In By John Ajvide Lindqvist
15. The Vampire Chronicles (First Triology) by Anne Rice READ
16. Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend Series) by L. A. Banks
17. The Hunger by Alma Katsu
18. Those Across The River by Christopher Buehlman
19. Bird Box by Josh Malerman READ
20. Feed (Newsflesh Series) by Mira Grant
21. World War Z by Max Brooks READ
22. The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey READ
23. The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
24. The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle READ
25. The Fisherman by John Langan
26. Laundry Files (Series) by Charles Stross
27. The Cipher By Kathe Koja
28. John Dies At The End by David Wong READ
29. At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
30. All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts by Sonya Taaffe
31. Uzumaki by Junji Ito
32. Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber OR Majestic by Whitley Strieber
33. The Repairer Of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers
34. The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
35. The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
36. Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
37. The Shining by Stephen King READ
38. House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
39. The Elementals by Michael McDowell
40. The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
41. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
42. The Bone Key by Sarah Monette
43. Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
44. Infidel by Aaron Campbell, Jose Villarrubia, Pornsak Pichetshote and Jeff Powell
45. The Ruins by Scott Smith
46. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
47. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
48. The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan
49. Swan Song by Robert McCammon
50. The Screwfly Solution by James Tiptree Jr.
51. Left Foot, Right by Nalo Hopkinson
52. Come Closer by Sara Gran
53. Furnace by Livia Llewellyn
54. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
55. Through The Woods by Emily Carroll
56. Sandman by Neil Gaiman READ
57. Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
58. White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
59. Goblin Market by Christina Georgina Rossetti
60. Experimental Film by Gemma Files
61. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson READ
62. The Collector by John Fowles
63. The Terror by Dan Simmons
64. Intensity by Dean R. Koontz
65. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
66. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
67. Night They Missed the Horror Show by Joe R. Lansdale
68. Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
69. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill READ
70. Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler
71. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding READ
72. The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood READ
73. Beloved by Toni Morrison
74. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler
75. The Devil In America by Kai Ashante Wilson
76. I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
77. Books Of Blood by Clive Barker READ
78. The October Country: Stories by Ray Bradbury
79. The Weird: A Compendium Of Strange And Dark Stories by Ann Vandermeer and Jeff VanDermeer
80. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
81. Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell, 1961-1991 by Ramsey Campbell
82. Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enriquez
83. Shadowland by Peter Straub READ
84. A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
85. Rosemarys Baby by Ira Levin
86. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
87. The Body by Stephen King READ
88. Its A Good Life by Jerome Bixby
89. The Other by Thomas Tryon
90. The Troop by Nick Cutter
91. Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall
92. Please, Momma by Chesya Burke
93. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell
94. Goosebumps (Series) by R. L. Stine children
95. Rotters by Daniel Kraus children
96. Jumbies Rise Of The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
97. The House With A Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs
98. Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh
99. Coraline by Neil Gaiman READ
100. Down A Dark Hall by Lois Duncan
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/632779706/click-if-you-dare-100-favorite-horror-s...
1. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley READ
2. Dracula by Bram Stoker
3. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
5. Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
6. The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James
7. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
8. The Monkeys Paw by W. W. Jacobs
9. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
10. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman READ
11. Oh, Whistle, And Ill Come To You, My Lad by M. R. James and Darryl Jones
12.The Werewolf Of Paris By Guy Endore
13. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson READ
14. Let The Right One In By John Ajvide Lindqvist
15. The Vampire Chronicles (First Triology) by Anne Rice READ
16. Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend Series) by L. A. Banks
17. The Hunger by Alma Katsu
18. Those Across The River by Christopher Buehlman
19. Bird Box by Josh Malerman READ
20. Feed (Newsflesh Series) by Mira Grant
21. World War Z by Max Brooks READ
22. The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey READ
23. The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
24. The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle READ
25. The Fisherman by John Langan
26. Laundry Files (Series) by Charles Stross
27. The Cipher By Kathe Koja
28. John Dies At The End by David Wong READ
29. At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
30. All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts by Sonya Taaffe
31. Uzumaki by Junji Ito
32. Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber OR Majestic by Whitley Strieber
33. The Repairer Of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers
34. The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
35. The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
36. Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
37. The Shining by Stephen King READ
38. House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
39. The Elementals by Michael McDowell
40. The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
41. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
42. The Bone Key by Sarah Monette
43. Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
44. Infidel by Aaron Campbell, Jose Villarrubia, Pornsak Pichetshote and Jeff Powell
45. The Ruins by Scott Smith
46. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
47. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
48. The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan
49. Swan Song by Robert McCammon
50. The Screwfly Solution by James Tiptree Jr.
51. Left Foot, Right by Nalo Hopkinson
52. Come Closer by Sara Gran
53. Furnace by Livia Llewellyn
54. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
55. Through The Woods by Emily Carroll
56. Sandman by Neil Gaiman READ
57. Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
58. White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
59. Goblin Market by Christina Georgina Rossetti
60. Experimental Film by Gemma Files
61. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson READ
62. The Collector by John Fowles
63. The Terror by Dan Simmons
64. Intensity by Dean R. Koontz
65. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
66. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
67. Night They Missed the Horror Show by Joe R. Lansdale
68. Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
69. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill READ
70. Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler
71. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding READ
72. The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood READ
73. Beloved by Toni Morrison
74. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler
75. The Devil In America by Kai Ashante Wilson
76. I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
77. Books Of Blood by Clive Barker READ
78. The October Country: Stories by Ray Bradbury
79. The Weird: A Compendium Of Strange And Dark Stories by Ann Vandermeer and Jeff VanDermeer
80. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
81. Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell, 1961-1991 by Ramsey Campbell
82. Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enriquez
83. Shadowland by Peter Straub READ
84. A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
85. Rosemarys Baby by Ira Levin
86. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
87. The Body by Stephen King READ
88. Its A Good Life by Jerome Bixby
89. The Other by Thomas Tryon
90. The Troop by Nick Cutter
91. Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall
92. Please, Momma by Chesya Burke
93. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell
94. Goosebumps (Series) by R. L. Stine children
95. Rotters by Daniel Kraus children
96. Jumbies Rise Of The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
97. The House With A Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs
98. Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh
99. Coraline by Neil Gaiman READ
100. Down A Dark Hall by Lois Duncan
13mahsdad
Weird Books List
From Book Riot - The 100 strange and weird "must read" books. https://bookriot.com/i-got-your-weird-right-here-100-wonderful-strange-and-unusu...
A Jello Horse by Matthew Simmons
After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss
An Exaggerated Murder by Josh Cook
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer READ
Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
Bear vs. Shark by Chris Bachelder
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe (Author), Alexander O. Smith (Translator)
Cat Country by Lao She
Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
Dendera by Yuya Sato (Author), Edwin Hawkes (Translator), Nathan A Collins (Translator)
Disquiet by Julia Leigh
Duplex by Kathryn Davis
Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Hossain
Fram by Steve Himmer
geek loveGeek Love by Katherine Dunn
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland READ
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
Half Life by Shelley Jackson
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Michael Glenny (Translator)
I Crawl Through It by A.S. King
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell
Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe
Just Like Beauty by Lisa Lerner
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
Long Division by Kiese Laymon
Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis
Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet
Motherfucking Sharks by Brian Allen Carr
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood READ
Paper Tigers by Damien Angelica Walters
Prodigies by Angélica Gorodischer
Pym by Mat Johnson
Radio Iris by Anne-Marie Kinney
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer
Sister Mine by Nalo HopkinsonSister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson
Slade House by David Mitchell READ
Slapstick or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut
Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue (Author), Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
The Bees by Laline Paul
The Blue Girl by Laurie Foos
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders READ
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman
The Daughters by Adrienne Celt
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
The Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour
The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosely
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen
The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth Mckenzie
The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Author), Lola M. Rogers (Translator)
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall READ
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (Author), Christina MacSweeney (Translator)
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks
The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
The Vaults by Toby Ball
The Vegetarian by Han Kang READ
The Vorrh by B. Catling
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Weirdness by Jeremy Bushnell
The Wilds by Julia Elliott
Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail by Kelly Luce
Version Control by Dexter Palmer
Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre
Waiting for Gertrude by Bill Richardson
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
Zazen by Vanessa Veselka
Zeroville by Steve Erickson
Jeff's Weird Additions
Help! A Bear is Eating Me by Mykle Hansen
WhaleFall by Daniel Kraus
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
From Book Riot - The 100 strange and weird "must read" books. https://bookriot.com/i-got-your-weird-right-here-100-wonderful-strange-and-unusu...
A Jello Horse by Matthew Simmons
After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss
An Exaggerated Murder by Josh Cook
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer READ
Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
Bear vs. Shark by Chris Bachelder
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe (Author), Alexander O. Smith (Translator)
Cat Country by Lao She
Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
Dendera by Yuya Sato (Author), Edwin Hawkes (Translator), Nathan A Collins (Translator)
Disquiet by Julia Leigh
Duplex by Kathryn Davis
Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Hossain
Fram by Steve Himmer
geek loveGeek Love by Katherine Dunn
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland READ
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
Half Life by Shelley Jackson
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Michael Glenny (Translator)
I Crawl Through It by A.S. King
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell
Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe
Just Like Beauty by Lisa Lerner
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
Long Division by Kiese Laymon
Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis
Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet
Motherfucking Sharks by Brian Allen Carr
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood READ
Paper Tigers by Damien Angelica Walters
Prodigies by Angélica Gorodischer
Pym by Mat Johnson
Radio Iris by Anne-Marie Kinney
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer
Sister Mine by Nalo HopkinsonSister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson
Slade House by David Mitchell READ
Slapstick or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut
Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue (Author), Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
The Bees by Laline Paul
The Blue Girl by Laurie Foos
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders READ
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman
The Daughters by Adrienne Celt
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
The Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour
The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosely
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen
The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth Mckenzie
The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Author), Lola M. Rogers (Translator)
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall READ
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (Author), Christina MacSweeney (Translator)
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks
The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
The Vaults by Toby Ball
The Vegetarian by Han Kang READ
The Vorrh by B. Catling
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Weirdness by Jeremy Bushnell
The Wilds by Julia Elliott
Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail by Kelly Luce
Version Control by Dexter Palmer
Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre
Waiting for Gertrude by Bill Richardson
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
Zazen by Vanessa Veselka
Zeroville by Steve Erickson
Jeff's Weird Additions
Help! A Bear is Eating Me by Mykle Hansen
WhaleFall by Daniel Kraus
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
14mahsdad
Esquire's 75 Best Sci-Fi books of all time.
75 - The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey
74 - The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal READ
73 - Redshirts, by John Scalzi READ
72 - Beautyland, by Marie-Helene Bertino
71 - The Ten Percent Thief, by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
70 - Midnight Robber, by Nalo Hopkinson
69 - Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson READ
68 - Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon
67 - Contact, by Carl Sagan READ
66 - Under the Skin, by Michel Faber
65 - Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak READ
64 - Sea of Rust, by C. Robert Cargill
63 - What Mad Universe, by Fredric Brown
62 - The Book of Phoenix, by Nnedi Okorafor
61 - Semiosis, by Sue Burke
60 - Excession, by Iain M. Banks
59 - The Claw of the Conciliator, by Gene Wolfe
58 - Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny
57 - This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone READ
56 - The Resisters, by Gish Jen
55 - Rosewater, by Tade Thompson READ
54 - Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
53 - Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem READ
52 - A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess READ
51 - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein READ
50 - A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle READ
49 - The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
48 - The Body Scout, by Lincoln Michel
47 - An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon
46 - The Mountain in the Sea, by Ray Nayler
45 - Neuromancer, by William Gibson READ
44 - The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester READ
43 - The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
42 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams READ
41 - A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr. READ
40 - Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir READ
39 - Zone One, by Colson Whitehead TBR
38 - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers READ
37 - Engine Summer, by John Crowley
36 - The Children of Men, by P.D. James READ
35 - Radiance, by Catherynne M. Valente
34 - The City & The City, by China Miéville
33 - A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine
32 - Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie DNF
31 - The Stand, by Stephen King READ
30 - In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes
29 - Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany
28 - The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman READ
27 - 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami READ
26 - Future Home of the Living God, by Louise Erdrich
25 - Ammonite, by Nicola Griffith
24 - Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer READ
23 - Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood READ
22 - Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
21 - Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
20 - Shikasta, by Doris Lessing
19 - The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
18 - Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky READ
17 - Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke READ
16 - The Complete Robot, by Isaac Asimov READ
15 - How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu READ
14 - Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley READ
13 - The Employees, by Olga Ravn
12 - 1984, by George Orwell READ
11 - The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu TBR
10 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick READ
9 - Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel READ
8 - Exhalation, by Ted Chiang READ
7 - Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
6 - The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin READ
5 - Kindred, by Octavia Butler READ
4 - The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
3 - The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury READ
2 - Dune, by Frank Herbert READ
1 - Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley READ
Choosing the 75 best science fiction books of all time wasn’t easy, so to get the job done, we had to establish some guardrails. Though we assessed single installments as representatives of their series, we limited the list to one book per author. We also emphasized books that brought something new and innovative to the genre—to borrow a great sci-fi turn of phrase, books that “boldly go where no one has gone before.”
75 - The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey
74 - The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal READ
73 - Redshirts, by John Scalzi READ
72 - Beautyland, by Marie-Helene Bertino
71 - The Ten Percent Thief, by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
70 - Midnight Robber, by Nalo Hopkinson
69 - Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson READ
68 - Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon
67 - Contact, by Carl Sagan READ
66 - Under the Skin, by Michel Faber
65 - Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak READ
64 - Sea of Rust, by C. Robert Cargill
63 - What Mad Universe, by Fredric Brown
62 - The Book of Phoenix, by Nnedi Okorafor
61 - Semiosis, by Sue Burke
60 - Excession, by Iain M. Banks
59 - The Claw of the Conciliator, by Gene Wolfe
58 - Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny
57 - This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone READ
56 - The Resisters, by Gish Jen
55 - Rosewater, by Tade Thompson READ
54 - Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
53 - Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem READ
52 - A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess READ
51 - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein READ
50 - A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle READ
49 - The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
48 - The Body Scout, by Lincoln Michel
47 - An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon
46 - The Mountain in the Sea, by Ray Nayler
45 - Neuromancer, by William Gibson READ
44 - The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester READ
43 - The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
42 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams READ
41 - A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr. READ
40 - Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir READ
39 - Zone One, by Colson Whitehead TBR
38 - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers READ
37 - Engine Summer, by John Crowley
36 - The Children of Men, by P.D. James READ
35 - Radiance, by Catherynne M. Valente
34 - The City & The City, by China Miéville
33 - A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine
32 - Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie DNF
31 - The Stand, by Stephen King READ
30 - In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes
29 - Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany
28 - The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman READ
27 - 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami READ
26 - Future Home of the Living God, by Louise Erdrich
25 - Ammonite, by Nicola Griffith
24 - Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer READ
23 - Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood READ
22 - Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
21 - Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
20 - Shikasta, by Doris Lessing
19 - The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
18 - Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky READ
17 - Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke READ
16 - The Complete Robot, by Isaac Asimov READ
15 - How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu READ
14 - Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley READ
13 - The Employees, by Olga Ravn
12 - 1984, by George Orwell READ
11 - The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu TBR
10 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick READ
9 - Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel READ
8 - Exhalation, by Ted Chiang READ
7 - Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
6 - The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin READ
5 - Kindred, by Octavia Butler READ
4 - The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
3 - The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury READ
2 - Dune, by Frank Herbert READ
1 - Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley READ
15mahsdad
2024 Reading Recap
Books Read : 78
# of Authors : 60
Authors of Color : 4 (7%)
Lady Authors : 17 (28%)
Narrators : 36
Rereads - 18 (23%)
Pages Read - 10,645 Hours Read - 16 days, 11 hrs, and 35 min
Books Purchased/Gifted/Found - 88
Books Read : 78
# of Authors : 60
Authors of Color : 4 (7%)
Lady Authors : 17 (28%)
Narrators : 36
Rereads - 18 (23%)
Pages Read - 10,645 Hours Read - 16 days, 11 hrs, and 35 min
Books Purchased/Gifted/Found - 88
16mahsdad
Scatter Plot
My favorite graphs for some strange reason. Not quite sure they're useful for anything, I just like them artistically. Here's all the books I've read plotted out in order of when they were published
2024 Reads
My favorite graphs for some strange reason. Not quite sure they're useful for anything, I just like them artistically. Here's all the books I've read plotted out in order of when they were published
2024 Reads
17mahsdad
2024 Books of the Month
January : IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
February : Kindred by Octavia Butler
March : Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman
April : Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
May : A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
June : My Real Children by Jo Walton
July : The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
August : A Manual for Cleaning Women
September : The Angel of Rome
#botm
January : IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
February : Kindred by Octavia Butler
March : Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman
April : Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
May : A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
June : My Real Children by Jo Walton
July : The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
August : A Manual for Cleaning Women
September : The Angel of Rome
#botm
19mahsdad
Regarding Touchstones, especially on my longer lists. I'm not going to go back and double check them all (it recalculates when I copy them over from last quarter), if you happen to notice any glaring issues, let me know.
21figsfromthistle
Happy new thread!
22kaylinb-GT
Happy new thread!
26PaulCranswick
Happy new one, Jeff. Water features are not my favourite subject at the moment as we have had terrible trouble with the main fountain constructed at PNB118.
27mahsdad
Thanks everyone, glad you could stop by!
>26 PaulCranswick: I'm sorry to hear that. I would imagine the logistics of constructing a durable water feature could be daunting.
The fountain in the picture is at Pittsburgh's Point State Park, at the confluence of the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers. It was built 50 years ago in 1974
>26 PaulCranswick: I'm sorry to hear that. I would imagine the logistics of constructing a durable water feature could be daunting.
The fountain in the picture is at Pittsburgh's Point State Park, at the confluence of the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers. It was built 50 years ago in 1974
28ocgreg34
>1 mahsdad: Happy new thread!
29PaulCranswick
>27 mahsdad: This bloody thing is a monstrosity, Jeff. There is excessive splash on the top section and we have to build an enormous scaffold to try to remedy the problem.
31mahsdad
I'm done backfilling my thread, feel free to go back and peruse my plethora of lists. LOL.
Here's sticker I saw in a store the other day that I thought was hilarious
Here's sticker I saw in a store the other day that I thought was hilarious
32mahsdad
New Book - audio
Crying in H Mart by Michell Zauner (read by the author
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.
As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.
Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
#newbook
Crying in H Mart by Michell Zauner (read by the author
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.
As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.
Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart.
#newbook
33PaulCranswick
>32 mahsdad: Nice review, Jeff.
34msf59
Sweet Thursday, Jeff. Happy New Thread. Hooray for The Angel of Rome. Walter rocks! When is his next full length novel coming out? I really enjoyed Crying in H Mart too.
35cindydavid4
>27 mahsdad: why does this make me feel old? (I graduated HS in 74) happy new thread
36mahsdad
>33 PaulCranswick: Thanks, but its not a review. When I start a new book, I put in the blurb that's on the Amazon page and then the first sentence or two of the book. I could never review a book that well. :)
>34 msf59: Hi Mark, I haven't seen anything about a new book from him. I hope he's working on something. H Mart was an impulse borrow from Libby. I've always heard good things about it. So far so good.
>35 cindydavid4: Yeah, it didn't seem right to me either. We're all in our mid-20's in our head, right?
>34 msf59: Hi Mark, I haven't seen anything about a new book from him. I hope he's working on something. H Mart was an impulse borrow from Libby. I've always heard good things about it. So far so good.
>35 cindydavid4: Yeah, it didn't seem right to me either. We're all in our mid-20's in our head, right?
37mahsdad
Well here's the fun we're having at our house yesterday and today.
The 23yr old got a good lesson in always yield the right of way. She got into an accident, where she was trying to turn left and didn't see a car coming and t-boned them
Bent the frame rails. Which means taking out the engine and transmission to replace. Given the fact that its a 2009 with 171,000 miles, they're probably going to total it.
Oh well, been wanting to get a new car. Its just a PITA to do so.
The 23yr old got a good lesson in always yield the right of way. She got into an accident, where she was trying to turn left and didn't see a car coming and t-boned them
Bent the frame rails. Which means taking out the engine and transmission to replace. Given the fact that its a 2009 with 171,000 miles, they're probably going to total it.
Oh well, been wanting to get a new car. Its just a PITA to do so.
38cindydavid4
>37 mahsdad: glad shes ok!
39quondame
>37 mahsdad: I hope the 23yr old is no worse than shaken up a bit. And that the occupant(s) of the T-boned car is also well. That can be a messy sort of encounter.
40ffortsa
>37 mahsdad: Oh that must have been scary. I hope everyone is ok.
41mahsdad
Thanks everyone. Yeah all's well, no physical issues, just a major scare for her.
the other car had a lot less damage that I could see, it was a rental and the guy drove away. The crumple zones did their thing, absorbed the impact. I think the fact that it wasn't a complete straight on shot is what tweaked the frame.
Got the confirmation, they are going to total it. Got the estimate, it would have been about $8K to fix (80 hours of work).
Time to start car shopping!
the other car had a lot less damage that I could see, it was a rental and the guy drove away. The crumple zones did their thing, absorbed the impact. I think the fact that it wasn't a complete straight on shot is what tweaked the frame.
Got the confirmation, they are going to total it. Got the estimate, it would have been about $8K to fix (80 hours of work).
Time to start car shopping!
42mahsdad
Book Haul
A little book buying in the 'Burgh @ a nice indie bookstore called Riverstone Books. If you're in the North Hills, I'd recommend going. New books, not used.
89. Armor of Light by Ken Follett. This was Laura's pick. Its in the Kingsbridge series
90. Three-Fifths by John Vercher. I was looking at the local author shelf (its where I originally found my first Steward O'Nan). One of the clerks recommended it as I was looking at the cover.
91. Chlorine by Jade Song. This was the kid's pick.
Then the other day on my lunch walk, one of the local Little Free Libraries had this
92. Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne. Never heard of this, but he wrote The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, so it deserved some consideration, especially for free.
93. Behind the Yoi: The Life of Myron Cope, Legendary Pittsburgh Steelers Broadcaster by Dan Joseph. Forgot about this one. My Mom gave this to me. Cope is a classic Pittsburgher. He's the creator of the Terrible Towel. IYKYK.
#bh
A little book buying in the 'Burgh @ a nice indie bookstore called Riverstone Books. If you're in the North Hills, I'd recommend going. New books, not used.
89. Armor of Light by Ken Follett. This was Laura's pick. Its in the Kingsbridge series
90. Three-Fifths by John Vercher. I was looking at the local author shelf (its where I originally found my first Steward O'Nan). One of the clerks recommended it as I was looking at the cover.
91. Chlorine by Jade Song. This was the kid's pick.
Then the other day on my lunch walk, one of the local Little Free Libraries had this
92. Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne. Never heard of this, but he wrote The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, so it deserved some consideration, especially for free.
93. Behind the Yoi: The Life of Myron Cope, Legendary Pittsburgh Steelers Broadcaster by Dan Joseph. Forgot about this one. My Mom gave this to me. Cope is a classic Pittsburgher. He's the creator of the Terrible Towel. IYKYK.
#bh
43mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday
Happy Friday. Apologies for missing last week. First time in a long time. Didn't take the laptop with me to the 'Burgh and wasn't going to try to post on the iPad. I must be an old technologist. I'm happy to read and occasionally comment here thru the pad, but when I actually want to post something, I need a full keyboard and mouse. LOL. Had a lovely visit back East, mostly just hung out and visited family. One day we went into town and were going to go to the Warhol Museum (revisit for us), but it is right near PNC park and there was a baseball game happening and we couldn't find parking. So we switched gears and went to the National Aviary, which was near by. Again a revisit, but always a fun place to go to.
Here's looking at you...
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth : 45%
Listening - Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner : 26%
Kindle - Wild New World by Dan Flores : 77%
Graphic Novel - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris : 41%
Finished Books
79. Orbital by Samantha Harvey 🎧 : Read on audio. A very calm meditative story about a day in the life of the crew members on the space station as they orbit multiple times during the day. They reflect on things as their time on the station is ending, as a new crop of astronauts are headed to establish a base on the moon, and seeing the Earth from above with all its problems, including a super typhoon that hits the Pacific. Nominated for this year's Booker, a very good and quick read.
78. Crash by JG Ballard : Woo boy, what a read. This one as always been on my radar and I finally picked up a copy. It is probably the most sexually explicit book I've ever read. The main characters have a fetish around having sex in cars, wrecking cars, getting hurt in those wrecks and having sex some more in those wrecked cars. It is very bizarre read. I wouldn't say you should read it, but if you're looking for a short book that is very spicy and weird, give it a go.
77. Angels of Rome by Jess Walter 🎧 :. Read on Audio. Another winner from Walter. This is a very lovely collections of stories, that are just nice snippets of life. Highly recommend.
76. Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara : Read this for the War Room challenge for the Civil War. Its the prequel to The Killer Angels that was written by Jeff's Dad. It tells the story of the war from before it started up til right before Gettysburg. Told mainly from the perspective of Robert Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Joshua Chamberlain and Winfield Hancock. An excellent narrative interpretation of this events that we think we know so well. I think Shaara has a soft spot for the Confederacy so they seem to be the "heroes" of the story, but given the battles fought and the seeming major mis-management of the Northern Army, I'm not surprised. There was 3 changes of leadership before we just get to Meade at the end of the book (he lead the army at Gettysburg). And there was no word about US Grant. An interesting observation, I made is that it seemed like there were SO many Generals. Just about every character in the book was a General. Definitely going to look for the last one in the series; Last Full Measure, I might have to re-read Killer Angels too.
Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
Happy Friday. Apologies for missing last week. First time in a long time. Didn't take the laptop with me to the 'Burgh and wasn't going to try to post on the iPad. I must be an old technologist. I'm happy to read and occasionally comment here thru the pad, but when I actually want to post something, I need a full keyboard and mouse. LOL. Had a lovely visit back East, mostly just hung out and visited family. One day we went into town and were going to go to the Warhol Museum (revisit for us), but it is right near PNC park and there was a baseball game happening and we couldn't find parking. So we switched gears and went to the National Aviary, which was near by. Again a revisit, but always a fun place to go to.
Here's looking at you...
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth : 45%
Listening - Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner : 26%
Kindle - Wild New World by Dan Flores : 77%
Graphic Novel - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris : 41%
Finished Books
79. Orbital by Samantha Harvey 🎧 :
Read on audio. A very calm meditative story about a day in the life of the crew members on the space station as they orbit multiple times during the day. They reflect on things as their time on the station is ending, as a new crop of astronauts are headed to establish a base on the moon, and seeing the Earth from above with all its problems, including a super typhoon that hits the Pacific. Nominated for this year's Booker, a very good and quick read.78. Crash by JG Ballard :
Woo boy, what a read. This one as always been on my radar and I finally picked up a copy. It is probably the most sexually explicit book I've ever read. The main characters have a fetish around having sex in cars, wrecking cars, getting hurt in those wrecks and having sex some more in those wrecked cars. It is very bizarre read. I wouldn't say you should read it, but if you're looking for a short book that is very spicy and weird, give it a go.77. Angels of Rome by Jess Walter 🎧 :
. Read on Audio. Another winner from Walter. This is a very lovely collections of stories, that are just nice snippets of life. Highly recommend.76. Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara :
Read this for the War Room challenge for the Civil War. Its the prequel to The Killer Angels that was written by Jeff's Dad. It tells the story of the war from before it started up til right before Gettysburg. Told mainly from the perspective of Robert Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Joshua Chamberlain and Winfield Hancock. An excellent narrative interpretation of this events that we think we know so well. I think Shaara has a soft spot for the Confederacy so they seem to be the "heroes" of the story, but given the battles fought and the seeming major mis-management of the Northern Army, I'm not surprised. There was 3 changes of leadership before we just get to Meade at the end of the book (he lead the army at Gettysburg). And there was no word about US Grant. An interesting observation, I made is that it seemed like there were SO many Generals. Just about every character in the book was a General. Definitely going to look for the last one in the series; Last Full Measure, I might have to re-read Killer Angels too.Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
44benitastrnad
>27 mahsdad:
There was also a nice football stadium there 50 years ago.
There was also a nice football stadium there 50 years ago.
45mahsdad
>44 benitastrnad: Now there's two stadiums I think Three Rivers is now just the parking lot between Heinz Field (it will always be Heinz Field to me) and PNC Park
46quondame
>43 mahsdad: Well, that's one stunning bird picture!
48figsfromthistle
>37 mahsdad: Oh my! You are taking it quite well. Glad the driver was ok!
>41 mahsdad: Have fun car shopping :)
>41 mahsdad: Have fun car shopping :)
49laytonwoman3rd
>37 mahsdad: OW! That's a tough life lesson. Thankfully only a scare and a nuisance...
50mahsdad
>48 figsfromthistle: Not much else I can do, I'm lucky that, as much as I don't WANT to buy a car, I can afford to do so. Also, there'll be some minor logistical annoyances with only 1 car between 3, but we'll manage. I can't really get mad at the kid, yes it was a stupid mistake, but they weren't speeding, they don't drink. All in all they're a good kid, and I'm fairly certain it won't happen again. :)
Kudo's to AAA (my insurance), they took care of everything and I already got the money for it. That was quick.
>49 laytonwoman3rd: Yeah, but we've all had them. I've never totaled a car but done plenty of stupid things in my day that could have turned out worse than they did.
Kudo's to AAA (my insurance), they took care of everything and I already got the money for it. That was quick.
>49 laytonwoman3rd: Yeah, but we've all had them. I've never totaled a car but done plenty of stupid things in my day that could have turned out worse than they did.
51mahsdad
New Book - audio
Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (read by Bernadette Dunne)
From me : Its October, might as well read some more creepy horror, scrolling thru my Horror list, saw this and I don't think I ever read it, or have no memory of doing so.
Dr Montague, a scientific investigator of ghostly phenomena, has chosen to live for several weeks at Hill House, by repute a place of horror that will brook no human habitation. To check and contribute to his observations, he selects three companions previously unknown to him; two girls, Theo and Eleanor, and Luke, a young man, who is heir to Hill House. What happens cannot, in fairness, be told. But Dr Montague’s words were prophetic: ‘A ghost cannot hurt anyone; only the fear of ghosts can be dangerous.’ Whether the ghosts at Hill House caused the fear, or the fear created the ghosts, there were such manifestations as to produce, finally, an ultimate terror that was all too palpable and down-to-earth.
#newbook
Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (read by Bernadette Dunne)
From me : Its October, might as well read some more creepy horror, scrolling thru my Horror list, saw this and I don't think I ever read it, or have no memory of doing so.
Dr Montague, a scientific investigator of ghostly phenomena, has chosen to live for several weeks at Hill House, by repute a place of horror that will brook no human habitation. To check and contribute to his observations, he selects three companions previously unknown to him; two girls, Theo and Eleanor, and Luke, a young man, who is heir to Hill House. What happens cannot, in fairness, be told. But Dr Montague’s words were prophetic: ‘A ghost cannot hurt anyone; only the fear of ghosts can be dangerous.’ Whether the ghosts at Hill House caused the fear, or the fear created the ghosts, there were such manifestations as to produce, finally, an ultimate terror that was all too palpable and down-to-earth.
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eight more.
#newbook
52mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday on a Thursday
Happy Thursday. As I will be traveling tomorrow, I thought I'd post my updates early. Hope any Floridians in the group faired well yesterday. It appears that my family that are in the Tampa area did okay.
Here's an Anemone for you.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth : 79%
Listening - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson : 67%
Kindle - Wild New World by Dan Flores : 88%
Graphic Novel - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris : 55%
Finished Books
80. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 🎧 : Read on audio. A very heart-felt memoir about Zauner's life dealing with her Korean mother, her cancer diagnosis and the aftermath of her passing. And food. Lots and lots of food. A really good and quick read.
Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
Happy Thursday. As I will be traveling tomorrow, I thought I'd post my updates early. Hope any Floridians in the group faired well yesterday. It appears that my family that are in the Tampa area did okay.
Here's an Anemone for you.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth : 79%
Listening - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson : 67%
Kindle - Wild New World by Dan Flores : 88%
Graphic Novel - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris : 55%
Finished Books
80. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 🎧 :
Read on audio. A very heart-felt memoir about Zauner's life dealing with her Korean mother, her cancer diagnosis and the aftermath of her passing. And food. Lots and lots of food. A really good and quick read.Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
53drneutron
>52 mahsdad: That's an amazing picture!
54klobrien2
>52 mahsdad: Wow! I love that anemone. And it’s a fun word to say, too!
Lots of good reading going on here! I’m going to go check on where I am in my wait for the second volume of My Favorite Thing.
Happy weekend to you!
Karen O
Lots of good reading going on here! I’m going to go check on where I am in my wait for the second volume of My Favorite Thing.
Happy weekend to you!
Karen O
55mahsdad
>53 drneutron: Thanks Jim
>54 klobrien2: Thanks Karen. Where are reading your Graphic Novels? For me, I use Hoopla for GNs. I don't know if its they way the license it with my library, I never have any holds for comics. I still like Libby much more for audiobooks. But Hoopla's great for comics.
>54 klobrien2: Thanks Karen. Where are reading your Graphic Novels? For me, I use Hoopla for GNs. I don't know if its they way the license it with my library, I never have any holds for comics. I still like Libby much more for audiobooks. But Hoopla's great for comics.
56klobrien2
>55 mahsdad: I usually get my graphic books in paper form. My library system doesn’t have a lot of graphic books in eBook form. Nor does it have Hoopla.
I’m in position 28 on 9 copies of the (paper) second volume of “My Favorite Thing.” Getting closer!
Karen O
I’m in position 28 on 9 copies of the (paper) second volume of “My Favorite Thing.” Getting closer!
Karen O
57quondame
>52 mahsdad: Wow, life is just so dazzlingly gorgeous sometimes.
58mahsdad
>56 klobrien2: Its very interesting how the licensed catalogs can differ library to library. Downside of paper hold lists, is that they can't just yank 'em away from you when you hit the due date, like they can with audio and ebooks. Have to wait patiently while the schlub who has the book currently decides NOT to return it on time. ;)
>57 quondame: I know, right?!
>57 quondame: I know, right?!
59mahsdad
New Book - audio
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien (read by Dan John Miller)
Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a masterwork of its genre.
#newbook
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien (read by Dan John Miller)
Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a masterwork of its genre.
It's incredible, it really is, isn't it?
Ever think you'd be humping along some crazy-ass trail like this, jumping up and down like a goddamn bullfrog, dodging bullets all day?
#newbook
60mahsdad
New Book
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
A fresh take on what follows Homer’s The Odyssey by the international best-selling author of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood.
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.
Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder.
The Myths series brings together some of the world's finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.
#newbook
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
A fresh take on what follows Homer’s The Odyssey by the international best-selling author of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood.
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.
Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and murder.
The Myths series brings together some of the world's finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.
Now that I'm dead, I know everything.
#newbook
61klobrien2
>60 mahsdad: “The Myths series”
I love that series! I’ve read four of them (Penelopiad, Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth, Dream Angus by Alexander McCall Smith, and Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt). All very enjoyable. I should get back to them! Thanks for triggering this memory.
And, a happy weekend to you!
Karen O
I love that series! I’ve read four of them (Penelopiad, Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth, Dream Angus by Alexander McCall Smith, and Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt). All very enjoyable. I should get back to them! Thanks for triggering this memory.
And, a happy weekend to you!
Karen O
62mahsdad
TBH Karen, I didn't know it was a series until I copied that blurb out of Amazon. I'm going to have to look for the others. Sounds interesting.
63mahsdad
Found the wikipedia article about all the associated myth books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canongate_Myth_Series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canongate_Myth_Series
64klobrien2
>56 klobrien2: Jeff! Remember when I posted:
“I’m in position 28 on 9 copies of the (paper) second volume of “My Favorite Thing.” Getting closer!”
It’s true, I’m in that position at one library, the big city library with all the bucks (and a LOT of the books).
But my home library, which hadn’t gotten the Volume 2 the last time I checked, now has three copies of it, two of them just sitting on the shelves! I’m just thrilled!
Karen O
“I’m in position 28 on 9 copies of the (paper) second volume of “My Favorite Thing.” Getting closer!”
It’s true, I’m in that position at one library, the big city library with all the bucks (and a LOT of the books).
But my home library, which hadn’t gotten the Volume 2 the last time I checked, now has three copies of it, two of them just sitting on the shelves! I’m just thrilled!
Karen O
66mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday
Made it back from my trip back East. Nothing is better for padding your reading numbers than a cross country flight and a 4 hour drive. :) I finished 5 books this week.
For your viewing pleasure, since I went to a place where they have seasons, here's an image that is indicative of this season.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Starter Villain by John Scalzi : 42%
Listening - Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami : 44%
Kindle - Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster : 2%
Graphic Novel - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris : 61%
Finished Books
85. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood : This was an excellent retelling of the Odyssey story, told from what was happening in Penelope's live while her husband Odysseus was out fighting the Trojan War. Its told in flashbacks, and intercut with her life in hell, and a greek chorus of her handmaids who have joined her there. Loved it.
84. If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien 🎧 : Read on audio. This is O'Brien's time in Vietnam. Its a short read and it shows his ambivalence to the war and his place in it. A good companion read to The Things They Carried
83. Wild New World: the Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores : I started reading this back in May, as a part of a Big Library Read. I don't generally read e-Books very fast and this one was no exception. its the story of animals and man on the North American continent and how they got here and how its going. It started out as a typical scientific examination of evolution, migratory patterns of early man and the big mammals (mammoths, camels, big cats, etc) and slowly became a history of the destruction that us Old World White Folks have done to this land. It ain't pretty. To co-opt a quote from the Matrix; Human Beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague.... Ultimately it is a very good read, a little depressing on how short-sided we were back in the day, but I think we're getting better.
as our predatory genus Homo spread across the planet, Earth lost roughly three hundred mammal species, sacrificing more than two and a half billion years of unique evolutionary history.
California's more than 440,000 hunter-gatherers, living in a region with a mild climate and a remarkable number of microhabitats, outnumbered the hunter-gatherer population of every other region in America. With five hundred species of animals and plants in California, life was so easy no one was willing to do the work of farming.
There are no game laws, Dodge once wrote. There can be none; at least none that can be executed. There lack left the heavy, waddling Dodge and the three English sports he took for a hunt on the Cimarron River in 1872 free to shoot down, in 20 days' time, 127 buffalo, 154 turkeys, 11 pronghorns, and an absurd assortment of meadowlarks, robins, bluebirds, hawks, raccoons, rattlesnakes, an obsessively kept total of 1,262 animals. That hunt was so "delightful" that in 1873 they went back for another round and took 1,141 animal lives.
82. Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth : This was a pretty good slow burn psychological horror story that was going to be a 3.5 star read, but the ending was definitely surprising and deserved an extra half star alone. Abby is married to Ralph and Ralph has a bit of an unhealthy obsession with his Mother. But Abby also has a bit of an unhealthy obsession with one of her patients in the old folk's home she works in. After Ralph's mother commits suicide, her ghost begins to haunt them, or does it. Both of their mental states begin to decline as either the actual spirit of the mother or the guilt about the mother begin to weigh on them. The climax was something I was not expecting, a definite shocker. Worth your time, I'd say.
81. Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 🎧 : Read on Audio. This is a classic "locked room" horror story where a paranormal researching invites several people to spend some time in a supposedly haunted house to see if they can get actual evidence of paranormal activities. They do, and spooky things ensue. It was good, it just wasn't that impressively scary for all the hype. IMO.
Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
Made it back from my trip back East. Nothing is better for padding your reading numbers than a cross country flight and a 4 hour drive. :) I finished 5 books this week.
For your viewing pleasure, since I went to a place where they have seasons, here's an image that is indicative of this season.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Starter Villain by John Scalzi : 42%
Listening - Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami : 44%
Kindle - Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster : 2%
Graphic Novel - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris : 61%
Finished Books
85. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood :
This was an excellent retelling of the Odyssey story, told from what was happening in Penelope's live while her husband Odysseus was out fighting the Trojan War. Its told in flashbacks, and intercut with her life in hell, and a greek chorus of her handmaids who have joined her there. Loved it.84. If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien 🎧 :
Read on audio. This is O'Brien's time in Vietnam. Its a short read and it shows his ambivalence to the war and his place in it. A good companion read to The Things They Carried83. Wild New World: the Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores :
I started reading this back in May, as a part of a Big Library Read. I don't generally read e-Books very fast and this one was no exception. its the story of animals and man on the North American continent and how they got here and how its going. It started out as a typical scientific examination of evolution, migratory patterns of early man and the big mammals (mammoths, camels, big cats, etc) and slowly became a history of the destruction that us Old World White Folks have done to this land. It ain't pretty. To co-opt a quote from the Matrix; Human Beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague.... Ultimately it is a very good read, a little depressing on how short-sided we were back in the day, but I think we're getting better.as our predatory genus Homo spread across the planet, Earth lost roughly three hundred mammal species, sacrificing more than two and a half billion years of unique evolutionary history.
California's more than 440,000 hunter-gatherers, living in a region with a mild climate and a remarkable number of microhabitats, outnumbered the hunter-gatherer population of every other region in America. With five hundred species of animals and plants in California, life was so easy no one was willing to do the work of farming.
There are no game laws, Dodge once wrote. There can be none; at least none that can be executed. There lack left the heavy, waddling Dodge and the three English sports he took for a hunt on the Cimarron River in 1872 free to shoot down, in 20 days' time, 127 buffalo, 154 turkeys, 11 pronghorns, and an absurd assortment of meadowlarks, robins, bluebirds, hawks, raccoons, rattlesnakes, an obsessively kept total of 1,262 animals. That hunt was so "delightful" that in 1873 they went back for another round and took 1,141 animal lives.
82. Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth :
This was a pretty good slow burn psychological horror story that was going to be a 3.5 star read, but the ending was definitely surprising and deserved an extra half star alone. Abby is married to Ralph and Ralph has a bit of an unhealthy obsession with his Mother. But Abby also has a bit of an unhealthy obsession with one of her patients in the old folk's home she works in. After Ralph's mother commits suicide, her ghost begins to haunt them, or does it. Both of their mental states begin to decline as either the actual spirit of the mother or the guilt about the mother begin to weigh on them. The climax was something I was not expecting, a definite shocker. Worth your time, I'd say.81. Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 🎧 :
Read on Audio. This is a classic "locked room" horror story where a paranormal researching invites several people to spend some time in a supposedly haunted house to see if they can get actual evidence of paranormal activities. They do, and spooky things ensue. It was good, it just wasn't that impressively scary for all the hype. IMO.Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
67mahsdad
New Book - Audio
Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki (read by Alyssa Bresnahan)
From New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets that grow more powerful with time, set against the magical, dangerous landscape of California
Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950’s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. Yet Ursa’s powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish community of sisterhood takes an ominous turn, prompting her son, Ray, and his pregnant lover, Cherry, to flee their home for Los Angeles and reinvent themselves far from Ursa’s insidious influence. But escaping their past won’t be so easy. A series of mysterious events forces Cherry to abandon their baby, leaving Ray to raise Opal alone.
Now a teenager and still heartbroken over the abandonment of the mother she never knew, Opal must journey into her own past to reveal the generations of secrets that gave rise to the shimmering source of her family's painful legacy.
From the forests of Santa Cruz, to the 1980s glam of Melrose Avenue to a solitary mansion among the oil derricks off La Cienega Boulevard, and brimming with the double-edged capacity of memory to both heal and harm, Time’s Mouth is a poignant and evocative excavation of the bonds that bind families together.
#newbook
Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki (read by Alyssa Bresnahan)
From New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets that grow more powerful with time, set against the magical, dangerous landscape of California
Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950’s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. Yet Ursa’s powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish community of sisterhood takes an ominous turn, prompting her son, Ray, and his pregnant lover, Cherry, to flee their home for Los Angeles and reinvent themselves far from Ursa’s insidious influence. But escaping their past won’t be so easy. A series of mysterious events forces Cherry to abandon their baby, leaving Ray to raise Opal alone.
Now a teenager and still heartbroken over the abandonment of the mother she never knew, Opal must journey into her own past to reveal the generations of secrets that gave rise to the shimmering source of her family's painful legacy.
From the forests of Santa Cruz, to the 1980s glam of Melrose Avenue to a solitary mansion among the oil derricks off La Cienega Boulevard, and brimming with the double-edged capacity of memory to both heal and harm, Time’s Mouth is a poignant and evocative excavation of the bonds that bind families together.
You've wondered about me. When a decade passes as quickly as a year, when you look up and see that life is half over, that it's almost over - that's when you wonder: How did it all pass so quickly? You try to conjure the past, and yourself in it: that thing you used to feel, what you wore, how the bed felt in the dark, how you carried your body through space, the depthless mysteries the world created only for you. It's as if those versions of yourself still exist. Somewhere, on another plane, you're sure of it. If only you had access to them.
#newbook
68mahsdad
So, I think one of the side quests of any avid reader is to find errors in the books we read. :)
I'm reading Scalzi's Starter Villain, and I came across a word that I could have sworn was spelled wrong, but figured out a couple pages later that there's more than one way to spell a word (Silly American-centric dude)
That word... Chaise Longue.
It's Chaise Lounge, right? But when he kept using it, I looked again, and apparently Longue is the french spelling. Its basically Long Chair.
Learn something new every day.
I'm reading Scalzi's Starter Villain, and I came across a word that I could have sworn was spelled wrong, but figured out a couple pages later that there's more than one way to spell a word (Silly American-centric dude)
That word... Chaise Longue.
It's Chaise Lounge, right? But when he kept using it, I looked again, and apparently Longue is the french spelling. Its basically Long Chair.
Learn something new every day.
69mahsdad
Another catch-up post of interesting things. I came across a very interesting video about Del Rey books and the iconic woman who created it.
"How Judy-Lynn del Rey shaped science fiction as we know it" - https://youtu.be/bO9oSyR-5UM?si=EdQWRDxJlNBvSBdH
"How Judy-Lynn del Rey shaped science fiction as we know it" - https://youtu.be/bO9oSyR-5UM?si=EdQWRDxJlNBvSBdH
70cindydavid4
>68 mahsdad: loved that book!
71mahsdad
>70 cindydavid4: I'm enjoying it quite a bit, too
72mahsdad
Stumbled across a creepy scifi short on YT called Laboratory Conditions starting Marisa Tomei and Minnie Driver.
Its pretty good, especially during the spooky month we're in.
https://youtu.be/1N25e4Ss34Q?si=XVl9K0f-vhc3f6Ea
Its pretty good, especially during the spooky month we're in.
https://youtu.be/1N25e4Ss34Q?si=XVl9K0f-vhc3f6Ea
73mahsdad
For any fans of Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu is adapting it to a series that's coming out on Hulu.
Looks like an excuse to get Hulu for a bit
https://youtu.be/ndzygetBHV0?si=JrZ9XwCKQ62_4lQa
Looks like an excuse to get Hulu for a bit
https://youtu.be/ndzygetBHV0?si=JrZ9XwCKQ62_4lQa
74benitastrnad
I read How to live safely in a science fictional universe by him and said I would never read another of his books. That book was awful. I read it during the lockdown and since the reviews of it were raves I kept thinking that it would get better. It didn't. Hulu doesn't have to worry that I will be signing on for that series.
75m.belljackson
>66 mahsdad: Not sure we treat the animals any better = factory farms, puppy mills, wildlife hunting for fun...etc...
76mahsdad
>74 benitastrnad: Different stroke for different folks. I read How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe too. But it was back before I was tracking stars and opinions, so I can't remember anything other than I believe I enjoyed it. So we differ there. I liked Interior Chinatown as well, but there are too many books in the world to say that my opinion MUST change your opinion about a book or an author. You obviously ain't a fan of his. :)
>75 m.belljackson: The point of the book wasn't about how we treat domestic animals, but more about wild animals, but you're point is well taken. Regarding wildlife hunting. It might be bad now, but BOY was it bad 100/200 years ago.
>75 m.belljackson: The point of the book wasn't about how we treat domestic animals, but more about wild animals, but you're point is well taken. Regarding wildlife hunting. It might be bad now, but BOY was it bad 100/200 years ago.
77mahsdad
New Book
Father and Son by Larry Brown
Father and Son tells the story of five days following Glen Davis’s return to the small Mississippi town where he grew up. Five days. In this daring psychological thriller, these are five days you’ll never forget.
Convicted and sentenced on a vehicular homicide charge, Glen is the bad seed--the haunted, angry, drunken, and dangerous son of Virgil and Emma Davis. Bobby Blanchard is the sheriff, as different from Glen as can be imagined, but in love with the same woman--the mother of Glen’s illegitimate son.
Before he’s been back in town thirty-six hours, Glen has robbed his war-crippled father, bullied and humiliated his younger brother, and rejected his son, David. Bobby finds himself sorting through the mayhem Glen leaves in his wake--a murdered bar owner, a rape, Glen’s terrorized family, and the little boy who needs a father. And, as he gets closer and closer to the murderous Glen, tension builds like a Mississippi thunderstorm about to break loose.
This classic face-off of good against evil is told in the clear, unflinching voice that won Larry Brown some of literature’s most prestigious awards. And, reverberating with dark excitement, biblical echoes, and a fast, cinematic pacing, this novel puts a new side of his genius on display--the ability to build suspense to an almost unbearable pitch.
Father and Son is the story of a powerfully complex kinship, an exhilarating and heart-stopping story.
1997 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
#newbook
Father and Son by Larry Brown
Father and Son tells the story of five days following Glen Davis’s return to the small Mississippi town where he grew up. Five days. In this daring psychological thriller, these are five days you’ll never forget.
Convicted and sentenced on a vehicular homicide charge, Glen is the bad seed--the haunted, angry, drunken, and dangerous son of Virgil and Emma Davis. Bobby Blanchard is the sheriff, as different from Glen as can be imagined, but in love with the same woman--the mother of Glen’s illegitimate son.
Before he’s been back in town thirty-six hours, Glen has robbed his war-crippled father, bullied and humiliated his younger brother, and rejected his son, David. Bobby finds himself sorting through the mayhem Glen leaves in his wake--a murdered bar owner, a rape, Glen’s terrorized family, and the little boy who needs a father. And, as he gets closer and closer to the murderous Glen, tension builds like a Mississippi thunderstorm about to break loose.
This classic face-off of good against evil is told in the clear, unflinching voice that won Larry Brown some of literature’s most prestigious awards. And, reverberating with dark excitement, biblical echoes, and a fast, cinematic pacing, this novel puts a new side of his genius on display--the ability to build suspense to an almost unbearable pitch.
Father and Son is the story of a powerfully complex kinship, an exhilarating and heart-stopping story.
1997 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
It was Saturday when they drove the old car into town, returning him, passing by the big houses with their blankets of dark grass beneath the ancient oaks. Midday. A hot wind blew in the car windows and rattled papers on the dash as they went up the wide and shaded avenue toward the square. It was cooler here in the hills than it had been in the Delta that morning, though not by much.
#newbook
78mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday
Hard to believe its almost the end of October already. Guess what that means? Its almost Christmas Swap time. It almost seems weird saying the "C" word, but it will be here before you know it. I'll probably setup the Swap page next weekend and start bombarding you all with reminders. :) My favorite time in the LT year.
For your viewing pleasure, here's some Aloe flowers
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Father and Son by Larry Brown : 13%
Listening - Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki : 51%
Kindle - Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster : 3%
Graphic Novel - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris : 68%
Finished Books
87. Starter Villain by John Scalzi : I loved this book. Its funny, irreverent and has an absurd premise. Right up my alley. Charlie is a former business reporter and is a substitute teacher, struggling to get by. When he finds out that his estranged Uncle has passed away. His very rich estranged Uncle. His very rich estranged Uncle who also happens to be a super villain has passed way. Charlie finds himself the new head of the criminal organization that his Uncle ran (there's even a not-so-secret lair built into a volcanic island). He now has to figure out how to deal with the other super rich criminal organizations who are coming for the business now that the Uncle is out of the way. Hilarity ensues. It was a excellent read. But then Scalzi is one of those review-proof authors for me. I'll read anything he writes.
86. Men without Women by Haruki Murakami 🎧 : Read this on audio. Murakami is another of those authors that I will always read and generally always enjoy. This is a collection of short stories that are poignant and sometimes weird in the way Murakami always is.
Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
Hard to believe its almost the end of October already. Guess what that means? Its almost Christmas Swap time. It almost seems weird saying the "C" word, but it will be here before you know it. I'll probably setup the Swap page next weekend and start bombarding you all with reminders. :) My favorite time in the LT year.
For your viewing pleasure, here's some Aloe flowers
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Father and Son by Larry Brown : 13%
Listening - Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki : 51%
Kindle - Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster : 3%
Graphic Novel - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris : 68%
Finished Books
87. Starter Villain by John Scalzi :
I loved this book. Its funny, irreverent and has an absurd premise. Right up my alley. Charlie is a former business reporter and is a substitute teacher, struggling to get by. When he finds out that his estranged Uncle has passed away. His very rich estranged Uncle. His very rich estranged Uncle who also happens to be a super villain has passed way. Charlie finds himself the new head of the criminal organization that his Uncle ran (there's even a not-so-secret lair built into a volcanic island). He now has to figure out how to deal with the other super rich criminal organizations who are coming for the business now that the Uncle is out of the way. Hilarity ensues. It was a excellent read. But then Scalzi is one of those review-proof authors for me. I'll read anything he writes.86. Men without Women by Haruki Murakami 🎧 :
Read this on audio. Murakami is another of those authors that I will always read and generally always enjoy. This is a collection of short stories that are poignant and sometimes weird in the way Murakami always is. Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
79mahsdad
In LA, tonight looks like a good night to stay in and read, but then isn't every night a good night to stay in and read?
Traffic's going to be a nightmare around here. If you're going to any of these events... Leave now. (its currently noon) LOL
Traffic's going to be a nightmare around here. If you're going to any of these events... Leave now. (its currently noon) LOL
80quondame
>78 mahsdad: Lovely! I've never thought of an aloe flowering, showing the limited range of my imagination.
>79 mahsdad: At least it looks as if my 405+10 area looks uneventful!
>79 mahsdad: At least it looks as if my 405+10 area looks uneventful!
81mahsdad
>80 quondame: Hi Susan. Yeah, I don't think I knew it was aloe until I looked it up.
Traffic - I guess we all survived. LOL. And tho I'm not a baseball fan, going up 2-0 on the Yankees isn't a bad thing, :)
Traffic - I guess we all survived. LOL. And tho I'm not a baseball fan, going up 2-0 on the Yankees isn't a bad thing, :)
82mahsdad
its just about that time for the start of the Fall/Winter Caloric Overload Season. Its Halloween in 2 Days....
And if you need suggestions on the best strategies for dividing up your candy (or your kids), check out this classic video from Ze Frank.
https://youtu.be/xLNplefdGKo?si=wIg0RxC2_5SHSHty
And if you need suggestions on the best strategies for dividing up your candy (or your kids), check out this classic video from Ze Frank.
https://youtu.be/xLNplefdGKo?si=wIg0RxC2_5SHSHty
83mahsdad
New Book - audio
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (read by John Lee)
Alexandre Dumas’s epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo, and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.
Robin Buss’s lively translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and suggestions for further reading.
Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
#newbook
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (read by John Lee)
Alexandre Dumas’s epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo, and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.
Robin Buss’s lively translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and suggestions for further reading.
Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
On February 24, 1815, the lookout at Notre-Dame de la Garde signaled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples. As usual, a coastal pilot immediately left the port, sailed hard by the Chateau d'If, and boarded the ship between the Cap de Morgiou and the island of Riou.
#newbook
84cindydavid4
>83 mahsdad: Now read the black count about the father of Dumas, Alexandre Dumas, who his son used as a basis for his book. incredible read.
85mahsdad
>84 cindydavid4: That sounds really interesting. I'll add it to the list. FYI, just started Count. Its 46 hours on audio. I'm currently listening at 1.6x, but that will probably still take me the better part of 30 days to finish. ;)
86mahsdad
October Recap
Since I'm quite sure I won't be finishing any books today, I might as well do my monthly recap while I'm thinking about it.
Books Read - 10 (88) Majority audio this month. 6 out of 10. But I was travelling a lot, readings reading.
Overall sources
DTE - 27%
Audio - 49%
Digital - 24%
Unique Authors - 67
Lady Authors - 21
Authors of Color - 4
Total Rereads for 2024 - 17
Total BFB/Chunksters for 2024 - 4
2024 Reading Scatterplot :
Since I'm quite sure I won't be finishing any books today, I might as well do my monthly recap while I'm thinking about it.
Books Read - 10 (88) Majority audio this month. 6 out of 10. But I was travelling a lot, readings reading.
Overall sources
DTE - 27%
Audio - 49%
Digital - 24%
Unique Authors - 67
Lady Authors - 21
Authors of Color - 4
Total Rereads for 2024 - 17
Total BFB/Chunksters for 2024 - 4
2024 Reading Scatterplot :
87mahsdad
2024 Books of the Month
January : IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
February : Kindred by Octavia Butler
March : Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman
April : Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
May : A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
June : My Real Children by Jo Walton
July : The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
August : A Manual for Cleaning Women
September : The Angel of Rome
October : Starter Villian
#botm
January : IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
February : Kindred by Octavia Butler
March : Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman
April : Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
May : A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
June : My Real Children by Jo Walton
July : The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
August : A Manual for Cleaning Women
September : The Angel of Rome
October : Starter Villian
#botm
88mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday
Happy Friday, hope you all survived Halloween. I guess its all downhill to Christmas, with that slight bump for Thanksgiving. LOL.
And as I just remembered again, if you are in the US and not in Arizonia, don't forget to Fall back tomorrow night, going back on Standard Time. Yippee (sarcastic), why are we still doing this?
I start (or finish) your Friday here with some dewy flowers. Enjoy.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Father and Son by Larry Brown : 55%
Listening - Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas : 4%
Kindle - Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster : 22%
Graphic Novel - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris : 73%
Finished Books
88. Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki 🎧 : Listened on audio. This one was okay. In the 50's a young woman finds she has an ability to travel back in time to her past memories. She starts a woman's commune in Big Sur based on this ability. Commune gets "culty". She has a son, he rebels runs away with a girl from the commune. They have a daughter. Then the young Mom runs away from her daughter. Daughter finds she has the ability to travel thru her memories. She finds out her Grandmother and goes out to find her. It doesn't end well. It was kinda meh for me, but I finished it. The time/memory travel was kind of just a McGuffin to tell the story of a messed up family. Your mileage may vary.
Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
Happy Friday, hope you all survived Halloween. I guess its all downhill to Christmas, with that slight bump for Thanksgiving. LOL.
And as I just remembered again, if you are in the US and not in Arizonia, don't forget to Fall back tomorrow night, going back on Standard Time. Yippee (sarcastic), why are we still doing this?
I start (or finish) your Friday here with some dewy flowers. Enjoy.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Father and Son by Larry Brown : 55%
Listening - Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas : 4%
Kindle - Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster : 22%
Graphic Novel - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris : 73%
Finished Books
88. Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki 🎧 :
Listened on audio. This one was okay. In the 50's a young woman finds she has an ability to travel back in time to her past memories. She starts a woman's commune in Big Sur based on this ability. Commune gets "culty". She has a son, he rebels runs away with a girl from the commune. They have a daughter. Then the young Mom runs away from her daughter. Daughter finds she has the ability to travel thru her memories. She finds out her Grandmother and goes out to find her. It doesn't end well. It was kinda meh for me, but I finished it. The time/memory travel was kind of just a McGuffin to tell the story of a messed up family. Your mileage may vary.Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
89cindydavid4
>85 mahsdad: if its like the book,it goes rather quickly by, Id start it and look up realizing Id been reading for two hours. what I loved about it was it was very much about French history of slavery in Haiti and Napoleon, a time period I didnt have much knowledge of.Also found out Napoleon was a horrible human being but that probably surprises no one. hope you like it!
90mahsdad
>89 cindydavid4: Its going pretty good so far. it will probably take me a little bit to get the French names and places straightened out, but its working pretty good on audio.
To be honest, other than the notoriety of the book, I don't really know that much about it. I'm glad I picked it up.
To be honest, other than the notoriety of the book, I don't really know that much about it. I'm glad I picked it up.
91cindydavid4
One thing I never really realized is the distance between some of these colonizers ie France to the places they controlled. I guess ive always heard about travel from Brital to India or Australia bur it seems so much farther . Which is making me think about the history of ship building . may need to look into that
92klobrien2
>88 mahsdad: Wow! What a great photo! It’s amazing how much you see when you get up close! This was a treat for my eyes.
Have a great weekend!
Karen O
Have a great weekend!
Karen O
93quondame
>88 mahsdad: While the petals don't, the center of those flowers looks like embroidery. Lovely!
95mahsdad
Book Haul(ish)
95. Fighting Back by Rocky Bleier - This is a library borrow, not technically a purchase, but I'll count it.
#bh
95. Fighting Back by Rocky Bleier - This is a library borrow, not technically a purchase, but I'll count it.
#bh
96msf59
Happy Sunday, Jeff. We are doing a shared read of The Count of Monte Cristo in January if you want to join us. How is Father and Son? I would like to read more Brown. Of course, I am in for the Swap.
97mahsdad
>96 msf59: Hi Mark, thanks for swinging by.
Father and Son is very good. Such great prose. This is another slice of life type of story with characters that are blue collar/rural. The main character is someone you love to hate. Its set is sunch a different time that wasn't all that long ago but yet it is. I think you and I both commented on other books by him about this... EVERYONE drives around with coolers of beer in their car. Drunk driving is rampant. :) I'd be scared driving around in Brown's towns. LOL. (If you want it when I'm done, I'd be happy to send it to you)
As far as Cristo is concerned. I think I'm going to power on thru it rather than put it down til next year. I'll anxiously look forward to all your comments when the share read does come up.
Father and Son is very good. Such great prose. This is another slice of life type of story with characters that are blue collar/rural. The main character is someone you love to hate. Its set is sunch a different time that wasn't all that long ago but yet it is. I think you and I both commented on other books by him about this... EVERYONE drives around with coolers of beer in their car. Drunk driving is rampant. :) I'd be scared driving around in Brown's towns. LOL. (If you want it when I'm done, I'd be happy to send it to you)
As far as Cristo is concerned. I think I'm going to power on thru it rather than put it down til next year. I'll anxiously look forward to all your comments when the share read does come up.
98mahsdad
I'll eventually make my rounds to all the really active threads to remind everyone and make sure everyone knows, but since LT got Santathing fired up for this year, I had to get ours up as well.
The 2024 Christmas Swap page is open.
Comment there, or PM me if you're interested or have any questions.
https://www.librarything.com/topic/365525
The 2024 Christmas Swap page is open.
Comment there, or PM me if you're interested or have any questions.
https://www.librarything.com/topic/365525
99mahsdad
New Book
Fighting Back by Rocky Bleier
One of the great comebacks in sports history told by a young man who seriously wounded in Vietnam was described by the Army as 40% disabled, but against the greatest odds fought his way back to pro football to play a winning game in the Super Bowl.
#newbook
Fighting Back by Rocky Bleier
One of the great comebacks in sports history told by a young man who seriously wounded in Vietnam was described by the Army as 40% disabled, but against the greatest odds fought his way back to pro football to play a winning game in the Super Bowl.
It's January 12, 1975. The Steelers and Vikings are playing the Super Bowl today. I mean, I'm playing the Super Bowl today. I can't get used to the idea. I'm prowling a small, dingy locker room in Tulane Stadium. Adrenaline is gushing through me in jet streams. I can't remember ever being so charged for a football game.
#newbook
101benitastrnad
>99 mahsdad:
It is interesting to read these memoirs/diaries of people who were household celebrities in their day. I wonder how many people remember who Rocky Bleier was? Or even remember the Pittsburgh Steelers? Gosh we are getting old!
It is interesting to read these memoirs/diaries of people who were household celebrities in their day. I wonder how many people remember who Rocky Bleier was? Or even remember the Pittsburgh Steelers? Gosh we are getting old!
102mahsdad
>101 benitastrnad: I guess that's the nature of memoirs/diaries. I probably first read it when I was still in HS, could have been when he was still playing, or shortly after he retired.
I wonder what memoirs/biographies will be like 20 years from now, since no one writes anything down, or sends letters or the like. Its all digital, and if the place where those digital archives are located disappears, there goes the history.
Now as far as who remembers Rocky, probably not too many. We are old. LOL. But the Steelers, very much still a thing, even out here in CA, I see a lot of Steeler logos and license plate frames on cars. They're doing pretty good this year, 6-2
I wonder what memoirs/biographies will be like 20 years from now, since no one writes anything down, or sends letters or the like. Its all digital, and if the place where those digital archives are located disappears, there goes the history.
Now as far as who remembers Rocky, probably not too many. We are old. LOL. But the Steelers, very much still a thing, even out here in CA, I see a lot of Steeler logos and license plate frames on cars. They're doing pretty good this year, 6-2
103weird_O
I remember Rocky Bleier. Teamed in the backfield with Franco Harris. There was that year both Franco and Rocky rushed for a thousand yards. Ah, but I reminisce.
104mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday
Sigh.
that is all
Here's a sea creature for ya.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Fighting Back by Rocky Bleier : 34%
Listening - Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas : 27%
Kindle - Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster : 30%
Graphic Novel - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris : 82%
Finished Books
89. Father and Son by Larry Brown :Another excellent read from the short career of Brown. Glen, an ultimately unredeamable main character, comes back to his small southern town after prison and has to try to adjust back to life, with his family, his former girlfriend, the local Sheriff, who is his rival for said girlfriend, and the memory of what he did to send him to prison in the first place. It does not go well. This is a very intense read. Brown excels in character development and turns of a southern phrase. I will say that if you are triggered by excessive drinking and an extreme lack of regard for drunk driving laws, this might not be the book for you. I guess it is a different time he's writing in, but I am always amazed that every character always as a cooler full of ice cold beer in every car they get in. At any rate, I highly recommend this.
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#ff
Sigh.
that is all
Here's a sea creature for ya.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Fighting Back by Rocky Bleier : 34%
Listening - Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas : 27%
Kindle - Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster : 30%
Graphic Novel - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris : 82%
Finished Books
89. Father and Son by Larry Brown :
Another excellent read from the short career of Brown. Glen, an ultimately unredeamable main character, comes back to his small southern town after prison and has to try to adjust back to life, with his family, his former girlfriend, the local Sheriff, who is his rival for said girlfriend, and the memory of what he did to send him to prison in the first place. It does not go well. This is a very intense read. Brown excels in character development and turns of a southern phrase. I will say that if you are triggered by excessive drinking and an extreme lack of regard for drunk driving laws, this might not be the book for you. I guess it is a different time he's writing in, but I am always amazed that every character always as a cooler full of ice cold beer in every car they get in. At any rate, I highly recommend this.Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
105mahsdad
Book Haul
96. Dark Lightning - John Varley : Laura and I were talking about his Thunder and Lightning series and I realized that I only had the first 3 books on the shelf. It appeared that it was out of print so I bought the last copy from Thriftbooks.com.
96. Dark Lightning - John Varley : Laura and I were talking about his Thunder and Lightning series and I realized that I only had the first 3 books on the shelf. It appeared that it was out of print so I bought the last copy from Thriftbooks.com.
106mahsdad
A recommendation by Marlon James - "No other novel has had a greater influence on my than this one. And it still sings like nothing else. I've said it before and I'll say it again. This is the best novel about Jamaica I have ever read... and it's set in the Philippines."
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
107mahsdad
A blog post from David Brin from the last time we danced with the Cheeto Mussolini about Heinlein's Revolt in 2100 and how prescient it is. Its even more so today.
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2017/03/looking-back-at-heinleins-future.html?fbc...
A quote from Heinlein's Afterword to the book, sound familiar
Thought you all might find it interesting
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2017/03/looking-back-at-heinleins-future.html?fbc...
A quote from Heinlein's Afterword to the book, sound familiar
"Throw in a Depression for good measure, promise a material heaven here on earth, add a dash of anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Negrosim, and a good large dose of anti-“furriners” in general and anti-intellectuals here at home, and the result might be something quite frightening – particularly when one recalls that our voting system is such that a minority distributed as pluralities in enough states can constitute a working majority in Washington."
Thought you all might find it interesting
108mahsdad
New Book - graphic novel
The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld
This is a psychedelically drawn, boldly political retelling of the 1950s graphic novel The Eternaut, whose imagery is still used as a symbol of resistance in Latin America to this day. The 1950s version of The Eternaut, a seminal Argentine work, is drawn in F. Solano Lopez's clean, orderly comics art style. In the 1969 reboot, the darker tone is reflected in Breccia's Expressionist art. In The Eternaut 1969, the great world powers have forsaken South America to alien invaders, and POV character Juan Salvo, along with his friend Professor Favalli, metalworker Franco, and neighbor Susanna, join the resistance in Buenos Aires with the knowledge that the outside world will not come to their aid. Through the lenses of these timeless characters, the politically prescient creators ask readers to consider the implications of global domination by the 'great powers' before it's too late. (from Google Books)
#newbook
The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld
This is a psychedelically drawn, boldly political retelling of the 1950s graphic novel The Eternaut, whose imagery is still used as a symbol of resistance in Latin America to this day. The 1950s version of The Eternaut, a seminal Argentine work, is drawn in F. Solano Lopez's clean, orderly comics art style. In the 1969 reboot, the darker tone is reflected in Breccia's Expressionist art. In The Eternaut 1969, the great world powers have forsaken South America to alien invaders, and POV character Juan Salvo, along with his friend Professor Favalli, metalworker Franco, and neighbor Susanna, join the resistance in Buenos Aires with the knowledge that the outside world will not come to their aid. Through the lenses of these timeless characters, the politically prescient creators ask readers to consider the implications of global domination by the 'great powers' before it's too late. (from Google Books)
It was late, just before three. There was no light from the neighbors' houses: My window was the only one lit. (t was cold, but I like working with the study window open sometimes, to watch the stars, it rests and calms the spirit, like listening to an old, familiar song. The only sound that disturbed the silence, was the faint scratching of pen on paper.
But, the chair in front of me creaked, the one everyone who comes to talk with me sits in.
#newbook
109richardderus
>107 mahsdad: Brin's always interesting! He manages to both reify my thoughts and inspire me.
Happy weekend-ahead's reads!
Happy weekend-ahead's reads!
110drneutron
Side note: Brin was a member of our Parker Solar Probe science team as a senior advisor. Never got to meet him, though.
111mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday
Still a sigh, but maybe a more resigned one.
At any rate, here's a pensive Loki
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Regeneration by Pat Barker : 0%. Haven't started it yet. Just finished my last book last night. Reading this for the War Room WWI challenge this month
Listening - Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas : 53% Still got about 2 weeks
Kindle - Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster : 30%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 5%
Finished Books
91. Fighting Back by Rocky Bleier : As the saying goes; "Never try to recreate a meal", it can also be said don't have the same expectations for a book you read when you were a kid. This is the memoir of Rocky Bleier, who played for the Steelers in the 70s and was a part of 4 Super Bowl winning teams. His time in the NFL was split up by his time in Vietnam where he was gravely injured by a grenade. They thought he would never walk again, but he "fought" back to make the team and be a significant contributor to the Steeler's success. Its a good book, but not the great book that my 15 year old self remembers. Ah youth. Still a worthwhile read.
90. My Favorite Thing is Monsters Vol 2 by Emil Ferris (GN) : Second volume of this trippy story about a young girl trying to find her self and trying to figure out who killed her neighbor. A very trippy story, drawn in a very trippy pen and ink style.
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#ff
Still a sigh, but maybe a more resigned one.
At any rate, here's a pensive Loki
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Regeneration by Pat Barker : 0%. Haven't started it yet. Just finished my last book last night. Reading this for the War Room WWI challenge this month
Listening - Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas : 53% Still got about 2 weeks
Kindle - Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster : 30%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 5%
Finished Books
91. Fighting Back by Rocky Bleier :
As the saying goes; "Never try to recreate a meal", it can also be said don't have the same expectations for a book you read when you were a kid. This is the memoir of Rocky Bleier, who played for the Steelers in the 70s and was a part of 4 Super Bowl winning teams. His time in the NFL was split up by his time in Vietnam where he was gravely injured by a grenade. They thought he would never walk again, but he "fought" back to make the team and be a significant contributor to the Steeler's success. Its a good book, but not the great book that my 15 year old self remembers. Ah youth. Still a worthwhile read.90. My Favorite Thing is Monsters Vol 2 by Emil Ferris (GN) :
Second volume of this trippy story about a young girl trying to find her self and trying to figure out who killed her neighbor. A very trippy story, drawn in a very trippy pen and ink style.Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
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113msf59
Happy Friday, Jeff. I LOVE the Loki Foto! I have added Father and Son to the obese TBR and will request The Eternaut. I have been looking for a GN.
114mahsdad
>113 msf59: Thanks Mark.
I stumbled upon Ethernaut just browsing thru Hoopla. Very interesting so far. Sometimes finding the "literary" GNs is like looking for a needle in a stack of needles.
Father and Son do you want my copy? To add to your obese physical TBR rather than the WL? Happy to send it
I stumbled upon Ethernaut just browsing thru Hoopla. Very interesting so far. Sometimes finding the "literary" GNs is like looking for a needle in a stack of needles.
Father and Son do you want my copy? To add to your obese physical TBR rather than the WL? Happy to send it
115quondame
>111 mahsdad: Ah, a cat. I couldn't remember commenting on your thread, a Friday custom, so I found my way here and realized what lead to my exception.
It's a good photo, and the light and color are rich, but it's a cat. I see dozens of cat photos daily, so, well, I usually just pass on by.....
It's a good photo, and the light and color are rich, but it's a cat. I see dozens of cat photos daily, so, well, I usually just pass on by.....
116elorin
Lovely photos. I'll have to reread Revolt in 2100 again. Enjoy Splinter - Alan Dean Foster is a favorite of mine.
117mahsdad
>115 quondame: I know, other peoples kids. I'm glad that even if you don't comment you swing by and read my drivel. LOL
>116 elorin: Hi Robyn. I've read a lot of Heinlein over the years, but Revolt is one that I don't think I have. I'll remedy that eventually. Splinter is one of those seminal reading moments of my youth. I had the novelization of Star Wars and Splinter that I'm sure I bought/got right when it came out on paperback. Its interesting, I have no memory of the plot details, but I am enjoying it. It's also interesting that Foster (and maybe Lucas) really didn't know where things were going. Especially with the relationship between Luke and Leia and even what the purpose of the Kaiburr (misspelled back in the day) were for (at least what they are half way thru). its a good fun read so far.
>116 elorin: Hi Robyn. I've read a lot of Heinlein over the years, but Revolt is one that I don't think I have. I'll remedy that eventually. Splinter is one of those seminal reading moments of my youth. I had the novelization of Star Wars and Splinter that I'm sure I bought/got right when it came out on paperback. Its interesting, I have no memory of the plot details, but I am enjoying it. It's also interesting that Foster (and maybe Lucas) really didn't know where things were going. Especially with the relationship between Luke and Leia and even what the purpose of the Kaiburr (misspelled back in the day) were for (at least what they are half way thru). its a good fun read so far.
118mahsdad
New Book
Regeneration by Pat Barker
"The trilogy is trying to tell something about the parts of war that don't get into the official accounts" –Pat Barker
The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy and a Booker Prize nominee
In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon's "sanity" and sending him back to the trenches. This novel tells what happened as only a novel can. It is a war saga in which not a shot is fired. It is a story of a battle for a man's mind in which only the listener can decide who is the victor, who the vanquished, and who the victim.
One of the most amazing feats of fiction of our time, Regeneration has been hailed by critics across the globe. As August 2014 marks the 100-year anniversary of World War I, this book is as timely and relevant as ever.
#newbook
Regeneration by Pat Barker
"The trilogy is trying to tell something about the parts of war that don't get into the official accounts" –Pat Barker
The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy and a Booker Prize nominee
In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon's "sanity" and sending him back to the trenches. This novel tells what happened as only a novel can. It is a war saga in which not a shot is fired. It is a story of a battle for a man's mind in which only the listener can decide who is the victor, who the vanquished, and who the victim.
One of the most amazing feats of fiction of our time, Regeneration has been hailed by critics across the globe. As August 2014 marks the 100-year anniversary of World War I, this book is as timely and relevant as ever.
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.
#newbook
119mahsdad
Book Haul
Have to go pick up Laura at her craft show this weekend, that means a trip to Sandpiper Books, a great used book store in Torrance (for the CA locals if you're in the area go visit them)
97. The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
98. Redemption of Galen Pike (stories) by Cary Davies
99. Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (stories) by Brad Watson
#bh
Have to go pick up Laura at her craft show this weekend, that means a trip to Sandpiper Books, a great used book store in Torrance (for the CA locals if you're in the area go visit them)
97. The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
98. Redemption of Galen Pike (stories) by Cary Davies
99. Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (stories) by Brad Watson
#bh
120Whisper1
>111 mahsdad: What an incredibly beautiful cat!
Great book haul. And, sounds like more to come this weekend. Have fun!!!
Great book haul. And, sounds like more to come this weekend. Have fun!!!
121cindydavid4
>118 mahsdad: loved those books. that statement by Sasoon was much like the unidentified soldier in Johnny got his gun,tapping morse code with his head to make his views known. the ending response broke my heart. the other two books are equally good
122m.belljackson
>118 mahsdad: If only they had let the brilliant man go free...
123mahsdad
>120 Whisper1: thanks Linda
>121 cindydavid4: >122 m.belljackson: No spoilers. LOL. Its a very interesting book so far (Thanks for stopping by)
>121 cindydavid4: >122 m.belljackson: No spoilers. LOL. Its a very interesting book so far (Thanks for stopping by)
124mahsdad
If anyone ever asks why do you spend your time "obsessively" cataloging your books and lists.
One reason is, that when you grab a book on your lunch walk at a Little Free Library and you go and put it in your catalog you can see that you already have it and you can take it back tomorrow. LOL
One reason is, that when you grab a book on your lunch walk at a Little Free Library and you go and put it in your catalog you can see that you already have it and you can take it back tomorrow. LOL
126mahsdad
At least I didn't pay for it. That happened once. Laura and I were at a bookstore. I got some, she got some, I paid for everything and we were comparing after. She said... Hey I already have that one. Luckily we were still near the store so I could go back and return it. :)
127mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday
Its Friday before (in the US), a short week, only 2 days for me, and then a LOOONG weekend. Looking forward to it. Hopefully will get some good reading in. Maybe actually finish Count.
I seem to only have cat pictures in my recent camera roll, so I won't subject you to them two weeks in a row, so I'm dipping into the archive and sharing an image of the Palos Verdes coastline from several years ago. Enjoy...
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Regeneration by Pat Barker : 50%
Listening - Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas : 78%
Kindle - Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster : 50%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 12
No books finished this week. Seems like its going to be a slow month.
Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
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Its Friday before (in the US), a short week, only 2 days for me, and then a LOOONG weekend. Looking forward to it. Hopefully will get some good reading in. Maybe actually finish Count.
I seem to only have cat pictures in my recent camera roll, so I won't subject you to them two weeks in a row, so I'm dipping into the archive and sharing an image of the Palos Verdes coastline from several years ago. Enjoy...
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Regeneration by Pat Barker : 50%
Listening - Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas : 78%
Kindle - Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster : 50%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 12
No books finished this week. Seems like its going to be a slow month.
Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
128quondame
>127 mahsdad: That vista is quite striking. I could imagine being it far away from a metropolitan environment, though I know the reality lurking over the shoulder of that rise. Of course PV is remote in its own way - never the easiest destination or origin for anything but the most local travels. My husband just got back from an appointment on Silver Spring Drive, and 80% of his time was on the roads.
129ffortsa
>127 mahsdad: Glorious scenic view.
131Whisper1
>127 mahsdad: Thanks for sharing this incredible photo. You really have quite an ability with the camera!!
>118 mahsdad: With such a great review, I have to add Regeneration to the tbr pile.
>118 mahsdad: With such a great review, I have to add Regeneration to the tbr pile.
132msf59
Happy Sunday, Jeff. I would like your copy of Father & Son. Funny, I was going to stop over and offer my copy of The Turning: Stories, which I am just finishing. It is an excellent collection. Have you read Winton?
Are you liking The Eternaut ? I am picking it up from the library.
Are you liking The Eternaut ? I am picking it up from the library.
133mahsdad
>128 quondame: Absolutely, its always a long way to get to the freeway from PV. :)
>129 ffortsa: >130 richardderus: >131 Whisper1: Thanks for the photo love.
>131 Whisper1: Linda, regarding the "review" of Regeneration, I'll give credit to whomever wrote the blurb on Amazon. This wasn't my review. Anytime I post a "New Book", its just when I'm starting something new. I generally grab the blurb from Amazon and quote the first sentence or two from the book.
>132 msf59: I definitely would like the Turning. You know I can't resist any book suggestions from you. I've never read Winton before. I'll put Father & Son in the mail soon to you as well.
Eternaut is very interesting. Any old style of drawing and interestingly enough its all in landscape, rather than the usual portrait (but that might just be Hoopla).
>129 ffortsa: >130 richardderus: >131 Whisper1: Thanks for the photo love.
>131 Whisper1: Linda, regarding the "review" of Regeneration, I'll give credit to whomever wrote the blurb on Amazon. This wasn't my review. Anytime I post a "New Book", its just when I'm starting something new. I generally grab the blurb from Amazon and quote the first sentence or two from the book.
>132 msf59: I definitely would like the Turning. You know I can't resist any book suggestions from you. I've never read Winton before. I'll put Father & Son in the mail soon to you as well.
Eternaut is very interesting. Any old style of drawing and interestingly enough its all in landscape, rather than the usual portrait (but that might just be Hoopla).
134mahsdad
Happy Thanksgiving all!
Going to be busy today, headed out to Palm Springs to take the MIL home. No time for a FF post. (at least not a complete one)
Here's an image from the NHM in LA that I took the other day. I'll get caught up on Sunday.
Going to be busy today, headed out to Palm Springs to take the MIL home. No time for a FF post. (at least not a complete one)
Here's an image from the NHM in LA that I took the other day. I'll get caught up on Sunday.
135jnwelch
Hi, Jeff. I love your Weird Books list. I’m reading Murakami’s newest weird one, The City and Its Uncertain Walls. It’s set in the world of Hard-Boiled Wonderland. It’s really good so far.
Like you, I loved Crying in H Mart. What an unexpectedly good writer she is! I’m betting she’s the best musician writer there is. I sure don’t know of anyone as good. Loved your review of it. Hope it helps persuade others to read it.
Her (Japanese Breakfast’s) music, not so much. I’m probably the wrong age group.
The Count of Monte Cristo is my favorite classic. IMO, it’s the classic no one should miss. It’s been adapted by various authors. One of my favorites is the sci-fi classic The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. Gully Foyle!
Like you, I loved Crying in H Mart. What an unexpectedly good writer she is! I’m betting she’s the best musician writer there is. I sure don’t know of anyone as good. Loved your review of it. Hope it helps persuade others to read it.
Her (Japanese Breakfast’s) music, not so much. I’m probably the wrong age group.
The Count of Monte Cristo is my favorite classic. IMO, it’s the classic no one should miss. It’s been adapted by various authors. One of my favorites is the sci-fi classic The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. Gully Foyle!
136richardderus
>134 mahsdad: Cool ceratopsian! Enjoy your trip.
137PaulCranswick
Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend, Jeff and a slightly belated birthday (if I am not too mistaken).
Thank you for being such a good pal and for hosting the Christmas swap for all of us every year.
Thank you for being such a good pal and for hosting the Christmas swap for all of us every year.
138quondame
>134 mahsdad: The juxtaposition of those two displays is very striking. And there is a visual confusion happening in my brain between skeletal and mineral with the colors.
139mahsdad
>135 jnwelch: Hi Joe, If you know nothing about me, you know I like me some lists. I just read Men without Women last month. It was pretty good. I haven't read either of the ones you mentioned, but of course I want to. Glad you liked H Mart and liked my drivel :). Finished up Monte Cristo, and while I liked it quite a bit, I didn't love it. More later
>136 richardderus: Thanks RD!
>137 PaulCranswick: Paul! Welcome! I don't know how you define slightly, but I think 3 months is outside of that range. LOL. No worries, I'm glad for the good tidings. You are most welcome for the Christmas Swap, and for being a good pal. Right back at ya. I am so thankful for the friends I've made in this group.
>138 quondame: Ain't it the truth? :)
>136 richardderus: Thanks RD!
>137 PaulCranswick: Paul! Welcome! I don't know how you define slightly, but I think 3 months is outside of that range. LOL. No worries, I'm glad for the good tidings. You are most welcome for the Christmas Swap, and for being a good pal. Right back at ya. I am so thankful for the friends I've made in this group.
>138 quondame: Ain't it the truth? :)
140mahsdad
I finished reading The Splinter of the Mind's Eye yesterday. One of the thinks I dislike most about ebooks (read it on the Kindle) is the sometimes lie that is the progress bar. I was reading it, and progress was showing me about 68%. I turned the page and it was over. The remaining 32% was a short afterword and then 5 or 6 different exerpts from other books in the Star Wars Legend back catalog. A bait and switch.
With a DTE, you are able to visually see how much you have left and subtract any of the extra stuff at the end. LOL
With a DTE, you are able to visually see how much you have left and subtract any of the extra stuff at the end. LOL
141mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday on Sunday
A couple day's late, here's my update. And for an image, another from the Natural History Museum. Its just of the fencing along a walkway. I thought it was interesting.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The Natural by Bernard Malamud : 12%
Listening - Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde : 19%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 23%
94. Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster (K) : A fun nostalgic read. When I was growing up it was one of the first sci-fi books I remember having. Its a story of Luke and Leia getting stranded on a mining planet and having to find a Kaiburr crystal and have to battle Darth Vader to get it. It was set right after A New Hope and what's interesting is that it was probably written in a world that didn't know that a Kaiburr crystal would be come a Kyber crystal and power a light saber. In this story, Luke has to occasionally power the weapon. I think Lucas decided that wasn't going to be a thing in the future. Also, I don't think Foster knew that Luke and Leia were siblings, cause the sexual tension (never consummated) was a little too much. It was a pretty good story.
93. Regeneration by Pat Barker : I read this for the War Room challenge. Its set during WWI in the hospitals treating shell shock, and is based on the real life experiences of poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Own and psychiatrist WHR Rivers. It was a decent read, but I didn't connect completely with it
92. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 🎧 : Listened to on audio. This is a classic adventure store. A young man falsely accused of treason, sent away to an island prison. When he escapes and finds a vast fortune, he spends the rest of his life as the "Count of Monte Cristo" exacting revenge on his accusers. Perhaps it was the length (46 hours), or the translation (the place names and character names were still in French and I had a heard time remembering who was who), but while I enjoyed the read, it wasn't an excellent read for me. Glad I did, but it just didn't land completely.
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#ff
A couple day's late, here's my update. And for an image, another from the Natural History Museum. Its just of the fencing along a walkway. I thought it was interesting.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The Natural by Bernard Malamud : 12%
Listening - Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde : 19%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 23%
94. Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster (K) :
A fun nostalgic read. When I was growing up it was one of the first sci-fi books I remember having. Its a story of Luke and Leia getting stranded on a mining planet and having to find a Kaiburr crystal and have to battle Darth Vader to get it. It was set right after A New Hope and what's interesting is that it was probably written in a world that didn't know that a Kaiburr crystal would be come a Kyber crystal and power a light saber. In this story, Luke has to occasionally power the weapon. I think Lucas decided that wasn't going to be a thing in the future. Also, I don't think Foster knew that Luke and Leia were siblings, cause the sexual tension (never consummated) was a little too much. It was a pretty good story.93. Regeneration by Pat Barker :
I read this for the War Room challenge. Its set during WWI in the hospitals treating shell shock, and is based on the real life experiences of poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Own and psychiatrist WHR Rivers. It was a decent read, but I didn't connect completely with it92. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 🎧 :
Listened to on audio. This is a classic adventure store. A young man falsely accused of treason, sent away to an island prison. When he escapes and finds a vast fortune, he spends the rest of his life as the "Count of Monte Cristo" exacting revenge on his accusers. Perhaps it was the length (46 hours), or the translation (the place names and character names were still in French and I had a heard time remembering who was who), but while I enjoyed the read, it wasn't an excellent read for me. Glad I did, but it just didn't land completely.Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
142mahsdad
New Book - audio
Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde (read by Chris Harper)
Welcome to Chromatacia, where life is strictly regulated by one’s limited color perception. Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken “Something that Happened” five hundred years before. Society is now color vision—segregated, everything dictated by an individual’s visual ability, and governed by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City.
Twenty-year-old Eddie Russett, a Red, is about to go on trial for a murder he didn’t commit, and he’s pretty certain to be sent on a one-way trip to the Green Room for execution by soporific color exposure. Meanwhile, he’s engaged in an illegal relationship with his co-defendant, a Green, the charismatic and unpredictable Jane Grey. Negotiating the narrow boundaries of the Rules within their society, they search for a loophole—some truth of their world that has been hidden from its hyper-policed citizens.
New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde returns to his fan-favorite Shades of Grey series with this wildly anticipated, laugh-out-loud funny and darkly satirical adventure about two star-crossed lovers on a quest to survive—even if it means upending their entire society in the process.
An EXCLUSIVE EDITION for North American listeners, complete with a never-before-published short story
#newbook
Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde (read by Chris Harper)
Welcome to Chromatacia, where life is strictly regulated by one’s limited color perception. Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken “Something that Happened” five hundred years before. Society is now color vision—segregated, everything dictated by an individual’s visual ability, and governed by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City.
Twenty-year-old Eddie Russett, a Red, is about to go on trial for a murder he didn’t commit, and he’s pretty certain to be sent on a one-way trip to the Green Room for execution by soporific color exposure. Meanwhile, he’s engaged in an illegal relationship with his co-defendant, a Green, the charismatic and unpredictable Jane Grey. Negotiating the narrow boundaries of the Rules within their society, they search for a loophole—some truth of their world that has been hidden from its hyper-policed citizens.
New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde returns to his fan-favorite Shades of Grey series with this wildly anticipated, laugh-out-loud funny and darkly satirical adventure about two star-crossed lovers on a quest to survive—even if it means upending their entire society in the process.
An EXCLUSIVE EDITION for North American listeners, complete with a never-before-published short story
My name is Eddie Russett, but only for another two hours and nine minutes. After my negotiated marriage to Violet I will tak on he prestigiously dynastic surname of deMauve, but within twenty-seven hours I find out that I was not Eddie Russett at all, but a subject termed HE-315-PJ7A-M.
#newbook
143mahsdad
New Book
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first―and some would say still the best―novel ever written about baseball.
In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material―the story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era―and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work. Four decades later, Alfred Kazin's comment still holds true: "Malamud has done something which―now that he has done it!―looks as if we have been waiting for it all our lives. He has really raised the whole passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball as a popular spectacle to its ordained place in mythology."
#newbook
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first―and some would say still the best―novel ever written about baseball.
In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material―the story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era―and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work. Four decades later, Alfred Kazin's comment still holds true: "Malamud has done something which―now that he has done it!―looks as if we have been waiting for it all our lives. He has really raised the whole passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball as a popular spectacle to its ordained place in mythology."
Roy Hobbs pawed at the glass before thinking to prick a match with his thumbnail and hold the spurting flame in his cupped palm close to the lower berth window, but by then he had figured it was a tunnel they were passing through and was no longer surprised at the bright sight of himself holding a yellow light over his head, peering back in.
#newbook
144mahsdad
November Recap
Totally forgot earlier today that its now December. So here's the recap for last month.
Books Read - 6 (94)
Overall sources
DTE - 29%
Audio - 47%
Digital - 24%
Unique Authors - 72
Lady Authors - 22
Authors of Color - 4
Total Rereads for 2024 - 20
Total BFB/Chunksters for 2024 - 5
2024 Author Birthplace :
Totally forgot earlier today that its now December. So here's the recap for last month.
Books Read - 6 (94)
Overall sources
DTE - 29%
Audio - 47%
Digital - 24%
Unique Authors - 72
Lady Authors - 22
Authors of Color - 4
Total Rereads for 2024 - 20
Total BFB/Chunksters for 2024 - 5
2024 Author Birthplace :
145mahsdad
2024 Books of the Month
January : IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
February : Kindred by Octavia Butler
March : Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman
April : Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
May : A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
June : My Real Children by Jo Walton
July : The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
August : A Manual for Cleaning Women
September : The Angel of Rome
October : Starter Villain
November : Father and Son
#botm
January : IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
February : Kindred by Octavia Butler
March : Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman
April : Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
May : A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
June : My Real Children by Jo Walton
July : The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
August : A Manual for Cleaning Women
September : The Angel of Rome
October : Starter Villain
November : Father and Son
#botm
146quondame
>141 mahsdad: I puzzled over that image for a time before checking your description. I hope it's an indoor walkway, as interesting things could collect and grow in all those clamps.
The Count of Monte Cristo was one of my first big books, though in my initial read (7th grade) I pretty much skipped all the sections without the titular character - which lead to a certain confusion in the revenge sections. I've read it all the way through a couple of times, most recently the version translated by Robin Buss.
The Count of Monte Cristo was one of my first big books, though in my initial read (7th grade) I pretty much skipped all the sections without the titular character - which lead to a certain confusion in the revenge sections. I've read it all the way through a couple of times, most recently the version translated by Robin Buss.
147mahsdad
>146 quondame: Ha, I have met my goal of making someone confused about my art. LOL. It is not inside, its a weird sort of artsy chain-link that is on the ramp walkway up to the entrance to the NHM on the Coliseum side (not sure how often you get over there). You are right, if we were in a moister climate I could see some moss growing in the edges.
148mahsdad
Percival Everett on Seth Meyers.
Excellent interview. He's a funny guy.
https://youtu.be/RZMabgZZtZc?si=RFhXb0tfxZ_9aumO
I love when Seth has authors on the show.
Excellent interview. He's a funny guy.
https://youtu.be/RZMabgZZtZc?si=RFhXb0tfxZ_9aumO
I love when Seth has authors on the show.
149richardderus
Happy that November turned out to be so replete, Jeff!
150Whisper1
>139 mahsdad: I'm behind from visiting the threads. he photo of the dinosaur at the Natural History Museum gives perspective of just how fearsome and large these huge things roamed the earth.
When my grand daughter was young, I took her into New York City at the NHM to the forth floor of many dinosaurs. She was very impressed by the size. Have you read anything of the dinosaur called Sue that created quite a court battle her in the US regarding ownership? Here is a link to the book I read:
https://www.librarything.com/work/203085/book/193749879
When my grand daughter was young, I took her into New York City at the NHM to the forth floor of many dinosaurs. She was very impressed by the size. Have you read anything of the dinosaur called Sue that created quite a court battle her in the US regarding ownership? Here is a link to the book I read:
https://www.librarything.com/work/203085/book/193749879
151mahsdad
>194 Whisper1: Thank you kind sir!
>195 mahsdad: Hi Linda, No worries, I am amazed when any one stops by my thread. LOL. I have heard of Sue, but I haven't read too much about her. In any regard, they are fascinating creatures. :). Thanks for the recommendation.
>195 mahsdad: Hi Linda, No worries, I am amazed when any one stops by my thread. LOL. I have heard of Sue, but I haven't read too much about her. In any regard, they are fascinating creatures. :). Thanks for the recommendation.
152mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday on Sunday
Happy Friday. Today's image is of my favorite bridge on the way back from Palm Springs last weekend. Its between Long Beach and Terminal Island. We call it the New Gerald Desmond Bridge (because the old one was the Gerald Desmond), but they offically called it the Long Beach International Gateway Bridge, which is so generic. LOL
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The Natural by Bernard Malamud : 53%
Listening - Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde : 60%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 32%
eBooks - I'm reading a couple short stories, but not really tracking them. The Answer is No by Fredrick Backman, A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King and Steward O'Nan
No books finished this week
Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
Happy Friday. Today's image is of my favorite bridge on the way back from Palm Springs last weekend. Its between Long Beach and Terminal Island. We call it the New Gerald Desmond Bridge (because the old one was the Gerald Desmond), but they offically called it the Long Beach International Gateway Bridge, which is so generic. LOL
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The Natural by Bernard Malamud : 53%
Listening - Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde : 60%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 32%
eBooks - I'm reading a couple short stories, but not really tracking them. The Answer is No by Fredrick Backman, A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King and Steward O'Nan
No books finished this week
Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
153richardderus
>152 mahsdad: That is one boring name for a handsome bridge, Jeff. Gerald Desmond being unknown to me, I can't say if he deserves the accolade, but it's better than the Long Beach Interdimensional Portal or whatever.
154mahsdad
What's even better is when they were building this a couple years ago, the website for the project was newgdbridge.com. We always would check in to see what was up with the new god damn bridge. LOL.
155mahsdad
Desmond was a Long Beach Councilman in the 60's. They named the original bridge after him. Our other local bridge going from Terminal Island into San Pedro is the Vincent Thomas Bridge. It was named after a State Assembly member in the 60's as well. That must have been a thing back then to name your big projects after a politician. :)
156benitastrnad
That is a nice example of a cable stayed bridge. It reminds me of the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis. I love that bridge because it sure enough shortened my driving time. (and it is pretty too!) The locals in St. Louie call it the Stan Span. To bad the people in S.D. didn't find a name that lent itself to such monikers.
158mahsdad
Very Small Book Haul
If a single book can be called a haul
100. Behold the Ape by James Morrow. I was looking around for something else and noticed that Morrow had a new book and it was on 2.99 on Kindle. To quote the blurb... A satirical SF caper of evolution, gangsters, Darwin’s brain, and the Golden Age of Hollywood
#bh
If a single book can be called a haul
100. Behold the Ape by James Morrow. I was looking around for something else and noticed that Morrow had a new book and it was on 2.99 on Kindle. To quote the blurb... A satirical SF caper of evolution, gangsters, Darwin’s brain, and the Golden Age of Hollywood
#bh
159richardderus
>154 mahsdad: "New GD Bridge" is just *chef's kiss* I'd still call it the "new goddamn bridge" if I lived there. Too perfect.
>155 mahsdad: Securing funding is a big stick to wave at the naming committee.
Stay well and happy, you book-haul madman. (Come look at my new thread if you wanna see a HAUL.)
>155 mahsdad: Securing funding is a big stick to wave at the naming committee.
Stay well and happy, you book-haul madman. (Come look at my new thread if you wanna see a HAUL.)
160mahsdad
>159 richardderus: I have been reviewing your latest haul of graphic novels. Boy, you're on quite the kick. :)
162quondame
Friday greeting on Saturday. Nice bridge, and yes, boring name. There is something bad going around So. Cal. Avoid it.
163m.belljackson
Great photos!
And, awhile back, you might enjoy a man featured who made HUGE Wreaths out of hubcaps he collected.
I'll try to locate him again.
Yes - search "Roadside Trash to Treasures."
And, awhile back, you might enjoy a man featured who made HUGE Wreaths out of hubcaps he collected.
I'll try to locate him again.
Yes - search "Roadside Trash to Treasures."
164mahsdad
>161 elorin: Hi Robyn, Just finished RSS. I'll comment more on it on Friday with my usual post, but another win for Jasper in my book. It went in directions I wasn't expecting from Shades of Grey, in a good way. I hope he writes more in this world, but I hope he doesn't wait 15 years. :)
>162 quondame: Hi Susan? Something bad going on? Not sure what you mean. Illness?
>163 m.belljackson: Thanks!
>162 quondame: Hi Susan? Something bad going on? Not sure what you mean. Illness?
>163 m.belljackson: Thanks!
165mahsdad
New Book - audio
Lisey's Story by Stephen King (read by Mare Winningham)
Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went -- a place that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. Perhaps King's most personal and powerful novel, Lisey's Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.
#newbook
Lisey's Story by Stephen King (read by Mare Winningham)
Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went -- a place that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. Perhaps King's most personal and powerful novel, Lisey's Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.
To the public eye, the spouses of well-known writers are all but invisible, and no one knew it better than Lisey Landon. Her husband had won the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, but Lisey had given only one interview in her life. This was for the well-known women's magazine that publishes the column "Yes, I'm Married to Him!" She spent roughly half of its five-hundred-word length explaining that her nickname rhymed with "CeeCee." Most of the other half had to do with her recipe for slow-cooked roast beef.
#newbook
166quondame
>164 mahsdad: Oh. Yes, sorry, an illness that several people at the convention a week ago now have had or are getting over.
167mahsdad
>166 quondame: Ah interesting. I try to be amongst people as little as possible. :)
168mahsdad
Book Haul - gift addition
I sent Mark a couple books and he sent a couple books back.
101. The Turning by Tim Winton
102. The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
#bh
I sent Mark a couple books and he sent a couple books back.
101. The Turning by Tim Winton
102. The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
#bh
169mahsdad
New Book
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The unforgettable New York Times best seller begins with the story of two half-sisters, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, each life indeliably drawn, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day.
Effia and Esi are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast’s booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia’s descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.
ETA - I've had this book on the shelf since Christmas 2021 (from Paul, tyvm). It high time I actually read it.
#newbook
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The unforgettable New York Times best seller begins with the story of two half-sisters, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, each life indeliably drawn, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day.
Effia and Esi are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast’s booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia’s descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.
The night Effia Otcher was born into the musky heat of Fanteland, a fire raged through the woods just outside her father's compound. It moved quickly, tearing a path for days.
It lived off the air; it slept in caves and hid in trees; it burned, up and through, unconcerned with what wreckage it left behind, until it reached an Asante villiage.
ETA - I've had this book on the shelf since Christmas 2021 (from Paul, tyvm). It high time I actually read it.
#newbook
170mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday on Sunday
Happy Friday. Busy day, so I'll just swing by real quick.
Nothing new on the photo front so I'll dip into my bag of good shots I took many years ago. Here's one from Utah.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi : 16%
Listening - Lisey's Story by Stephen King : 43%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 34%
97. The Answer is No by Fredrick Backman (K) : This was a really funny little short story that was on Amazon First Reads, or Prime Reading or similar. Its a little comedy of errors where an introvert guy living in an apartment complex, just trying to eat his Pad Thai and play his video games gets pulled into some surreal shenanigans with the HOA committee of the complex and some trash that's been left out in the common area. As with all thing Backman (usually), an excellent read.
96. The Natural by Bernard Malamud : Picked this up in a used book store in the VERY small pocket book edition. (As an aside those editions are just too small for my eyes, and the danger of a 45 year old book falling apart if you open it too wide is a real concern. :) ). This is the book that the movie was based on. I've love the movie and have watched it many times. While the basic premise is the same, and most of the key plot points and set scenes are there, the movie made some major changes. The book is not so much a fairy tale with a fairy tale ending. Its ultimately a tragic story with a reluctant hero main character. And I know that when it was written (1959), it was a different time, but the misogyny very obvious, and Roy is kind of a prima donna/dick thru most of the story. The Robert Redford/Knight in Shining Armor that the movie portrays, this Roy Hobbs ain't. Its still an worthwhile read. I think it might be an exception to the rule that "The Book is Always Better". Maybe not completely so in this case.
95. Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde 🎧 : Read on Audio. Ah Jasper, how I love your imagination. This is the continuation of the Shades of Grey story about a society where everyone is controlled by color, to the point that people can only see certain shades of color. In this one we follow Eddie Russet and his girlfriend Jane Grey and his forced marriage wife Violet DeMauve, as they try to live under the bureaucracy of National Color and avoid being sent to the "Green Room" to be recycled. We come to find out how the world came to be and in that understanding, I just want to read more about the world and the consequences of them finding out the origins of their world. An excellent read.
Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
Happy Friday. Busy day, so I'll just swing by real quick.
Nothing new on the photo front so I'll dip into my bag of good shots I took many years ago. Here's one from Utah.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi : 16%
Listening - Lisey's Story by Stephen King : 43%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 34%
97. The Answer is No by Fredrick Backman (K) :
This was a really funny little short story that was on Amazon First Reads, or Prime Reading or similar. Its a little comedy of errors where an introvert guy living in an apartment complex, just trying to eat his Pad Thai and play his video games gets pulled into some surreal shenanigans with the HOA committee of the complex and some trash that's been left out in the common area. As with all thing Backman (usually), an excellent read.Best to be like dill, Lucas has concluded. Not like basil, the most anxious and ingratiating herb, but also not like cilantro, that conflict-seeking lunatic. Be dill. Nobody cares about dill. Or nobody cared about dill
96. The Natural by Bernard Malamud :
Picked this up in a used book store in the VERY small pocket book edition. (As an aside those editions are just too small for my eyes, and the danger of a 45 year old book falling apart if you open it too wide is a real concern. :) ). This is the book that the movie was based on. I've love the movie and have watched it many times. While the basic premise is the same, and most of the key plot points and set scenes are there, the movie made some major changes. The book is not so much a fairy tale with a fairy tale ending. Its ultimately a tragic story with a reluctant hero main character. And I know that when it was written (1959), it was a different time, but the misogyny very obvious, and Roy is kind of a prima donna/dick thru most of the story. The Robert Redford/Knight in Shining Armor that the movie portrays, this Roy Hobbs ain't. Its still an worthwhile read. I think it might be an exception to the rule that "The Book is Always Better". Maybe not completely so in this case.95. Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde 🎧 :
Read on Audio. Ah Jasper, how I love your imagination. This is the continuation of the Shades of Grey story about a society where everyone is controlled by color, to the point that people can only see certain shades of color. In this one we follow Eddie Russet and his girlfriend Jane Grey and his forced marriage wife Violet DeMauve, as they try to live under the bureaucracy of National Color and avoid being sent to the "Green Room" to be recycled. We come to find out how the world came to be and in that understanding, I just want to read more about the world and the consequences of them finding out the origins of their world. An excellent read.Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
171quondame
>170 mahsdad: What a grand picture of an impressive hunk of stone!
172msf59
Happy Saturday, Jeff. I loved both Lisey's Story & Homegoing. Fantastic choices.
173ocgreg34
>165 mahsdad: A very good novel...
174richardderus
>170 mahsdad: How beautiful the desert is! I love looking at it...being in it, no. My vicarious delight is enough.
Enjoy Homegoing!
Enjoy Homegoing!
175mahsdad
>171 quondame: Ain't it so? Southern Utah is spectacular with vistas.
>172 msf59: >173 ocgreg34: >174 richardderus: Seems like I've made some good choices so far this month. And so far I can whole-heartedly agree. Both are really good so far.
>172 msf59: >173 ocgreg34: >174 richardderus: Seems like I've made some good choices so far this month. And so far I can whole-heartedly agree. Both are really good so far.
176mahsdad
Starbucks Book Haul
Apparently our local Starbucks has a LFL, which is a great idea. What goes better with overpriced coffee than a free book. LOL
Found this one
103. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
#bh
Apparently our local Starbucks has a LFL, which is a great idea. What goes better with overpriced coffee than a free book. LOL
Found this one
103. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
#bh
177mahsdad
Its that time of year, LT's Year in Review posts are up (as are GR's but I don't live there, just the occasional visit).
I'm at 97 right now. I'm sure I'll finish a couple more, hopefully just enough to crack 100 again for only the 3rd time ever.
here's my link https://www.librarything.com/stats/mahsdad/year
I'm at 97 right now. I'm sure I'll finish a couple more, hopefully just enough to crack 100 again for only the 3rd time ever.
here's my link https://www.librarything.com/stats/mahsdad/year
178richardderus
>177 mahsdad: I hope you get over the century mark, Jeff. Make a bright ending to a fairly dark year.
179mahsdad
Yep. I'm pretty sure I will. Homegoing I should finish by Christmas, Lisey's Story by Sunday, and I have a Stephen King/Stewart O'Nan short story on my kindle that I can finish if I just pick it up. LOL.
that should make 100. :)
that should make 100. :)
180mahsdad
Okay, I think I'm jumping off the Goodreads Train. I was just now trying to update my reads there so that they match here and my other tracking places including my spreadsheet. I give up. My Reading Challenge there says I've read 98 (I've only read 97) and the read 2024 collection says only 95. So there's something in there where it didn't take my reading dates, but what a pain in the ass it is to try to sort properly and find what's wrong. The sorting didn't help, nor did the excel export
Too much a pain for too little benefit. I'm going to drop it and stick with here (obviously) and Storygraph and Fable for my alternate sites.
Life's too short.
Rant over. ;)
Too much a pain for too little benefit. I'm going to drop it and stick with here (obviously) and Storygraph and Fable for my alternate sites.
Life's too short.
Rant over. ;)
181laytonwoman3rd
Very glad you picked LT over Goodreads. I haven't looked at my account there in a couple years, at least. It never suited me well.
182richardderus
Solstice cheer, Jeff!
184mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday on Saturday
Had a busy day yesterday, couldn't find the time to post. But couldn't leave ya hanging, I know you're waiting with bated breath for my drivel (yeah right. ;) )
Apparently, Doc and Marty still need to go to the grocery store in the future. Saw this at Von's the other day. Still the only stainless steel car worth having (Cybertruck dig ;) )
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi : 74%
Listening - Lisey's Story by Stephen King : 98%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 51%
98. A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King/Stewart O'Nan : If I had made this post yesterday when I was supposed to, I wouldn't have had any books to report on, but I finished this short story last night when I was waiting to pick up dinner. It's King and O'Nan's take on the afterlife and baseball and our connection to both. A good little story, I got on Kindle Prime Reads, I think. And speaking of Kindle, a little rant. I think I talked about this on The Splinter in the Mind's Eye but it happened again. I'm reading this story and watching the progress indicator and see that its at 50% and I'm thinking wow were is this story going to go, it seems like we're at a resolution. Turn the page and voila, its over. Half the book was just introductions to other books that the publisher wanted to you check out. I wish there was a way for the progress to show JUST the book, not all the adds, gives you a false sense of completion. Oh well, it was free and it was a good read. Rant over. :)
Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
Had a busy day yesterday, couldn't find the time to post. But couldn't leave ya hanging, I know you're waiting with bated breath for my drivel (yeah right. ;) )
Apparently, Doc and Marty still need to go to the grocery store in the future. Saw this at Von's the other day. Still the only stainless steel car worth having (Cybertruck dig ;) )
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi : 74%
Listening - Lisey's Story by Stephen King : 98%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 51%
98. A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King/Stewart O'Nan :
If I had made this post yesterday when I was supposed to, I wouldn't have had any books to report on, but I finished this short story last night when I was waiting to pick up dinner. It's King and O'Nan's take on the afterlife and baseball and our connection to both. A good little story, I got on Kindle Prime Reads, I think. And speaking of Kindle, a little rant. I think I talked about this on The Splinter in the Mind's Eye but it happened again. I'm reading this story and watching the progress indicator and see that its at 50% and I'm thinking wow were is this story going to go, it seems like we're at a resolution. Turn the page and voila, its over. Half the book was just introductions to other books that the publisher wanted to you check out. I wish there was a way for the progress to show JUST the book, not all the adds, gives you a false sense of completion. Oh well, it was free and it was a good read. Rant over. :)Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
185richardderus
>184 mahsdad: I actually got to take a ride in a DeLorean in the 80s...it was awful, hot, noisy, cramped...hard to fold into and unfold out of. Poor Christopher Lloyd. He's my height-ish so must've suffered. I'd still take one if it meant I got to go into the past to...amend...a few things.
186mahsdad
>185 richardderus: And even if it was awful, hot, noisy and cramped (and I've heard that in other places too), I'd still take it every day and twice on Sundays over a Cybertruck.
And wouldn't we all like to go tweak a couple things in our past. I would too. LOL
And wouldn't we all like to go tweak a couple things in our past. I would too. LOL
187mahsdad
Last? Book Haul of the Year
Sure its dangerous buy books for yourself around Christmas, but I was in Pasadena yesterday and the call of Vroman's was too strong. A little Retail therapy never hurt anyone, right?
104. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn - I've had this on the WL for 10 years after a suggestion by Mark. 'Bout time I bought it.
104. Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung - I got Your Utopia earlier this year, figured I'd get this one too. You know I love me some short story collections
105. Ask the Dust by John Fante - this one just called to me, I swear I've heard about this before, but it wasn't on my WL, and I can't remember how I know the name. Every once in a while its good to take a stab in the dark. It might lead you in good directions.
#bh
Sure its dangerous buy books for yourself around Christmas, but I was in Pasadena yesterday and the call of Vroman's was too strong. A little Retail therapy never hurt anyone, right?
104. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn - I've had this on the WL for 10 years after a suggestion by Mark. 'Bout time I bought it.
104. Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung - I got Your Utopia earlier this year, figured I'd get this one too. You know I love me some short story collections
105. Ask the Dust by John Fante - this one just called to me, I swear I've heard about this before, but it wasn't on my WL, and I can't remember how I know the name. Every once in a while its good to take a stab in the dark. It might lead you in good directions.
#bh
188mahsdad
New Book - audio
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (read by Nicholas Guy Smith)
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
#newbook
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (read by Nicholas Guy Smith)
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days. An expedition, I should say, which I will undertake alone, in the comfort of Mr Farraday's Ford; an expedition which, as I foresee it, will take me through much of the finest country side of England to the West country, and may keep me away from Darlington Hall for as much as five or six days.
#newbook
189mahsdad
In terms of arbitrary books read goals, I hit another. one that I've only hit 3 times.
I've hit the Century with Homegoing. What an excellent read. 5-stars for me
I've hit the Century with Homegoing. What an excellent read. 5-stars for me
190elorin
>189 mahsdad: Congratulations! Hitting the high notes with good books is the best.
193PaulCranswick
Thinking of you at this time, Jeff.
195mahsdad
>191 elorin: >192 SandDune: >193 PaulCranswick: Thank you so much for your Christmas wishes, I really appreciate your (and everyone else around here) friendship.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
nrmay was my secret Santa and she did an outstanding job. I am looking forward to all of these.
Merry Christmas everyone!
A Psalm for the Wild Built
American Dirt
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Demon Copperhead
Even if you didn't participate in our Christmas Swap or Santathing, if you got any books for Christmas, please do share them in this list. Don't we all need reasons to expand our WL's. Oh wait we don't do we. LOL. Share anyway...
https://www.librarything.com/list/46061/all/2024-Christmas-Gifts
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
nrmay was my secret Santa and she did an outstanding job. I am looking forward to all of these.
Merry Christmas everyone!
A Psalm for the Wild Built
American Dirt
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Demon Copperhead
Even if you didn't participate in our Christmas Swap or Santathing, if you got any books for Christmas, please do share them in this list. Don't we all need reasons to expand our WL's. Oh wait we don't do we. LOL. Share anyway...
https://www.librarything.com/list/46061/all/2024-Christmas-Gifts
196m.belljackson
>195 mahsdad: Hi - There were Three Stephen Pastis under my Christmas Stocking!
197drneutron
I'm kinda lonely over here....
https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/24622/75-Books-Challenge-for-2025
https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/24622/75-Books-Challenge-for-2025
199mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday
Last one of the year. Almost forgot. I'm off today and hadn't been on the computer much. Leave it to a little walk to clear your head and remind you of tasks forgotten.
Today's image comes from Astra Lumina light exhibit at the South Coast Botanical Gardens. We went there last Saturday on Laura's birthday.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem : 65%
Listening - Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro : 91%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 59%
101. Tiger Chair by Max Brooks : A short story, I read on Kindle Prime. Its an interesting future story told from the point of view of a Chinese officer writing to his best friend telling him about his experiences in the occupation of the West Coast of the US. What started out as a seemingly easily won war, doesn't turn out that way and the officer's letter shows the frustrations of this fact. An excellent read.
100. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi : Not to bury the lede, this is a most excellent read. Only my 2nd 5-star read of the year. Its a story of two Asante women in Ghana during the British colonial times. Half Sisters, but ones that don't know they are sisters. One marries into white British world and the other stays in the Asante native country. It explores the life of one child in each subsequent generation and how their lives are both similar and vastly different. Ultimately coming back home after many generations. A really excellent read.
99. Lisey's Story by Stephen King 🎧 : Listened to this on audio. Lisey is the wife of a famous author (hmmm), who has past away and she's dealing with his estate and also dealing with the mental health issues of her sister. After a violent encounter with a stalker fan, she finds the only way she can survive is take advantage of her husband's all too real fantasy world. Initially, I thought this was just a basic thriller type story that I wasn't sure where it was going. Then it the way great King books go, we got to the twist and the story went on a wild ride that was most satisfying. A good read.
Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
Last one of the year. Almost forgot. I'm off today and hadn't been on the computer much. Leave it to a little walk to clear your head and remind you of tasks forgotten.
Today's image comes from Astra Lumina light exhibit at the South Coast Botanical Gardens. We went there last Saturday on Laura's birthday.
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q4 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q3 Books
>4 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>5 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>6 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem : 65%
Listening - Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro : 91%
Graphic Novel - The Eternaut by Hector Oesterheld : 59%
101. Tiger Chair by Max Brooks :
A short story, I read on Kindle Prime. Its an interesting future story told from the point of view of a Chinese officer writing to his best friend telling him about his experiences in the occupation of the West Coast of the US. What started out as a seemingly easily won war, doesn't turn out that way and the officer's letter shows the frustrations of this fact. An excellent read.100. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi :
Not to bury the lede, this is a most excellent read. Only my 2nd 5-star read of the year. Its a story of two Asante women in Ghana during the British colonial times. Half Sisters, but ones that don't know they are sisters. One marries into white British world and the other stays in the Asante native country. It explores the life of one child in each subsequent generation and how their lives are both similar and vastly different. Ultimately coming back home after many generations. A really excellent read.99. Lisey's Story by Stephen King 🎧 :
Listened to this on audio. Lisey is the wife of a famous author (hmmm), who has past away and she's dealing with his estate and also dealing with the mental health issues of her sister. After a violent encounter with a stalker fan, she finds the only way she can survive is take advantage of her husband's all too real fantasy world. Initially, I thought this was just a basic thriller type story that I wasn't sure where it was going. Then it the way great King books go, we got to the twist and the story went on a wild ride that was most satisfying. A good read.Jeff's B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
200mahsdad
In getting ready to do my year-end recaps in the new group, I was curious about my posting stats in comparison over the last few years. I know that my threads aren't very high posting ones, but its an interesting statistic nonetheless. I am most grateful for every post any of you have shared on my threads.
I'm sure I'll still make a few more updates here, but I'm going to start creating my new 2025 thread. See you over there...
2024 - 1,045 posts (as of right now)
2023 - 882
2022 - 884
2021 - 860
2020 - 868
I'm sure I'll still make a few more updates here, but I'm going to start creating my new 2025 thread. See you over there...
2024 - 1,045 posts (as of right now)
2023 - 882
2022 - 884
2021 - 860
2020 - 868
201mahsdad
I might still finish a book or two before Wednesday, but that's not going to change my favorite for the month. So to cap of the year's BOTM
2024 Books of the Month
January : IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
February : Kindred by Octavia Butler
March : Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman
April : Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
May : A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
June : My Real Children by Jo Walton
July : The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
August : A Manual for Cleaning Women
September : The Angel of Rome
October : Starter Villain
November : Father and Son
December : Homegoing
#botm
2024 Books of the Month
January : IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
February : Kindred by Octavia Butler
March : Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman
April : Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
May : A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
June : My Real Children by Jo Walton
July : The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
August : A Manual for Cleaning Women
September : The Angel of Rome
October : Starter Villain
November : Father and Son
December : Homegoing
#botm
203ffortsa
>201 mahsdad: Oops. I get a 0% for the books you have enjoyed the most. Clearly I need to make a list.
204benitastrnad
Your monthly Bests are very interesting. Four works of SciFi/Fantasy? And a Jo Walton?
I have a copy of Homegoing somewhere. I did unpack two boxes of books today but ran into trouble moving them onto shelves. The movers did a number of my shelves. I had screwed the shelves into the bookcases so that they would be very stable and not bow. I explained that to the movers and told them that they could NOT remove the shelves from the bookcases. They didn't listen and I didn't discover that they had removed the shelves until after the cases were in the new house. By that time the shelves were already broken. Now I have to find a carpenter who can make me two new shelves and help me drill new holes in the remaining shelving. There are only 2 of the 8 bookcases that are not damaged in this way with at least one shelf needing repair work. I am thinking that it might be cheaper to just go purchase new bookcases.
I have a copy of Homegoing somewhere. I did unpack two boxes of books today but ran into trouble moving them onto shelves. The movers did a number of my shelves. I had screwed the shelves into the bookcases so that they would be very stable and not bow. I explained that to the movers and told them that they could NOT remove the shelves from the bookcases. They didn't listen and I didn't discover that they had removed the shelves until after the cases were in the new house. By that time the shelves were already broken. Now I have to find a carpenter who can make me two new shelves and help me drill new holes in the remaining shelving. There are only 2 of the 8 bookcases that are not damaged in this way with at least one shelf needing repair work. I am thinking that it might be cheaper to just go purchase new bookcases.
