#1292

Seveneves.
Late to the party (typical for me) and one could say, after The Peripheral, I’m indulging in a bit of escapism. (I live in the UK…)

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#1293

Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
It’s masterful, canonical

And I almost feel like apologizing for not being into the hard SF / technical non fiction y’all boost. I did like Three Body Problem (any brownie points there?)

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#1294

Highly recommend “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders. Incredibly imaginative in form and content, it’s narrative is very interesting, and any history lover should pick it up immediately.

Companion book of the Tibetan Book of the Dead is not necessary, but definitely worthwhile too. Was a big read for me as a teenager (along with the Timothy Leary rewrite of course), very interesting to revisit it years later.

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#1295

or have Laurie Anderson read it to you?

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#1296

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#1297

I need to re-read this. I picked it up about a year ago and it took me like 3/4 of the book to really get into it, something just wasn’t working for me. But I think I went in to the book with a lot of expectations and was finding myself confused/frustrated that it wasn’t what I thought. By the end I really liked it, but I think re-visiting it with more of a blank slate state of mind I’ll get more out of it.

Though its not the main focus Sebald’s Rings Of Saturn kinda set me off the direction of getting real into books dealing with location, land, and landscape recently- both fiction or non-fiction, and particularly anything set in the desert.

Lucy Lippard’s Undermining was really interesting and managed to cover a lot of issues and information for being a quick read.

Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature was up and down for me in some ways with how it held my attention (pretty reasonable since its basically a journal), but I really liked it on the whole. Heartbreaking, and also a really unique perspective on a unique landscape, gardening, art, life…

Henno Martin’s The Sheltering Desert I really enjoyed. The translation/proofreading of the edition was pretty poor, but the book really drew me in so you start to not notice it after a bit. A really interesting account of two geologists trying to surviving hiding in the Namib desert during WWII.

Just finished Colin Fletcher’s The Man Who Walked Through Time, his account of hiking the length of Grand Canyon Nat’l Park in 1977. Great vacation reading. I switched to this after picking up Richard Power’s The Overstory to have something to read on a long flight and it looking like the best option in the airport. I might give it another go since I understand the second half of the book is very different but I made it about 1/3 through and couldn’t deal with it finding all the stories reading in a very predictable way and the characters more like stereotypes.

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#1299

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on deck (in process with emergent strategy), might need to roll a die to see which comes next. stalling heavily with fiction tho, currently reading the last page by anthony huso, but it’s…not engaging. is gideon the ninth out yet? :sob:

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#1300

(i rolled a die, and the genet is next.)

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#1302

Spotify recommended this soundtrack to me in Discover Weekly once and I was like “The algorithm gets me”

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#1303

I’m on a comics kick, which happens sporadically–Marvel got its fangs into me when I was young, and I drop out every once in a while but am always lured back. Jonathan Hickman is doing an interlinked pair of X-Men books which has a satisfying volume of heady science fiction stuff in it…

On the literary front, I’m reading Lucy Ellman’s Ducks, Newburyport. For a 1000-page stream-of-consciousness novel this thing is surprisingly readable~~

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#1304

One of my favourite books.

#1305

RIYL interesting case studies (these basically constitute gossip to me) about less-than-perfectly-sane people.

#1308

Just mentioning to participants in this books/reading thread that this week’s Disquiet Junto project is a collaboration with novelist Malka Older (Infomocracy, Ninth Step Station, Orphan Black: The Next Chapter). We’re making a score for her own reading of her short story “The Divided.” Tracks are due this coming Monday at 11:59pm (wherever you are).

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#1309

Just finished this:

https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead

Now onto this:

https://www.peterowen.com/shop/a-scarcity-of-love

#1310

Kavan! I read Ice last year and liked it a lot, but haven’t read more.

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#1311

the stranger, by albert camus
a book i always wanted to read but somehow never did.
such a perfect device,short, focused,just perfect.

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#1312

This is my first one of hers. My girlfriend loves her and I picked this one up for £3 or something!

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#1313

Just finished re-reading “Blood Meridian” for the first time in 12 years. I wanted to refresh my memory of it to read some books on it:

“Notes on Blood Meridian” and “I Meant to Kill Ye”

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#1314

Since I’m an avid cook I’m currently searching for great books about cooking. I’m looking for books about cooking in a broader sense like cultural and technical aspects, not just recipes.
Any recommendations from this great community?

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#1315

thoughts? I’ve had that on my to-read list and it recently got released in the states