Hey thank you for the mention, much appreciated, currently in the UK with Covid, walloped on the first few days of getting here 😞 I need some reading recommendations because it looks like I’ll be spending the next few days in isolation. Perfect timing, sort of.
I’m reading exclusively non-fiction at the moment, but the last novel that blew my tiny little mind to smithereens was Antkind by Charlie Kaufman. It’s 700-ish pages long, took me ages (and that included a couple of 8 hour days doing nothing but reading!), but when it finished I just wanted to go back to that world.
On a Lex Fridman podcast, Elon Musk's girlfriend, Grimes, was over the moon about an Iain M Banks novel calle, "Surface Detail". I hadn't read Iain Banks since Wasp Factory, so I'm through the first 150 pages of Surface Detail (it's a longun at 600 pages). I'm finding it fascinating. Dead souls, not really dead, contributing to another species of what I think are going to be revolutionaries against the living (my conjecture at this point). All stories told in a Star Wars kind of galaxy of different beings, including humans. I can't read just one book at a time, so this is my science fiction choice for June/July
I like the sound of the 100 Things We've Lost book. I read a lot of stuff, but mainly fiction (crime/SF&F) so not sure our tastes overlap too much. Greatly enjoyed The Backyard Adventurer by Beau Miles (on audio), plus his YouTube channel is well worth a watch.
I’m sure it’s accidental, but I noticed that all the books in your pile as well as on Kindle were by men (though you also mention Pamela Paul’s book). Thanks for great posts.
I am reading “On Gallows Down” by Nicola Chester
Hey thank you for the mention, much appreciated, currently in the UK with Covid, walloped on the first few days of getting here 😞 I need some reading recommendations because it looks like I’ll be spending the next few days in isolation. Perfect timing, sort of.
I’m reading exclusively non-fiction at the moment, but the last novel that blew my tiny little mind to smithereens was Antkind by Charlie Kaufman. It’s 700-ish pages long, took me ages (and that included a couple of 8 hour days doing nothing but reading!), but when it finished I just wanted to go back to that world.
On a Lex Fridman podcast, Elon Musk's girlfriend, Grimes, was over the moon about an Iain M Banks novel calle, "Surface Detail". I hadn't read Iain Banks since Wasp Factory, so I'm through the first 150 pages of Surface Detail (it's a longun at 600 pages). I'm finding it fascinating. Dead souls, not really dead, contributing to another species of what I think are going to be revolutionaries against the living (my conjecture at this point). All stories told in a Star Wars kind of galaxy of different beings, including humans. I can't read just one book at a time, so this is my science fiction choice for June/July
I like the sound of the 100 Things We've Lost book. I read a lot of stuff, but mainly fiction (crime/SF&F) so not sure our tastes overlap too much. Greatly enjoyed The Backyard Adventurer by Beau Miles (on audio), plus his YouTube channel is well worth a watch.
I’m sure it’s accidental, but I noticed that all the books in your pile as well as on Kindle were by men (though you also mention Pamela Paul’s book). Thanks for great posts.