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I been reading a book called House Rules. Been a interesting read, through I sightly annoyed seeing the autism stereotype appearing.
What are you reading right now?
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This beauty:
Funny and thought-provoking book by a highly outspoken and beloved senator. Contains some amazing lines such as:
Funny and thought-provoking book by a highly outspoken and beloved senator. Contains some amazing lines such as:
“If you are in a relationship, stop trying to figure out who wears the pants between the two of you. Relationships work best when both of you are not wearing pants.”
“Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence – a life sentence.”
"Can you recommend a good bank? [Because] I'm planning to save all my love for you."
“Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence – a life sentence.”
"Can you recommend a good bank? [Because] I'm planning to save all my love for you."
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I've been on a bit of a classic kick. I just started reading "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson. I honestly love how she writes lonely characters, between this book and "We Have Always Lived in the Castle."
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I've decided to try my hand once more at my goal of reading the Bible, having failed in my previous attempts. One of my copies of the Bible has handy little week-based reading assignments in it that, if followed exactly for the whole year, would have you read the Old Testament once and the New Testament twice. I'm planning on just picking up from the current week, meaning that I'll be reading The Proverbs this week. Here's hoping that I stick to this and don't give up.
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I'm more afraid of 1st Chronicles, myself. Nine straight chapters of genealogies is not my idea of a fun time.
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Ring of Steel by Michael Watson. It's a history of WW1 told from the German and Austro-Hungarian p.o.v. It's very good.
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It's horror mixed with a bit of fantasy and science fiction but give the Obsidian Heart Trilogy a try. The first book is called The Wolves of London.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20890560-the-wolves-of-london
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I've been reading "The Blood of Elves" by Andrzej Sapkowski and I just finished "The Last Wish" a week or so ago. Both are good if you enjoyed the Witcher series, I started reading them because I wanted to understand better what's happening in the game. Basically everyone shits on Geralt for trying to do his job and Dandelion is the best. If you played the game or enjoy corny fantasy novels you should give these a shot.
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It's not really pure horror but more, cold, impersonal, and unsettling but Revelation Space is a science fiction novel that borrows from Lovecraft. Instead of an optimistic future in which humanity controls the stars, it's a dark, twisted, decaying future in which humanity hops from star to star quickly and quietly to avoid being caught by the things in the shadows in between. I really enjoyed it.
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Well, I didn't manage to make it through all of Proverbs, but I'm not ready to give up trying. I've decided to just go on ahead to next week's reading—Matthew—and take it from there. Hopefully, I'll do better and actually get around to reading this time around.
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You might be served by reading an annotated version. It's an edition that places each book or each chapter into its historical/theological context and could help it make sense and/or make it easier to become engrossed in. Reading the Bible end-to-end, even in my Christian days, seemed too akin to reading the dictionary end-to-end. It's better with a plan and guide, maybe something like a daily devotional book.
As far as what I'm reading: bouncing between The Fever by Sonia Shah which is a history of malaria and Henderson the Rain King which is a novel by Saul Bellow about a rich white guy who goes to Africa to find inner peace.
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Neverwhere, by Gaiman. Been meaning to get around to it for the longest time, and finally had an excuse to start in on it last week at a doctor's appointment. Love it so far, and probably have a couple of hours left to finish it.
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I'm lazy enough at reading as it is, and you want me to pick up an edition with more words?
In any case, I think I'm better off with just the text—for now, at least. Too many things to take into account once you start adding annotations.
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I'm a bit late, sorry but Thomas Ligotti is my go-to modern Lovecraftian writer. He's like Lovecraft if he was less pretentious and less racist.
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Alternating between Italo Calvino and Agatha Christie since that's what I picked up at the last library book sale.
Cosmicomics was really sweet, I like Agatha Christie's short story collections when they've got all of her detectives lumped together instead of focusing on just one (Just finished Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories), and I'm working on There is a Tide/Taken at the Flood now. After I finish off these I'll probably go back to Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence books.
When I just want brain popcorn, I've got a collection of the Five Minute Mystery series by Ken Weber. The mysteries themselves are basically Encyclopedia Brown for grown-ups but I like how much characterization he can fit into four or five pages per story.
Cosmicomics was really sweet, I like Agatha Christie's short story collections when they've got all of her detectives lumped together instead of focusing on just one (Just finished Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories), and I'm working on There is a Tide/Taken at the Flood now. After I finish off these I'll probably go back to Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence books.
When I just want brain popcorn, I've got a collection of the Five Minute Mystery series by Ken Weber. The mysteries themselves are basically Encyclopedia Brown for grown-ups but I like how much characterization he can fit into four or five pages per story.
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I'm reading The Crown of Silver and Gold. It's an awesome dark fantasy about a badass hard drinking barbarian woman and former general who goes on a bloody quest for revenge after her village is massacred. Tumblr morons should read this if they want to see an amazing female protagonist done right.