Books - what are you reading? (Official Book Thread)

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Can't let this die with TheColi

Currently, I am reading 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill. My first time reading Hill and he definitely has the juice his dad, Stephen King, had in his early career.

 

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The Illuminatus trilogy

 

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Shadow Rising.

It's the fourth book in the Wheel of Time Series. My tablet is dying and I gotta send it for repairs tho so Imma probably stop reading it for the time being

 

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Went to a book fair earlier today near Virginia Tech and picked these up

 

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Order these from eBay last week.

 

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Currently Reading:

- The Stand
- Tombs of Atuan.

In the latter, hearing my boy Sparrowhawk's name poppin' it to Arha lil 'got a lot to learn' self had me like

 

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I’m reading All The Sinners Bleed SA Cosby is the truth.

 

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I’m reading All The Sinners Bleed SA Cosby is the truth.

One of my fav books of the year

 

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Currently Reading:

- The Stand
- Tombs of Atuan.

In the latter, hearing my boy Sparrowhawk's name poppin' it to Arha lil 'got a lot to learn' self had me like

More I thought about it when I was done, the more I liked the book.

 

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Finished up 20th Century Ghosts. Solid 4 star collection that wasn't all horror to my surprise. He has a couple of stories that made me think of the non horror/non supernatural stories from Stephen King's Night Shift. I think I like the Black Phone movie better but that's not to say the short story is bad. It's just that the movie expanded on the story in a way that felt justifiable and made sense. There was a nice little bonus story hidden in the Acknowledgment section. Almost like a post credit scene from movies lol

I don't think I could rank them at the moment but I really liked:
Best New Horror
The Cape
Last Breath
My Father's Mask
Voluntary Committal

 

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Currently reading It's The End Of The World As We Know It

I might have to look more into Wrath James White's work. I really liked his inclusion titled The Tripps

 

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More I thought about it when I was done, the more I liked the book.

I'm liking it so far. It's a little more isolated obviously, but its doing a good job, so far, I think, on detailing the self-discovery journey of a woman in a patriarchal society/collective to mirror the self-discovery odyssey she had GED on in the first book. Also, I can easily see where NK Jemisin got some of her inspiration from for The Broken Earth. I know she's mentioned it before, but I can feel it in a way reading Tombs.

 

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Went to a book fair earlier today near Virginia Tech and picked these up

Read the first two in college. LeGuin in a Literature class and the Orson Scott Card book tangentially through the same class (I read the first book and liked it and dove into the series. The book you have is the 2nd or 3rd book in the series FYI.) Turns out Orson Scott Card was a huge racist btw.

 

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Read the first two in college. LeGuin in a Literature class and the Orson Scott Card book tangentially through the same class (I read the first book and liked it and dove into the series. The book you have is the 2nd or 3rd book in the series FYI.) Turns out Orson Scott Card was a huge racist btw.

Yeah I got Enders Game but I haven't read it yet. From what I remember Speaker for the Dead was written first. Most of those science fiction writers from back in the damn had a bit of racist in them. So many of them had questionable depictions of black folks or random use of the n-word.
I read Left Hand Of Darkness last year but I liked the cover I found at the fair so I bought it.

 

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I'm liking it so far. It's a little more isolated obviously, but its doing a good job, so far, I think, on detailing the self-discovery journey of a woman in a patriarchal society/collective to mirror the self-discovery odyssey she had GED on in the first book. Also, I can easily see where NK Jemisin got some of her inspiration from for The Broken Earth. I know she's mentioned it before, but I can feel it in a way reading Tombs.

I saw that afterwards but while reading it was I waiting and slightly upset that it wasn't a Ged novel lol