What are you reading? Book recommendations please! 📚️
Hi everyone 😊
I've just started to get into reading and I'm really enjoying how relaxing it is and how I can immerse myself in a story.
So far I've been reading murder mysteries but I'm open to all genres.
Let me know your favourite books and what you're currently reading so I can start my library!
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I'm currently re-reading Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn.
It's a bit of a weird one. Good Reads have said
"A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It's a solipsistic funhouse world that makes "normal" people seem bland and pitiful. Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn't make it. An endearing "little beetle" of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning's Freaks crossed with David Lynch and John Irving and perhaps George Eliot -- the latter for the power of the emotions evoked."0 -
That sounds really interesting and different! I'm on GoodReads now so I'll add it my list 😊 I love keeping track of all the books I've read, I like lists!
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I’ve recently read ‘The House in the Cerulean Sea’ by TJ Klune. It was so good I then bought the follow up.
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@Hopeless Ooh it's a series? What's it about? The title is very intriguing!
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It’s an island where a family is created from orphaned magical children. There’s a bit of romance, LGBT themes and fantasy. But what I really took from it was the idea that the world does not accept certain people and needs to change!
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'The Inklings' by Humphrey Carpenter.
About the literary group of the same name, formed by C.S Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien, and Charles Williams in the 1930s.
I didn't read the thread title properly. No, I wouldn't recommend this book for most people!
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If you want a series I recommend Maria V Snyder starting with ‘Poison Study’. 9 book series.
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One of my all-time favourites is "The Prime of Miss Jean Bodie", a novel by Muriel Spark that be read as a school story or dark political satire.
Thinking back a few years, a Twitter/X user said he was going to read a short story every day for a year. It's a brilliant way of exploring different writers and genres and getting to know what you enjoy most quite quickly.
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Brilliant book. Carpenter is, I think, a foremost literary biographer. Have you read his life of Pound ?
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@Zipz thats such a good idea to read a short story every day. I’ve found that reading has really expanded my vocabulary and changed my writing style as I’m more exposed to creative writing. I’ve been able to use my imagination more to transport myself into these new worlds. I’m annoyed at myself for not getting into reading sooner!
I’ll have a look at your book recommendation 😊 thanks!
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One of my favourite series that I'm still reading is "The Bobiverse" by Dennis E Taylor, starting with the first book "We Are Legion (we are Bob)"
Sci-fi, with a lot of science fact, but all done with some great tongue in cheek humour and nods to recent events and pop culture.
Quick summary;
The Bobiverse is the story of Robert "Bob" Johansson, who, after selling his software company, decides to spend some of his money by having his head cryonically frozen by Cryo-Eterna Inc upon his death. The idea is that his head would be preserved until later, when technology permitted a body to be grown and his thawed head attached to it - thus resuming life. But things don't quite go to plan...Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets.0 -
I recommend
All books by James Patterson
You wont be disappointed
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That sounds really interesting @Albus_Scope. Something I never would've really considered but I'm very intrigued by that summary.
@Amberpearl I keep seeing James Patterson on the shelves but haven't taken the plunge yet. Is there a good book to start with, or is it literally any of them? 😂
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I enjoyed reading/listening to the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch.
It's sort of police investigation style mystery but with fantasy and magic mixed in. I think I've only done the first four books but there's quite a few of them out now. Fun creative twist on police mystery books if you like that kind of thing!
Just checked, there's now fifteen of them! That author's been mighty busy 😂
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My favourite James Patterson book is ‘When the wind blows’
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Ooo - they sound good. I’ll look them up
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+1 for Rivers of London. It's got Prachett like vibes to it. Very silly, but very good. Though I've only read one of them so far.
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Starting about a year ago I started reading more too because it's an activity I can easily do without moving. I joined Audible to listen to audio books. It's a whole other world! Love it. Has anyone else tried audiobooks?
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I tend to rely on audiobooks these days @StarryEyed my Audible collection is growing rapidly!
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