#book chatter

[clumsybooknerd]

Have you ever heard of the Bamboo Kingdom series by Erin Hunter? I just finished it and I quite like it

I have not! Looking at the good reads thing for it doesn't seem much to my taste.

Granted I've never been particularly big on animal books either. So it makes sense I'd never heard of the series nor the author.

I've always been more partial to magical fantasy, vampires, history and dictionarys ( yes I will just read a dictionary sometimes)

Though the occasional classic book doesn't hurt either. As I have a few copies of Black beauty around

[francescaswords]

Best Books of 2025 So Far

Long time no chitchat. It feels a long time, because I was working on the final module of the semester when I last wrote and now the film debuted two months ago. How’s your summer? Done anything fun? Raged against the machine? Me too, if you count working on mirrornovel as an alternative to reading the news, beginning to scream, and not stopping. I know a lot of ‘long time no see’ posts say…

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[reclusiarch-orm]

I keep taking breaks to draw so I'm not reading very fast but Helsreach... so far.

The tune I'm getting is Grimaldus is told to die in this siege because someone has to die here. As a formality. Token defense. And he is faced with the fact he will be that token, pointless death. Just because *someone* must die here.

A space marine, who has in some way always "mattered", being shoved over the line onto the other side, with mortals. Whose deaths do not matter. Who die because they have to. Without glory. And he's not liking that.

[magnus-sm-writes]

I'm trying to read all of Stephen & Owen King's Sleeping Beauties this week and fuck, I forgot how interesting this story was. Long and dense? Yeah, but fascinating.

[thebibliosphere]

The nice thing about returning to book 2 with my new micro-prism glasses is that I can actually read it without inducing a migraine, and it's really not as bad as I thought it was. Some of it's actually quite funny, sweet, and in some places, emotionally harrowing. (The Nathan protection squad are coming for me. I can already feel it.)

Sure, some significant chunks need to be rewritten, but it's not the absolute soul-sucking slog I remember trying to get through in 2022.

Like, no wonder I hated working on this before. The physical act of reading was causing me immense, debilitating pain. Of course, I was struggling with it. Of course some of the prose felt like pulling teeth. I was likely gritting mine the whole time because it felt like my head was splitting open for 215 days out of 365.

Wild.

[darkhorse-javert]

Bookblr and Foyle's War fandom... Has anyone else read Nevil Shute's 'Pastoral'?

It's just such a wonderful book, and yet no-one seems to have heard of it.

I do wonder how it escaped being made into a film - it would have been so lovely 1950s style.

[wordsgood]

THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD HAS A RELEASE DATE

[wordsgood]

returning in the dream house and fortune favors the dead to the library in exchange for malice and brandi carlile’s new memoir......... I guess 2021 is for the literary sapphics