Been sailing with Aubrey/Maturin for over a year, but #11 (The Reverse of the Medal) may have been my tipping point - I fully expect to read the final 9 (10?) volumes consecutively as I'm tied to these characters more strongly than ever. What a series, what a treat to read. I dread finishing it, but I look forward to starting all over again.
Excited to plow through this this weekend. Reading just the preface and first chapter, I know this is one that's going to expose more mystery than certainty.
pickI thought the first book in this new trilogy was *fine,* but this one was MUCH more engaging. Part of it is that Lyra has agency in this one (and a very interesting problem), part of it is that it is engaging with interesting issues and themes, and advancing a thesis in the way La Belle Sauvage didn't, and maybe couldn't. In any case, check this one out if you're into His Dark Materials, or if you're not.
Got started on this last night. It's unputdownable, and unlike some mysteries of the era maybe even more relevant in our #MeToo moment. My second Dorothy B. Hughes - I'll be hunting down the rest of her novels.
This turned up in the mail with an invitation from friends to come float the Brazos soon. I tried to resist starting it given my long list of current-reads, but I accidentally fell right in anyway.
pickWhile the book IMO loses some momentum in the beginning of it's third and final part, Robert MacFarlane fans are going to find this essential, and those unacquainted are going to have more material to regret not having encountered sooner.
Upcoming release from a favorite writer. Already digging in and it's living up to/exceeding expectations. I wish my mind worked more like Robert MacFarlane's.
Flashes of Baker and his paranoia/misanthropy illuminate the rest of this diary.
This book is incredibly weird. It's hard not to be entirely consumed by it, as Baker was by his hawks.
Library pick-up this week. I've already accidentally "spoiled" it for myself a while ago, but I'm still looking forward to it.
Just discovering Jill Lepore this week. What an important American writer.
Reading/rereading Aubrey/Maturin, which I first encountered in college and hope to finish completely this time around. Dean King's companion books will be an essential part of the voyage #FridayReads
pickThis book is about how World War I, influencer of so much of the twentieth and twenty-first century, also influenced horror conventions across film, literature, and visual art. I went in thinking this book would restrict itself to cinema, but learned at least as much about "weird" fiction (especially Lovecraft), surrealism (Dali was a fascist sympathizer?), and even influences on poets like Eliot and Pound. Recommended #wwi #horror
To dismiss the unknown out of hand is even more foolish than to accept it unquestioned, more foolhardy than to fear it.
