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Elite Veteran Posts: 1029 Location: UK | That TBR pile is tottering badly,better read some of those books before they fall!.Share your reading plans with us. Dusty's TBR for September: Bob Shaw - Who Goes Here? Jim Butcher - Storm Front Dante Alighieri - Inferno Philip Jose Farmer - Riders of the Purple Wage Jane Austen - Mansfield Park Very short list,this is to be a month of hospital visits etc.Also disconcertingly the forced stripping of hundreds of thousands of free reads from the Open Library site has completely disrupted my years TBR. Massive swathes of titles have gone. Vintage stuff has just gone. Without Open Library/Internet Archive I would never have completed such a satisfying selection of books on our WWEnd booklists,he books just are not in our libraries,nor available in bookshops,or are going for ridiculous prices online. All very annoying and disappointing. My WWEnd TBR will have to be totally reworked,dozens of books will have to be removed, Some really old authors,from the 30s and 40s are still available,or at least a few of their bookd.,but books from the 70s,80s and 90s has been removed almost entirely.. Open Library are appealingthe court case,but I have little hope of good results. Thank goodness for the Luminist archive,my other source of vintage reads. Lots of really old stuff,but almost nothing from the 70s onwards sadly | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 552 Location: Great Lakes, USA | September 2024 Books Redemption Ark - Alastair Reynolds (reread) Beloved - Toni Morrison Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse In Ascension - Martin MacInnes Red Planet - Robert Heinlein Also have some nonfiction to read this month. And there's another library book sale! I have been finding Dick Francis books at the library book sales in this part of the country. Edited by daxxh 2024-09-01 12:36 AM | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1029 Location: UK | I too am going to do a lot of rereading the Heinlein juveniles .I have been a loyal Dick Francis fan for decades. I have paper copies of all his books save Trial Run,which was mostly set in the USSR,all about Cold War spying.The only book of his I only read once!. It was common for me to read his books as soon as they came out,rushing through the first read,then immediately rereading it to savour the characters and whatever detailed background setting there was.I just loved Francis'decent,principled,prctical and ethical heroes. Still have a soft spot and have reread several titles this year alone. I call him a white hat writer,the hero is always a decent type. The more the modern style of protagonists have become more flawed and everything is gritty and dark,the more this old lady is returning to the old stuff. | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 552 Location: Great Lakes, USA | I am reading a history of the US from the Native American perspective, a book on the cattle industry in the western US and a book on dairy farming - all a bit heavy. I needed something fun, so I read The Time Traders by Andre Norton. Just what I needed. And now I have started a reread of The October Country for when I need something lighter during my history books. At the beginning of the month, I reread Redemption Ark and finished Mirrored Heavens. Still really liking Alastair Reynolds and will read the third book before the end of the year. Mirrored Heavens was a good ending to the trilogy. Edited by daxxh 2024-09-22 2:18 PM | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1029 Location: UK | Well this was my worst reading month ever probably,in the number read. My reread of Austen's Mansfield Park was as delightful as ever,and I enjoyed going back to the beginning of the Harry Dresden saga. I have a soft spot for gumshoes,old style Chandler era gangster stories,so Jim Butcher's Storm Front was great fun. I also read a couple of fluffy urban fantasy stories,with the usual kick butt heroines,. But that was all.Unfortunately on 2nd September poor Mr Dusty had an horrific series of seizures,terrifying as he hasnt had any physically episodes since his stroke last year.though there has been some conitive decline. This time there was a bleeding on the brain surface,between brain and skull which caused convulsions. He suffered a massive decline and now needs help with dressing,feeding all physical things that he could do for himself a month ago. He now has lost most of his speech,.He had reverted to his native language,now even that is gone.,he is almost speechless. As you can imagine,I have little time for reading,except an hour or so during the night when I am sleepless. I will possibly do more reading next month as I sort out a routine etc in my life.. Not doing too well on that yet even though Mr Dusty has been home for 2 weeks.,but I'll get there. I hope to read a couple of M R James short stories over the next few days,and will probably stick to short stories for my Halloween reads for 2024.,or maybe some Heinlein or Andre Norton rereads. Something easy and comforting. Jane Austen's Mansfield Park was a great comfort read,all that sly humourand pointed irony. For now I'll read Casting the Runes and Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You,my lad. But not perhaps in the middle of the night!.lol. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1029 Location: UK | M R James was one of the earliest of the modern sort of weird tales writer,someone who set his stories in contemporary times,rather that back in the gothic past. This helped to forge a sense of realism which was very popular. I read ''Casting the Runes and The Metzzotint. I have decided to read some old favourite weird and horror tales as my theme for October and Halloween. Will search through anthologies tonight. | ||
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