Phosphorescent Skeleton
It's a hard world for little things.
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Usually physical at home, digital on train
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I'm like 99% physical books. I only really read at home so portability isn't a factor for me, and for a long time my wife worked in library services and got a 60% discount on almost any book! Also, I cannot refuse a deckled edge y'all.
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Mostly digital on my Kobo these days, but we do have a pretty substantial book shelf.
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I still purchase my books physically, but honestly, I'm going to say I'm 90% using my Kobo Sage. Outside of the battery life, that thing is a god send.
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Which Kobo do you use?
I want to read it, though I'm wondering how similar it is to the show. If they are super similar I might want to wait awhile to read it.
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I bought a Libra H2O a few years back and it’s going strong.
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Yeah, might get this or another Lenovo tablet.
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Big fan of eInk for reading. No eye strain.
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Ah, yes. That.
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100% physical. I received an eReader (Kindle) for Christmas, but I couldn't get into it.
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I'm either physical or audiobook - I've never done ereader before. I do drive a lot though so audiobooks are very handy.
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This is my most recent haul. The top one is missing because I'm currently reading it, heh.
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I'm really bad at finishing books that I start. However, I managed to finish The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, and it was really good. It helped that it wasn't particularly long, and that I could spend 30 minutes or so on work nights to get through each chapter.
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I have never posted in this thread before but I’m hoping maybe some of you kind people can help me out.
After playing the game Tails of Iron, where you play as a mouse, and learning about the Redwall series of children’s novels, I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions on books that have various animals as the main characters but are a bit more on the adult side? I plan to give the Redwall series a go regardless of their nature as children’s books, but if there are any series out there that are similar I’d love to hear about them.
After playing the game Tails of Iron, where you play as a mouse, and learning about the Redwall series of children’s novels, I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions on books that have various animals as the main characters but are a bit more on the adult side? I plan to give the Redwall series a go regardless of their nature as children’s books, but if there are any series out there that are similar I’d love to hear about them.
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For potential readers: Aside from Ravelstein and Closing of the American mind, all the others have 4 page chapters/segments on average. Easy, easy reads!
Here are some books I'm going through lately:
Death at the President's Lodging - Michael Innes
A wonderful little parish murder mystery twist, taking place this time in an imagined university positioned exactly equidistant from Oxford and Cambridge, in the zone of a special conflict of humors where a man of the mind might go mad and kill the president of the university. Written by a real Oxford don! Really good.
Then and Now - W Somerset Maugham
If you've read Machiavelli, The Prince, Discourses on Livy, his dispatches from his diplomatic missions, and Florentine Histories, and his comedies, you should read this. You should read this anyway. Don't even bother. This is what you want. Amazing book. A fun, canny, immaculately written (in a VERY good imitation of Machiavelli's famously cramped and funny prose) comedy about infidelity, political conspiracy, and paying an 18 year old to simp for you.
I Am Dynamite! - Sue Prideaux
An incredible, unbelievable biography of Nietzsche. Did you know he had prophetic visions? Was in a throuple with the incomprable Lou Salome and his best friend Paul Ree? Was a born charmer, a talented pianist (though Wagner didn't think so), a seducer and rogue, with severe disabilities, incomparable good humor and manners? He effortlessly made friends with celebrities! His great challenge in life was a transition from philology, which his (congenital, likely some sort of rare form of congenital brain cancer) disability kept him from to philosophy. Once he lost the ability to read, he became a creature of pure thought, until he was destroyed by his father's disease. An impossibly good book. Great cover. Must-read.
The Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom
A must-read from one of the great working class heroes and intellectuals of America, Allan Bloom, the incomparable and peerless and great soul, the greatest soul to ever come from Ohio. A fine argument against subordinating the lives and minds of the best of us to the cold and stupid life of succeeding in easy games like professions.
Ravelstein - Saul Bellow
The roman a clef covering the last years of Allan Bloom's life as he achieved instant fame and wealth with "The Closing of the American Mind," an international bestseller that created the deep play of the right in the culture war, though ironically it came from a gay progressive Jew who wanted to bring us back to the depth of feeling and spirit that we had in the classical world. Saul Bellow is the narrator and the depth of feeling in this is something else. You have never mourned a standard-bearer of the purest and deepest traditions of the greatest geniuses ever to live. The incomparable (and completely unique) emancipatory tradition of Europeans is the great heritage of the world, and Allan Bloom is one of the finest fruits of it, a mind that only wanted to teach, to live and love, obsessed to the end with the great and pure mysteries of the Symposium.
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
One of my next novels will borrow the particular and very special structure of this wonderful novel. You must read it immediately. It's short, simple, but endlessly revealing, a cube that becomes an infinite fractal of memory, association, fantasy, a collection of prose poems about the cities, all women, dotting the world, all of them are Venice, eternal, perfectly and truly timeless Venice, as related by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. Nothing compares. You've not read a book like this, and if you have, tell me about it.
Here are some books I'm going through lately:
Death at the President's Lodging - Michael Innes
A wonderful little parish murder mystery twist, taking place this time in an imagined university positioned exactly equidistant from Oxford and Cambridge, in the zone of a special conflict of humors where a man of the mind might go mad and kill the president of the university. Written by a real Oxford don! Really good.
Then and Now - W Somerset Maugham
If you've read Machiavelli, The Prince, Discourses on Livy, his dispatches from his diplomatic missions, and Florentine Histories, and his comedies, you should read this. You should read this anyway. Don't even bother. This is what you want. Amazing book. A fun, canny, immaculately written (in a VERY good imitation of Machiavelli's famously cramped and funny prose) comedy about infidelity, political conspiracy, and paying an 18 year old to simp for you.
I Am Dynamite! - Sue Prideaux
An incredible, unbelievable biography of Nietzsche. Did you know he had prophetic visions? Was in a throuple with the incomprable Lou Salome and his best friend Paul Ree? Was a born charmer, a talented pianist (though Wagner didn't think so), a seducer and rogue, with severe disabilities, incomparable good humor and manners? He effortlessly made friends with celebrities! His great challenge in life was a transition from philology, which his (congenital, likely some sort of rare form of congenital brain cancer) disability kept him from to philosophy. Once he lost the ability to read, he became a creature of pure thought, until he was destroyed by his father's disease. An impossibly good book. Great cover. Must-read.
The Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom
A must-read from one of the great working class heroes and intellectuals of America, Allan Bloom, the incomparable and peerless and great soul, the greatest soul to ever come from Ohio. A fine argument against subordinating the lives and minds of the best of us to the cold and stupid life of succeeding in easy games like professions.
Ravelstein - Saul Bellow
The roman a clef covering the last years of Allan Bloom's life as he achieved instant fame and wealth with "The Closing of the American Mind," an international bestseller that created the deep play of the right in the culture war, though ironically it came from a gay progressive Jew who wanted to bring us back to the depth of feeling and spirit that we had in the classical world. Saul Bellow is the narrator and the depth of feeling in this is something else. You have never mourned a standard-bearer of the purest and deepest traditions of the greatest geniuses ever to live. The incomparable (and completely unique) emancipatory tradition of Europeans is the great heritage of the world, and Allan Bloom is one of the finest fruits of it, a mind that only wanted to teach, to live and love, obsessed to the end with the great and pure mysteries of the Symposium.
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
One of my next novels will borrow the particular and very special structure of this wonderful novel. You must read it immediately. It's short, simple, but endlessly revealing, a cube that becomes an infinite fractal of memory, association, fantasy, a collection of prose poems about the cities, all women, dotting the world, all of them are Venice, eternal, perfectly and truly timeless Venice, as related by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. Nothing compares. You've not read a book like this, and if you have, tell me about it.
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Have a whole pile of books to finish reading, so of course I bought a new book and started reading it: The Man Who Caught The Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras by Brantley Hargrove. I've been wanting to read this for awhile now, and fresh off of a binge rewatch of Storm Chasers I decided to go ahead and pick it up. It's a former library copy too, which I find pretty cool. Still has the protective plastic cover and everything.
A few chapters in and it's a good read so far. Still can't believe this man is gone, over a decade later.
A few chapters in and it's a good read so far. Still can't believe this man is gone, over a decade later.
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one of my all-time faves!
