Hi!
So I guess my New Year’s resolution was to read more and it’s working!
I’m easily distracted and notoriously slow/ damn near narcoleptic when reading but I’ve managed to read a small stack already!!
I’ve read
Circe
The Penelopiad
She Rides Shotgun
Fantasticland
The Descent of Alette
A Thousand Ships
A lot of female lead/perspective and mythology in there but that was kinda accidental. I do have a few books in the stack but they are in the Greek mythology vibe as well and I could use a palate cleanser.
Stone Blind
Song of Achilles
Clytemnestra
Again the Greek mythology thing wasn’t not planned. I bought a few books, already had Circe in the shelf in the “to be read someday” pile and my wife and kid also bought some books. The whole house aligned individually on the same genre!
I’ve read some Cormac McCarthy and enjoyed his work …well, “enjoyed” is strong. There is no joy there. 😂
Same with Ian McEwan.
I read/re-read the first 3 Dune novels in anticipation of the movies and those were way more poetic than any sci-fi and actually most poetry I’ve ever read.
I’m JG Ballard curious but he has so many books!
I’m James Elroy curious. I have Cold Six Thousand somewhere.
I probably don’t want a series. At least not some 10 book Harry Potter type thing.
I’m down with sci-fi so long as it’s not corny. Probably down with anything fiction. I like a dark or seedy book with terrible people. 🤷🏻♂️ I like pretty words and poetic descriptions or original ideas. The Descent of Alette was only 150 pages but took me the entire month of March to read because I kept stopping to think and re-read. No more epic poems for a bit.
I have a copy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters that I’ve not got around to but the former might feel a little old or like high school reading.
I need a page turner to keep me going. I’ve already read more this year than I have in the years since my kid was born combined not including technically manuals and I would like to keep the momentum going. We have reading hour before the kid goes to bed every night and that has been really cool to implement.
EDIT:
Is Stephen King worth reading? I know that probably sounds insane considering he’s a giant in the book world but so many of his offerings have been made into movies and I always find it hard to read a thing after I’ve watched a thing. I made it most the way thru the first Dark Tower book but I must of put it down and forgotten all about it. I don’t even see it on my shelf anyway so I must not have been in the mood.
by newgreyarea