Zorral Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 All month this is the book one cannot escape from the endless online chatter about. Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It (2022) by Kaitlyn Tiffany. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kaitlyn-tiffany/everything-i-need-i-get-you/ https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/1105191708/fangirls-rule-the-internet-in-everything-i-need-i-get-from-you https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/books/kaitlyn-tiffany-everything-i-need-i-get-from-you.html https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-fans-created-the-voice-of-the-internet https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58772737-everything-i-need-i-get-from-you and etc. etc. etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Just put a hold on that book, thanks! I finished The City & The City. I thought I hadn’t completed it and borrowed it again, waiting for that part I hadn’t heard, but it was totally a re-listen. Such an interesting setting created by China Mieville. I wish there was a follow-up book, but I guess once the city/city concept is presented doing more stories about breach would be, I dunno, strained? Stretched? But I liked Inspector Borlu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Not Appearing Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 I just read (listened to) The Ballad of Black Tom. Very well done and kept me engaged the whole time. The language does mean that it can be an appropriate for some settings but I had headphones on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Not Appearing Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 A few years ago, I made the mistake of reading the Fitz and the Fool series by Robin Hobb without first checking to see what else existed in that universe. Partway through the first book, I realized that I had started with the 3rd or maybe even 4th trilogy in the universe. I continued on anyway. That series was fine, though the characters were a bit mopey for me. I've never gone back to the original series because I know the grand arcs as they were revealed in later series ... but I recently started Assassin's Apprentice. Similar voice but far less emotionally mopey and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. I'm pretty resistant to reading something if I know where it's going but I'm glad that I pushed through that habit on this one. I should have read it years ago, but here am I and there are worse places to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkess Posted July 4, 2022 Author Share Posted July 4, 2022 The first Fitz trilogy is my favorite!! Hope you enjoy it I just finished listening to Little Fires Everywhere, which I didn't like much. Long and boring and sanctimonious. And weirdly antagonistic to adoption? Wasn't expecting that. I had also read Celeste Ng's previous book (Everything I Never Told You) and thought it was okay but not great. Have now confirmed that Ng's work is just not my thing. Just got my hold on This Is How You Lose the Time War in, so I'll be listening to that next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 5 hours ago, Starkess said: Just got my hold on This Is How You Lose the Time War in, so I'll be listening to that next! I really enjoyed that one! Hope you like it!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Time for a new thread, n'est-ce pas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peadar Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 20 hours ago, Wilbur said: Time for a new thread, n'est-ce pas? Mais, oui! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkess Posted July 5, 2022 Author Share Posted July 5, 2022 On 7/4/2022 at 3:34 AM, Rhom said: I really enjoyed that one! Hope you like it!!! Alas, I did not. Too flowery and slight for me. At least it was mercifully short! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 PIcked up another book from my shelf. Alice Munro Runaway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Wending my way through The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl...third in the Athena Club series by Theodora Goss. I don't know if it's spectacular literature, but I remain a sucker for anything that pulls together different aspects of Victorian literature and gives it the some twists. Thus I continue to read this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Not Appearing Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 On 7/2/2022 at 11:14 AM, Ser Not Appearing said: I recently started Assassin's Apprentice. I devoured this pretty quickly. The end with certain people avoiding all personal consequence and other secrets not spreading felt a bit forced but I can forgive that. On to book 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 New thread is up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortstark Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 On 6/21/2022 at 5:41 PM, Xray the Enforcer said: Oh yeah. Those last few pages really dig deep. Still sniffling couple hours later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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