Last book(s) you read?

[EEA]

A Home at The End of The World by Michael Cunningham.

[Jameron]

Book three of The Wayward Pines trilogy, audiobook.



I liked it well enough, don't think I'll ever revisit it though.

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We Are Legion (We Are Bob), audiobook.



Really enjoyed this one, sad when it ended. Next book will be released in March, not long to wait.

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Small Favour, book ten of The Dresden Files.



Turn Coat, book eleven of The Dresden Files.



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[krmujn0831]

You seem to be a history buff. Let me recommend some books that I have recently read.

[Bloody Mary]

Currently rereading The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, about unusually gifted children on a secret mission to take down a massive conspiracy. Reading for the first time The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories, a collection of some of Daphne du Maurier's short stories, memoirs, poems, her journal while writing Rebecca, and the original planned epilogue to said novel.

[EEA]

Hannibal by Thomas Harris.
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens.

[Drakeule]

The Night Bird

[EEA]

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez.
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante.
The Neopolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante.

[gkmoberg1]

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

by Nancy Isenberg, 2016.

I'm about 3/4 the way through. I have this as an audible book instead of the print edition. Kinda regretting the decision on this because I'd like to be able to see and page through this.

The book, among many other things, paints a picture of the U.S. Civil War that I was never given as a child. I'm up the section between the World Wars.... it is stunning how indifferent we can be and how caught up in bad science entire societies can become.

[gattoparde59]

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

by Nancy Isenberg, 2016.

I'm about 3/4 the way through. I have this as an audible book instead of the print edition. Kinda regretting the decision on this because I'd like to be able to see and page through this.

The book, among many other things, paints a picture of the U.S. Civil War that I was never given as a child. I'm up the section between the World Wars.... it is stunning how indifferent we can be and how caught up in bad science entire societies can become.

How is the American Civil War different for you in this book?

[Bloody Mary]

I'm currently reading The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones. ASOIAF and GoT fanatics should enjoy this, with its maps and illustrations. It's presented as a history of the GoT world written by a maester (scholar in the GoT universe).

Also, The Bone Season, by Samantha Shannon. Clairvoyants are outlawed by the totalitarian government, and so have gone underground to avoid detection. It's frustrating because the writing is pretty engaging - the author was only 21 when it was published in 2013, impressive! - but I know, I just know, there's going to be a romance between Protagonist and another character, because it was obvious from the jacket description. This is a gigantic pet peeve of mine. Can't there ever be a platonic, non-familial male-female relationship in fiction that isn't a romance? If they aren't together, he's in love with her (most common, it seems) or she's in love with him. It is as if authors think all platonic friendships mean nothing - they have to be involved in some way.

I suspect it's because authors don't know how to write friendship. They can do smoldering eyes and instant connections just by parroting it from other authors (this and the topic's popularity resulting in an ever-increasing number of sources), but can't come up with a believable, original bond.