It's all good all around :D


Thanks everyone.

The Bonanza King - Gregory Couch. Excellent history of the Comstock Lode and John MacKaye, one of it successful miners, who later ran a transatlantic cable to compete with Jay Gould's monopoly.

Finally finished "Cyber Rights". It's a slow read which makes it long, but it covers a number of landmark cases and issues involving the constitution and the internet in the 1990s. Interesting read, despite the legal and technical details from the internet over 20 years ago.


I'll be finishing up "Let's Pretend This Never happened" by Jenny Lawson before diving in to Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince.

Jack Carr - The Terminal List. Good debut thriller

Looking back at my last post...I'm still working through Lawson's book, finished Half Blood Prince between Thursday and Sunday. Party on.

finished Caspar Henderson's The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: a 21st Century bestiary. https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2018/...s-is-more.html

Are we critiquing writing here? Did I miss something? I kinda want in.

I posted a link to a site with really old short stories I wrote. That's all. Critique away.

Finished both Lawson's book and what I had left of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this weekend.


At this point, I have no books started, but plan to start the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy anthology next.

The Apache Wars - Paul Andrew Hutton.


One of the most depressing books I've ever read, but a rewarding history and very readable.

slowly resumed moby dick cuz i got sidetracked

oh yes im still on land. so many old words and meanings to learn it’s a bit of a slog, but i don’t mind. the kindle is reeeeeeeally useful in this regard, loading a dictionary with a tap of the finger and it explains to me this or that piece of clothing, another shoots off to wikipedia and i read about the uses of whale oil, etc.—stuff that was obvious 200 years ago but now isnt.

i don’t miss paper books... well as precious objects yes, but for reading, ebooks have deeper veins.

who here is old enough to have dreamed of owning the OED? the one that took a whole wall was unattainable, but what about the two volume one with the magnifying glass? ha ha ha ha. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. o man...

Nick Cave: Mercy on Me

Graphic novel. (Not really a novel tho) Blends biography with fantastic elements, such as Cave song characters confronting their creator. Novel stuff.

“Supergods: What masked vigilantes, miraculous mutants and a sun god from Smallville can teach us about being human” by Grant Morrison



It’s good!

Finished up Carl Zimmer's She Has Her Mother's Laugh: the Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2018/...-are-more.html

An update for my status, I'm like 4-5 chapters into "Mostly Harmless", the last in the anthology. Granted this is Douglas Adams, don't gauge your progress in his books by chapter, some are literally one page or even one paragraph long.

Antigone, by Oedipus. I'm reading it for Lit class at school.

It's really good, but it's pissing me off that I'll have to go on an indepth look at themes in order to do well on my exam.

Trying “The Terror” by Dan Simmons again. Last time I got distracted.

halfway through Jennthebenn's Spirit Desire. Loving it. Makes me nostalgic for the days when the Youth were still assaulting our ears as a group.

oh!

tried downloading it and it redirected me to a million places (on the ipad)

i’ll reroute my request

Finished Adams' stuff, onwards likely to Jurassic Park.

Fresh Complaint short story collection by Jeffery Eugenides

Finished jennthebenn's second book, SPIRIT DESIRE https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2018/...ive-sonic.html

i just started the book but love her new voice here

meanwhile... i love wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptophan

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain...ner_Fassbinder

Picked up The Shining and The Lost World, but may not start them quite yet. Not sure. I decided to participate in a reading club thingy through my dayjob this month, which chose Good Omens.

Brilliant book. If you're into propaganda, hybrid war and the current trend of rising authoritationism and fascism worldwide, you should read it.

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Volume one of the KOLYMA Stories - Varlam Shalamov


the brutality of Russian prison camps as told by a survivor of more than 20 years in them, told in short, intense, plain spoken horror. amazing work.

Still “The Terror.”

It’s good and engrossing, but I don’t have a lot of time for reading.

Think “The Leftovers” by Tom Perotta will be next.

Noice.

Not my favorite Gaiman outing, but fun.

I feel like I can tell where Gaiman’s writing ends and Terry Pratchett’s begins. Not bits about that. Prefer one voice throughout. But maybe I’m just full of shit.

Over the past few months, after 4+ years of writing book reviews of the books I read, I have started getting requests from individual authors asking for me to review their books. Pretty fucking cool.


What I did not expect, and what happened today, is for an actual book publisher to contact me asking me to review an established authors' new sci fi novel, with the goal of using my review in promotions, and maybe a BLURB ON THE DUST JACKET!


One of my goals with this whole project was to have my reviews be used in a blurb!!!!

congrats! a blurb is a thing of beauty and awesomeness!

Was browsing Amazon and saw this book. I didn't even know this existed. Don't remember any announcement made about it. Has anyone read it? Its described as a biography, but not an auto biography because Lynch didn't write any of the biography stuff, he wrote more stuff about his creative process, which as anyone who has read any interviews from him, can also be pretty uncertain as he hates talking about his movies/art.

WHICH AUTHOR WAS IT JEFF VANDERMEER FUCK YOU

Taking a side road trip through "A Christmas Carol" tonight since it's short and it's December

I used to do this every year. :)

I always do for a bunch of different movie versions, but with all my reading focus put in to 2018, I decided to do this as well. Short enough to be knocked out in a night.

The Hollow Hills by Mary Stuart.


It's about Merlin. I love Arthurian books.