All Things Books and Reading Thread

[Margot Lane]

Alexi Navalny’s Patriot is fantastic. I thought it would be incessantly grim, but it’s gotta lot of humor.

 

[Tobermory]

I finally finished An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, a 2022 book by Ed Yong that examines animal senses. He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist, and he describes how creatures navigate the world in ways most of us haven't imagined. Science, yes, but extremely accessible science. I won't ever think about animals the same way!

 

[Margot Lane]

Was really looking forward to reading but the print is minuscule and very faint. Am encouraged by the growing Nature section at my bookstore.

 

[pearl99]

I finally finished An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, a 2022 book by Ed Yong

I read “I Contain Multitudes” by him. Technical, and fascinating.
Reading “The Awakening” by Nora Roberts now. A fantasy.

 

[vampiric_conure]

I'm reading a book on parrot Training. The information is about 20 years old, but it still has some good tips.

BTW - Nora Robers is an awesome writer. I'd love to read more of her stuff .

 

[pearl99]

I got this book for my sister-in-law for Christmas. She and my niece love cats, I hope she likes it:
We'll Prescribe You a Cat

 

[Margot Lane]

Reading about the Taiping Rebellion, about which I knew nothing. Quite a ripping yarn!

 

[Bri5]

I am about 60% through Jane Eyre. I love it and hate it.

 

[Mia6]

going to reread Killing Me Softly

 

[misty8723]

I am about 60% through Jane Eyre. I love it and hate it.

I read this in high school but I didn't finish it. We had to turn in a list of the books we had read, and for our exam the teacher picked one for us to write a book report on. This was it for me. Fortunately, I had read enough to fudge it. I saw a couple of the kids write "did not read" on their paper. I really don't like first person books and it is so hard to find any that aren't it seems.

I'm reading Edgar Cayce on Atlantis. I find him fascinating.

 

[allmykitties]

Ever considered alpha-reading? I recently finished editing into a second draft of a fantasy novel, and I'm looking for potential alpha-readers (different than beta readers--alphas read more like a regular reader would with "big picture" reactions to whether the story is working or not).

 

[Bri5]

I read this in high school but I didn't finish it. We had to turn in a list of the books we had read, and for our exam the teacher picked one for us to write a book report on. This was it for me. Fortunately, I had read enough to fudge it. I saw a couple of the kids write "did not read" on their paper. I really don't like first person books and it is so hard to find any that aren't it seems.

I'm reading Edgar Cayce on Atlantis. I find him fascinating.

I would not have appreciated it in high school. There is quite a bit of humor in it, and I love some of the characters. But it would have had me bang my head against a wall as a teen.