What are you reading in general?

sgt.null · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:12 pm Post subject:

Tarzan vs. Predator graphic novel
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Rigel · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2020 8:15 pm Post subject:

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Avatar · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:04 am Post subject:

Damn, I had no idea that was going on until so late...didn't realise Tarzan was going in the late 90's.

--A
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sgt.null · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:00 pm Post subject:

Edgar Rice Burroughs' “Tarzan and the Golden Lion” is now in the public domain in the United States. ... Public domain works are free for anyone to copy, excerpt, rework, and adapt without anyone's permission. A federal law enacted in 1998 extended the term of U.S. copyright protection to all works."
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Linna Heartbooger · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:23 pm Post subject:

My greatest author discovery lately is Naomi Novik.

I read her "Spinning Silver," where the unearthly world of [its version of] Fae people - the Staryk kingdom - runs hauntingly alongside a real world from centuries past.

(fairy story with resonances with Rumplestiltskin)

Then I enjoyed her "Uprooted," and oh, man I love the two main characters. They make me happy.
The main conflict has some thoroughly exciting elements of "dealing with a creepy, inhuman entitity."

(This one has some links to Rapunzel stories, but more "there is a haunted forest: stay far away from it - it is horrible" stories and Polish & Russian fairy tales about witches.)

Now that I'm done with those, I have a hole in my heart. I'm mostly "bouncing around," flirting with reading five different books a little, but my heart isn't in it.
The books include:
"Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
"The Dragonbone Chair" by Tad Williams
the famous one by Joseph Conrad
"The Honorary Constable" by Graham Greene

In non-fiction, I'm reading "The Art of Unix Programming."
(on-and-off, but I love it!)

Rigel · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 8:36 pm Post subject:

I found out that Cameraman Jenn had never read Where the Red Fern Grows, so I bought her a copy. We'll see what she thinks.
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sgt.null · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 8:42 pm Post subject:

For the graphic novel club...

are you listening? - tillie walden

Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me : Rosemary Valero-O'Connell
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Lazy Luke · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2020 3:49 pm Post subject:

Wosbald · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 1:55 am Post subject:

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Participatory Biblical Exegesis: A Theology of Biblical Interpretation by Matthew Levering

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Wosbald · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 2:41 am Post subject:

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The Word Has Been Abroad: A Guide Through Balthasar's Aesthetics by Aiden Nichols, OP

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sgt.null · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:56 am Post subject:

the Plus - Greg Gutfeld
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deer of the dawn · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 1:29 pm Post subject:

Just finished Tidewater by Olivia Hawker, my new favorite author. I didn't expect it to be about Pocahontas, but it ended up a beautiful book and probably one of the most historically honest versions of the famous Algonquian child in print, that's still a novel.

Linna, Grogor the Overlander was memorable, but no Hunger Games in terms of emotional impact (same author). But a good adventure story, and who doesn't love giant talking bats?

I just started Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Also recently finished the Old Testament, and with great relief began the New with its stories of Jesus doing His thing.
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Rigel · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 8:04 pm Post subject:

sgt.null · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 1:03 am Post subject:

Joe King - 20th Century Ghosts
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Damelon · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:01 pm Post subject:

1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann.

I picked up this book from the library this week. An interesting account of the Americas.

Interesting perspectives from the accounts of the first contact. Discussion of archeological digs in Peru where the buildings date to nearly as far back as those in Mesopotamia. Etc.
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sgt.null · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:51 pm Post subject:

Hope to hit half price books on the way home.
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Wosbald · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 5:25 am Post subject:

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No Bloodless Myth: A Guide Through Balthasar's Dramatics by Aidan Nichols, OP

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Wosbald · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2020 5:51 am Post subject:

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Say It Is Pentecost: A Guide Through Balthasar's Logic by Aidan Nichols, OP

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Wosbald · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2020 4:43 am Post subject:

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Scattering the Seed: A Guide Through Balthasar's Early Writings on Philosophy and the Arts by Aidan Nichols, OP

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