Ilana MasadLet's see how this goes. What are you all #reading right now?
Vincent@ilanaslightly Just finished the new N. K. Jemisin.
@Vaila@ilanaslightly about to start on Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor.
K.C. Mead-Brewer@ilanaslightly just finished Sarah Gailey's Just Like Home and now starting on Clarke's Piranesi π
Karen R. White@kcmeadbrewer @ilanaslightly I really liked Piranesi. So full of imagination.
Hope@ilanaslightly Umm yes I am read Alexis Hall's Boyfriend Material and yes it is a delight
Also the new Andrew Sean Greer book. Also have Allende's Violeta checked out
Mike Meginnis@ilanaslightly I finished listening to Wolf Hall and went straight into the audiobook of Bring Up the Bodies. Am also reading Marlen Haushofer's On the Wall.
@mikemeginnis oh I adored those books!
@ilanaslightly I am enjoying them! Also just realized I got the title of The Wall wrong somehow. I keep adding that "on" in my head.
Anthony Garrett@ilanaslightly About to start Thalia Field's PERSONHOOD.
Hugo π@ilanaslightly Oo! True to my ADHD I'm juggling multiple books rn, but busy with Pure Colour by Sheila Heti, Chouette by Claire Oshetsky, Free Love and Other Stories by Ali Smith, and listening to Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed on audio
@hugouys hahahaha this is me completely. That's a great list to juggle though!
Ciara@ilanaslightly If 'reading' includes being read to: I am literally right now reading Edwidge Danticat, Nora Ephron and Claire Luchette. The Complicated Women episode of Selected Shorts. Three terrific stories.
Complicated Women
Listen to this episode from Selected Shorts on Spotify. Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works that explore the many-layered lives of women. Edwidge Danticatβs essay βWomen Like Usβ honors the long line of strong women in her family, but also recognizes her need to distance herself in order to become a writer. The reader is the late Lynne Thigpen. In an excerpt from Nora Ephronβs Heartburn, performed by Joan Allen, a philandering husband gets just what he deserves. And an order of nuns has hidden strengthsβand comic timingβin Claire Luchetteβs βNew Bees,β performed by Joanna Gleason.
Tinu - Empress of Twerk@CiaraNi @ilanaslightly omg Edwidge Danticant writes soooo beautifully. So underrated.
@Tinu @ilanaslightly Agreed. She truly does. Krik? Krak! was my introduction to her. So good. She doesnβt get mentioned enough.
Rob H&ynes@ilanaslightly Claire North - The Sudden Appearance Of Hope
Sap@ilanaslightly The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks. Only just started it, but enjoying so far, everything is new to me.
sam@ilanaslightly Planet of Exile by Usual Le Guin
@curioussam gawd I love Le Lguin
Shana V White@ilanaslightly Viral Justice by Dr. Benjamin
Sarah_in_sk@ilanaslightly I'm basically devouring anything in the space opera genre these days. If it's a series, I can't stop myself!
Becky Chambers, Martha Wells, Ann Leckie, N.K. Jemisin, James S. A. Corey etc.
Becky Chambers, Martha Wells, Ann Leckie, N.K. Jemisin, James S. A. Corey etc.
Eliana Sousa Santos@ilanaslightly Patrick Leigh Fermorβs A Time of Gifts (1977)
Subidax@ilanaslightly my mastodon feed. 
lilcoppertop@ilanaslightly I'm mostly alternating between Bailey's CafΓ© by Gloria Naylor, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, and In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott. And slogging my way through Dune by Frank Herbert in audio book format.
Claire H@ilanaslightly The Hating Game. So well written!
Zinn@ilanaslightly I just started #Reading "Name of the Wind" By Patrick Rothfuss, and "The Spare Man" by @maryrobinette
kaggsy59@ilanaslightly Walking in Berlin by Franz Hessel
SR_Toliver@ilanaslightly Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody. It's a weird YA fantasy/mystery, but I like it so far! I think part of the "like" is that I'm listening to the audio book, and it's being read by Emily Woo Zeller, who happens to be one of my favorite audiobook voice actors).
@SR_Toliver Love hearing that an audiobook voice actor wrote their own book!!
Berrak SarΔ±kaya@ilanaslightly Just finished "By The Book" by Jasmine Guillory. Haven't decided on my next read yet.
(((Cindy Weinstein)))@CindyWeinstein I've never read that Melville! Is it good?
@ilanaslightly. Now that is a big question! I love it and have been obsessed with it for too many years to acknowledge. It's strange, funny, tortured, difficult, absurd. Perhaps others would like to weigh in? @jeffreyinsko? @adumbfails? @enfretwell, @natewolff? I know I'm missing other devotees (forgive me).
Jeffrey Insko@CindyWeinstein @ilanaslightly @adumbfails @enfretwell @natewolff hmm. good maybe not a word many have used to describe it (at least not in any conventional sense!). but it is amazing and outrageous and super weird in all of the very best ways!
@jeffreyinsko @ilanaslightly @adumbfails @enfretwell @natewolff. Exactly -- I was tripping on the word "good"!
Matt Seybold@jeffreyinsko @CindyWeinstein @ilanaslightly @adumbfails @enfretwell @natewolff
Itβs quite an original.
@jeffreyinsko @CindyWeinstein @adumbfails @enfretwell @natewolff I do love a weird and outrageous and amazing!
Evelevj@jeffreyinsko @CindyWeinstein @ilanaslightly @adumbfails @enfretwell @natewolff it is a most wonderful literary exploration of bewilderment and the destructive circularities of Romantic idealism. If it doesnβt drive you bonkers, itβs a laugh-out loud joyride of satire.
@jeffreyinsko @CindyWeinstein @ilanaslightly @adumbfails @enfretwell @natewolff I tell my students itβs βthe great American f**k-it-all-up story.β
@Evelevj @jeffreyinsko @ilanaslightly @adumbfails @enfretwell @natewolff. Excellent description! When I was writing about it, this clip kept running through my mind. Clearly, I was going bonkers AND laughing while at it! Start at 1:50. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6CuBK0cgX4
Singing in the Rain - Funny Duelling Cavalier preview !
Kara Shallenberg@ilanaslightly Iβm working my way through Marion Toddβs DI Clare MacKay crime thrillers. Good solid stuff, very entertaining. Currently listening to βOld Bones Lieβ audiobook on Scribd app. Also reading βFootnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writersβ by Peter Fiennes. Also re-reading #KidLit classic βSwallows and Amazonsβ
You? π»
Kim23@ilanaslightly Breath: The new science of a lost art. By James Nestor
Alex, the Hearth Fire@ilanaslightly I'm re-#reading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Matthew Turner@ilanaslightly Γmile Zola's The Masterpiece.
isa@ilanaslightly I #AmReading The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and Lysistrata by Aristophanes!
@isa oh boy I LOVE House of Mirth
@ilanaslightly I really like it so far! Once I'm finished I'd love to pick your brain over it if that's okay! π
@isa Sure! It's been a while since I've read it so I might not be the most well-educated person on it ^_^" Are you reading the one with the Brandon Taylor intro? (or wait, did he intro Age of Innocence...)
@ilanaslightly thank you! no hard hitting questions, just would love to discuss it with someone π no intro on my copy, unfortunately!
Lela Nargi@ilanaslightly Just got the new N.K. Jemisin + it's waiting for me on the coffee table while I try to clear a few spare hours to plow through
@LelaNargi @ilanaslightly EXCITING!!! I can't wait to get a copy! Her books are the best!
Diana Spencer@ilanaslightly Leonora Nattrass: The Black Drop β¨ #AmReading
Pat@ilanaslightly A few things, but primarily The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr.
I'm also slooooowly working through The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday by Rob Walker - which is really more like a workbook-for-mindful-noticing than a book.
Stephanie Opperman@ilanaslightly Ways of Being by James Bridle
Ian Denning@ilanaslightly The new George Saunders!
genXcrone (she/her)@ilanaslightly Spacer's Bet by Bonnie Milani. Link goes to the author's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bonnie-milani-763a006_spacers-bet-an-aliya-war-prequel-activity-6975525667668942848-xHhA?trk=public_profile_share_view
Janice Selbie@ilanaslightly
1. The Help 2. Lady Catherine and the real Downton Abbey 3. Staring at the Sun 4. Leaving the Fold: A guide for former fundamentalists and others leaving their religion.
1. The Help 2. Lady Catherine and the real Downton Abbey 3. Staring at the Sun 4. Leaving the Fold: A guide for former fundamentalists and others leaving their religion.
sybil@ilanaslightly _Sure, Iβll Be Your Black Friend_ by Ben Philippe
Viverz@ilanaslightly Smashed a story collection of Junji Ito's work & Doctor Sleep by Stephen King.