Sheril Kirshenbaum

Knowing so many of you share my love of #books, maybe you can help me find a new one to get lost in. I just finished โ€œAll the Light We Cannot Seeโ€ by Anthony Doerr which was beautiful.

We havenโ€™t compiled a good reading list together in monthsโ€ฆ

What stories have you discovered or rediscovered lately? ๐Ÿ“š

Oct 4, 2023 at 1:59amMetatext
Show threadAndy SteeleOct 4, 2023
@Sheril I recently read Sisters by Daisy Johnson and highly recommend it.
Show threadHTLCOct 4, 2023

@Sheril

The Hidden Memory of Objects debut novel which has been optioned to Hollywood studio for possible TV series

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/books/sd-et-books-spring-profile-20170326-story.html

Spring arts: San Diegan's debut novel 'The Hidden Memory of Objects' already optioned to Hollywood studio

Debut novelist Danielle Mages Amato of San Diego discusses the power of objects in "The Hidden Memory of Objects."

San Diego Union-Tribune
Show threadJock Rutherford ๐ŸŒป๐Ÿฅฅ๐ŸŒดOct 4, 2023
@Sheril "Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac"
Show threadSusanna the Artist ๐ŸŒปOct 4, 2023
@Sheril I just finished Weyward by Emilia Hart. Itโ€™s part historical mystery, part family drama, with a little of the supernatural mixed in. I really enjoyed it!
Show threadPatrick Johanneson ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆOct 4, 2023

@Sheril I'm just about 100 pages into @JuliusGoat's novel The Revisionaries and it's taken me this long to decide whether I like it or not. (I do, and I hope it can maintain its mojo.)

I just finished watching the first (and only, apparently) season of The Peripheral, and if you're looking for a fresh take on a time travel1 story, then check out the William Gibson novel it's based on. (It's a bit unsettling, though.)

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Show threadPatrick Johanneson ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆOct 4, 2023
@Sheril I also recently read Ducks by Kate Beaton. It's a graphic-novel autobiography, the story of the two years she spent in the oil sands of northern Alberta. It won the Canada Reads competition last year, and it's a very good novel. Easy to read, but not easy, if you know what I mean.
Show threadShantiSOct 4, 2023
@pjohanneson @Sheril @JuliusGoat Have you read โ€œThe Lincoln Highwayโ€ by Amor Towles? It is so much fun and the pace is such that you wonโ€™t put down the book. His โ€œGentleman from Moscowโ€ is the best in my opinion. #AmorTowles
Show threadPatrick Johanneson ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆOct 4, 2023
@Shantis @Sheril @JuliusGoat Can't say I've heard of the author, but I'll check those out. Thanks!
Show threadShantiSOct 4, 2023
@pjohanneson @Sheril @JuliusGoat Another recommendation for historical fiction: โ€œThe Constellation of Vital Phenomenaโ€ by Anthony Marra. I knew nothing about Chechnya until I read this. #Books
Show threadDeb has moved! (see profile) ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆOct 4, 2023

@Sheril check out the #13books hashtag!

Here's mine:
(You can skip the first two, read in my youth ๐Ÿ™‚ )
https://mstdn.ca/@deborahh/111161062367194675

Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@[email protected])

#13books that changed how I see the world: Stuart Little - White Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein That Hideous Strength - Lewis A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving Ender's Game - Card The Sparrow - Russell Making Color Sing - Dobie Holy The Firm - Dillard Red Mars - Robinson Homeland - Doctorow Wool - Howey Lagoon - Okorafor Light from Uncommon Stars - Aoki What are your #13books? #books #whatToRead #sciFi #SFF #bookstodon #hopepunk #librarydon

Mastodon Canada
Show threadDeb has moved! (see profile) ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆOct 4, 2023
@Sheril oh! I just reallised that 100 Years of Solitude is missing on my list!
Show threadArlenecwOct 4, 2023
@Sheril One of my all time favorites. I read a few great books last year that I would love to recommend. How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy- Jamie Ford, Hamnet -Maggie Oโ€™Farrell, Matrix - Lauren Groff, and another fantastic book by Anthony Doerr - Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Show threadSheril KirshenbaumOct 4, 2023
@Arlenecw Cloud Cuckoo Land is one of my favorite books
Show threadMary Ann HornOct 4, 2023
@Arlenecw @Sheril ditto Matrix. I think any of Lauren Groff
Show threadBill ChapmanOct 4, 2023
@Sheril Have you read Ray Naylerโ€™s, The Mountain in the Sea? Fabulous!
Show threadeighthourlunchOct 4, 2023
@Sheril Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Actually, any of his work, really. He's got such a diversity of writing styles and genres, it's almost like you're reading several different authors.
Show threadShanOct 4, 2023
@Sheril if you're at all into science fiction and climate fiction, I really enjoyed Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Show threadJoshua BowmanOct 4, 2023

@Sheril
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, by H. G. Parry
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence, by R. F. Kuang

Full disclosure: my wife is the agent for both authors, but these days I can only find time to read books she represents (and not even all of those)!

Show threadBrianOct 4, 2023
@Sheril I just finished my 3rd read-through of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. If you like historical fiction, and have a year or so to kill...
Show threadShelleeOct 4, 2023
@Sheril Why Fish Donโ€™t Exist by Lulu Miller was a book that surprised me by how much I enjoyed it. There are several โ€œthreadsโ€ to follow and theyโ€™re all great stories!
Show threadPaul van GulickOct 4, 2023
@Sheril
rediscovered - Like Water for Chocolate
Show threadAdam HartzellOct 4, 2023
@Sheril 2 novels I recently enjoyed were Louise Erdrich's THE SENTENCE & Percival Everett's DR NO
Show threadSamee ZahurOct 4, 2023
@Sheril "The Midnight Library: A Novel" by Matt Haig. Also "Every Tool's a Hammer" by Adam Savage.
Show threadpele75Oct 4, 2023
@Sheril I really enjoyed The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal and I was happy to learn itโ€™s book 1 of 3 in the series.
Show threadIke SeblonOct 4, 2023
@Sheril I recently finished 'The Motion of Light in Water' by Samuel R Delaney. It's an autobiography of his late teens to earliest twenties, a poetic essay on memory and writing, and a vividly explicit portrait of queer sexualities in the sixties from a black perspective. His writing is always stunning.
Show threadJens Bannmann โ‚Oct 4, 2023

@Sheril
I haven't done much reading these last few years, but finding "Into The Forgotten Forest" by @cyborg_writer surprisingly got me back to it.

The book itself belongs to fantasy / urban fantasy I guess, but it's unlike others in the genre as it has so much mythology, and combines it with the idea of a multiverse. Really enjoyed the world building and all these wonderful character viewpoints! Reading the second installment now.

#TheOutcrossedSeries

Show threadRiver J. HopkinsOct 4, 2023
@tynstar @Sheril Thanks so much, Jens!! I'm really glad ItFF got you back into reading. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
Show threadPete ZicatoOct 4, 2023

@Sheril

Iโ€™ve been re-reading the Anne McCaffrey Pern novels. Theyโ€™re great yarns and well put together.

Show threadTheres LuethiOct 4, 2023
@Sheril
I enjoyed "All the Light We Cannot See" . Other books I've read recently and really liked are:
"Free" by Lea Ypi
"Disoriental" by Negar Djavadi "Bewilderment" by Richard Powers "More than I Love my Life" by David Grossmann
"Surrender" by Joanna Pocock
#books
Show threadSimonMOct 4, 2023
@Sheril It might not be a recent publication, but I just finished The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
Not necessarily a light or easy read, but it is an excellent and moving one, written with love and skill.
Show threadSomersetWhovian ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ’™Oct 4, 2023
@Simon_M @Sheril
A devastating book, but so good. Have you read A Thousand Splendid Suns, also by Hosseini? It's brilliant too - told this time from the point of view of 2 women.
Show threadSimonMOct 4, 2023
@ClaireCopperman @Sheril I put it on my wishlist. But not bought it yet.
Show threadSomersetWhovian ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ’™Oct 4, 2023
@Simon_M @Sheril
Thoroughly recommended ๐Ÿ‘
Show threadJason HullOct 4, 2023
@Sheril The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson is a very entertaining yarn and had me laughing several times.
Show threadMurray LangOct 4, 2023
@Sheril
"Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World"
By Tyson Yunkaporta
Text Publishing
Show threadFrei_IngaOct 4, 2023
@Sheril Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad, not a light read. May read it again later to see what it brings now, when I know the main story.
Show threadSJ RozanOct 4, 2023
@Sheril Rachel Cantor, HALF LIFE OF A STOLEN SISTER.
Show threadPurpleWitchOct 4, 2023
@Sheril Have you come across Fiona Valpy? They are so beautifully written and perfect if you love history as well as a good story. I have read them all. And can recommend Vinatis for the delicious wines mentioned in some too! ๐Ÿท๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
Show threadSomersetWhovian ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ’™Oct 4, 2023

@Sheril
I don't know if you've read any Barbara Kingsolver? I'm currently reading Demon Copperhead, which is amazing, but also love The Poisonwood Bible, and my absolute favourite is The Lacuna. It takes in Mexico and the US from the 1930s to 1950s, and includes Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Trotsky, McCartyism, and a wonderful central character.

#Bookstodon

Show threadOrganic gardenerOct 6, 2023
@Sheril Currently Reading "Paperboy" by Vince Varter. I love the memoir genre.