Luke: grue fodder
2024: book seven (audiobook one). #bookstodon #books #2024books #audiobooks #jamieloftus #hotdogs #picklesthatfuck
2024: book nine (audiobook two).
2024: book twelve (audiobook three)
2024: book fifteen. #bookstodon #books2024 #2024books #kindle #ebooks #shirleyjackson #fuckencharles
2024: book eighteen. #bookstodon #books #kindle #maninacage #books2024 #2024books #patricknevins #fiction
Elizabeth M, stationer@captainfez um that's literally next on my list! I enrolled in Gothic lit
@elzbethmrgn It is Very Good, I think. I really liked it, and it's super quick.
@captainfez currently on James' THE TURN OF THE SCREW
@elzbethmrgn Look I have that in the back of the car and maybe I should make it my next one.
@elzbethmrgn what’s the course reading list like? I should vicariously study along.
@captainfez
J. Leigh: The Hunter
Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein or ‘The Modern Prometheus’
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw
J. Leigh: The Hunter
Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein or ‘The Modern Prometheus’
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw
@elzbethmrgn That's a pretty good list. I should ping you for an Anne Radcliffe buddy read as I think one of hers would fit in there nicely. I have the Jackson to read, and can recommend two Dracula variants (one Icelandic, the other Turkish) if you're interested - both are great examples of modes of publication and translation changing a work.
@captainfez lemme get through this list first 😉
@captainfez anyway, great prep for Tokarczuk later this year (it always comes back to her)
@captainfez my copy of The Magic Mountain came today and she's a Chonky Tome! Winter buddy read
@elzbethmrgn yes! I think mine is a chunky old Penguin. Will dig it out - looking forward to it.
Colorblind Cowboy@captainfez Does the audiobook have samples of his guitar work?
Marc Ribot is amazing.
@colorblindcowboy Unfortunately not. I love the guy, and this book is great when he's talking about amps and strings. My attention wandered in the last third which was more creative writing than reminiscence or polemic.
@captainfez That’s too bad. I think it could make a nice sonic odyssey to hear what he’s talking about.
Jon 🇳🇿@captainfez Hope it's a good read; just grabbed a copy for my TBR list yesterday.
@jond they're pretty good. I'll work up a review in the next few.
@captainfez Thanks! I'm heading off to my honeymoon on Sunday, so I'm looking forward to reading lots of books.
@jond Congratulations in advance! Enjoy!
@captainfez We intend to - it tooks 50+ years to find each other but we each feel like we have found our companion for the rest of the journey 😁
@captainfez as good as the hype or as banal as I expect, given the hype?
@elzbethmrgn it has a schtick but I like that schtick. It’s delightful in the same way watching Midnight Diner is.
@captainfez less generosity more curmudgeon in your review pls
@elzbethmrgn Look, having read all the published ones (there's apparently another due?) they've definitely variable. When they're good they're exceptionally touching (there's one with a dog OMG) but otherwise just OK. Potentially too much of an OK thing.
Absolutely makes sense that the guy is a playwright: they read like scenes, and the OG book was an adaptation of a play, so the highly stylised setup makes more sense from that lens.
I've read much worse, and found these either touching of supremely Japanese, but YMMV. If I was in a grouchier mood it'd be insufferable, but as January Fulff Reads, pretty suitable stuff.
@elzbethmrgn my appetite for fairy floss is pretty sated now, tho.
@captainfez yeh I knocked out a few quickies to start the year and then launched right into Kafka
@elzbethmrgn Ooh, which one?
@captainfez The Trial. So far, so dystopian absurd
@elzbethmrgn *adds to list, again*
*cannot remember last time*
*cannot remember last time*
Sean Bala@captainfez Enjoy! Maugham is one of my favorites. Even his mediocre books are enjoyable. "Of Human Bondage" was life-changing when I read it and he was one of the best writers of short stories. He was also a great travel writer - I've been making my way through one of his travel books "On a Chinese Screen" this winter.