Molly White

Belated May reading wrap-up. Lots of comfort/escapist reading this month, heavy on the litRPGs and detective novels. Favorite out of the fifteen was probably Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi.

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Jun 6 at 2:04pmWeb
Show threadBill the LizardJun 6
@molly0xfff Would you recommend starting at the beginning of John Sandford's Prey series, or can you jump in at any point?
Show threadMolly WhiteJun 6
@lizardbill I haven’t read any of the ones before #14 so I can’t really say, but I had no trouble starting in the middle and have been told by others that it’s pretty much fine to do so unless you want every scrap of backstory
Show threadMaj - 🇨🇦Jun 6
@molly0xfff Can I ask what you're using to track and generate stats?
Show threadMolly WhiteJun 6
@maj Storygraph
Show threadrtificialJun 6
@molly0xfff lemme recommend this series if, you want something lite, fun, steampunk, vampires, werewolves. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulless_(novel) if you enjoy the first book, the continue on. If not stop there. I find them to be fun and humorous.
Soulless (novel) - Wikipedia

Show threadegregious philbinJun 6
@molly0xfff Piranesi was sooooo good.
Show threadThe ServitorJun 6

@molly0xfff

litRPG is a guilty pleasure. I hate that I like it. 😂

I like the Chicken, ok. Have you done "He Who Fights With Monsters" or "The Wandering Inn"

The Wandering Inn series, very inconsistent, but once in a while the author brought me to tears or had me laughing out loud. So credit for that.

Show threadMolly WhiteJun 6

@TheServitor life’s too short to feel guilty about what i read for fun :)

haven’t read HWFWM or the Wandering Inn yet, but both are on my list!

Show threadLaurens 🐐Jun 6
@molly0xfff I'm going to check out The Cat Who Saved Books. I also subscribed to your YouTube channel, if only for your reading recommendations 😁
Show threadScott KingeryJun 6
@molly0xfff followed on tiktok for booktok 😀
Show threadDerk-Jan 💙💛🇺🇦Jun 6
@molly0xfff I have no idea how you manage to read this much Molly, I’m happy to finish 1 book a month. But I thoroughly enjoy your wrap-ups, so respect and thx respectively.
Show threadikesauJun 6
@TheDJ @molly0xfff the answer is "audiobooks from the library" : )

to molly, inspiring recs! i'm intrigued by the newt & demon series as I've often wondered about how a story in which nothing went wrong would work. will check em out!
Show threadDavid PollakJun 6
@molly0xfff the Prey series by Sanford is addictive…
Show threadMolly WhiteJun 6
@dpp so I've noticed!
Show threadEclectic Human2d ago
@molly0xfff Piranesi is wonderfully haunting! I occasionally have dreams of a labyrinthine house, and reading the novel somehow felt like coming home.
Show threadBobDevney1d ago

@molly0xfff

John Sandford's thrillers are indeed addictive. (And one reason to read the earlier books: the origin story of Letty Davenport.)

But mostly: If you loved "Piranesi," do you know Susanna Clarke's incredible 1st novel, "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" (2004)? If not, oh what a treat you have in store.

It's kind of, uh, Austen meets Dickens with magic, footnotes, & postmodernism.

The 7-part 2015 BBC adaption is not too shabby either.

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