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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 30, 2021 17:04:21 GMT
What books or stories do you plan to read next year?
Are there ones you have put off reading for years and now think it is time to try?
List some below.
I'll list mine soon.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 30, 2021 17:31:05 GMT
What books or stories do you plan to read next year? Are there ones you have put off reading for years and now think it is time to try? List some below. I'll list mine soon. I have a few dozen I downloaded from my Am*z*n library, that I plan to read (or re-read) starting next week, once I've finished a few from my real library. This is one of them, bought in 2013:
From Am*z*n:
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN LITERARY PRIZE
LONG-LISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN NOT THE BOOKER PRIZE
After multiple unsuccessful appeals, infamous Moors Murderer, Myra Hindley died in prison...or did she?
What if the authorities lied?
What if the embarrassment from her constant appeals for release forced a deal and Hindley was granted a new secret identity? What sort of person would she have become? How would she live her life with her newfound freedom?
Myra, Beyond Saddleworth attempts to answer these questions in what is being considered the most controversial book in recent years. Not only does it explore questions of morality and personal responsibility, its feminist author engages with the uncomfortable suggestion that women can be just as violent and cruel as men.
I find it surprising that the obvious fact "that women can be just as violent and cruel as men" is considered an "uncomforable suggestion".
This is another; somebody gave it 1 star but I remember really liking it:
And this one:
From Am*z*n
HERE - IN 92,000 WORDS, across 350-plus pages - eyewitnesses to the unknown describe their bizarre brushes with ghosts. Author-journalist John Pinkney has investigated several thousand hauntings,and this collection contains many of his most intriguing cases.
Against a background of authentic photographs and artwork, Pinkney's unique book describes *The case of the newsreader who died at the microphone - then haunted his radio station for the following 25 years. *The 'asphalt apparitions' that haunt highways worldwide - prompting some authorities to install roadsigns warning living drivers. * The mansion owner who,
after intense detective work, discovered her resident ghost's horrific secret.*The
drowned man's face that invaded an official police photograph. *The furious phantom that shocked a million TV viewers.* Telephone calls from the tsunami dead. And much more.
This enthralling book is a comprehensive survey of modern hauntings - offering authentic reports and analysis of supernatural events in the 20th and 21st centuries.
And this:
From Am*z*n:
The Blitz of 1940-41 is one of the most iconic periods in modern British history - and one of the most misunderstood. The 'Blitz spirit' is celebrated by some, whereas others dismiss it as a myth. Joshua Levine's thrilling biography rejects the tired arguments and reveals the human truth: the Blitz was a time of extremes of experience and behaviour. People werepulling together and helping strangers, but they were also breaking rules and exploiting each other. Life during wartime, the author reveals, was complex and messy and real. From the first page readers will discover a different story to the one they thought they knew - from the sacrifices made by ordinary people to a sudden surge in the popularity of nightclubs; from secret criminal trials at the Old Bailey to a Columbine-style murder in an Oxford college. There were new working opportunities for women and the appearance of unfamiliar cultures: whilst prayers were offered up in a south London mosque, Jamaican sailors were struggling to cross the country.Unlikely friendships were fostered and surprising sexualities explored - these years saw a boom in prostitution and even the emergence of a popular weekly magazine for fetishists. On the darker side, racketeers and spivs made money out of the chaos, and looters prowled the night to prey on bomb victims. From the lack of cheese to the decreased suicide rate, this astonishing and entertaining book takes the true pulse of a 'blitzed nation'. And it shows how social change during this time led to political change - which in turn has built the Britain we know today.
And this, from Arch*ve I think when they were borrowable for 2 weeks:
The last I'll inflict upon you all, that I didn't feel like trying in the past:
I may have filled up the virtual Vault with just a few of my reading list....
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 30, 2021 19:02:00 GMT
What books or stories do you plan to read next year? Are there ones you have put off reading for years and now think it is time to try? List some below. I'll list mine soon. I have a few dozen I downloaded from my Am*z*n library, that I plan to read (or re-read) starting next week, once I've finished a few from my real library. This is one of them, bought in 2013:
From Am*z*n:
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN LITERARY PRIZE
LONG-LISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN NOT THE BOOKER PRIZE
After multiple unsuccessful appeals, infamous Moors Murderer, Myra Hindley died in prison...or did she?
What if the authorities lied?
What if the embarrassment from her constant appeals for release forced a deal and Hindley was granted a new secret identity? What sort of person would she have become? How would she live her life with her newfound freedom?
Myra, Beyond Saddleworth attempts to answer these questions in what is being considered the most controversial book in recent years. Not only does it explore questions of morality and personal responsibility, its feminist author engages with the uncomfortable suggestion that women can be just as violent and cruel as men.
I find it surprising that the obvious fact "that women can be just as violent and cruel as men" is considered an "uncomforable suggestion".
This is another; somebody gave it 1 star but I remember really liking it:
And this one:
From Am*z*n
HERE - IN 92,000 WORDS, across 350-plus pages - eyewitnesses to the unknown describe their bizarre brushes with ghosts. Author-journalist John Pinkney has investigated several thousand hauntings,and this collection contains many of his most intriguing cases.
Against a background of authentic photographs and artwork, Pinkney's unique book describes *The case of the newsreader who died at the microphone - then haunted his radio station for the following 25 years. *The 'asphalt apparitions' that haunt highways worldwide - prompting some authorities to install roadsigns warning living drivers. * The mansion owner who,
after intense detective work, discovered her resident ghost's horrific secret.*The
drowned man's face that invaded an official police photograph. *The furious phantom that shocked a million TV viewers.* Telephone calls from the tsunami dead. And much more.
This enthralling book is a comprehensive survey of modern hauntings - offering authentic reports and analysis of supernatural events in the 20th and 21st centuries.
And this:
From Am*z*n:
The Blitz of 1940-41 is one of the most iconic periods in modern British history - and one of the most misunderstood. The 'Blitz spirit' is celebrated by some, whereas others dismiss it as a myth. Joshua Levine's thrilling biography rejects the tired arguments and reveals the human truth: the Blitz was a time of extremes of experience and behaviour. People werepulling together and helping strangers, but they were also breaking rules and exploiting each other. Life during wartime, the author reveals, was complex and messy and real. From the first page readers will discover a different story to the one they thought they knew - from the sacrifices made by ordinary people to a sudden surge in the popularity of nightclubs; from secret criminal trials at the Old Bailey to a Columbine-style murder in an Oxford college. There were new working opportunities for women and the appearance of unfamiliar cultures: whilst prayers were offered up in a south London mosque, Jamaican sailors were struggling to cross the country.Unlikely friendships were fostered and surprising sexualities explored - these years saw a boom in prostitution and even the emergence of a popular weekly magazine for fetishists. On the darker side, racketeers and spivs made money out of the chaos, and looters prowled the night to prey on bomb victims. From the lack of cheese to the decreased suicide rate, this astonishing and entertaining book takes the true pulse of a 'blitzed nation'. And it shows how social change during this time led to political change - which in turn has built the Britain we know today.
And this, from Arch*ve I think when they were borrowable for 2 weeks:
The last I'll inflict upon you all, that I didn't feel like trying in the past:
I may have filled up the virtual Vault with just a few of my reading list....
Because many of my relatives are men of science, I've been brought up to believe in the scientific method, but I do think it would be wonderful if all this ghost stuff were true. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 30, 2021 19:12:25 GMT
Has anyone accidently read the worst book by an author, and it put them off reading their other books for years, only to discover that they are actually very good?
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Post by ripper on Dec 30, 2021 20:06:01 GMT
Over the last few years I have bought 8 or 9 of the Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories series (currently up to volume 21). Each contains 20 stories, many unpublished since their appearance in Victorian periodicals, so I am going to try to read all that I have so far bought.
Although I have read all of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster books, I haven't read them in order, so I plan to do that.
Similarly, I have 9 of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels and will try to read them in order.
I enjoy military fiction and non-fiction. I would like to read The Thirteenth Valley by John del Vecchio, a fictional account of a US Army unit in the jungles of Vietnam, and one of the seminal novels dealing with that conflict. Also, two volumes about the Atlantic convoys of WW2, Battle of the Atlantic by Jonathan Dimbleby, and Convoy Escort Commander by Sir Peter Gretton.
On avoiding books by authors, I read about 1/2 of Interview with the Vampire by Ann Rice before becoming completely bored of it. Since then, I have avoided Rice's books, and feel no desire to try another one. Similarly with James Herbert's later works. I enjoy his early books, but those later ones just do nothing for me. I struggled to the end of Secret of Crichley Hall, but Ash defeated me after roughly 1/2 of it--i thought it was very heavy going, and just gave up. The Magic Cottage--got to a bit when fairies started flying around the cottage and that was enough for me. Now, I stick to his early novels.
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Post by peedeel on Dec 31, 2021 17:18:25 GMT
"Because many of my relatives are men of science, I've been brought up to believe in the scientific method, but I do think it would be wonderful if all this ghost stuff were true." What?But of course it's true - all of it! Any doubt MUST be immediately dispelled by a quick read of Peter Ackroyd's THE ENGLISH GHOST. There are, of course, countless other examples to reinforce the reality of "this ghost stuff", but my memory not being what it once was, you'll just have to trust me on this. Meanwhile I'll take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy 2016...  |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 31, 2021 17:32:29 GMT
"Because many of my relatives are men of science, I've been brought up to believe in the scientific method, but I do think it would be wonderful if all this ghost stuff were true." What?But of course it's true - all of it! Any doubt MUST be immediately dispelled by a quick read of Peter Ackroyd's THE ENGLISH GHOST. There are, of course, countless other examples to reinforce the reality of "this ghost stuff", but my memory not being what it once was, you'll just have to trust me on this. Meanwhile I'll take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy 2016... Ghosts are tricky things to prove. For we must have facts, facts my good man! Facts and observation! Why this isn't the Dark Ages! When I say facts I mean provable things, like the Earth Being Flat, or the Fake Moon Landings, or Paul McCartney Being Dead and Replaced By A Double. Those sort of facts!  |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jan 1, 2022 17:20:36 GMT
Based on my holiday gifts and purchases, I'll be reading the following in 2022:
Black Helicopters (Caitlin Kiernan)
The Tindalos Asset (Caitlin Kiernan)
The Luminous Dead (Caitlin Starling)
Into the Drowning Deep (Mira Grant, AKA Seanan McGuire)
Ring Shout (P. DjĆØlĆ Clark)
The Spirit Engineer (A.J. West)
Clementine (Cherie Priest)
Harrow the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt (Mike Mignola and others)
Hellboy in Hell (Mike Mignola and others)
Misty Presents: The Jaume Rumeu Collection
I also anticipate reading several of the forthcoming books in the British Library Tales of the Weird series.
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