Tea & Books - What are you reading?
Just finished Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale before beginning the Hogarth Shakespeare retelling, The Gap of Time by Jeannette Winterson.
Whew! Never read any other Jeannette Winterson but she did a masterful job of re-imagining The Winter’s Tale. Now I’m hooked on Hogarth Shakespeares…
Nocturnes by John Connolly. Collection of horror stories for Halloween time
Oh, how did you find House of Leaves? Its my favourite horror novel ever written, not just for the obvious differences, I love the story as well. I didnt think the printing approach was gimmicky either, I felt it totally added to the immersion.
I just thought today that House of Leaves might be my spooky book for this month. But so many choices!
read itttttttt
its bloody great.
What are your other choices? Last horror I read was ‘the ruins’ by scott smith. it was also good
Always a billion books in my mind to read but on the spooky short list of possibilities:
Dr. Sleep – King
Pym – Edgar Allan Poe (but then Pym by Mat Johnson and then The Terror by Dan Simmons)
Jekyll & Hyde
Jane Slayre by Bronte & Sherri Browning Erwin
Still working on House of Leaves. I’m reading it out loud to my wife so I am some what limited on my pacing. BUT we are nearly through it and our book club for it is in a week. I’m really enjoying it thus far.
We do most books together out loud because she wants to participate but falls asleep instantly when she tries to read. I like reading out loud (it was part of my job for years) so I read it to both of us. House of Leaves certainly takes some explaning and showing when you are reading it to someone but I think it’s working out.
Ah thats cool. I did wonder if she might be blind, & how you would explain the various quirks to her
Really really enjoying reading through this website, its full of short stories, lengths from 1 page to over 50 pages… ive been chugging through the scifi, might start on the horror soon. Read about 15 so far tonight :)
Such a cool website!
These were good:
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/VisiMill.shtml
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/EterSeco937.shtml
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/MosAmb.shtml
And the pretty famous classic, ’They’re Made out of Meat’
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TheyMade.shtml
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Just started My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem…love this passage about traveling and being nomadic in some sense:
“The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts. It’s right up there with life-threatening emergencies and truly mutual sex as a way of being fully alive in the present.”
After listening to my husband sing it’s praises for almost a month, I’m finally getting to Bone Clocks
Just finished “Forever Man” by Gordon R. Dickson, now I just started “And the Devil Will Drag You Under” by Jack L. Chalker.
Forever Man was really trippy, but I liked it. The idea that an existing human intelligence can be melded with a space ship is pretty cool.
Have read Consider Phlebas and loved it. Have you read Gregory Benford’s Galactic Center Saga? If you like Banks you should definitely check it out.
ah i missed this message – Excession is my favourite sci-fi book ever. Also Look to windward, use of weapons, surface detail, & finish with the hydrogen sonata. Then read Excession again. Its amazing – i’ll check out gregory benford next :)
I need to read the rest of them. I am a sucker for physical books and also try to find them used… not easy for his books.
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