1AbigailAdams26
It's Friday again, and time for Friday Reads!
This week, LibraryThing staff are reading:
Tim / @timspalding: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Abby / @ablachly: Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
Kate / @katemcangus: The Parisian Heist by Jo Piazza
Lucy / @knerd.knitter: A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman
What about all of you? What are you reading this Friday?
This week, LibraryThing staff are reading:
Tim / @timspalding: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Abby / @ablachly: Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
Kate / @katemcangus: The Parisian Heist by Jo Piazza
Lucy / @knerd.knitter: A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman
What about all of you? What are you reading this Friday?
2featherbear
Via Kindle:
We Do Not Part / Han Kang
Beloved p 201- / Toni Morrison
Via Kindle app:
The Age of Napoleon: The Story of Civilization, Volume XI Ch XXXIV- p 1128- / Will & Ariel Durant
Hardcover Remainder:
Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self Ch 9- p 131- / Claire Tomalin
Bedtime Reading
The Romany Rye. Everyman's Library No. 120 Ch XLIII- p 180- / George Borrow
The Snakes That Ate Florida: reporting, essays, and criticism pt 2 Essays, p 265- / Ian Frazier
Just downloaded The Sagas of the Icelanders: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (99 cents! Jane Smiley intro) & New Haven Noir. Was it last month LT had books about where you live? Could have added the Noir book! Didn't recognize the restaurants that got name-called, though (read the 1st 2 stories); restaurants don't last long in my town. Noir stories will be a Bedtime Reading candidate. My original copy of The Sagas of the Icelanders: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) was a hardcover remainder -- already read Egil's Saga -- physically heavy chest-crushing book when read in bed, so glad to have it as an e-book so I can continue reading & breathing. Probably will resume after finishing the Durant history. Just starting the Han Kang book after finishing Auster's New York Trilogy earlier this week; currently have 2 additional books by Kang in my TBRs.
We Do Not Part / Han Kang
Beloved p 201- / Toni Morrison
Via Kindle app:
The Age of Napoleon: The Story of Civilization, Volume XI Ch XXXIV- p 1128- / Will & Ariel Durant
Hardcover Remainder:
Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self Ch 9- p 131- / Claire Tomalin
Bedtime Reading
The Romany Rye. Everyman's Library No. 120 Ch XLIII- p 180- / George Borrow
The Snakes That Ate Florida: reporting, essays, and criticism pt 2 Essays, p 265- / Ian Frazier
Just downloaded The Sagas of the Icelanders: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (99 cents! Jane Smiley intro) & New Haven Noir. Was it last month LT had books about where you live? Could have added the Noir book! Didn't recognize the restaurants that got name-called, though (read the 1st 2 stories); restaurants don't last long in my town. Noir stories will be a Bedtime Reading candidate. My original copy of The Sagas of the Icelanders: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) was a hardcover remainder -- already read Egil's Saga -- physically heavy chest-crushing book when read in bed, so glad to have it as an e-book so I can continue reading & breathing. Probably will resume after finishing the Durant history. Just starting the Han Kang book after finishing Auster's New York Trilogy earlier this week; currently have 2 additional books by Kang in my TBRs.
3keristars
>1 AbigailAdams26: Has Abby seen The Day After or Threads?
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I'm not reading anything today, thanks to a big fatigue crash. It's ME/CFS Awareness Week, so it figures I get an ME flare. 😆 Unrest (2017) is a documentary about one woman's experience. Here's a What is ME? intro - i don't know of any good books on the subject, it's just not very well known and barely studied even though we suspect people like Florence Nightingale and Darwin suffered from it, too.
Anyway, it's frustrating because it keeps me from reading most physical books and limits how much reading I can do on a phone or tablet screen. So I haven't made any progress with Great Girls in New Mexico, 1670-1680 which I'm reading at the internet archive.
Queens at War, Alison Weir 's 4th in the Medieval Queens of England series is on my kindle. I was in the section about Catherine of Valois and her marriage to Henry V when i set it down Wednesday.
Radiant Star, the newest from Ann Leckie, was going to be my fiction read on the kindle, but we'll see. it might be too complex for my winnie-the-pooh brain just yet.
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I'm not reading anything today, thanks to a big fatigue crash. It's ME/CFS Awareness Week, so it figures I get an ME flare. 😆 Unrest (2017) is a documentary about one woman's experience. Here's a What is ME? intro - i don't know of any good books on the subject, it's just not very well known and barely studied even though we suspect people like Florence Nightingale and Darwin suffered from it, too.
Anyway, it's frustrating because it keeps me from reading most physical books and limits how much reading I can do on a phone or tablet screen. So I haven't made any progress with Great Girls in New Mexico, 1670-1680 which I'm reading at the internet archive.
Queens at War, Alison Weir 's 4th in the Medieval Queens of England series is on my kindle. I was in the section about Catherine of Valois and her marriage to Henry V when i set it down Wednesday.
Radiant Star, the newest from Ann Leckie, was going to be my fiction read on the kindle, but we'll see. it might be too complex for my winnie-the-pooh brain just yet.
4featherbear
>3 keristars: I hope you feel better soon! Meanwhile, the low turnout for this thread seems disappointing, since I'm always interested in other points of view & tastes. I don't normally use Facebook/Meta, but I did get a link (via LT) in my e-mail to the thread initiated by LT on Facebook & the replies are quite numerous, quite a bit more than X/Twitter, my usual hangout.
5keristars
>4 featherbear: I noticed the replies can vary a bit on bluesky, often they come in on Saturday or Sunday. There's been a lot of chatter in my corners about how good bsky is for selling books via word of mouth, and I've seen half a dozen threads in the last couple weeks with hundreds of people talking about books they've read because they saw them on bsky. So i always think the weekly What Are You Reading Today? should be super hot! 😅
I really like posting my weekly reading and thoughts, and seeing all the books you have going. I get overwhelmed by personal reading threads but i really like general or topical ones like this!
Perhaps it's just a waxing and waning and will pick up again.
I read a couple picture books, by the way, Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas! and A Book With No Pictures. I can see how both would be big hits for reading out loud, but I do not like the Piranhas art much (it's a bit grotesque for me) and tbh I like to read my picture books quietly, to myself. 😆
I really like posting my weekly reading and thoughts, and seeing all the books you have going. I get overwhelmed by personal reading threads but i really like general or topical ones like this!
Perhaps it's just a waxing and waning and will pick up again.
I read a couple picture books, by the way, Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas! and A Book With No Pictures. I can see how both would be big hits for reading out loud, but I do not like the Piranhas art much (it's a bit grotesque for me) and tbh I like to read my picture books quietly, to myself. 😆
