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Started reading the Bible. A very dense read... hard to stomach
Dressmakers was awesome. It was a very narrow look at a specific group of women who ended up working as dressmakers to Elite SS officers wives. The story starts before deportation and ends post war. It is an up close and personal look at their Auschwitz experience. Just excellent!After finishing the excellent Brides of Maracoor I am now reading The Dressmakers of Auschwitz. I'm a third of the way through it and it is wonderful. It is a lesser know story of survival in hell.
I read it earlier this year and really liked it. It was a fun read and the nontraditional format worked very well.Yesterday I finished reading a book I bought (likely half price as second of two) from Waterstones
Master of The Revels
by
Nicole Galland
which is a continuation of the book she co-wrote with Neal Stevenson about D.O.D.O.
It is all about time travel, witches, cross dressing and alternate reality strands.
Told me quite a bit about Shakespeare's King Players at the court of St James doing MacBeth.
Slightly annoyed by its inclusion of a couple of manuscript letters which I, at my age, found impossible to read.
Probably not an issue for most younger readers here. I might contact her and ask for large format version.
If you liked AWoE, The Tombs of Atuan is the next book in that series. The first time I read it (aged ~9), I was a bit disappointed to find that Ged was only a minor character (and even worse, the main character was a guuuurrrl!Ended A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursuka K. Le Guin
Still deciding which novel starting now
I recommend: Te amaré locamente, by Jorge Fernández Díaz, which I've just finished reading.Ended A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursuka K. Le Guin
Still deciding which novel starting now
If you liked AWoE, The Tombs of Atuan is the next book in that series. The first time I read it (aged ~9), I was a bit disappointed to find that Ged was only a minor character (and even worse, the main character was a guuuurrrl!![]()
); but this bothered me a lot less on my second readthrough, ~30 years later, as a prospective bedtime story for my own boys.
Ged's arc as originally envisaged concludes with The Farthest Shore — though UKL did later write three more Earthsea books, 2 novels and one short-story collection, none of which I have read. The first of those, Tehuan, was published ~18 years after TFS.
I recommend: Te amaré locamente, by Jorge Fernández Díaz, which I've just finished reading.
Just started reading Leviathan Wakes (2011) for the second time. I think I read it and Caliban's War back-to-back, and then I had a little wait for Abaddon's Gate, so it must have been 10 years ago. It'll be interesting to note the differences between the book and the show. Some little things already, like Naomi is "almost 2m tall", for example. I remember thinking when the show was announced that it was going to be hard to cast some of the characters. I think the show did amazingly well, in that regard. The performances in the show may prove to be the more definitive or canonical versions of the characters, in my mind, than the ones in the books. iirc, the first season of the show covers the first book. I won't be surprised if I find myself rewatching the show after I finish rereading the book.