• Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
• Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union by S. Frederick Starr

"Dead But Dreaming Of Electric Sheep." Paul Tremblay.

Never read this author before, and I only picked to book up because of the title.

20-something Julia is trying to cut ties with her tech billionaire mother. Mom offers Julia $5,000.00 to come to her office and interview for a one shot job.

Wild ideas, well presented.

Classic.

"Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett. Ever heard about that classic movie where a drifter wanders into a corrupt town and decides to start a war where all the baddies kill each other? This is the novel they stole the idea from. Almost a century old, and it's still kicking ass.

I read that book and loved it.

The author did a great job making the memory eating monsters seem 'real.'

I'd love to see a good film maker take a crack at it.

I just finished There Is No Aniti-Memetics Division. It's a sci-fi book about memory eating monsters and the brave souls who protect us from them.

The writing was somewhat engrossing and was pretty good at evoking the fear and dread of impending doom. Though, it seemed to be intentionally confusing with a deus ex machina ending.

Snow Plow Extra by Wes Boyd. One of his early works, and difficult to understand, as he was still transitioning from writing short newspaper articles to novels. I currently have three editor files open with annotations while reading it...

A book recommended on Lemmy: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson.

I don't know how legit she is, but she is perfectly describing my father and the childhood that I had with him.

Deep Work by Cal Newport. I'm trying to add blocks of distraction free time to each day and it's a big challenge, hopefully this book will give me some fresh ideas regarding the implementation.

Blake Butler’s Scorch Atlas. Little vignettes about the apocalypse, such as a plague of glass. Very bleak. Neat artistic design for the physical copy itself too, like a ruined library book.

Just finished 'Cool Machine' by Colson Whitehead. Third book in his Harlem trilogy.

Ray Carney's dad was a stone cold criminal. When he died he left Ray a truck with $30,000.00 hidden in the spare tire. Ray decided to turn straight and brought a furniture store on 125 St.

Okay, so he occasionally fences a few stolen items. He's a good father and husband who doesn't cheat or drink.

Reading these books is like spending a long Sunday afternoon in an old man bar, listening to the OGs talk about legendary heists and hit men.

At this point, until we have a way to more effectively migrate the current subscribers of the books community on Lemmy, I’ve mostly figuring out backend stuff with some of the new features for PieFed like figuring out what the wiki and if we can recognize those who participate in the Bingo with a flair and other features. Some of that is information we’re waiting on from the admins that are setting this up.

We want to make sure that we don’t lose any other current community members in a transition.

Any updates on this?

That's awesome then, subbed 👍

Yep! Just like the books community on lemmy.world we are a home for discussion of any type of reading including comics, manga, and audiobooks. Feel free to join us at !books@lemmy.world too until this is fully set up.

Would manga and comics/graphic novels count? 🤔

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed a few books I found that way, I’m excited to hear what you think about it.

I randomly thrifted a mystery book called The Hermit of Eyton Forest by Ellis Peters. Haven't done any research at all on this book series, just decided to read a bit, after suspense was too much I had to spy at the ending so now I can read it with peace of the mind... probably.

So far I really liked the attitudes some characters have had and I have found the writing hilarious and at times very touching.

Just got the brand new Murderbot book by Martha Wells (Platform Decay) and I’m excited to tear into it.

Finished reading The Hermit of Eyton Forest by Ellis Peters, a mediaeval whodunnit as the cover advertises. It was a comfortable read, with several kind and clever characters. Should I ever see any more in thrift stores I may pick up more of the series.
I went investigating after and saw that the books have been popular enough to have a TV show made in the nineties too. The book I read was not adapted though.

I have another book in different series by the author but not going to get to it just yet, I have some library books I am going to at least stare at a bit.

I completed book 8 of Dungeon Crawler Carl yesterday and now I’m on to the new Dresden novella OutLaw.

I’m continuing through the Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children series and about to start Red Rising.

Just started reading some Neal Asher, Polity stuff (dark agent, dark diamond, war bodies).

Was reading Empire of the Dawn, but it got a bit spicy for reading on the plane so I had to switch to something a little safer 😅

Currently listening through the dungeon crawler Carl series with the missus, we're currently on the dungeon anarchist's cookbook. On my own, I've just started the blacksmith's son, the first book in the mageborn series.

I’ve been working my way through the Pierce Brown series Red Rising. I’m currently on Morning Star.

I haven't heard of that. Thanks for the suggestion!

Have you read Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers? It’s a duology that are quite short but very thoughtful/ thought provoking and sweet.