Hello! I have a Virtual Book Club via Zoom. We've decided to recruit a few new folks. For the next year, we'll be reading selections from:

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1027159166/best-books-science-fiction-fantasy-pas...

All current members are radical leftists, you need to cool with that.
We're currently reading The Poppy War.
My wife drew the picture. It will soon be a sticker for members.
I'm happy to provide details in the comments.

I loved Convenience Store Woman, so I knew I would get here eventually. Why didn't anyone warn me?!

TW: uh, if it's taboo or triggering, it's in here, I promise. Incest, child abuse, cannibalism to list the big ones.

It's honestly a sweet book that examines societal pressures and bodily autonomy. I was relating pretty well right up until that unexpected ending. Recommended reading for the right audience.

Murderbot #4

Solid read. Murderbot is the best. On to book 5.

Wow! Just, wow. 5stars. Urban fantasy meets Lovecraftian horror. N.K. Jemisin spanks H.P. Lovecraft with his own genre. Such a smart, and often funny, mind bending adventure.

Fantastic book! I have some other stuff to finish first, but I will definitely continue the series. Well written, well crafted, funny and awful! So much to love about Atwood's creation. I wanted more Oryx, and the ending is a bit of a cliffhanger, but it's still great.

I finished this a couple of weeks ago. It was very good. Historical fiction lightly disguised as science fiction. Written in the 70's but doesn't really feel dated.

Murderbot Diaries: book 3.
More good fun with SecUnit/Murderbot, but this was my least favorite this far. I plan to keep reading the series, though.

A departure from the previous books in the series, but no less enjoyable.

My least favorite of The Hunger Games books. There are still stories from this world that I would like to read, but this one never moved me.

Pick! I, unlike most people, don't typically enjoy Stephen King. I also don't like audiobooks. However, back at the beginning of the pandemic I bought several thinking I would take up audio walking. Turns out I much prefer to listen to my surroundings. Anyhow, I finally got around to this one and I enjoyed it more than I had expected.

Wow! That was one hell of a book. I don't recommend it. Disgusting, gut wrenching, sad, bleak. Made The Road feel like a visit to Chuck E Cheese. Do not read while eating.

It that didn't scare you off, then get this book, and get to reading.

I read this charming cookbook more like a travel guide or geography book. Interviews with and recipes from several grandmother's from 8 different East African nations that border the indian ocean.

Back to The Moors in this installment. Jack is absolutely my favorite character in the series, but this was not the best book. I'm still along for the ride, though. I know the next book comes out soon, but I may not get to it for a bit.

This one was great! 4th book in the series and it might be my favorite.

Good, not great. I'll keep going with the series. I really like the premise and the novella size. My anxiety has been unbearable lately and chunkier books are on hold.

What a strange little book. I have a hard time recommending it because I'm certain I don't understand some of it. 3 different individuals find themselves employed at different jobs within the same enormous place called the factory. Time has little meaning within the book, nobody does much work, and the factory may or may not produce anything.

The third book in the Wayward Children series is still a "pick" but it's my least favorite so far. The characters introduced in this one just didn't grab me as much. I also preferred the traditional horror of the Moors to the Nonsense drama of Confection.

1) The Historian
2) Let the Right One In
3) Either of the above. I also really liked 30 Days of Night.
#SpookySaturday

2nd book in the Wayward Children series and I must say it is better than the first. Jack and Jill reimagined as a horrific fantasy. Portal-story meets vampires. On to the next book in the series.

This novella is a fantasy / murder mystery hybrid at a school for portal-story survivers. This is my first Seanan Mcguire book. TOR gave away the series on e-book last month and I grabbed them all because I have read (and loved) most of Mira Grant's books ( Grant is Mcguire's other pen name).

A short, but substantive, novel about an autistic, asexual (though neither of those terms are ever mentioned) woman who finds meaning in here job at a convenience store. My only 5* read this year.

Fun read. More of the same, which is what I had hoped for. Won't make Ernie any new fans, but shouldn't cost him many either.

Pretty good. Far from great. An easy predictable cybercrime thriller. I've been played up in bed with a one-two punch of debilitating anxiety and back pain. This book was really good for passing the time without taxing my mind

It's always fun when the book and the real calendar sync up.

Murderbot likes entertainment content. Murderbot does not like people. I relate to Murderbot.

Darkly comedic, sci-fi, adventure novella. First in a series.

It's been awhile since I was excited about a cookbook, but I can't wait to get into this one.

Big finish for this unique trilogy. I hope the author's next work feels this fresh.

Not as good as Infomacracy - the first book in he series - but still a good read. It did what the second book is supposed to do. It made me buy the third book. Near-future geopolitical intrigue that is highly imaginative and completely plausible. Pick!

Barely a pick. Just finished this one for a virtual book club that I host for some IRL friends. This book has won ALL the awards and I am very well versed in anarchist philosophy but the book barely moved my interest meter. Plenty worth discussing for a book club so that's a win, but it's just a very lukewarm entertainment experience.

It's been awhile.
Today's e-book haul. I had some birthday gift cards burning a hole in my pocket.

"Maman died today."

#bookhunt #round1
@ShyBookOwl

I'm not quite finished with this book, but I did just finish #40miles20hours. Yay!

#7days7books Day 5. Books that changed me or left an impact.

#7books7days Day 4. Books that changed me or left an impression.

#7books7days Day 3. Books That changed me or made an impact.

Started this one today. Very much a sc-fi survival-horror vibe. Not what I was expecting, but it's holding my interest.

Also, I'm at 10miles 6 hours on #40miles20hours

#7books7days Day 2. Books that changed me or left an impression.

Recipe NOT from tagged book, sorry.

I made a galette! Swiss chard and chevre.

Not exactly book related. Sorry, not sorry
#keeplitsypositive

#7days7books that changed me or left a strong impression. Day 1

Wonderful ending to my favorite graphic novel series in ages.

It's not that the last book of this YA trilogy was bad. I was just tired of the characters by the end of this book. No reason not to finish them if you have read the first two, and everything wraps up nice and neat with just the right amount of twists. I think I'm just burned out on YA tropes.

For good measure, I am at 7.5 miles and 5 hours on #40miles20hours

#40miles20hours
About to get started on this challenge. Lots of new stuff for me. I don't really do audiobooks. I prefer to walk in silence and think. Also, Stephen King isn't really my jam, but I have been reading plague novels and this just seemed like the right chunkster for this challenge. I tend to walk 3 miles per hour and Audible puts this at 47hours and 40 minutes soooo, The Stand = 143 miles.

I have lost 10lbs since this whole thing started. Today, I lost my beard.

I liked this one better than the first book, which rarely happens to me for a second book. Off to borrow the third book in the series.

Today we built a keyhole garden. My wife is planting herbs. She would not approve of her appearing in the photo.

https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief?QYsyXN2P_siHCAhbR...

Not book related. I don't know who can benefit from this, but I wanted to share just in case. For me, Litsy's secondary purpose is good mental hygiene.

#manicmonday @JoScho

@TheKidUpstairs
1. Novelist
2. Library
3. Dedication
4. Burn

#isolationinteractions #socialdistancingselfies
@TheKidUpstairs

Taking my morning walk in my small backyard. 51 laps = 3000 steps
Making sure my neighbors chickens stay 6 feet away from me.

@wanderinglynn @TheKidUpstairs
1. I like disasters, post apocalyptic, and pandemic reads for fiction.
2. I don't really like comedies, unless they are very dark. I like adventure movies for escapism.
3. I'm still watching the Walking Dead and it's most if the way through 10 seasons - I have also read the entire TWD comic run.
4. Cooking, and drums are my main hobbies besides reading.

This was a fun YA post& pandemic novel. Heavy on the science and little gruesome in places. Perfect for me! I didn't even mind the obligatory love triangle that much. I didn't realize it was the first in a series (aren't they all) but the second book was available on Libby, so I let another couple of holds slide so that I could keep following this adventure.