Books - What are you reading?

Fantastic book. Just go with it, don't try to understand it. Saw a theatre company performance a few years back, outdoors, beautiful summers evening in Penzance, quite possibly the most surreal theatre I've seen.

It’s a stone cold classic of the wtf is going on genre, I love it

Read this. It was alright.

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I think I gave up on it (it was a long time ago).

Everything I've read by Italo Calvino has been "alright".

I’ve only ever read ‘If on a winter’s night a traveller’ and that was considerably less than alright

I thought if on a winter's night was excellent, this much less so

This was brilliant

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That's one I've not read, I'll have to check it out. I find him really hit and miss, The Wasp Factory and The Bridge are great but a lot of the other stuff I've read by him has been a bit shit and blokey.
I'm not keen on his sci-fi stuff either but I recognise that that style of sci-fi just isn't my thing.

It would fail the Bechdel test. But was easy to read with plenty of action and moral anger. Lots of murders.

Blokelit.

would fail the Bechdel test

Unlike ‘baby got back’ by Sir Mix-a-lot!

If you decide you like it, you might try "The Ginger Man"

One I'll have to revisit, probably 20+ years since I was handed a copy by a friend, he'd written me a little note inside, summat along the lines of "you'll fuckin love this", he was right.

Sometimes the history of how you encountered a book really adds to it. But it's also a cracking read.

Just started this after my chick lit adventure. I have to say sorrow and bliss was really good

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For a really good 'feel good factor' read I recommend ' The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry'.

Yes! Read that long ago. The Crow Road is good too

Yes, I loved Crow Road. The Steep Approach to Garbadale is similar in style and theme. Is good.

Re-read this. Too ill too read proper books at the moment. Blokelit again. But excellent.

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(re)Read this. I really like Paul Auster.

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I’m not sure how I feel about auster. I enjoyed the country of last things, but I hated the New York trilogy. I really dug the Brooklyn follies, but I loathed man in the dark. I have a copy of 4 3 2 1 but I expect I’m never going to read it.

I guess “author has inconsistent output” isn’t exactly headline news, but often his stuff feels like a commitment and it sucks when it sucks.

What this about?

Here's the back

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I really liked the New York Trilogy. Also Moon Palace, Timbuktu, Mr Vertigo. Probably a couple of others

Haven’t read this like Pelecanos.

Will check it out

Brandon Sanderson raises over £17m in less than a week to publish new books he wrote during lockdown
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/06/brandon-sanderson-fantasy-fans-crowdfund-record-17m-authors-new-novels