move over colin jost there's a new book on tape in town and it's called star wars the high republic: rising storm

i'm always intimidated by series books and fan fiction cause it seems like an infinite rabbit hole.. not to out my boy george rawrrawr martin but im pretty sure he was spending some sexy nights reading the internet's own sexy game of thrones fan fic showing their fan dics lol instead of finishing that series when everyone was like hurry up.. you can leave these creators in dark rooms in the basement at night to go over their own masterpiece and ruin it with cgi or giving ben wan 7 different screams each time he sees the sandpeople.. how about the sandpeople are the best and come up with new ways to commuicate with them

anyway some books on tape are alittle too epic sounding in the voice like this ain't dungeon master reading a book to me with viking voice and girl voice lol but i can fall asleep pretty good to it

janeway wrote: Sun Jul 04, 2021 7:15 amspending some sexy nights reading the internet's own sexy game of thrones fan fic

Seriously some of the best fiction I've ever read was a Harry Potter NSFW-light fanfic, ages ago. It was so hot. And captivating, weird, scary.

EDIT: It still exists!

I recently finished Malaparte's "The Skin". I'm glad I've read it, though it is often vile, suffocatingly heavy with needless detail, and slappable.

More enjoyable, but also sometimes hard is Limmy's autobiography, "Surprisingly down to earth, and very funny", which would also be apt for the mental health thread. I can't do it justice and I recommend it to all.

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas - Machado de Assis

Considered the greatest writer of Brazilian literature and virtually unknown in the US. How can you not like a book that begins with this dedication: "To the worm who first gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse, I dedicate with fond remembrance these Posthumous Memoirs"?

Just finished When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale. Fun, easy read about a mentally ill English mom and her two kids moving to Rome and hitting many obstacles, told from a young boy’s perspective.

On Alice Munro book #3. Just finished Dance of the Happy Shades, and started Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. I think I’m learning a lot about short story craft by reading her work.

Re-reading "Solo Faces" by James Salter for about the 5th time in 20 years. Limiting myself to a handful of pages a day, so I can just enjoy the prose.

The Lady With the Dog & Other Stories by Chekhov.

Revisiting some Henry Miller stuff, odds and ends. I still love HM, especially his essays. Forget the Tropics and the Rosy Crucifixion. He contained volumes. It’s always a joy to read his essays about the people he admired. The guy was full of contradictions, but his life and mind are worth examining.

Brian Evenson's collection 'A Collapse of Horses'. Been recommended to me so many times it couldn't be ignored. Underwhelming so far.

On a run of rock bios/histories at the moment. Recently finished Hooky's Substance: Inside New Order, and now partway through Open Up And Bleed, the Iggy bio. Substance is very loose and conversational in style...a light easy read, despite the length, and the geek-detail stuff is chaptered off on its own, so Hooky's voice is pretty much undiluted when it comes to the personal recollections. It's an entertaining read. Open Up is a lot more of a trad third-person rock bio, but pretty detailed and unfliching so far.

PASTA wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2021 11:15 pm Re-reading "Solo Faces" by James Salter for about the 5th time in 20 years. Limiting myself to a handful of pages a day, so I can just enjoy the prose.

I shall pick this up - I’ve read “A Sport and a Pastime” and “Light Years”, and loved them both. This article in the LRB took me to him, itself a good read if you’re willing to sign up for a limited number of free articles.