Keeping nonfiction November going full steam with Game On: How Nintendo Conquered the World by David Sheff
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The View From the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman
Getting back into fiction with The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Violentvixen
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Been on my "classics to read" list for so long.
Well, that was a pretty good thriller. Didn't see that twist coming at all.
Anyway, if one were to check my Goodreads account, with the exception of '11 and '14, I've always managed to have read at least one 1,000 paged tome a year. I haven't done that yet, so I'm hoping to do that with The Sand Sea by Michael McClellan
Anyway, if one were to check my Goodreads account, with the exception of '11 and '14, I've always managed to have read at least one 1,000 paged tome a year. I haven't done that yet, so I'm hoping to do that with The Sand Sea by Michael McClellan
Ernest Cline follows up his smash hit The Big Bang Theory of literature with the long-awaited sequel, the Young Sheldon of literature
The Kryptonite Kid by Joseph Torcha
The Master's Apprentice by Oliver Potzsch
I finally started reading Gideon the Ninth.
So far, just into part 2, it is.........very good
So far, just into part 2, it is.........very good
Getting into the Holiday spirit with Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back edited by Elizabeth Schaefer
Oh! I didn’t know there was a second one of those!
I loved the ANH one!
I loved the ANH one!
Violentvixen
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I loved the first one and have this one on hold at the library. Sadly I'm pretty far back on the hold list, I was hoping that since it just came out people wouldn't have known about it yet but oh well.
Just started Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu. I loved The Three-Body Problem and the prologue of this book as hooked me so I'm excited.
I imagine there will be one for ROTJ as well
Now that a precedent has been established, I would think so!
The New Hope collection of stories were better IMO
Anyway, sticking with Star Wars for a bit. Getting back into the EU The Old Republic series with Deceived by Paul S. Kemp
Anyway, sticking with Star Wars for a bit. Getting back into the EU The Old Republic series with Deceived by Paul S. Kemp
Violentvixen
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I can't imagine anything ever topping Nnedi Okorafor's in the first one. I still think about that story and just love it. Also oddly the paperwork guy early on.
Which one was that? There's only a couple of stories in it I can recall to put a name to.
Violentvixen
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The trash compactor monster. It is unbelievable.
Ahh, I felt like it may have been that one
They’re collections of short stories that retell Star Wars movies from the perspectives of background extras.
The Good/Bad ratio is bizarrely high for a concept like that.
The Good/Bad ratio is bizarrely high for a concept like that.
The two Tales books I read, Empire and New Republic, where short stories set during those periods, but they weren't retelling stories from the movies.
There's a tale in the Empire one from the asteroid worm's POV that's somewhat in a similar vein