@reimesu said in Book suggestions:

I just read "Uprooted" by Naomi Novik and it pretty much blew me away. It didn't go where I thought it would, which made it a lot better, and it was a wild ride.

I know, I'm late to the party.

Naomi Novik is an amazing storyteller! I've really enjoyed all her books, and if you haven't, check out her Temeraire series. So good 🙂

Along those same lines, if you haven't already, you could try Madeline Miller. I just finished reading 'Circe' and every sentence feels like an artform. It was beautiful and engaging.

@derp said in How do you discover books?:

@reimesu said in How do you discover books?:

@derp Luke? No. Leia was, but that's because she was adopted by royalty.

Yyyyeah but their mom was a queen, and then went on to be a galactic senator.

Right?

Padme wasn't royalty, that was 'just' the title she got as an elected representative of her people. Her children, if Anakin hadn't gone uh a little off the rails, wouldn't have had inherited titles even if she had lived to raise them.

This is hilarious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Darkness

TL;DR: Dude 'translates' Dracula into Swedish in 1899. It takes people just about a century to realize he didn't translate it as much as... basically write a whole new fan-fiction version of it with more eroticism, less vampiric stuff, and some kinda social Darwinism commentary.

The State of Sanderson post came out and again AGAIN Warbreaker, Elantris, and The Rithmatist are on hold.

So because I love to hurt myself, I reread The Rithmatist today. It ends on such a cliffhanger and my soul hurts.

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So, just for disclosure, I'm a librarian IRL. And while I've not got a Discord Book Club in my pocket (our only Discord server is for teen use), what I do have is a Facebook Group that's a bookclub that chats twice a month for people to share what they've been reading with as much/or as little info about their opinions as they like. Open to ANYONE really, but direct invitation to @cirim13 since the magic words "book club" were mentioned. Night Owls Book Group - We chat at 9pm Eastern on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month. It's an aspect of the job, I'm always all for talking about books & sharing recommendations of my own.

@bluebird Less like a book and more like camp fire stories. Those were always my favorite kind of stories though.

@sunny
I haven't read the books but plz do this

@macha Magic Bites.

One of my favorite books my nana got me was And Then A Harvest Feast by George Dennison. It is about a group of city animals who get tired of that life and move out into the country together and all the hard work they put into their new lives. It is such an endearing book and I suggest anyone who can get a copy (it is a Kindle book) and read it. Read it to your kids if you have kids and hell, read it yourself if you don't. It's so adorable and such a feel good book, I promise you won't regret it.

Max Brooks' new novel, Devolution, is great

Sorry for the necro - but if anyone has been waiting around to read this and don't mind ebooks (or Amazon, I know some people dislike them), it's on sale today on Amazon for $2.99.

@Auspice

It's really not that crazy, actually. There are a goodly many states wherein you will never see that word in pretty much any book, and many of us didn't know it prior to 1993 or so. While it may be common in some school systems, it's far from universal, so her not understanding the word and needing to look it up later is understandable, especially in the era before google gave us crazy fast access to just about everything we wanted to know and had never heard of before (remember, the book is 1990).

@Derp said in MSB Book Club 2020?:

@Auspice said in MSB Book Club 2020?:

Well, then. We can at least trial it. Anyone got any books to suggest on the theme nature or... a different theme?

...does Jurassic Park count?

Sure!

@Arkandel said in Help my addiction:

I have a problem.

My problem is a certain kind of book is crack cocaine to me; once I find one I just feast on it, quite often starting then finishing it in the same day. So now I need my fix and hopefully you people will point me to an author/dealer to keep it going.

Don't judge me, but the material at hand involves (in semi-random order) a combination of military or arcane training, underdogs and badass moments. I'm talking about books such as the following:

Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter; a low-class nobody in a caste-based militant Empire gets into a military program and kicks all kinds of ass.

The Red Rising saga by Brown Pierce; a low-class nobody in an solan system-wide oppressive regime fakes his way into a military program and kicks all kinds of ass.

The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks; a bastard of the world's most powerful man makes his way into an magical military school and kicks all kinds of ass.

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence; a piss-poor orphan girl gets in the world's most badass nunnery and kicks all kinds of ass.

The Raven's Shadow series by Anthony Ryan; a young nobleman is forced into a military school and kicks all kinds of ass.

Okay, okay, Ender's Game. You know this one, the author turned out to be fucked up... but Ender kicked all kinds of ass. In a military school.

Anyway you can stop judging me now FINE I get it, I said I had a problem. Find me more books to feed my habit, will you?

I chuckled, which isn't easy lately.

@TheOnceler said in Recommendations: Neo-noir book theme.:

All Cyberpunk - Do you like questions of identity and/or humanity in the face of high technology? Extreme differences between the haves and have nots? A dark setting where trust and hope are in short supply? Then you might enjoy every cyberpunk novel, movie or tv show.

Someone reminded me that Max Headroom was a thing. We agreed that it was Cyberpunk but it was much more satire than noir.

Also that we missed it quite a lot.

@Tyche I agree with these sentiments. It's absurd.

@coin said in YA Fantasy Recommendations:

@groth said in YA Fantasy Recommendations:
it's basically Ready Player One for vampire/classical sci-fi/historical lit. but without the exposition being introduced like a brick to your face, thanks, RPO, Jesus.

I watched a review of the movie that talked a lot about the book.

“Ready Player One is less like a book and more like a speed-run of a book.”

I hadn’t laughed so hard in a while.

@cobaltasaurus said in Hugo 2018:

@thenomain Nuku V / Valentine, not Cirno.

Fixed, thanks.