It's August and books are being read. Probably. We'll find out, I guess.
7I’m reading David Cassidy’s C’mon Get Happy… Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus because it’s included with Prime Reading, and it’s… not good. He does not seem to have been a particularly interesting or intelligent man. And when you rocket to superstardom at 21, there’s not a lot of outside encouragement to grow as a person. I’ll finish it, I may feel differently by the end (I doubt it). If you have Prime, here’s the link if you want to be mildly disappointed in him:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07Z5NS256
In other news, amazon is doing a “spend $30 on ebooks, get $8 back in ebook credit” deal Aug. 5-12 according to the banner on the kindle books page, so I’m going to load up on Gladys Mitchell mysteries, that Syd Barrett biography that’s currently $2.99, and Lloyd Bucher’s autobiography (I’m super-psyched).
I should be reading and/or discarding my actual, physical books in preparation for moving (eventually), but at least I’m not adding to them?
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The book I’m reading is about a pandemic and IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AND WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
@Barney Hurray!! I mean, wait.
At least it’s almost over.
Wait that’s not right.
Annihilation is… bad? Bad.
@Barney PANDEMIC is a PANIC with a DEM at the center of it.
@Barney I’m starting to think you’re writing this book.
@mossygreen Sometimes I think I should.
@Barney @mossygreen
Every time @Barney posts another books or book series from her custom “ultimate light, cheery, breezy, frothy beach reads list”, I think she deserves a reward.
/youtube it’s the end of the world as we know it
I’m reading Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch. I listened to the first in the series, Midnight Riot, on a road trip. I really like his stuff.
@sammydog01 I have the entire series, and they get reread often. Did you know his website has some freebies, and shorts?
@OldCatLady I didn’t. I’ll check it out.
@OldCatLady Looks like I’ll be doing the buy $30 get $8 thing with Rivers of London.
@sammydog01 Yesss! Enjoy. Better to read them in sequence. Don’t trust anyone…
I just finished City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert. Soooo good! I just ate it up. Nice and longish, and a fun, sexy read.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HZ2Q1MK/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_cUblFbF8EJ9YB
I just started on Odd Billy Todd by NC Reed. I’m only on chap. 18 (out of 80) so we’ll see how I feel once I get through the end, but for now, it’s a refreshing changeup to the typical post apocalypse type stories I usually frequent.
I don’t have time to read, so I listen to audiobooks when I do household chores.
@Roberts27 So what audiobook are you listening to?
@Roberts27 @sammydog01
All of them. At once.
At 100x normal speed.
/giphy stupid grin
I’ve just finished “It” by Stiven King. All my friends told me I would be scared while reading, but I didn’t have any kind of fear. However I found the plot really fascinating and fulled of sense. For me it was like: each person should face his fear. Only after that you will be able to beat it.
@Susanarscott I love that book. I read it again last year. One of his best.
@yakkoTDI Maybe after some time I will read this book again too:)
My stack of books to read has become so intimidating that I have been rereading older books. Currently moving through The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings again. Might pick up Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon again or The Bachman Books by Stephen King next.
@yakkoTDI Well that’ll help you catch up
@yakkoTDI There’s a lot to be said for comfort reading stuff you already know well and love.
Currently reading The Museum of Desire by Jonathan Kellerman. I’m on the waiting list at my local library for A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost and The Answer Is… by Alex Trebek.
Kindle book deal update: I’m unclear on how much money I actually spent, because I had (I thought) $3 in digital credits and $5 credit towards a wish list title which suddenly went down to $4.99 the day before the credit expired (which was nice), but when I thought I had spent the $30 my earned credit was $4.01 instead of $8, which means I somehow earned it and spent it while I thought I was earning it. But the actual money I spent was $18.93? And I didn’t need to buy Angie Bowie’s Backstage Passes? But I would have anyway, so it was fine.
So I got A Very Irregular Head: the Life of Syd Barrett. I am halfway through and have learned mostly that he was very good-looking. A shocker! And four Gladys Mitchell mysteries: Death at the Opera, The Mystery of a Butcher’s Shop, When Last I Died, and Come Away, Death. I am thinking I’ll restart the series from the beginning and read them in order. Bucher: My Story, by Lloyd Bucher, The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont, Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, and the aforementioned Backstage Passes. A pretty good haul!
I’m going back and forth between the Barrett book and the Bowie book. I was hoping there would be more info about the store Biba. I just want someone to tell me if Bowie was wearing Biba makeup in the promotional video for “Life on Mars.”
@mossygreen
Given your taste, I presume you’ve read Up And Down With The Rolling Stones?
It’s pure tell-tale by Keith’s party-mate, assistant, companion, and drug procurer Tony Sanchez (I think that’s his name), cleaned up and made comprehensible by a ghostwriter.
But the guy was present and semi-conscious during the legendary years, and he does have tales to tell. It’s pretty entertaining. And very revealing about how utterly careless, irresponsible, selfish, and starry-eyed many young people, esp many rich hip young people, were then.
When asked about the book years later, Keith just laughed, and didn’t bother to deny anything.
/image up and down with with Rolling Stones
@f00l I have read it! But it was a friend’s copy about 30 years ago, so I remember nothing other than him saying he had a thing with, Marianne Faithfull, I think? Or offered her drugs for sex? Or was it Anita? Time for a reread.
@mossygreen
The biggest reveal for me was the full blood supply replacement episodes so that KR could travel.
All pre-1978 and the Canadian arrest.
After which he “cleaned up” and supposedly got “sober”*.
(*Translation: no smack.)
/image Keith Richards drug free America
@f00l Heh. Classic photo.
I’m reading one of the Inspector Gamache books by Louise Penny. They’re really good.
@sammydog01
Yes. I got about halfway thru her series then got sidetracked. I need to go back and do more.
I guess I just post kindle deals here. Today: Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum for $1.99. I have it in hardcover, but read it, like, 25 years ago. I loved it–will I still love it, or will it make me sad the way The Illuminatus Trilogy did? Only one way to find out. I don’t need it, but maybe I’l l get rid of my hardcover (fat chance).
https://smile.amazon.com/Foucaults-Pendulum-Umberto-Eco-ebook/dp/B003WUYPI8
Also today: Mary Renault’s three Alexander the Great novels together for $1.99, a great deal:
https://smile.amazon.com/Novels-Alexander-Great-Persian-Funeral-ebook/dp/B00DIRC81G/
I’m finishing up the Syd Barrett book and have mostly learned that he was very, very good looking and pretty easy to get along with until his breakdown. I knew the first part, not surprised at all by the second. Oh, that face…
/image syd barrett
@mossygreen That’s not even that good a picture! [Although I do like the ones where you can see his acne because it makes him more human.]
/image syd barrett beautiful
/image syd barrett eye makeup
@mossygreen OK, not what I wanted but pretty great.