Summer Book Club!
4What’s everyone reading? I’m working through a 1940’s series by Elizabeth Daly featuring a rare book dealer/amateur detective named Henry Gamadge. They’re pretty good! Every single plot is about inheritance, no matter what it seems like at the beginning (although it usually seems like it’s about inheritance).
I’m very torn right now because there’s an ebook I very much want to buy but that is very expensive, which went on sale briefly last summer, and I dragged my feet and missed it (under $30, normally $89 on amazon). So I stuck it on my wish list to keep an eye on it, and it’s $23.74, which is great. But then I was looking it up and saw that Palgrave seems to have had ebooks published before 2020 on sale last Cyber Monday for $11.99, and part of me is like I SHOULD WAIT. But I’ve been waiting for over a year, I have a $10 gift card and an extra discount from amazon’s summer reading thing, and I really want it. I read part of the introduction last year in google books and had a very intense and visceral emotional response to it (yes! this is exactly how I feel about magic lanterns! this is exactly how I feel about glass harmonicas! surely I have read this before!). I should just get it right now, right? It’s this book:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00JDHKQI2
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@mossygreen Buy it. You only live once.
Edit: Speaking of living. I just bought the book “The End of the World Running Club”. (no link for it)
Yep, IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AND WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
@Barney Ah, I knew you would enable me! Thank you!
@mossygreen Hey, I’m quite happy to help you spend your money. But really, if it is something you have been wanting, I think you should go for it and enjoy your reading.
@Barney @mossygreen Wait is this a dirty book? All the more reason to get it.
@Barney @sammydog01 Sadly, probably not (although I know Byron was considered quite racy in his time). Now I’m annoyed because the summer reading rewards is offering double points today and tomorrow on Kindle purchases, and OF COURSE my purchase was before midnight pacific time. Does anyone know if you get back credits you used on a book if you return it to buy again immediately?
@Barney @mossygreen I just returned a book I thought was free but had used credits for. I’m not sure I’ll get them back at all.
@mossygreen @sammydog01 I’ve never tried it, but if it makes you feel any better, I do have your kind of luck when buying things. The special offers ALWAYS happen the next day.
@Barney @sammydog01 Looks like it’s not included in the promotion because technically it’s a textbook! Happiness is back on!
Also, you should get it because books are Good For You. Now if you were asking if you should get like a cheesecake . . . we would still tell you to get it
Get it! Read it twice.
Currently reading The Fool’s Run by John Camp (aka John Sandford). I love reading a book about a computer expert written in 1989.
I started re-reading all of Stephen King’s books at the beginning of the year. I’m about halfway through. In between that, I’m reading the Sandman Slim series. Reading is my happy.
@punkynpye I recently thought of doing the same. How are you finding the second time around?
@punkynpye reading is my happy too!!
I’m reading some book about vampires in Greece by McCammon. Maybe it was on sale and @mossygreen linked it here? It’s pretty OK. It’s a dreary rainy day and maybe I’ll finish it this afternoon.
I recently finished Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons. It was long. Really freaking long. It would have been great if it was shorter.
And a Rivers of London book. Only one left to go. I keep putting it off because I love them so much and then I’ll have none.
@sammydog01
If you like vampire books David Wellington has a series that starts with 13 Bullets. It’s really good, I’m on the fourth book and taking that and fifth (and last so far) up north next week to read. He also does a wear wolf series that I liked. I haven’t read the zombie ones yet but I have the first three somewhere.
@sammydog01 It definitely wasn’t me because the only vampires in Greece book I would have brought up is by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
@mossygreen Wrong author, Ramsey Campbell. That’s the thing I most dislike about my kindle, with no cover I can’t remember the name if what I’m reading. It’s called Thirteen Days at Sunset Beach.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/spring-book-clubreading-whatever#60af0532bc602300113a76cf
@mossygreen @sammydog01 You can’t go to your settings and change it for the your book’s cover to show on your opening page? That’s what I have done on all of mine. If it won’t allow you to do this, you might need to download the latest update.
@sammydog01 Oh yeah, Campbell’s always going to be me! I haven’t read it yet, but I remember the reviews were extremely mixed. Sounds like it’s dragging? The good news is: it was cheap.
@mossygreen It was cheap and worth a dollar. Most of my books are dragging these days- I’m pretty sure it’s me and not them.
@Barney I would have to pay $20 to get the ads removed. I use 3 kindles. Maybe I could do it on the bathtub one.
@sammydog01 It’s really weird. All my kindles had ads and for some reason they disappeared. I guess I am loved more than you.
@Barney
THEY JUST PROMISED TO GIVE ME MY BOOK COVER. FOR TWENTY DOLLARS. SEE THEY LOVE ME TOO.
Tax was $2.80? What the fuck?
@Barney This is what my $22.80 got me:
And this is what’s on the kindle with ads.
I’m second guessing my decision.
@sammydog01 Oh, you poor thing.
Um, are all of your book covers that stark (I don’t have that book), because all of mine have pictures. I love pictures.
@Barney A cover photo just popped up- I guess it took a while. Doesn’t remotely live up to Dark Stranger though. Which I just bought. YOU WIN AMAZON.
@sammydog01 If I were you, I’d ask for my money back, but I’m pretty sure with your luck, that I know what Amazon would say.
I recently finished reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Overall, I didn’t think it was quite as good as The Martian or Artemis, but I did really enjoy all the nerdy physics and exobiology details.
@macromeh
I didn’t think it was as good as The Martian, but liked it more than Artemis.
Yes, the nerdy stuff is awesome (much more so than the resident bot, who is quite mediocre), but unlike most scifi authors, he seems to make it very very real.
PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!