The Books/Reading Thread

[Blurry_Dreams]

does spending time on other websites count as reading??

just kidding

 

[Bloopy]

If those websites have good substance, why not? Blogs, articles etc. There must be some reason it's not merely called the 'Books' thread.

 

[Cronopio]

I finally finished Douglas Murray's The Strange Death of Europe and am now reading Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

If those websites have good substance, why not? Blogs, articles etc. There must be some reason it's not merely called the 'Books' thread.

i was actually making the joke about how the people that are addicted to Facebook are idiots, using Twitter is just sending a mass-text to people you're never gonna meet f-2-f and how Instagram is like Twitter for people who can't read, and the people who were mindless TV addicts have become mindless YouTube addicts and how the content of Tik Tok has become so creepy that the "profesional YouTubers" are now actually complaining about "TikTokers" being bat-shit-crazy

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

If those websites have good substance, why not? Blogs, articles etc. There must be some reason it's not merely called the 'Books' thread.

found something of good substance on YouTube

 

[Bloopy]

i was actually making the joke about how the people that are addicted to Facebook are idiots

Oh, I assumed you were talking about your own reading, foot fetish fanfics and the like.

Put YouTube stuff in the YouTube thread, or here's a readable link on the time travel paradox. Hypothesising or claiming to have solved something isn't the same as it actually being solved, but I suppose the web could do worse than to hype science like that...

Meanwhile I'm slowly reading Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

foot fetish fanfics

ROFLMFAO
now i'm hearing the voice of Effie Trinket saying "don't touch me above the knee"

 

[TageRyche]

I finished reading Chris Pavone's THE ACCIDENT. And I just got an advance copy of Marc Cameron's DEAD LINE in the mail the other day.

 

[Cronopio]

Finished Wounds (very good, but not as good as his first collection) and am now reading more Murray: The Madness of Crowds.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

only around a hundred pages in but so far this is a love at first sight deal, hope it doesn't shit the bed. imagine kurosawa's "high and low" as a decades-spanning mystery with a huge ensemble cast. it's one novel in japanese, but the english translation was published in two volumes.

 

[TageRyche]

I got to meet, at long last, the best crime fiction writer working today, author Michael Connelly last night.

 

[Cronopio]

Currently reading this:

 

[Bloopy]

Last I read was Iain Banks - Stonemouth. Sort of a mystery, but also describing the protagonist's past blunder at an excruciatingly slow pace. The book equivalent of watching a car crash in ultra slow motion. Still, good enough.

 

[Ares_Kevin]

Homebase by Shawn Wong.

So far, an engrossing read. I like a good coming-of-age story and this one seems to tick every box.

 

[TageRyche]

While my overall reading time took a hit this year, I did manage to cull together my two annual lists.

The first is for the mystery/thriller genre.

#10 - COLD BURN by A.J. Landau
#9 - HIDDEN IN SMOKE by Lee Goldberg
#8 - NIGHTSHADE by Michael Connelly
#7 - CRIMSON THAW by Bruce Robert Coffin
#6 - DEATH OF AN EX by Delia
#5 - A DEATH IN BERLIN by Simon Scarrow
#4 - BATTLE MOUNTAIN by C.J. Box
#3 - GONE IN THE NIGHT by Joanna Schaffhausen
#2 - RIVER OF LIES by James L'Etoile
#1 - A BITTER WIND by James R. Benn

The second list focuses on the cozy mysteries I read in 2025.

#6 - AT DEATH'S DOUGH by Mindy Quiqley
#5 - A PERILOUS PLOT by Lorna Barrett
#4 - BAIT AND SWISS by Korina Moss
#3 - WRITTEN IN STONE by Paige Shelton
#2 - O, DEADLY NIGHT by Vicki Delany
#1 - MURDER AT CAPE COSTUMERS by Maddie Day