What are you reading right now?

[Hope]

I'm hoping to learn something about sex or my vagina I don't already know.

[Guybrush]

^I wish I had the sexual motivation to want to read that book 😅 but my sex life is in a rut and my libido is at its lowest point.

Also, I don't have a vagina.

I'm reading three books at the moment, but something about my new, active lifestyle makes me so sleepy at night I can hardly read a page in bed before my brain turns to mush.

[Lexi Darling]

I'm reading three books at the moment, but something about my new, active lifestyle makes me so sleepy at night I can hardly read a page in bed before my brain turns to mush.

Oh gosh, I feel this so hard. I have quite a few books on my Kindle app that I've been going through slower than molasses because I make such little progress before I start dozing off.

Thankfully my new work arrangement should open up a lot more time to multitask some reading.

[ribbons]

Reading this to and fro on the train lately.  I last read it years ago, and still find the story a bit tedious - but I always return just to read Willa Cather's stunning descriptions of the landscapes and pueblos of New Mexico.

"The rock, when one came to think of it, was the utmost expression of human need; even mere feeling yearned for it; it was the highest comparison of loyalty in love and friendship."

[Marie Monday]

I haven't read that one yet but I adore some of her books. I agree about her descriptions of nature

[Meatwad]

Im currently reading ......

The Art and Science of String Performance - Samuel Applebaum (page 20)
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (page 204)
The cooks dictionary guide (about 3/4 the way through)

And have recently finished some leisurely titles such as .....

Sketching 365 - Katherine Tyrell
Several slow cooker cook books
The Coffee Book - Anette Moldvaer

[Hope]

Also, I don't have a vagina.

Never a bad time to learn about vaginas.

[innerspaceboy]

So excited! In addition to my handsome hardcover Complete Calvin & Hobbes first edition box set in slipcase beside my beloved crocheted Hobbes doll, I now have 15 original Calvin & Hobbes paperback books comprising the entirety of the strip's history!

My thinking is that the hardcover set is more of an art object than a practical reading copy, and the spines are known to split on that edition, so the paperbacks can be kept at my bedside for enjoyable evening perusal at a fraction of the price.

"It's a magical world." - Bill Watterson

[Suburban Placeholder?]

I've owned this book for a good 15 years and it's always fun to dip in and read something from it.



It's a collection of over 300 eye witness accounts covering around 2500 years of history, from the great plague in Athens in 430 B.C. to the deposition of President Marcos of the Philippines in 1986.

Highlights include Julius Caesar's own account of invading Britain, The burning of Rome in 64 A.D. Having dinner with Attila The Hun. All the way through The Peasants Revolt, The Battle of Agincourt, The Black Death and The Great Fire of London to Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrins accounts of landing on the moon.

It's not just big events though, there are a lot of every day life accounts, so if you have ever wondered what happened at a Viking funeral or what life aboard a French Galley in the 18th century was like this is the book for you.

There's hours of entertainment in the book. Even after all this time there are still some accounts I have yet to read.

[innerspaceboy]

A friend recommended Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu. I have his complete bibliography yet unread so I gave it a read tonight. I really enjoyed it! I love how his writing is so archaic as if it was from the eighteenth-century Gothic period, (if I have that right?)

[Guybrush]

A friend recommended Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu. I have his complete bibliography yet unread so I gave it a read tonight. I really enjoyed it! I love how his writing is so archaic as if it was from the eighteenth-century Gothic period, (if I have that right?)

Yes! He's a lot of fun 🙂

If you just want some quick ones, I like the Herbert West stories (though there are ofc many other good ones too).

The Color Out of Space is one of my favorites, but.. he's got so many classics.

His longest stories (like The Shadow Over Innsmouth and At The Mountains of Madness) can be a little slow in places, but they're all fun - eventually 😄

[innerspaceboy]

Thanks! My friend also recommended The Color Out of Space and The Shadow out of Time.

Would either of those be apt for a fan of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Ray Bradbury?

I should probably read some Poe as well.

[Guybrush]

Thanks! My friend also recommended The Color Out of Space and The Shadow out of Time.

Would either of those be apt for a fan of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury?

Yes, absolutely 👌

Also consider Dreams in the Witch House or perhaps The Dunwich Horror. Rats in the Wall? You can't go much wrong with good old HP 🙂

[ribbons]

D. H. Lawrence, The Man Who Died

Engrossed in this lately. His last work, written in his characteristically beautiful poetic prose style. 

[innerspaceboy]

I had a free afternoon so I tackled two books that had been sitting in my library unread for far too long:

Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher

and

Mars by 1980: The Story of Electronic Music by David Stubbs

Now I just have to mind a way to occupy myself Sunday.