Happy new years! 🍀 I'm right there with you with the language thing, people will see me and assume I speak some dialect of Hindi or Tamil, but my family's been from the opposite side of the world for centuries now 😂
Happy new year! Hopefully 2025 is full of some great and radical reading, with new connections and experiences. I saw JG Ballard on a couple favorites of 2024, Drowned World seems intriguing but High Rise the movie was too intense though I appreciated the themes. Borges is another one on my shelf to get to posthumous memoirs.
Happy new years to you too! I just bought a lot of Ballard books, but Drowned world wasn’t in it (darn). I’ve seen the movie high rise but when I saw it I didn’t know it was a book lol, but you’re right very intense. Borges has been a joy to read , I can’t wait till I get to some of his weird fiction that I hear he writes. hope your 2025 is full of 5⭐️
a book about hypothermia? it's amazing what people write books about! can't say i would pick it up if i saw it on a shelf but....almost everything is interesting if you look at it in a certain way. however, not every person can write about a topic and make it interesting. right? ah, book club. i'm currently reading anxious people by fredrik backman for my book club at the end of january. i'm 50 pages into it and really, REALLY want to abandon it. i think it's awful. i hate to dnf it especially since it's for my book club. when i trash a book i like to read the entire thing so people can't tell me that it got better or some such nonsense. why, of why, do i feel like i have to finish every book i start? sigh (i know you are going to say that i should stop reading and move on!) it's awesome how you just read short stories this past week. i haven't gotten to fafhrd and the grey mouser yet but i did pick up a copy of one of the books so maybe i'll have time this year. if only i didn't have a day job and could just read all day long! sigh i read the female man by joanna russ many, many years ago but it made no impression on my as i don't recall anything about the plot. i have a feeling that if i read it today my opinion would be very different. i've changed as a reader over the years, especially these days as i'm going back and reading older stuff and enjoying it so (sigh- again!) i will add her to my never ending list of books to be read ah, elric. another series that i need to sink my teeth into now conan has never appealed to me. i wonder why that's the case zombies! i don't know why but i absolutely LOVE zombie stories. i need to get my hands on a copy of that zombie book hurray for j.g. ballard and science fiction for adults. i recently bought a copy of that ballard book of his short stories. i'll try to read that one this week. it sounds interesting borges? boy, you are really become quite "literary." haha. that's meant as a compliment it's never too late to learn spanish? i'm just saying! (did i share that i am cuban and came to the united states as a small child back in the late 60s?) too much coffee! of course we can all relate to that. everyone hates commercials! no worries about your reading poetry skills. the only way to improve your reading aloud skills is to....continue reading aloud. no need to apologize and keep at it! let's see if i can find a plane emoji.... 🪴🪴🪴 cheers
i didnt even get to the "out cold, hypothermia" book club the person hosting switched the meet up to the same time as my "Starship trooper" meeting!! which i just got home from and it was another success! i had a couple fredick bachman that i un hauled, i heard from other RUclipsrs about some of his questionable writing and after what you said im for sure now that i made the right decision. maybe just read a summary and pretend you read the book for club who will really know lol im enjoying the joanna russ sword and sorcery "alyx", but what put her on my radar was the short story that became the female man. i wonder sometimes how im gonna feel about the books i DNF in 10 years, but i feel like if it meant for me to read it will find its way back to me. i just bought a lot of ballard books off ebay for a great price, the one that i most wanna get to is concert island. and you're not the only person to mention that im moving up a level with Borgus its does get a lil embarrassing trying to pronounce Spanish when i look the way i do, and yeah its never too late but even English gets me tongue tied as you can tell. ill keep up with the poetry no worries, when i went to the poetry xmas meet up i could tell that it takes practice chanting out like a pro I hope you find the zombie zombie zombie book for a great price! cheers🌵
Happy new year friend, hope 2025 is twenty five times better than 24 for all of us!
Happy 2025 friend 🎉
Happy new years! 🍀
I'm right there with you with the language thing, people will see me and assume I speak some dialect of Hindi or Tamil, but my family's been from the opposite side of the world for centuries now 😂
It’s annoying but luckily it only happens a few times a year 🌱🙃 happy new year
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Happy new year! Hopefully 2025 is full of some great and radical reading, with new connections and experiences.
I saw JG Ballard on a couple favorites of 2024, Drowned World seems intriguing but High Rise the movie was too intense though I appreciated the themes.
Borges is another one on my shelf to get to posthumous memoirs.
Happy new years to you too! I just bought a lot of Ballard books, but Drowned world wasn’t in it (darn). I’ve seen the movie high rise but when I saw it I didn’t know it was a book lol, but you’re right very intense.
Borges has been a joy to read , I can’t wait till I get to some of his weird fiction that I hear he writes.
hope your 2025 is full of 5⭐️
Happy New year!
Happy New Years , high hopes for 2025
a book about hypothermia? it's amazing what people write books about! can't say i would pick it up if i saw it on a shelf but....almost everything is interesting if you look at it in a certain way. however, not every person can write about a topic and make it interesting. right?
ah, book club. i'm currently reading anxious people by fredrik backman for my book club at the end of january. i'm 50 pages into it and really, REALLY want to abandon it. i think it's awful. i hate to dnf it especially since it's for my book club. when i trash a book i like to read the entire thing so people can't tell me that it got better or some such nonsense. why, of why, do i feel like i have to finish every book i start? sigh (i know you are going to say that i should stop reading and move on!)
it's awesome how you just read short stories this past week. i haven't gotten to fafhrd and the grey mouser yet but i did pick up a copy of one of the books so maybe i'll have time this year. if only i didn't have a day job and could just read all day long! sigh
i read the female man by joanna russ many, many years ago but it made no impression on my as i don't recall anything about the plot. i have a feeling that if i read it today my opinion would be very different. i've changed as a reader over the years, especially these days as i'm going back and reading older stuff and enjoying it so (sigh- again!) i will add her to my never ending list of books to be read
ah, elric. another series that i need to sink my teeth into
now conan has never appealed to me. i wonder why that's the case
zombies! i don't know why but i absolutely LOVE zombie stories. i need to get my hands on a copy of that zombie book
hurray for j.g. ballard and science fiction for adults. i recently bought a copy of that ballard book of his short stories. i'll try to read that one this week. it sounds interesting
borges? boy, you are really become quite "literary." haha. that's meant as a compliment
it's never too late to learn spanish? i'm just saying! (did i share that i am cuban and came to the united states as a small child back in the late 60s?)
too much coffee! of course we can all relate to that. everyone hates commercials!
no worries about your reading poetry skills. the only way to improve your reading aloud skills is to....continue reading aloud. no need to apologize and keep at it!
let's see if i can find a plane emoji....
🪴🪴🪴
cheers
i didnt even get to the "out cold, hypothermia" book club the person hosting switched the meet up to the same time as my "Starship trooper" meeting!! which i just got home from and it was another success!
i had a couple fredick bachman that i un hauled, i heard from other RUclipsrs about some of his questionable writing and after what you said im for sure now that i made the right decision. maybe just read a summary and pretend you read the book for club who will really know lol
im enjoying the joanna russ sword and sorcery "alyx", but what put her on my radar was the short story that became the female man. i wonder sometimes how im gonna feel about the books i DNF in 10 years, but i feel like if it meant for me to read it will find its way back to me.
i just bought a lot of ballard books off ebay for a great price, the one that i most wanna get to is concert island. and you're not the only person to mention that im moving up a level with Borgus
its does get a lil embarrassing trying to pronounce Spanish when i look the way i do, and yeah its never too late but even English gets me tongue tied as you can tell.
ill keep up with the poetry no worries, when i went to the poetry xmas meet up i could tell that it takes practice chanting out like a pro
I hope you find the zombie zombie zombie book for a great price! cheers🌵