Only partially through the video, but I bought the kindle version of Severed Echoes when you either announced it or mentioned it a while back. Because of your review here I read the first chapter, wow that was a great intro. Other than what you said I'm not sure what I'm getting into but after 7 pages I'm super interested in Soren and what his deal is. This almost certainly has blown up my end of year TBR. Truly thank you!
Phenomenal wrap-up of a phenomenal month! I was already eager to read Severed Echoes but this makes me even more morbidly curious 🔥 Also love this honest and messy review of Our Share of Night, I am still super intrigued to see how I'd feel. Can't wait for the CWN with Ben and the GoT discussion with Kelsey btw 🤩 And ooooh congrats on the Tad Williams ARC, hope it lives up to your expectations! I had a great month in October, and if I had to recommend one of my reads to you it'd be The Way Up is Death by Dan Hanks (though it only comes out in January, just pre-order lol). That book SCREAMS Jimmy 😂🤌 I am also gonna be reading The Other Valley with the book club on John's discord, fingers crossed it's a banger. Hope you have a wonderful birthday month, cheers ❤
Phenomenal indeed. Man, I already told you I enjoyed this new format, but it's even better when you look like you're having so much fun interacting with the guests in chat in this episode. That was a blast.
I started Ishiguro this year. I've read Klara and Never Let Me Go and have The Buried Giant and Remains of the Day on deck. I liked Klara a bit more as well. Never Let Me Go weighed on my mind a bit more than Klara. However, the ending of Klara was more of a gut punch and I felt more sympathy for Klara than I did any of the other characters in NLMG. Excellent discussion brother.
Empire of Grass is probably my favourite cover art of any book and it was such a disappointment to change to a different artist 😂. Glad you enjoyed the book though I can’t wait to get to read the last king of osten ard series next year when it’s complete.
I'm about to start the Witchwood Crown so I'm excited to hear that the series has been going in such a glowing direction for you. I just picked up Amanda's book after your review and hope to start it soon. I got to be honest even with your mixed review Our Share of Night was the one on your list that really grabbed my attention. I'm going to have to check that one out as well. It's funny you should mention Alan Moore because I picked up both of his new books that released this month and just finished the first of them The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic. Which was a book Moore has said he was writing for decades. A fully illustrated account of his occult practices. It was actually a pretty fun read. I hope to read the other one which is his new fantasy series sometime this coming month. Thanks for the live stream!
Glad you liked most of what you've read this month, Jimmy! Thanks for this fun video and all the recommendations. Can't wait for book 2 by Anya Dylan. It was totally not what I expected in a good way. Never Let Me Go made me so angry and sad, but I still loved it. And with some distance to it, I think it's my favorite by him so far. It's a book I keep thinking about. Like you said... 'Is this it? Is this the best we can do?' Will be picking up Klara and the Sun soon. I may read The Other Valley too this month. The premise sound super interesting.
What a great "In a Nuttshell"! Man, I wish there were more hours in a day, more days in a month, and have time to read more of these books, some of which have been in my TBR for far too long, and some are new additions thanks to you and other wonderful booktubers. Also, can't wait for the AGOT discussion next week!
Ooh, super-excited to hear your review of Wolf Hall! I first read it back in 2008 (because that's very much my era) and, at the time, there were no plans for sequels. Book 3, when it finally came out in 2020, was such a disappointment because it retreads a lot of what we see happen in real time in Wolf Hall. I think you could happily read just the first two books without missing out.
@@thefantasynuttwork fair enough I'm just saying, if you're getting pressed for time whenever it's on your TBR, that's a ~900 page book that you can skip 😂
a live wrap up is so fun - you really excel in this format! looking forward to you convincing me to continue wolf hall because I've put it down twice after trying the first 50 pages and I really want to like it, hope you enjoy the rest of it
What’s up Jimmy! I won’t lie man, I’ve taken a complete break from reading for a couple months. Just had burn out I guess. Anyways, I had no intentions on coming back yet, but saw this video and clicked. I’m excited to jump back in man, so glad to see this 👍🏻
@@Jay_Mike that makes me happy to hear ya got something out of it! No problem to take a break now and then. I took a 4 day break when call of duty dropped 😆
Replay gang here, I never thought I would see Vigdis Hjorth mentioned here 👀. Ever time she releases a book here in Norway it is a spectacle. Also happy birthday Jimmy!
I always love hearing your thoughts on what you read! I have Klara and the Sun on my list of books I want to read next year, and I might need to try Never Let Me Go too. The way you talked about High-Rise makes me think of Lost Ark Dreaming. It sounds like they differ in themes, but they both have a hierarchal structure dictated by where people live in a high rise building. It makes me curious to look into High-Rise since it has the same setting
Great wrap up! Our Share of Night is a novel I was super excited for, even pre-ordered a signed copy, but when it arrived I read 200 pages and DNF'd it. I think I was just in a bit of a reading slump at the time, I found it quite dull, but I've always had the intention of going back to it, which I'll probably do next year! As for your thoughts on what might have been lost in translation, not to shamelessly self-plug, but I recently put out a video on literature in translation to try and help the way people talk about translated works and what goes into discussion of translated lit that you might find interesting! I think there's lots of stigma around translation in the west that deserves some evaluation. Check it out if you are curious! As for the Ishiguro, that's another one I want to reread sometime. At the moment it's my least favourite thing he's done, and it's purely because I think I was put off by how he's framed the narrative. It felt too contrived for me. In his earlier novels, he has unreliable narrators, narrators that *do* lie to the reader and obfuscate the truth, but I think the important distinction is that they are also lying to themselves. In Never Let Me Go it felt like Ishiguro wanted to do the same structure of a narrator hiding crucial information, but to me it just feels like it's being hid for no reason. It feels like a plot contrivance for the sake of an emotional resolution rather than a necessity of character. But it's also something I want to reread armed with foreknowledge and see if it endears me to the text any more. Because I very much want to love Never Let Me Go more than I did!
@thefantasynuttwork Glad to hear it! Also, looking forward to your thoughts on the Mike Shackle book in the next wrap up because I've been curious about that series myself.
So glad you liked Never Let Me Go and I had a similar experience with Parable of the Sower, but I will not be continuing with it. For next month I am going to read The Other Valley with you. I looked it up on Spotify and 3 things stood out to me..."soon to be a TV series", "Jimmy Fallon's Book Club Top Four Pick" (I had no idea he even had a book club), and lastly "fans of Kazoo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel" (I love both of them!). Still loving this format!
I picked up Other Valley as well, the description is great...love any story that messes with time, this one seems unique since the time travel is just down the street!
I plan on tackling Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun first, but you've definitely sold me on Never Let Me Go!! I also really appreciate you staying spoiler free on it, even though I know it's challenging! I'm very much one of those people whose feelings on a book are affected by them. 😅 Man do I wish I wasn't, though! Great stream as always, I hope your November reads are all great as well!! ^^
Tad Williams is the master. I would love to see a discussion between Tad and narrator Andrew Wincott about the complexity of the world, dialects, aging the characters, maintaining consistency in voices and personalities- was there ever a moment when Andrew was ready to slap Tad for introducing yet another character for him to voice? I read MST a couple of times (many years ago) before I heard Andrew's narration, but since that first listen I have never read them again, and when the new series came out I just listened. He is phenomenal. Would love to see a chat between him and Tad, it would be impossible to embody so many characters for so long without developing an attachment or appreciation forthem. .
I’m a huge Mariana Enriquez fan! I LOVED Our Share of Night but I completely understand that she’s not for everyone. I also love reading translated books from Latin America. I did DNF’d Our Share of Night, two times because I also had issues with the long chapters and the quotation marks so the audiobook worked for me. Your review makes me want to reread it! 😅 I may try it in Spanish and see about the quotation marks.
So excited for Into the Narrow Dark cause the place where Empire of Grass ended was so dark and sad! Also read Remains of the Day cause you said it was 6 stars in previous videos and I was so blown away!!!! Phenomenal book and now I want to watch the movie and read Never let me go as well, I enjoyed Clara and the Sun too! Great author
Octavia E. Butler is my favorite author of all times. I started my journey of reading her books with "Earthseed" and it changed how I see things around me. The age gap relationship you mention it was so comon in the culture I came from and I think is based on a survival instinct. "Parable of the Talents" got me shivering a few times and while I have never been to USA made so worried about the political choices the Americans are doing right now. You will see what I am talking about when you will read it.
Glad you enjoyed High Rise. I love it for what it is, a dark book that points to the behaviors between socioeconomic classes. How the middle reacts to those below them, deep down they agree on the issues brought up by some in the lower class but they turn a blind eye, against their own interests to maintain order, while ignoring how things are devolving. Also how humans revert to tribalism when civil society is lost. In Dawn by Octavia Butler, she mentions two things that destroyed humanity on earth 1) Intelligence 2) Hierarchy.
I just finished the Otherland series and it can get confusing at times with all of the disparate characters of which many don’t get background information until later books. Once I was into book 3 I just had to get all of my questions answered. Luckily Tad does wrap it up nicely in book four. I’m still not sure if you’d be compelled to complete the series unless you’re drawn in by the online world premise since the books are so long.
So wish BB would have made MST for general sale like they did with Malazan and Suneater instead of subscription only. I love my Grim Oak editions, but would love to get the BB ones too. I keep checking Pango Books but, even if someone puts the books on there, they will have a huge mark-up. I've been eyeing the midnight edition of The Dandelion Dynasty, but the cheapest is almost $500. I just dropped $380 yesterday to Grim Oak for To Green Angel Tower, so there's that. Lol I did put myself on the BB subscription list a couple years ago but decided not to sign up because the books are $60 a month due to shipping from the UK and I just can't spend that every month, not if I want to buy other books (and food 😂). Maybe if I had heard of BB before I started ordering from Grim Oak, I would be a BB stan. At this point I am collecting Tad, GGK and The Empire Trilogy from Grim Oak. We'll see what else they come up with that I won't be able to resist. Lol
Before you read anything else by Ballard I'd suggest picking up Empire of the Sun. It's his semi-autobiography about the time spent in his youth in a Japanese prison camp in China during WW2. It gives some insights into some of his perspectives.
Where would you recommend to start with Tad Williams? Love this book wrap up format! Also, I’ve started the Lost in Roshar podcast, I’m hoping it’ll encourage me to finish the last 50% of Rhythm of War. Then planning another reread of ASOIAF next year and listening to Bend the Knee with that one 😊
I can't wait to get to Last King of Osten Ard sooner than later, Williams is becoming a favourite for me (1/3 of the way through Green Angel Tower rn). Whats the deal with the novellas tho? Do have to read them to get Last King or can I come back to them later? I understand one of them is a prequel to the whole saga anyway. Stone of Farewell would've been my book of the month but I read Tehanu (Earthsea 4) and its great. Didn't realise how much i missed Earthsea until I was back.
@@thatsci-firogue imo both are necessary, heart of what was lost is amazing and should be read before starting the sequel. Brothers of the Wind right before Into the Narrowdark
As for myself, in October I read: Mary Shelley’s «Frankenstein» (Gothic Science Fiction, with illustrations by Bernie Wrightson: Breathtaking!) «The Land Leviathan» (A Nomad of the Time Streams» Trilogy #2) by Michael Moorcock (Multiverse/Alternative History/Time Travel Steampunk(?)😅) «Midnight Falcon» (Rigante #2) by David Gemmell (Heroic Fantasy/S&S) «The City» (City of Victory Trilogy #2) by Adrian Goldsworthy (Historical Military Fiction set during Emperor Trajan’s Campaigns) «The Power Broker» by Robert Caro (Political Biography/Investigative Journalism Classic, my Q4 long-read) In October I received «Carthage Ascendant» (sequel to «Book of Ash: A Secret History», Alternative History Military Fantasy) and I am very excited to get my pre-order for «The Fury of the Gods» (Bloodsworn Saga #3, Epic Fantasy inspired by the Viking myths of Ragnarok) very soon! I also bought the Bernie Wrightson-illustrated editon of Mary Shelley’s «Frankenstein» and «The Secret History» by Donna Tartt as gifts to a good friend I am planning to visit abroad soon: Illustrated Gothic Horror and Dark Academia is right up her alley!😄 Cheers Jimmy!
Jimmy I think you will really like Navigator's Children. Even early on there were some shocking reveals. Don't worry, apparently We are the Dead's final book is only 300 pages. Book is 600 pages but that's as long as it gets.
I am so glad you like Ishiguro so much because he is one of my favourite authors too. I still have two books left to read from him. The Buried Giant was a little meh and I didn't like his short stories but I have been enjoying everything else he writes a lot.
A most excellent stream in spite of the profound lack of tact and social grace exhibited by some of your commenters. They need a real lesson in Jnan imo.
I’ll read We Are The Dead with you to help balance out your bad takes cause I’ve got way too many of my own. You should see the photos I took of my best friend’s wedding. Some terrible takes. Just send me a personally addressed invite when you’re ready to read. I will accept.
Only partially through the video, but I bought the kindle version of Severed Echoes when you either announced it or mentioned it a while back. Because of your review here I read the first chapter, wow that was a great intro. Other than what you said I'm not sure what I'm getting into but after 7 pages I'm super interested in Soren and what his deal is. This almost certainly has blown up my end of year TBR. Truly thank you!
@@adamborst love to hear it!!!
The Tupac and Kendrick references are such an amazing cherry on top of this video. And all live and unplanned 😂 Amazing
@@marcelbeaudoin3886 i do what i can 😂
Not many people I could listen to for 2 hours 10 minutes and not get bored. 😁 Have a great weekend.
@@StoryGirl1128 that’s honestly so nice of you
Phenomenal wrap-up of a phenomenal month! I was already eager to read Severed Echoes but this makes me even more morbidly curious 🔥
Also love this honest and messy review of Our Share of Night, I am still super intrigued to see how I'd feel.
Can't wait for the CWN with Ben and the GoT discussion with Kelsey btw 🤩
And ooooh congrats on the Tad Williams ARC, hope it lives up to your expectations!
I had a great month in October, and if I had to recommend one of my reads to you it'd be The Way Up is Death by Dan Hanks (though it only comes out in January, just pre-order lol). That book SCREAMS Jimmy 😂🤌
I am also gonna be reading The Other Valley with the book club on John's discord, fingers crossed it's a banger. Hope you have a wonderful birthday month, cheers ❤
Thank you so much! I am absolutely interested in this book you’re mentioning, please remind me in January!
@@thefantasynuttwork will do ;)
Phenomenal indeed. Man, I already told you I enjoyed this new format, but it's even better when you look like you're having so much fun interacting with the guests in chat in this episode.
That was a blast.
@@C.S.Brulevent that makes me so happy to hear, thank you
I started Ishiguro this year. I've read Klara and Never Let Me Go and have The Buried Giant and Remains of the Day on deck. I liked Klara a bit more as well. Never Let Me Go weighed on my mind a bit more than Klara. However, the ending of Klara was more of a gut punch and I felt more sympathy for Klara than I did any of the other characters in NLMG. Excellent discussion brother.
@@blacknbluecollarreader thank you so much! Remains of the day is a slammer
Empire of Grass is probably my favourite cover art of any book and it was such a disappointment to change to a different artist 😂. Glad you enjoyed the book though I can’t wait to get to read the last king of osten ard series next year when it’s complete.
@@epicgamer2727 suuuuuuch a sick cover
The last book comes out in two weeks FYI!
I'm about to start the Witchwood Crown so I'm excited to hear that the series has been going in such a glowing direction for you. I just picked up Amanda's book after your review and hope to start it soon.
I got to be honest even with your mixed review Our Share of Night was the one on your list that really grabbed my attention. I'm going to have to check that one out as well.
It's funny you should mention Alan Moore because I picked up both of his new books that released this month and just finished the first of them The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic. Which was a book Moore has said he was writing for decades. A fully illustrated account of his occult practices. It was actually a pretty fun read. I hope to read the other one which is his new fantasy series sometime this coming month.
Thanks for the live stream!
@@andrewhanson405 i wanna read Alan Moore! Also I’d love for you to try our share of night and let me know what you think
Glad you liked most of what you've read this month, Jimmy! Thanks for this fun video and all the recommendations.
Can't wait for book 2 by Anya Dylan. It was totally not what I expected in a good way.
Never Let Me Go made me so angry and sad, but I still loved it. And with some distance to it, I think it's my favorite by him so far. It's a book I keep thinking about. Like you said... 'Is this it? Is this the best we can do?' Will be picking up Klara and the Sun soon.
I may read The Other Valley too this month. The premise sound super interesting.
@@chadia25 I hope you love Klara!!
Thanks as always for the video, I really enjoy the new format!
@@Snally38 thank you so much!
What a great "In a Nuttshell"! Man, I wish there were more hours in a day, more days in a month, and have time to read more of these books, some of which have been in my TBR for far too long, and some are new additions thanks to you and other wonderful booktubers.
Also, can't wait for the AGOT discussion next week!
@@sy.kepler I wish I could freeze time lol
Ooh, super-excited to hear your review of Wolf Hall!
I first read it back in 2008 (because that's very much my era) and, at the time, there were no plans for sequels. Book 3, when it finally came out in 2020, was such a disappointment because it retreads a lot of what we see happen in real time in Wolf Hall.
I think you could happily read just the first two books without missing out.
@@RadellasReadingRoom I’ll hopefully read all 3
@@thefantasynuttwork fair enough
I'm just saying, if you're getting pressed for time whenever it's on your TBR, that's a ~900 page book that you can skip 😂
a live wrap up is so fun - you really excel in this format! looking forward to you convincing me to continue wolf hall because I've put it down twice after trying the first 50 pages and I really want to like it, hope you enjoy the rest of it
@@maddy0119 thank you!! It’s definitely a very unique writing style in Wolf Hall
What’s up Jimmy!
I won’t lie man, I’ve taken a complete break from reading for a couple months. Just had burn out I guess.
Anyways, I had no intentions on coming back yet, but saw this video and clicked.
I’m excited to jump back in man, so glad to see this 👍🏻
@@Jay_Mike that makes me happy to hear ya got something out of it! No problem to take a break now and then. I took a 4 day break when call of duty dropped 😆
Replay gang here, I never thought I would see Vigdis Hjorth mentioned here 👀. Ever time she releases a book here in Norway it is a spectacle. Also happy birthday Jimmy!
@@HenrikBrosveet thank you so much! And she’s a super talented writer
Loving the new format. ❤
@@mike_reads_stuff thank you!!
I always love hearing your thoughts on what you read! I have Klara and the Sun on my list of books I want to read next year, and I might need to try Never Let Me Go too.
The way you talked about High-Rise makes me think of Lost Ark Dreaming. It sounds like they differ in themes, but they both have a hierarchal structure dictated by where people live in a high rise building. It makes me curious to look into High-Rise since it has the same setting
@@readingwithrebeccanicole thank you!!! I am needing to check out Lost Ark👀
Great wrap up!
Our Share of Night is a novel I was super excited for, even pre-ordered a signed copy, but when it arrived I read 200 pages and DNF'd it. I think I was just in a bit of a reading slump at the time, I found it quite dull, but I've always had the intention of going back to it, which I'll probably do next year!
As for your thoughts on what might have been lost in translation, not to shamelessly self-plug, but I recently put out a video on literature in translation to try and help the way people talk about translated works and what goes into discussion of translated lit that you might find interesting! I think there's lots of stigma around translation in the west that deserves some evaluation. Check it out if you are curious!
As for the Ishiguro, that's another one I want to reread sometime. At the moment it's my least favourite thing he's done, and it's purely because I think I was put off by how he's framed the narrative. It felt too contrived for me. In his earlier novels, he has unreliable narrators, narrators that *do* lie to the reader and obfuscate the truth, but I think the important distinction is that they are also lying to themselves. In Never Let Me Go it felt like Ishiguro wanted to do the same structure of a narrator hiding crucial information, but to me it just feels like it's being hid for no reason. It feels like a plot contrivance for the sake of an emotional resolution rather than a necessity of character. But it's also something I want to reread armed with foreknowledge and see if it endears me to the text any more. Because I very much want to love Never Let Me Go more than I did!
@@TheWorldWithintheWord I did watch the video!
@thefantasynuttwork Glad to hear it!
Also, looking forward to your thoughts on the Mike Shackle book in the next wrap up because I've been curious about that series myself.
So glad you liked Never Let Me Go and I had a similar experience with Parable of the Sower, but I will not be continuing with it. For next month I am going to read The Other Valley with you. I looked it up on Spotify and 3 things stood out to me..."soon to be a TV series", "Jimmy Fallon's Book Club Top Four Pick" (I had no idea he even had a book club), and lastly "fans of Kazoo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel" (I love both of them!). Still loving this format!
@@sarah.ever.after84 whoa that’s perfect for me!
I picked up Other Valley as well, the description is great...love any story that messes with time, this one seems unique since the time travel is just down the street!
@@joshramirez7 yes! It’s really good so far
I plan on tackling Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun first, but you've definitely sold me on Never Let Me Go!! I also really appreciate you staying spoiler free on it, even though I know it's challenging! I'm very much one of those people whose feelings on a book are affected by them. 😅 Man do I wish I wasn't, though!
Great stream as always, I hope your November reads are all great as well!! ^^
@@lieslherman im also sensitive to spoilers usually
I might actually have to pick up we are the dead to read along. I've been wanting to read it for a while now.
@@Foobymaster1 I have high hopes!
Tad Williams is the master. I would love to see a discussion between Tad and narrator Andrew Wincott about the complexity of the world, dialects, aging the characters, maintaining consistency in voices and personalities- was there ever a moment when Andrew was ready to slap Tad for introducing yet another character for him to voice? I read MST a couple of times (many years ago) before I heard Andrew's narration, but since that first listen I have never read them again, and when the new series came out I just listened. He is phenomenal. Would love to see a chat between him and Tad, it would be impossible to embody so many characters for so long without developing an attachment or appreciation forthem. .
@@sharinray2698 the audiobooks are so good
I’m a huge Mariana Enriquez fan! I LOVED Our Share of Night but I completely understand that she’s not for everyone. I also love reading translated books from Latin America.
I did DNF’d Our Share of Night, two times because I also had issues with the long chapters and the quotation marks so the audiobook worked for me.
Your review makes me want to reread it! 😅 I may try it in Spanish and see about the quotation marks.
If you read it in Spanish please let me know!
Have a great birthday Jimmy! 🎉
@@M_aryAnne thank you 😊
So excited for Into the Narrow Dark cause the place where Empire of Grass ended was so dark and sad! Also read Remains of the Day cause you said it was 6 stars in previous videos and I was so blown away!!!! Phenomenal book and now I want to watch the movie and read Never let me go as well, I enjoyed Clara and the Sun too! Great author
@@gayanegasparyan4137 this pleases me greatly!
Octavia E. Butler is my favorite author of all times. I started my journey of reading her books with "Earthseed" and it changed how I see things around me. The age gap relationship you mention it was so comon in the culture I came from and I think is based on a survival instinct. "Parable of the Talents" got me shivering a few times and while I have never been to USA made so worried about the political choices the Americans are doing right now. You will see what I am talking about when you will read it.
@@mariareadsssf she’s such a legend!
I found War of the Flowers for like $2.00 at a thrift shop. Pretty stoked to get to it
@@ericmerrell8622 awesome!!!
Glad you enjoyed High Rise. I love it for what it is, a dark book that points to the behaviors between socioeconomic classes. How the middle reacts to those below them, deep down they agree on the issues brought up by some in the lower class but they turn a blind eye, against their own interests to maintain order, while ignoring how things are devolving.
Also how humans revert to tribalism when civil society is lost.
In Dawn by Octavia Butler, she mentions two things that destroyed humanity on earth 1) Intelligence 2) Hierarchy.
@@jaya5264 very excited to try Dawn and will be reading more from Ballard
Ishiguro’s “Artist of the Floating World” is also really, really good.
@@SarahJ70 I’ll read anything this man writes
I just finished the Otherland series and it can get confusing at times with all of the disparate characters of which many don’t get background information until later books. Once I was into book 3 I just had to get all of my questions answered. Luckily Tad does wrap it up nicely in book four. I’m still not sure if you’d be compelled to complete the series unless you’re drawn in by the online world premise since the books are so long.
@@ronridley8684 tbh I’ll finish it eventually
A man of the people! Two rolls?! We are not worthy 😮💨
@@patsmythos my month is now chaos 😂
So wish BB would have made MST for general sale like they did with Malazan and Suneater instead of subscription only. I love my Grim Oak editions, but would love to get the BB ones too.
I keep checking Pango Books but, even if someone puts the books on there, they will have a huge mark-up. I've been eyeing the midnight edition of The Dandelion Dynasty, but the cheapest is almost $500.
I just dropped $380 yesterday to Grim Oak for To Green Angel Tower, so there's that. Lol
I did put myself on the BB subscription list a couple years ago but decided not to sign up because the books are $60 a month due to shipping from the UK and I just can't spend that every month, not if I want to buy other books (and food 😂).
Maybe if I had heard of BB before I started ordering from Grim Oak, I would be a BB stan.
At this point I am collecting Tad, GGK and The Empire Trilogy from Grim Oak. We'll see what else they come up with that I won't be able to resist. Lol
@@angelamccollister I also just grabbed paid for the grim oak one, hurt the wallet lol
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Before you read anything else by Ballard I'd suggest picking up Empire of the Sun. It's his semi-autobiography about the time spent in his youth in a Japanese prison camp in China during WW2. It gives some insights into some of his perspectives.
@@sjoerdth great recommendation!
Where would you recommend to start with Tad Williams? Love this book wrap up format! Also, I’ve started the Lost in Roshar podcast, I’m hoping it’ll encourage me to finish the last 50% of Rhythm of War. Then planning another reread of ASOIAF next year and listening to Bend the Knee with that one 😊
@@hectatereads105 love to hear it! And I’d say Dragonbone Chair!
I can't wait to get to Last King of Osten Ard sooner than later, Williams is becoming a favourite for me (1/3 of the way through Green Angel Tower rn). Whats the deal with the novellas tho? Do have to read them to get Last King or can I come back to them later? I understand one of them is a prequel to the whole saga anyway.
Stone of Farewell would've been my book of the month but I read Tehanu (Earthsea 4) and its great. Didn't realise how much i missed Earthsea until I was back.
@@thatsci-firogue imo both are necessary, heart of what was lost is amazing and should be read before starting the sequel. Brothers of the Wind right before Into the Narrowdark
@@thefantasynuttwork cheers bruh Last King of Osten Ard next year I promise !
I read 200 pages of Game of Thrones (havent watched the show and only know memes that reached escape velocity) and George is cooking
@@FairyTalePhilipp the man can write! Have fun with it, there’s a lot to love about it!
Amazing books! Best fantasy ever.
As for myself, in October I read:
Mary Shelley’s «Frankenstein» (Gothic Science Fiction, with illustrations by Bernie Wrightson: Breathtaking!)
«The Land Leviathan» (A Nomad of the Time Streams» Trilogy #2) by Michael Moorcock (Multiverse/Alternative History/Time Travel Steampunk(?)😅)
«Midnight Falcon» (Rigante #2) by David Gemmell (Heroic Fantasy/S&S)
«The City» (City of Victory Trilogy #2) by Adrian Goldsworthy (Historical Military Fiction set during Emperor Trajan’s Campaigns)
«The Power Broker» by Robert Caro (Political Biography/Investigative Journalism Classic, my Q4 long-read)
In October I received «Carthage Ascendant» (sequel to «Book of Ash: A Secret History», Alternative History Military Fantasy) and I am very excited to get my pre-order for «The Fury of the Gods» (Bloodsworn Saga #3, Epic Fantasy inspired by the Viking myths of Ragnarok) very soon!
I also bought the Bernie Wrightson-illustrated editon of Mary Shelley’s «Frankenstein» and «The Secret History» by Donna Tartt as gifts to a good friend I am planning to visit abroad soon: Illustrated Gothic Horror and Dark Academia is right up her alley!😄
Cheers Jimmy!
@@MacScarfield great month and write up! Cheers!
Jimmy I think you will really like Navigator's Children. Even early on there were some shocking reveals.
Don't worry, apparently We are the Dead's final book is only 300 pages. Book is 600 pages but that's as long as it gets.
@@andrewlavigne44 thank goodness
I am so glad you like Ishiguro so much because he is one of my favourite authors too. I still have two books left to read from him. The Buried Giant was a little meh and I didn't like his short stories but I have been enjoying everything else he writes a lot.
@@artbyandia they can’t all be winners huh?! Hahah im excited for buried giant
@@thefantasynuttwork I hope you like it more than I did
Hey jimmy! Do you plan on picking up The Buried Giant by Ishiguro?
@@nidhi3054 without a doubt
I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on Haruki Murakami.
@@zestpeet4614 I like his stuff, but do find some of his ticks to be a bit odd
A most excellent stream in spite of the profound lack of tact and social grace exhibited by some of your commenters. They need a real lesson in Jnan imo.
@@Gl1tch2263 hahahaha
Sometimes you gotta pop out and show em 🤷🏾♂️
EXACTLY
Fell around laughing when you said your too many books was 6
By that scale I read way, way, way too many
@@RadellasReadingRoom I’m a weirdo lol
@thefantasynuttwork no, I'm pretty sure Kyle and I are the weirdos 😂
I’ll read We Are The Dead with you to help balance out your bad takes cause I’ve got way too many of my own. You should see the photos I took of my best friend’s wedding. Some terrible takes. Just send me a personally addressed invite when you’re ready to read. I will accept.
@@saulphin lmao beautiful