Books! How do you read and what do you read?

Lewkat said:
A newly edited version is coming out as John did not do a good job of getting some of the chronology is incorrect. Excellent reviews on this book, so I shall purchase it.
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I can relate to his viewpoint. Although I don't know John personally, am only 80 pages into his book, and from what I've read so far I'm not familiar with the setting to be able to notice if there are any errors, from my own experiences a typo drives me batty but an actual mistake is impossible to overlook.
 
JaniceM said:
From the examples you guys both gave, I'm glad I'm not a fan of fiction- it'd drive me nuts.
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To be fair, this is the first author I've come across who stylized her writing this way so it's not common in fiction.

I passed on the book, but apparently many have not because Sally Rooney is a highly lauded, top selling author.
 
StarSong said:
To be fair, this is the first author I've come across who stylized her writing this way so it's not common in fiction.

I passed on the book, but apparently many have not because Sally Rooney is a highly lauded, top selling author.
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I've never heard of her. It does seem, though, that there's too much emphasis on trends- what's currently popular. If you've read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers), it's a good example- long ago, I "got into it" with an agent who insisted that writing style isn't popular anymore. :mad:
 
StarSong said:
My library often on-line first several page look-sees of many books. I checked into Normal People a while ago. When I realized the author doesn't use quotation marks, or other special punctuation to indicate when someone is speaking, I decided to pass on it.

Did you find her writing style distracted you from what the content?
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Starsong,her style took me awhile to get use to it was ok. I just thought the book didn't deserved all the accolades it has received
 
Just finished up Killing Gravity by Corey J White, a science fiction novel in Kindle on my iPad and iPhone. It was a free book from Tor.com and kept me very interested. It was a bit more violent than I like overall but the lead character was somewhat enigmatic to me and kept me interested. I wouldn't recommend it unless I knew the person liked that type of story.
 
I seldom read any books....to busy with other stuff. However, there is One book soon to be released, called "Too Much and Not Enough" that I may well want to get and read. This one could be a "game changer".
 
I can't concentrate while reading on a device, so I do it old school: books from the library, plus a few purchases.

John Gardner is one of my very favorite authors. Right now I'm reading Nickel Mountain. I'll confess the actual characters and story don't draw me in like in some of his other works, such as The Sunlight Dialogues, but Gardner's prose is so jaw-droppingly gorgeous that it hardly matters.
 
JaniceM said:
I can relate to his viewpoint. Although I don't know John personally, am only 80 pages into his book, and from what I've read so far I'm not familiar with the setting to be able to notice if there are any errors, from my own experiences a typo drives me batty but an actual mistake is impossible to overlook.
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Everyone should read this book!!!!
 
Up until about twenty years ago I read every day. In my younger years I devoured books -novels, (classic and modern ) science, history, all kinds of books. The my vision deteriorated and I needed glasses to read and it was very uncomfortable for me. Now I watch a lot of movies online and listen to the occasional audiobook. Reading online is uncomfortable to me after a page or two. I don't have television ( can't stand the commercials ) so that's not a resource for me. I did, however, order Mary Trump's book and will read it.
 
I'll recommend a browser extention for those who, like myself, have difficulty reading online. It's called Read Aloud and it's free. Even though it is free it works flawlessly although having only two voices to choose from.
 
I take it back about Read Aloud working flawlessly all the time. Sometimes I can't get it to shut up even after I close the webpage in which it's engaged. You have to close your browser completely to make it stop. It doesn't happen often, though.
 
Barbiegirl said:
I can't concentrate while reading on a device, so I do it old school: books from the library, plus a few purchases.

John Gardner is one of my very favorite authors. Right now I'm reading Nickel Mountain. I'll confess the actual characters and story don't draw me in like in some of his other works, such as The Sunlight Dialogues, but Gardner's prose is so jaw-droppingly gorgeous that it hardly matters.
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Check out my post about Read Aloud. I, too, have difficulty reading online.
 
When the stay at home lock down started I had finished my batch of library books.

I had bunch of donated books from friends to wade through.

Son had told me he would give me an old I pad,, but his state too was locked down.

When we finally did get together recently,, I could not remember the correct password for my computer.
Hence I returned home with out the Ipad.

Local library is still practicing whatever rules the state has mandated for them.
I called to tell them I won't be in anytime soon to renew my card or pick up books.

On the good side of that,, I'm getting a lot of small projects done!
 
Sliverfox said:
Local library is still practicing whatever rules the state has mandated for them.
I called to tell them I won't be in anytime soon to renew my card or pick up books.
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Hopefully your library will start doing what ours has been doing. One can request books online and when they're ready you pick them up like you would do getting take out from a restaurant. I haven't done it yet but I'm thinking about it.
 
To me half the fun of going to the library is looking at the new books,picking one up to read the fly leaf.
My taste varies in what I want to read.

Our library is already doing that & may have opened to let limited number of people in.

Even before the stay at home orders,, I wondered how the library could keep books virus free.
Was thinking of quitting my visits to library.

I chose my health over the pleasure of reading.
 
During this virus crisis, I'm especially grateful for my Kindle. I download from local library or Amazon and keep several books ready to begin.

I just finished Philip Caputo's The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean.

It's been 10 years since he made the trip and about 30 since I drove many of the same highways in my RVing days. Ahhhhh, memories. What would we do without them?
 

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