I am currently reading from one of our very own AWer's, Fate of Flames. I'm always proud to read a book created by one of you guys!
I have never read FFA and now I have to because I have come across a bazillion references to it in the last week. (Six in fact. Five here.)Recently finish Flowers for Algernon and it was amazing, sad and insightful. Currently reading Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Very tough to put this one down and there’s been a few times where I’ve had audible gasps due to the shocks that the story has presented to me. I’m only seven chapters in but I can’t wait to see what happens next.
Sorry about that. I get like that when I think I’m the only one that’s discovered something new!I have never read FFA and now I have to because I have come across a bazillion references to it in the last week. (Six in fact. Five here.)
ETA: Three of them were yours, U44....
Discovered it for me Thank you.I get like that when I think I’m the only one that’s discovered something new!
I loved Rabbit, Run, but could not get into Rabbit, Redux. (I love your username too!). Rabbit, Run was timeless because, reading it for the first time in the 2000s, it was just as fresh as if it were written today. It could have taken place at any time from the 1940s to 1990s. That was what I couldn't get into about Redux: too topical with dialogs about the issues of the day, which were happening about the time I was born. Too much of it centered on stuff I couldn't relate to. I like historicals from time to time, and I like Updike, I just couldn't get into that one.Am halfway through what will likely be my final read of John Updike's Rabbit series (Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit At Rest). This series is special for me, because in Rabbit Run, Rabbit is in his 20s, and I was too, when I first read it.
Updike wrote a new Rabbit book every ten years after that first book, and in each new book Rabbit was ten years older, as was I when reading it. We sort of grew up together, Rabbit and I. Each time the new Rabbit book came out, I'd start with a reread of the earlier books.
This bonus rereading, though, is special, as it is a farewell to Rabbit (long dead). his creator (also dead) and the parallel lives we seemed to share for over four decades.
It has been a great journey, and aside from the fun of aging apace with Rabbit, each reread has brought fresh insight from my changing perspective born of life lived.
I loved Rabbit, Run, but could not get into Rabbit, Redux. (I love your username too!). Rabbit, Run was timeless because, reading it for the first time in the 2000s, it was just as fresh as if it were written today. It could have taken place at any time from the 1940s to 1990s. That was what I couldn't get into about Redux: too topical with dialogs about the issues of the day, which were happening about the time I was born. Too much of it centered on stuff I couldn't relate to. I like historicals from time to time, and I like Updike, I just couldn't get into that one.
Sounds interesting, am definitely adding that to my list of books, thank you.Speaking of historicals, I'm reading First Cosmic Velocity by Zach Powers.
Love that book!Started Susannah Clarke's Piranesi. It took me a while to get accustomed to All The Capitalized Places and People, but now that's sorted, I'm enjoying the giant puzzle of the story.