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The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke.

I've been meaning to read Clarke's works. How are you enjoying that one?

I'm in the middle of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women and just finished The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science after reading a tiny bit every day. It was probably the most informative book about cooking I've ever read and certainly answered a lot of the "why" questions I had about the kitchen.

I'm reading Nevernight, which isn't bad so far.

Benjamin wrote: "I'm reading Nevernight, which isn't bad so far."

One of the first Sci-Fi novels I read shortly after it was first published. It is a favorite from the golden age.

Bill wrote: "Benjamin wrote: "I'm reading Nevernight, which isn't bad so far."

One of the first Sci-Fi novels I read shortly after it was first published. It is a favorite from the golden age."

This one's a modern fantasy novel, Bill - do you maybe mean Asimov's Nightfall?

Benjamin wrote: "...This one's a modern fantasy novel, Bill - do you maybe mean Asimov's Nightfall? "

Oops I meant this:

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke."

One of the first Sci-Fi novels I read shortly after it was first published. It is a favorite from the golden age.

Taylor, Bill, I'm really rather enjoying The City and The Stars. One billion years into the future is such a bonkers idea. Immortality, creating matter through imagination. Great stuff.

Taylor wrote: "I'm in the middle of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women"

I haven't heard of the book, but I do know a little about the factory workers affected by radium and it is extremely unpleasant

I'm in the middle of The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost

Just finished C.J. Cherryh's Emergence.

Started John Scalzi's Don't Live for Your Obituary: Advice, Commentary and Personal Observations on Writing, 2008-2017.

Thinking of reading Carrie Fisher's The Princess Diarist instead.

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Taylor, Bill, I'm really rather enjoying The City and The Stars. One billion years into the future is such a bonkers idea. Immortality, creating matter through imagination. Great stuff."

Have you read Clarke's short story The Nine Billion Names of God

Bill wrote: "Have you read Clarke's short story The Nine Billion Names of God 

I haven't, Bill. I don't read much science fiction because I don't think to. Then when it occurs to me that I can, I get quite excited :-)

I'm just starting River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh. It's volume 2 in "The Ibis Trilogy"

I started Night of the Triffids (British Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel (2002)) and sequel to Day of the Triffids on which several movies have been based.

I'm partway through The Privilege of the Sword

I've been reading The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father for book club. The author, Kao Kalia Yang, retells the life of her father, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota. Nothing GLBT in this one, I'm guessing, but it got me wondering how many of the biographies/memoirs that I've read were not by white authors... Let's just say I have a long way to go before equality in my reading is achieved!

Benjamin wrote: "I'm partway through The Privilege of the Sword"

Oh, I really enjoyed that one. It flowed a lot better than the author's Swordspoint, which I love, but it was quite difficult to get Alec's motives.

Alex wrote: "Benjamin wrote: "I'm partway through The Privilege of the Sword"

Oh, I really enjoyed that one. It flowed a lot better than the author's Swordspoint, which I love, but i..."

I haven't yet read Swordspoint, but I was thinking of picking it up some time soon. I've heard to avoid the third one though?

Benjamin wrote: "I haven't yet read Swordspoint, but I was thinking of picking it up some time soon. I've heard to avoid the third one though?"

I wouldn't know, never read it. Though I do have a copy lying somewhere. The only thing I know is that it didn't focus on the same characters.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas."

That's on my TBR list near the top!

I've just started Nichola Griffith's Hild - quite impressed so far.

I'm currently reading Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity for class but I'm about to start Wild Seed as an audiobook.

I just finished My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness but don't see a group discussion for it.

I just picked up the adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel from the library. I haven't read the novel in decades. I thought this was a good way to refresh my memory without re-reading the novel again.

Lara wrote: "That's on my TBR list near the top!"

Highly recommended, Lara. I'm 12% through The Hate U Give and am gripped.

Marc wrote: "I recently re-read Call Me By Your Name and also recently read At Swim, Two Boys so mixed in some lighter reading. I read [book: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets..."
Which was your favorite?

Lara wrote: "Marc wrote: "I recently re-read Call Me By Your Name and also recently read At Swim, Two Boys so mixed in some lighter reading. I read [book: Aristotle and Dante Discove..."

At Swin, Two Boys is one of my all time favorites. I liked the others too.

Now I have to read it! Thanks!

I'm currently reading a history of capitalism according to the Jubilee line, it's only a short novella and quite witty. Luckily my university library has just come in with all my lgbtq reservations - up next is fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe :)

Im a bit late, I know, but here are the books that really stood out to me this month and what ive got to say on it:
The Marriage Plot
- pretentious, but fantastic. Great character depth, feels like an epic.
A Wrinkle in Time
- short, but great. Holds up very well, i can still read it as an adult
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
- loved it, it rekindled my interest in agriculture