Brent Sleeper started reading The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a place at the Round Table, only to …
On seeing oneself at middle age.
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Brent Sleeper quoted Slow Horses by Mick Herron (Slough House, #1)
Slough House is Jackson Lamb's kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service …
Some damage was gifted by your genes. Some you discovered for yourself.
— Slow Horses by Mick Herron (Slough House, #1)
Brent Sleeper started reading Slow Horses by Mick Herron (Slough House, #1)
Slow Horses by Mick Herron (Slough House, #1)
Slough House is Jackson Lamb's kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a …
Brent Sleeper quoted Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea by John Plotz (My Reading)
A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels.
What makes readers …
Le Guin loves it when a set of perfectly sane-seeming normal assumptions about how to live and be and act in the world are revealed as far more arbitrary, far more local, and far more temporary than their practitioners imagine them to be.
— Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea by John Plotz (My Reading) (Page 16)
Brent Sleeper quoted Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea by John Plotz (My Reading)
A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels.
What makes readers …
I never would have written this book without the second #Earthsea trilogy. It is far less successful than the first—whether you measure success by sales, by critical reputation, or by impact on later fantasy writers, who voraciously pillaged the first trilogy for concepts like magical true names, morally ambiguous dragons, and schools for wizards (yes, that idea too is original to Le Guin). But now I see that return to Earthsea over the subsequent decades as an act of great bravery, from a writer who never gave up exploring what it means to take action in the world, then return to that action and reconsider.
— Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea by John Plotz (My Reading) (Page 15)
Brent Sleeper commented on Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea by John Plotz (My Reading)
A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels.
What makes readers …
Hard to say no to this dust jacket promo copy: “What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining #UrsulaLeGuin. She owned John Plotz at age eight, on the overlit and understaffed second floor of the DC library. Four decades and who knows how many re-readings later, her #Earthsea owns him still.”
Brent Sleeper started reading Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea by John Plotz (My Reading)
Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea by John Plotz (My Reading)
A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels.
What makes readers fall in love? You might …
Brent Sleeper finished reading Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. …
Brent Sleeper quoted Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to …
I maneuvered to this year’s car listings, checking the box for all-electric and unchecking the box for Teslas. I just don’t like the man. I’ve spent enough years around enough bullshitters that I can spot them a mile away. In his case, I could spot him from orbit, using one of his overpromised, underdelivered satellites.
— Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1) (Page 70)
Nailed the #ElonMusk characterization.
Brent Sleeper commented on Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to …
Welp, Chapter 5 escalated quickly. 😬
Brent Sleeper commented on Bottle Grove :a novel by Daniel Handler
Bottle Grove’s almost-but-not-quite #SanFrancisco reinforces the unreliability and hallucinatory nature of the narrative.
Brent Sleeper commented on Bottle Grove :a novel by Daniel Handler
Bottle Grove felt slight at the start, but grew on me as I read it. About two-thirds through, I started to see it as deceptively sophisticated… it had a hallucinatory quality that kept making me go back to earlier parts of the novel to try to reorient/recontextualize what I was reading.
Brent Sleeper commented on Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to …
One chapter in. Martin Hench has clear #GeorgeSmiley vibes, which is a plus in my book. I keep imagining Danny Lazer as #JohnMcAfee … though I hope Lazer ends up less depraved than that. Love the name “Unsalted Hash” for Hench’s land yacht.
Brent Sleeper started reading Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. …
Brent Sleeper finished reading Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
The long-anticipated sequel to the million-copy bestselling novel WickedTen years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns …