realjame started reading Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches …
Reading it for a book club at my library. 2 parts in and it is very good!
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realjame started reading Perdido Street Station by China Miéville (New Crobuzon, #1)
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid …
The races and descriptions of character designs are so indulgent............ (i got through the first 4 chapters in an audiobook, this is peak)
realjame wants to read The Crowd A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
Recommended to me by someone on Mastodon
realjame started reading Teachings of Zen by Thomas Cleary
This is one of a dozen or so old books my aunt gave me a few months ago, so I'm finally looking into this one because it's a topic I've been interested in exploring for a while. I've read the first 20 pages, it's really interesting so far. I'm writing in the book, which is something I've been conflicted on doing but I think for this, where i have so many thoughts and questions, anecdotes to write, it makes sense. Journaling in the book, it honestly feels like I'm having a conversation with the book in the sense that I write my thoughts, and then I read on? Might sound crazy, but it's a really interesting approach to reading this specific book. The contents of the book itself use ways of thinking that are a bit unique for me to wrap my head around, so it's something of a journey …
This is one of a dozen or so old books my aunt gave me a few months ago, so I'm finally looking into this one because it's a topic I've been interested in exploring for a while. I've read the first 20 pages, it's really interesting so far. I'm writing in the book, which is something I've been conflicted on doing but I think for this, where i have so many thoughts and questions, anecdotes to write, it makes sense. Journaling in the book, it honestly feels like I'm having a conversation with the book in the sense that I write my thoughts, and then I read on? Might sound crazy, but it's a really interesting approach to reading this specific book. The contents of the book itself use ways of thinking that are a bit unique for me to wrap my head around, so it's something of a journey to grasp. But I think I'm starting to understand the key concepts of this whole buddhism thing, maybe ill write it in a blog post or something idk. But cool book. Very good and cool
realjame started reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman
First published in 2001, American Gods became an instant classic, lauded for its brilliant synthesis …
i wanna read books about strong powerful otherworldly creatures. i don't think this is about creatures, but maybe people are close enough
realjame reviewed Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner
Fantastic and unique in every way
5 stars
I loved it. There's a lot to love about it. Of course, the theme about social mobility as the title says. The plot was really off-the-walls in a lot of ways and everything the book was building up came together beautifully in the final 20 or so pages. Loved it!!!! I thought the prose, as well as how the story and character interactions is explained and told was done really uniquely here. It bends traditional writing styles, sentences tend to be more blunt and streamlined, but still rich with meaning. Will I write like Corey Fah's style? Maybe not, but I have learned that I have a craving for books with unique writing styles. This book is also queer, and it's written by a queer author, and I had no idea about that going in but it was pretty swag to discover :^) and it definitely gave the book extra …
I loved it. There's a lot to love about it. Of course, the theme about social mobility as the title says. The plot was really off-the-walls in a lot of ways and everything the book was building up came together beautifully in the final 20 or so pages. Loved it!!!! I thought the prose, as well as how the story and character interactions is explained and told was done really uniquely here. It bends traditional writing styles, sentences tend to be more blunt and streamlined, but still rich with meaning. Will I write like Corey Fah's style? Maybe not, but I have learned that I have a craving for books with unique writing styles. This book is also queer, and it's written by a queer author, and I had no idea about that going in but it was pretty swag to discover :^) and it definitely gave the book extra depth, a supplemental flavor, because those emotions and what not were evident in all sorts of choice of wording, characterization, and off-handed lines.
Y'know, I opened Bookwyrm and I thought I wouldn't write a review for this book. I'm not good at writing reviews. But when I sat down and set the rating to 5 stars, I couldn't click post. I couldn't accept keeping my thoughts in my head!! So here you are, and you got to read them. :-)
With that said, I'll definitely come back to this book sometime, it's easily one of my favorite books I've read... well, maybe ever?
realjame started reading Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner
Halfway through, it's really good so far!!
realjame stopped reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Walden (; first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a …
I returned it to the library after 2 months of renewing it. I was listening to it through an audiobook for my family's car to listen to while driving by myself. But motivating myself to listen to it was difficult, and the book was honestly kind of boring in a lot of places. Maybe I will have to read it visually sometime. But I ended up only finishing 4 of the 10 CDs my audiobook copy came with.
realjame reviewed Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Originally published serially as a three-part story, Heart of Darkness is a short but thematically …
Read it for English class, but it's good!
4 stars
Finished reading it for my English class a few weeks ago. I always like the books we've read in high school, but this book was nearly a different story. It was honestly a very difficult and confusing read. But reading summaries alongside the book, as well as making notes for assignments helped me understand the book, and combined with the way the book resolves, I kinda really like it? I don't think I'll reread it again, but I can see why it's such a classic.
realjame reviewed Monotone Blue by . Nagabe
ANIMAL BOYS IN LOVE
Hachi the cat finds most things monotonous, especially high school. But …
I wish gay snakes were real
5 stars
If you ever feel down about being excited but not having a tail to wag, you'll love this. Monotone Blue was indulgent (not just because of the tails). Also I loved the art and the composition of the panels, I don't really read manga so this was pretty swag. Good stuff, now I don't know what to do with my life having finished it. 👍
realjame started reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
I saw a post on my Twitter feed yesterday practically begging people to read this book: "just go in blind and read it, it's only 200 pages, 4 hour long audiobook" they pretty much said.
And this is one of the books I got from my library last week, but I haven't touched it. So I'll accept this sign from the universe to finally start reading it.
realjame commented on Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Walden (; first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a …
I'm reading this from an audiobook I found at the library, gives me something to listen to in the car lol. I've never really listened to books through audio before, so I wonder if I'll absorb the information differently or finish it at a different pace or something like that. Also the last CD comes with an pdf ebook, wowee
realjame wants to read The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Jamie’s dream was to hit the big time at a New York tech start-up. Jamie’s …
Found this in the Discover tab on bookwyrm, sounds swag?