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JasonsGrooveMachine

jasonsgroovemachine@bookwyrm.social

Joined 3 months, 1 week ago

Cat dad, movie buff, drinking man with a guitar problem, good at video games, a voice and a face for radio.

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2025 Reading Goal

75% complete! JasonsGrooveMachine has read 9 of 12 books.

Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (Hardcover, 1989, Viking)

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the …

Not What I Expected

I wasn't expecting this. Not after all the violence and everything anyway.

The book is unexpectedly funny, full of a lot of history I don't totally know myself - so I'll have to do some research. But it was a fun read, and enlightening read for the most part, and I plan on reading it again after I've learned a little more.

Frank Herbert: The White Plague (1983, Berkley)

What if women were an endangered species?

It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout …

This is my second time through this book and it's still good. It's meaning to me has changed as my knowledge of Ireland has grown. And covid changed everything.

But which it's good, it's not Frank's best work.

I'm glad to have finished it again, and I'd read it again. But I'd probably give it another 10-15 years till the next time.