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JasonsGrooveMachine

jasonsgroovemachine@bookwyrm.social

Joined 9 months, 4 weeks 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

Success! JasonsGrooveMachine has read 24 of 12 books.

reviewed The Plague by Albert Camus (Modern library college editions)

Albert Camus: The Plague (Paperback, 1965, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages)

The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that …

Did Not Disappoint

This is the first Camus I've ever read and I greatly enjoyed it. It wasn't at all what I was expecting given what I've learned about him through other channels, but it was excellent.

My one regret is that I didn't read it before Covid so I'll never be able to tell how it affected me having read it again after.

reviewed Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake (The Titus trilogy -- 1)

Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan (1989, Mandarin)

This is the first of the Gormenghast trilogy and introduces the reader to Gormenghast Castle …

TaleFoundry was very wrong.

This one was a struggle for me.

Part of the problem, I think, is that the youtube channel that described the book to me called it "Dr. Seuss writing gothic horror." It's not that. Not even close.

It took a while to get going but about 2/3 in I did really get interested.