I read some stuff this week, but nothing’s really standing out for me. I also was busy doing my own stuff, which also ate into my reading time. So feel free to sing out with your own book recommendations.
6 thoughts on “Book of the Week: …you tell *me*.”
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Try this for something completely different
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3911428423?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1
It’s a single issue of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin (June 4th, 1928, Evening Extra Edition) with the ads and classified removed, reset in book type as an exemplar of a newspaper.
People read these. Every Day. This ‘average’ paper clocks in at 306 pages.
Big fan of the Dark Operator series.
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Operator-Galaxys-Edge-Book/dp/B0892SR5BM
Been reading Bujold’s ‘Chalion’ series-of-series.
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https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781982124298/9781982124298.htm as good a starting point as any.
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I found the prequel “Curse of Chalion” trio longer and more thoughtful, and haven’t gotten to the sequel trio.
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YMMV, as always.
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Mew
Second this suggestion.
The Curse of Chalion is excellent. Highly recommend.
(Although you will have some trepidation about a quarter of the way in, when you see how things are doomed to shake out, and wonder how she’s going to stretch it out. Don’t worry about it. There’s no padding in the book. And everything makes sense.)
It’s not excellent. It’s [expletive deleted] excellent, and I am restraining myself from reading it again at this very moment.
Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart. A fantastic story of an ancient China that never was. It is the first of the Madter Li and Number Ten Ox stories, and the best of the three in my opinion. If you haven’t read it, it is a special delight waiting for you.
Chapter 5, “Goats, Gold, and Miser Shen” is with the price of admission all by itself. But there is much more in store.
While not my usual fare, I can never recommend this one highly enough.