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I'm reading Dracula. Not sure I enjoy it.

Ghouls in My Grave. It's a horror anthology and I'm really liking it.

DA

Ooooh, I like horror anthologies! I'll have to look up this book :).

(replying to anon reading Dracula)

I read most of it about 2 years ago. The beginning was super strong but towards the middle it got SO BORING. I feel bad that I couldn't finish it but it was just becoming an impossible task.

Edited (specified who I was replying to) 2022-07-30 01:18 (UTC)

Personally I made it through the middle OK but lost steam near the end, where it became a total idiot plot with no one being able to make the most glaringly obvious deduction possible

100% did NOT enjoy it so I will not blame you if you don't lol. I am currently reading the Moonstone by Wilkie Collins and I am enjoying it but it's definitely a slow read.

Stranger in the Woods by Kiersten Modglin, which is supposed to be a mystery/thriller type thing but so far all that's happened is the MC inviting a strange man she met approximately 5 minutes ago to move in with her and then having sex with him even though she's supposedly still devastated about her murdered husband (and musing about how the new guy is better in bed than her dead husband). It's...not great.

Also, House in the Cerulean Sea because I've heard over and over and over and over that it's pretty much the best thing ever and it's...ok, I guess? I mean, it's entertaining, and I guess it's decent enough, but maybe there was just too much hype, IDK. I'm also starting to think I just don't love the author because this is my third book of his and I haven't been particularly impressed with any of them.

I have heard simultaneously bad and great things about HitCS and I will probably not read it because to be honest, the critiques seem to outweigh the hype for me.

ayrt

Right now I'm not sure if I'd recommend it or not, honestly. I'm at 34% and I just really don't have much of an opinion on it either way. Obviously lots of people like it so maybe I'm missing something, but it's just kind of...there. That probably doesn't make any sense, but I'm not sure how else to describe it.

I read Under the Whispering Door by the same author pretty soon after it came out so I hadn't really heard anything about it, but I've heard a bunch of good things since, and I just really don't agree with them. So far this is a bit better than that one, but it hasn't gotten to the romance yet and based on the other two books, I just don't think I like the way the author writes romances.

TJ Klune's writing style is... ...interesting. Some of his earlier works seemed like a ninth-grader wrote them. The Green Creek series was particularly rough to get through. Oddly enough, though, it worked for his fantasy-comedy book series, Tales From Verania. But everything else? Just couldn't make it through.

ayrt

I'm going to finish it because I like to finish things unless they're just awful, and this isn't, but...unless the last 2/3 of it completely blow me away, I think it's going to be my last book of his. I think his stuff just isn't for me.

A book on the Romanov's and the Dune Encyclopedia.

What do you think of the Dune Encyclopedia? I've never read it but I've heard it has kind of a controversial reputation with the fans.

I've read it before. I love it. I haven't heard about the controversy, though. The one thing I know is that the new authors completely ignored it when writing their books in the series. It is unclear whether Herbert thought of it as canon or not, but he did authorize it.

I really enjoyed Dracula but I also read it when I was trapped on an airplane and it was my only book to read. (I don't like reading on a screen for too long.)

So... I liked it but also if I didn't like it I'd have read it anyway, being trapped lol. Good thing I liked it?

I’m reading Conspiracy by AC Cobble and really enjoying it. It took me a bit to get into it because of the multiple POVs but after a couple chapters from each I started connecting with the characters and getting into the story. It’s extremely derivative and does suffer a touch because of that but it’s very enjoyable, which is what matters most to me. I can see a few characters and scenes sticking with me for a long time, which is usually the case with this author.

Youngman - Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan.
Also reading This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron (sequel to This Poison Heart).

I love listening to audio recordings for Dracula or watching stage productions (something of an annual tradition) but yeah, actually reading it is kind of a slog.

Flipping through Vanillaware artbooks at the moment.

The Women of Baker Street, by Michelle Birkby. It's nice to read a riff in the original setting, though there are one or two words that don't feel quite right. Very nice to see Mrs Hudson and Mary Watson conducting their own investigation - and not being far more intelligent than Holmes, which seems to be a theme these days. Irene Norton gets a look-in too. Mary is a bit of a Mary Sue but I can forgive that.

The Face that Launched a Thousand Lawsuits - The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy by Jessica Lake. Non fiction -- looking at how women, their image, who could control it and the American Legal system (as well as the entertainment machine) all collided.

Listening to Darwin Comes to Town, which takes a look at urban ecology and evolution.

Both very cool! There's a book about microorganisms or fungi or something I started reading YEARS ago and I can't remember the title nor the author. I remember it was a lady and in her forward she thanked the reader for choosing this book. Sigh.
The only fiction I'm reading involves comics, fic, or manga.

I am reading Citizen Clem, which is a biography of the British post-war Labour prime minister Clement Attlee. It is... OK? It's pretty thorough, and Clement Attlee is one of my political heroes so I appreciate that. I also acknowledge that Attlee is a difficult subject to write about - he was a famously private and self-effacing man - and I think the author does a good job of getting at his personal side.

However, it does something that a lot of history books do that I don't necessarily like - where it's basically a catalogue of the things that happened in Attlee's life, combined with a bunch of quotes from the primary sources, and nothing more. So it'll be "Such and such a thing happened, and Attlee said this about it in a letter to his brother. Then this other thing happened, and Hugh Dalton told Beatrice Webb this about it". And I find thay unsatisfying - what I really want is something more analytical. Don't just tell us that Attlee was feuding with Herbert Morrison - what were the issues at stake? What does it tell us about each man?

But tbh that's mostly just a pet peeve of mine, it's a really good book on the whole.

Maybe try finding that Icelandic version of Dracula. The story of its existence is interesting enough to make me want to find a copy to read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Darkness_(Iceland)

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