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Reading Project, 14
Just two of the books I read, the others I have already passed on.
After I reading the two navigator-explorers, Captains Cook and Flinders, I was ready for a bit of fiction. My SF reading buddy and I had been saying for a while that we needed a new series to get our teeth into, and couldn’t find one. With more time on my hands than he has I sourced a few 10 Best XYZ lists. Noted two or three series that all appeared on several lists.
One fine Saturday when I was grocery shopping, and then intending to look for a birthday book suitable for a nine-year-old, saw a 50% Fantasy and Science Fiction Sale at QBD (referring to Queensland Book Depot, I’m assuming).
Lol, what QBD apparently did, was mark down to 50% all first parts of series, leaving the rest of the series at the normal price. So I walked out with the book gift and three first installments of their respective series each of those between 10 and 12 dollars. How can they even produce books that cheap? Our idea being that which ever of the first installments catches our interest, we’ll continue with.
Book 44 … Mistborn, Book One of the Mistborn Series, by Brandon Sanderson, this edition published by Gollancz in 2009.
Mistborn was the first one I picked up to read. I’ve read somewhere it’s being turned into a feature film and thought I should read it before I see it as films rarely improve on books.
I find Sanderson tooth-grittingly hard to read. In my middle life I spent ten years editing undergraduate essays, an experience that has left me deeply disinterested in reading poorly phrased prose and Sanderson loves “thin alleys”!
What’s wrong with narrow alleys? And that’s just one example. I can’t believe Mistborn is being touted as literature!
Seems that I’m not alone in this, I was happy to discover. When I am alone in a complaint, there’s always the suspicion that I’m being elitist, or fussy, or or or … This time though, several Reddit commentators are of the same mind. Although one of them thought that Sanderson writes ‘flat prose’ purposely, to attract the largest possible following. In answer to that I say that George R R Martin, among others, didn’t have to resort to flattening his prose to attract a large following.
But flat prose aside, Sanderson’s ideas and inventions are fresh and capable of sending their stories into new unusual directions. Though this is not enough for me to want to read part two or more.
Book 45 … Red Rising, by Pierce Brown, first published in 2014 by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.
Pierce Brown is one of the ‘many others’ I mentioned up there. No ‘flat prose’ in sight. This is one of those books where I hardly noticed I was reading. Some Reddit commentators have mentioned the many many short sentences and how they distract from a good read.
Others say short sentences are what makes audio books an intense listen. Oh, I thought. Audio. That’s why the short sentence style is taking over public writing. And plus, AIs seem to like it.
Red Rising read like a breath of fresh air to me, I never had to wonder what the author meant. Yes, it was a gallop. The worldbuilding, a society organized by colors and partly structured by a Roman underlay, go hand-in-hand with the plotting, and are frenetic.
Though it’s true that Darrow, the main character, is a bit of a superman, and always comes out on top despite his sometimes mistaken beliefs in the goodness of others. But never mind. I’ve read that this is the weakest of the series. If I can trust the commentators, things can only look up.
Book 46 … The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, first published in 2016 by Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette.
The Wild Robot is the birthday book. A film is already out there and I think I’ve seen it. Which probably helped me choose the book. This is the story of a robot becoming marooned on a deserted island, and learning to live with nature, or part of nature. It seems a little moralistic but was the best that I could find without reading everything. Lol.
I despise books written purposely to teach kids morals. As if they aren’t learning them from their parents. Kids famously learn their morals by watching how their parents behave and behaving just like that. Teaching kids morals is like teaching fish to swim.
It’s increasingly hard to gloss a bookshop’s shelves for good kids’ books. It seems to me the golden age of children’s literature has gone the way of many other good things. I think Rosemary Sutcliffe’s books could do with reprinting. Penguin Books? Anyone?
I have quite a few of the really good middle grade fictions on my shelves still (some of which are forty plus years old, I confess) and although some of them are being reprinted—The Little House Series and The Rats of NIMH, for example—many others have just disappeared.
In the past, kids read about animals and their lives. Historical fictions. None of them around now. Too many good film documentaries, I suppose.Book 47 … Golden Son, by Pierce Brown, first published in 2015 by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House.
Lol, this is not one of the three firsts that I bought. I couldn’t resist going in and buying Part 2 of the Red Rising Series. I guess I’m hooked.
However, it’s been a couple of weeks since I read Golden Son and a lot of Real Life, eg a light fling with Covid, has happened in the meantime. I will have to read Darrow’s doings again for the detail as I now remember very little as I raced through chasing the plot. A bad habit. The plot is intricate, detailed, a lot happens, there’s non-stop action.At the end, I do remember thinking, with all that happened, and all the mysteries that have been outed, what is there left to say? How can there be all the subsequent installments? Is he going back to the beginning and start a whole lot of new threads? Re-inventing himself, no doubt.
Well, I just read a couple of articles on Wikipedia. Apparently Golden Son is the second installment of a trilogy. After Morning Star, the third one, there will be a second trilogy to make up the six books in the series so far.
I’m not sure whether I have enough puff to read any more in this arena after Golden Son. I enjoyed the two that I read, but it sounds like the next four are more of the same. And I’m pretty sure Darrow will win, somehow.
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On July 11th, 1953: #PeterBrown, American funk and disco singer ("Do Ya Wanna Get Funky with Me"), songwriter ("Material Girl"), and producer, born in Blue Island, Illinois.
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Veckobrev och länkparty: En fri prins mot monstret med små händer
När strukturer och system känns som bojor, glömmer vi lätt bort att vi inte är undersåtar. Vi är medskapare, rebeller och fria aktörer i våra egna liv.
Gandhi skapade konstruktiva program, Ammon Hennacy valde sin hjärtats revolution. Vad väljer du?https://www.godaliv.se/goda-liv/veckobrev-och-lankparty-en-fri-prins-mot-monstret-med-sma-hander/
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#PorSiTeLoPerdiste ¡La secuela que todos estabamos esperando! Robot salvaje: Escape tendrá una película https://www.enter.co/cultura-digital/entretenimiento/la-secuela-que-todos-estabamos-esperando-robot-salvaje-escape-tendra-una-pelicula/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Entretenimiento #Dreamworks #PeterBrown
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¡La secuela que todos estabamos esperando! Robot salvaje: Escape tendrá una película https://www.enter.co/cultura-digital/entretenimiento/la-secuela-que-todos-estabamos-esperando-robot-salvaje-escape-tendra-una-pelicula/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Entretenimiento #Dreamworks #PeterBrown
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"Dance With Me" is a 1978 international hit single recorded by #PeterBrown. It was the second release from his first LP, and became his greatest hit. Backing vocals were provided by #BettyWright along with her girlfriends Patricia Hurley and Wildflower. In the United States, "Dance With Me" peaked at number eight on the Billboard pop singles chart and number nine in Canada. The song did best in New Zealand, where it reached number three.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
Peter Brown:
🎵 Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Mehttps://12incheslegacysounds.bandcamp.com/track/do-ya-wanna-get-funky-with-me-full-length-version
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"Material Girl" is a song recorded by American pop singer #Madonna for her second studio album, #LikeAVirgin (1984). It was released on January 23, 1985, by the #Sire label as the second #single from Like a Virgin. It also appears slightly #remixed on the 1990 #greatestHitsCompilation, #TheImmaculateCollection, in its original form on the 2009 greatest hits compilation, #Celebration and #FinallyEnoughLove50NumberOnes (2022). The song was written by #PeterBrown.
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Barcelona House Music veteran Peter Brown makes his return to Brook Gee Records with Ride The Rhythm. #music #peterbrown #ridetherhythm #brookgee
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Filmy i seriale:
»„Dziki robot” w polskich kinach«Dzisiaj (11.10.2024 r.), miesiąc po światowej premierze, do polskich kin trafia animowany film science fiction w reżyserii Chrisa Sandersa "Dziki robot".
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/film/dziki-robot-w-polskich-kinach/
#Fahrenheit_zin #MattBerry #MarkHamill #VingRhames #PedroPascal #PeterBrown #film #animacja #LupitaNyongo #CatherineOHara #BillNighy #KrisBowers #Dzikirobot #bajka #TheWildRobot #ChrisSanders #ChrisStover #MaryBlee #JeffHermann
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Experience the thrill of the dance floor with Peter Brown's latest electrifying house anthem, Wanna Be In Love, now available on Brook Gee Records. #music #peterbrown #wannabeinlove #brookgeerecords
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Peter Brown:
🎵 Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me?https://open.spotify.com/track/0MPxVEbit8sCN5XPkPdOqG
https://opaledit.bandcamp.com/track/peter-brown-do-you-wanna-get-funky-with-me-opal-edit
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the cringe of the day:
our mayor honoured his party top donor with his own day“... declare October 18 Peter Brown day in the City of Vancouver”
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