Books: What have you been reading?

[LordMikel]

I just finished Steven Erickson "Gardens of the Moon." I did not really like it, so I won't be continuing the series. Lots of characters and lots of characters I didn't really like.

[batnbreakfast]

I loved Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who is nigerian. I highly recommend it. My girlfriend is a fan or her essay books, so those should be great too.

Thank you. Exactly what I am interested in.

Here's a link to a list. Though I don't exactly think of Nadine Gordimer or Chinua Achebe as exactly contemporary.

https://theculturetrip.com/africa/ar...u-should-know/


Yaa Gyasi books (Homegoing and Transcendent Kingdom) are popular at my library, but I haven't read them.

There's a few Nigerian Americans (Tochi Onyebuchi and Tomi Adeyemi) that have some popular speculative fiction, but I'm not sure if that is who / what you are looking for.

Awesome! Thank you, guys.

[Malvolio]

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. I enjoyed the series on AMC, so now I'm finally reading the novel.

[Deathstroke]

Here's my Top 10 Mysteries & Thrillers of 2021.

[Chubistian]

Thank you. Exactly what I am interested in.



Awesome! Thank you, guys.

Glad to be of some help

I started the year with Pulp, by Charles Bukowski. I'm still in the first thirty some pages, but I can already say it's Bukowski's weakest book I've read so far. It's entertaining, and it works as a satire/homage of detective novels, but the language used in it doesn't work as well as in the novels and short stories starring Henry Chinaski, maybe because in those it felt as a genuine language for the character and the world he thrives in. I haven't gotten the same effect with Nick Belane, the protagonist of Pulp

[MajorHoy]

Started reading

Heads You Lose by Brett Halliday
<A Mike Shayne Mystery>
(© 1943, 1956)

Originally released under the title Blood on the Black Market

[The Darknight Detective]

Just began Casino Royale (1953), the first James Bond novel by Ian Fleming.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

"I LOVE THE BONES OF YOU" By Christopher Eccleston

An autobiography about the actor dealing with his father's dementia diagnosis.


"Later" by Stephen King

A story about a young man who could see ghosts and he gets blackmailed by a corrupt cop.


"MY NAME IS WHY" by Lemn Sissay

An autobiography focused on the author's childhood in the British foster care system.


"IF IT BLEEDS" by Steven King

A set of 4 short stories I haven't finished yet.


"Destiny Unfulfilled" by Jim Adan is a good critique of Harry Potter. It's worth a read especially if you want to be a writer yourself.


It's a 157 pages long. Some of it could apply to other franchises .

[Deathstroke]

I finished reading an advance copy of the Maddie Day mystery Batter Off Dead.

[Chubistian]

Coraline, written by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Dave McKean

[The Darknight Detective]

Now reading [I]Most Wanted[/I (2021)], the third book in the Alexander King series by Bradley Wright.

[The Darknight Detective]

On my Kindle, I'm now reading The Saint in London (1934), the twelfth Saint/Simon Templar novel by Leslie Charteris.

[Deathstroke]

I finished Savage Road by Chris Hauty.

[The Darknight Detective]

On my Kindle, I'm now reading The Saint in London (1934), the twelfth Saint/Simon Templar novel by Leslie Charteris.

I'm also starting today my new hard-copy book of Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep (1968) by Phillip K. Dick.

[FluffySheep]

I'm currently reading Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor.