FortuneFaded
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Re-reading the Dune books in preparation for the second film so I can fume at the differences and harvest my hateful spittle like Spice.
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I've learned a trick with Robert Jordan...just read the dialogue for the most part, and you can get through things so much quicker lol“Re” reading!?!? Holy shit. I finally finished it over Covid. And enjoyed it overall. But I’ll never go back. My god! Books 6-like 11 are sooooo slow
This was good. Very twisty-turny. Now I'm starting "Yellowface: by R. F. Huang."The Family Upstairs" by Lisa Jewell.
Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.
She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well—and she is on a collision course to meet them.
Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone.
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Classic. And still one of Gibson's best.Nueromancer
Yeah I don’t know why it never occurred to me until now to read it.Classic. And still one of Gibson's best.
I'm about a third through it, and it's good, but I'm not seeing why it got so much hype last year. It still has time to pick up, though, I guess.This was good. Very twisty-turny. Now I'm starting "Yellowface: by R. F. Huang.
"Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.
So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I.
So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.
But June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable."
I looked this up, it sounds really good.Nueromancer
Yeah I’ve been enjoying it.I looked this up, it sounds really good.