What are you fuckers reading now?

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.
 
A bunch of random old rpg books. Gonna start My Heart is a Chainsaw as soon as I feel like committing to a plot again.
 
Just got Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date from the library and cannot wait to start reading. Def recommend the series for any sapphic romance fans.
 
Reading "Tress of the Emerald Seas" by Brandon Sanderson. It's not one of my usual genres, but it's really charming so far. Listening to "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir; again, I'm not much of a sci-fi girl, but this is great. A really fun listen.
 
Just finished Black Feathers by Rebecca Netley. An enjoyable gothic drama. About to start Erotic Vagrancy, a newish one about Burton & Taylor but not sure what else can be said about them.
 
Boy this current book is so good, like so good.
"Rhythm Section" by Mark Burnell.

PS. You have to remember a lot of names though, so be good at remembering character names.

I may have to buy the follow up.
 
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"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.
 
"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.
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."
 
Lit author AZMotherLover's tales:

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Classic and oh so hot to me!
 
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'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.

I'm also re-reading Lonesome Dove for a book club. It's probably my 5th or 6th time reading it since it came out in '85, but I'm not mad about it. It's easily in my top 3 favorite books of all time.
 
I’m reading The Spy and The Traitor by Ben McIntyre.

Great real life story of KGB’s highest ranking defector in the 1980s. Great story!
 
Just finished The Red House by Roz Watkins which was bloody fab. Now on The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff.
 
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