What are you fuckers reading now?

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Fairy Tale by Stephen King in audio. Both excellent. The Muir one reminds me of Mervyn Peake and the King one is him back to his best.
 
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Fairy Tale by Stephen King in audio. Both excellent. The Muir one reminds me of Mervyn Peake and the King one is him back to his best.
Just ordered Fairy Tale this morning.
 
Just ordered Fairy Tale this morning.
I read The Institute (King) over the summer. I’ve read his older stuff. The Stand, It, Pet Cemetery, and Christine.

Im not used to his writing containing cell phones, and text messages. It was a neat change.
 
I read The Institute (King) over the summer. I’ve read his older stuff. The Stand, It, Pet Cemetery, and Christine.

Im not used to his writing containing cell phones, and text messages. It was a neat change.
I loved The Institute too. I keep meaning to re read Salem's Lot and The Dead Zone. The latter is probably my fave of his.
 
I can't wait to dig into Fairy Tale. I downloaded it on Kindle and Audible.
 
I'm back to reading an erotic novel called Neon Gods by Katee Robert. It's a Hades and Persephone romance that takes place in a futuristic city where there are political positions based on the Greek pantheon.
 
I'm back to reading an erotic novel called Neon Gods by Katee Robert. It's a Hades and Persephone romance that takes place in a futuristic city where there are political positions based on the Greek pantheon.
That’s next in my queue!

How far along are you?
 
I just started "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood.
The essay which i had to finish by Friday this week i decided to give to https://www.topessaywriting.org/editing-and-proofreading cause this book is very and very interested and it is a shame to stop in the middle. I also know myself and how often i forgot to continue started book.
 
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There's a great piece in today's Grauniad about Terry Pratchett.

Similar qualms on Terry’s part affected the price paid up front for Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman. During 1985, Neil had shown Terry a file containing 5,282 words exploring a scenario in which Richmal Crompton’s William Brown had somehow become the Antichrist. Terry loved it, and the concept stayed in his mind. A couple of years later, he rang Neil to ask him if he had done any more work on it. Neil, who had been spending that time thinking about his series The Sandman, for DC Comics, said he hadn’t really given it another thought. Terry said: “Well, I know what happens next, so either you can sell me the idea or we can write it together.” Neil knew straight away which of those options he preferred. As he said: “It was like Michelangelo ringing up and saying, ‘Do you fancy doing a ceiling?’”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...r-terry-pratchett-and-the-writing-of-his-life
 
I can't wait to dig into Fairy Tale. I downloaded it on Kindle and Audible.
Omg I love this book. I need to pace myself but I want to devour it. I just finished chapter 10 and don't want to give any or get any spoilers!

When King is on it, he's fucking on it though.
 
Omg I love this book. I need to pace myself but I want to devour it. I just finished chapter 10 and don't want to give any or get any spoilers!

When King is on it, he's fucking on it though.
I finished the audio driving back from Belfast this afternoon. It's his best in years I think.
 
Omg I love this book. I need to pace myself but I want to devour it. I just finished chapter 10 and don't want to give any or get any spoilers!

When King is on it, he's fucking on it though.

I finished the audio driving back from Belfast this afternoon. It's his best in years I think.
Oh, man. I'm trying to save it for a mini-vacation, but I'm so tempted!
 
Women Talking by Miriam Toews. How describe... it sounds super heavy but it is conversations between a group of women rape survivors, struggling to decide how to react within the constraints of a ultra conservative religious society. Loosely based on the truth.

ETA
Finally finished it. Just now. You know that feeling of sadness when you finish a book, as though somehow you became companions, that you were permitted to share its secrets. Like that.
Not what I expected. A good read and I wonder if I'll see the film. A book is good at doing stillness but a film often too busy.
 
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Also I hope Stephen King is healthy and not accident prone. Horror authors I really love tend to die. Graham Joyce, James Herbert, Anne Rice, Mo Hayder...🙄
 
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