Nice!

She really is one of the great American writers - I hope more people read her work. I'd love to hear (more of) your thoughts!

lol - I'm not exactly sure what your teacher meant, but it made me laugh anyway. When I read Nietzsche in high school I hated him; I fancied myself a bit of an anarchist and he just waltzed over all of my aspirations and sensibilities. It took a while to appreciate his defiance and the challenges he posed. I've also grown to admire his unapologetic presence. Express your thoughts and feelings and let others judge you as they will.

I'll check out those recommendations, they sound intriguing!

Detour - First of a trilogy. Group of Astronauts are sent to Titan by a billionaire space programme. They come across something strange and when they return to Earth something isn't quite right.  From the creator of Manifest tv show.  It was ok 3/5

Absolute Batman Vol 2 - Loving the art and story of these Absolute DC lines changing the backstories of the heroes. Batman isn't the rich billionaire and grew up on the crime streets of Gotham. Issues 6-12 includes Mr Freeze and Bane 4.5/5

Anti Hero - Latest Orphan X (#11) novel sees the ex black ops assassin turned vigilante for the common man, help a young woman in New York who was kidnapped and assaulted.His investigation taking him from the low lives who commit the crimes to the online Pr0n industry that broadcasts their crimes online. Only this time the victim insists he does things her way...no killing.  Had fun with this one after the last couple seemed to be on remote control. 4/5

There Is No Antimemetics Division - Now this one was a weird one. Reminded me a bit of the Remedy game Control. About a gov department that collects and investigates "antimemes". Ideas and items that can attack memory, identity and reality.  Entities that can feed on your memories, can turn you invisible to everyone around you and nobody remembers that they are there. I had fun with it, but it can be confusing and reality can change quickly so pay attention. 4/5

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A few books I've loved so far this year are The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir,

Oh this sounds like a fun read! I've read a few Scandinavian horror novels over the years and they're always worth it.

I agree, I've really enjoyed the Scandinavian horror novels I've read. Another great Icelandic one I read recently was I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, a fantastically creepy ghost story.

Treated myself to a new book... I already read a translation in Dutch, right before the Peter Jackson movies came out. I'm rewatching those now with my son, and it sparked a desire to read the original English now.£

That's a pretty edition, Johnny! I have a nice green leather edition of The Hobbit in a slipcase, but my Lord of the Rings volumes and The Silmarillion are just hardbound with paper covers. They do have the fold-out maps inside, which I love. I've read through the series at least 3 times over the years.

The first time I read it was one summer between college years when a friend and I were were waitressing in a shore town restaurant. We were staying with my grandparents in a room with built-in bunk beds. One night, we were both engrossed in our books when I hollered out, "The eagles are coming!" My friend nearly fell out of the top bunk. Obviously, the story lived for me, and I think I'm due for a re-read soon.

lol!

And that book is very stylish! What was the title in Dutch, by the way? De Heer van de Ringen? I read The Hobbit in high school, a friend recommended it to me.. can't remember whether I read it in English or Dutch.

I'm currently reading Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization, by Clive Gamble. It's about human migration and how our species became a global presence. It also examines early hominids, ideas about civilization and the general adaptiveness of humankind. A lot of information and cited sources, but written with a sense storytelling and occasionally some humour as well.

I also got a copy of The Tainted Cup, as recommended by Lady Kestrel. It's next on the list.

Lord of the Rings series is one of the greatest stories ever told. JRR Tokien loved the early eras of languages and created a vast and amazing world to use that love. Jack Lewis loved the same as did Charles Williams. I hve the same Green covered HOBBIT and wish i still had my had cover Lord of the Rings Volumes in the original editions they are too expensive now even for a book collector like me.  I was able some years ago to get a wall sized map of the Middle Earth World published back in JRR's lifetime and approved by him. I re read the fellowship once a year starting with the Hobbit. Here are some pictures of JRR Tolkien....at Oxford and a sample of his unique hand writing, he used a quill pen all his life.







I love the flow of his stories, and the characters and the events are beyond memorable. I was up at Oxford myself for many years and frequenced the pub they used to meet at on Tuesdays, the Bird and the Baby we called it  (the  Eagle and Child)  in a back room. Both JRRs books and CS Lewis' were landmarks in my childhood and remain so, along with other wonderful similar authors like Kenneth Graham, and Arthur Ransome (The Swallows and the Amazons series), John Buchan  (the prisoner of Zenda and the 39 Steps, and the House of the Four Winds), HG Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ridder Haggard, and many many more. The Attempts to make games out of the Lord of the /Rings along with the miserable bizare movie versions have not had the magic of the originals. Someday maybe ...

Is Great to be able to talk about some of my favorite Authors.

Krippen’s Curse - A Lost Crown Adventure - Choose your Fate Puzzle book.
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Experience Polperro, in Cornwall, in a brand new exciting way. The sleepy village is known to the characters as the ghost town of ‘Saxton’, home to a quirky group of characters from fisherfolk to eccentric white witches.
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Started reading The Stone Man by Luke Smitherd. Three chapters in, I'm enjoying it a lot!

I don't know that author, Guyra, but the title is familiar. I'll look it up.

I just finished Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. A katabasis is the story of a hero's descent to the underworld. The main character, Alice, is a magician close to finishing her Ph.D. in Magick at Cambridge, when her advisor, Professor Grimes, dies in a magical accident. Because her whole future depends on his approval, she decides to journey to Hell to try to rescue him. Unfortunately, Peter, her rival for the professor's attention and future job references, has the same idea, so armed with the records of Orpheus and Dante and chalk for drawing pentagrams, they put their rivalry aside and set off to save the soul of a man they don't even like.

Author Leigh Bardugo reviews it this way:
"Rich with allusion and illusion, Kuang crafts a witty, gory, harrowing ride that thoroughly roasts the perils and power structures of academia, while never losing sight of what it means to have a fragile, human heart."