My Next Five Books!
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Book club selections and library due dates are factored into next 5 books. The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff, Flight by Lynn Steger Strong, Plainsong by Kent Haruf, The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway And Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker (non-fiction on audio for walks and driving). Eventually, Long Island by Colm Toibin (wait list at library and on Libby is very long).
I tend to plan the months' tbrs on slow release months or when I'm not participating in booktube events. Otherwise, I make a large pool of options that are new releases or fit the prompt/theme of the readathon/event and mood read. My next 3 books are The Water Outlaws (Water Margin retelling), The Unspoken Name, and Earl's Trip.
Steve grappling with Lit RPG is the content I need.
LitRPGs have to have literal stat print outs, quest text, skill/level ups on the page, and usually yes they are inside a game. They usually involve a real world person who sometimes is reincarnated or maybe transported into an actual game (contentious whether being in a game is mandatory to be in the genre, vs gamelit) which is kind of a common trope of japanese isekei stories that's been carried over. There is also a sort of spin off subgenre Progression Fantasy, that has all the elements of the things like levelling and clear delineation of skills, but without the actual stat printouts/video game being part of the story, it's more built naturally into the prose of the story and a fleshed out secondary world instead of a game.
In spite of being possessed of (and by) feline companions, my next five books are: Cogs and Monsters (economics), Planetside (science fiction), False Alarm (climate science critique), Amongst Our Weapons (urban fantasy), and The Devil's Chessboard (history of the CIA).
If you want to keep imitating the big booktubers, you need a few dozen more e-readers so you can start your tech bro channel and keep up with Olly :) I love that other people are doing this... could we start a trend?
Next Five: Rocket to the Morgue by Anthony Boucher (a strange and entertaining mix of mystery, sci fi/fantasy and some literary criticism); A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch; Frankenstein (the 1818 text, a reread of sorts); The Anarchy by William Dalrymple (a history of the British East India Company); and then maybe My Name is Red by Pahmuk or Thomas Cromwell by MacCulloch. Or maybe another mystery as number 5.
Hi Steve. You’re not imitating me with Poetry Thursday; I’m imitating you. Or I’ve just reminded you that you used to do Poetry Thursday and that you missed it and wanted to do it again! 😊 And I am overjoyed that you are doing it again! 😊
LIT RPG is my guiltest pleasure, emphasis guilty. They are not good and you will not enjoy it Steve.
My next five books are: The English and their History, Dracula, The war of the three kingdoms (Big UK Civil War Book), Count of Monte Cristo and Dune Messiah.
My (probable) next five books:
- The Idiot
- The Master and Margarita
- Equus (it’s a theatre script, but I count those as books)
- The Crying of Lot 49
- A Deepness in the Sky
Never read Equus but seen a production many many years ago ago
I've only recently discovered the litrpg genre myself. I just got a copy of Dungeon Crawler Carl, which I haven't read yet
I am a huge mood reader. I don’t know five books that I will read next. I am about to finish a book by an author that I like. I have another book by the author that I want to read next. I am just not sure yet.
Probable next 5:
Edward Said - Culture and Imperialism
Tom Mead - Death and the Conjuror
C K McDonnell - The Stranger Times
Anthony Horowitz - Close to Death
Alastair Reynolds - Eversion
I have to say, I like your channel. I think you have such wide interests. My interests are much more narrow and maybe myopic (although I must have read close to a thousand books) so that your outlook and experience give credence to your opinions for me. Sadly, lots of internet book commentators have not yet read much and are giving advice to other readers. Nothing wrong with voicing your opinions but can you trust someone who just encountered Thomas Hardy for the first time? Keep up the good work.
no, I don't plan 5 books ahead, but sometimes I do get more than one. Right now, it's three of Barbara Hambly Benjamin January books. I read one, just on a that-looks-interesting from the library. I was intrigued so checked out three more and want to read them before I go on to anything else. anyone have any thoughts about this series?
Currently finishing: _City_ by Clifford D. Simak
Coming up:
_Zorro_ (for Roger’s Cheap Old Book Club)
_Hondo_ by Louis L’Amour
Next Amber novella by Zelazny: _The Guns of Avalon_
Next Shadow novella: _The Spy Ring_ by Walter B. Gibson
The Mark Anthony book sounds really interesting!
I'm in the middle of The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt and of The Silmarillion. I read the introduction of penguin edition of Plato's The Last Days of Socrates, so I'll probably start the dialogues soon. After that I'm not sure, but I've been thinking about The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Just an Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson.
I’ve tried LitRPG novels and have never got on with them, even those that come highly recommended. I just don’t care for the sub-genre, and that’s okay.
I do not plan a book ahead, but I do have multiple books going organized, not by mood but by location. I have an upstairs book (bedtime book) which currently is A Persian Boy per your recommendation, and a vintage pocketbook Earle Stanley Gardner cued up.
I have a downstairs book. Actually two downstairs books-one that is a long/slow read, which currently is Montaigne, the Essays, and I have next in line, an abridged Mahabharata. I’m almost done with the first set of the essays. I think I’m going to pause right before I get to the Apology for Raymond Sebond and switch to the Mahabharata because it’s a reread (I read it as a kid) and I want to see what I make of it now.
Finally I have a bathroom book (usually poetry or bite-sized something or other), currently a collected volume of Jane Hirschfield but I switch back and forth with Shakespeare & CO’s Book of Interviews, and Ryan Holiday’s can’t remember the title-a-page-day meditations (?), a Christmas present 🙄
Wonderful theme and an adorable Bean! After six consecutive John Connolly/Charlie Parker novels (thank you, Steve), I'm excited next for DeLillo's Falling Man, Le Carre's The Mission Song, The Moonstone, Mr. Standfast, and Sharpe's Triumph.
Ulysses is being consumed in small pieces this month as well.
Two books to look out for
A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock ( Frankenstein meets the science of botany)
The Mars House by Natasha Pulley ( refugees on Mars. Political intrigue. A marriage of convenience)