hello Beehaw, it’s a sleepy morning–and i did not get very much sleep. luckily i have no social priorities so this is not a big deal. currently reading a number of books after completely crashing out of doing that for the entire month of June. i think i can get about 3 in before the end of the month, we’ll see

  •  ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔   ( @GlassHalfHopeful@beehaw.org ) English
    9•1 year ago

    Yeah. I just finished a book that I really enjoyed called A Day Of Fallen Night which is a pretty cool to The Priory Of The Orange Tree if you’ve heard of it. It really was a great read, but the pacing and chosen method for organizing the various character viewpoints made my skin crawl more than once. It was frustrating, but one of those books that I really wanted to read regardless.

    There is once a book that I read through, because once I’m committed I find it very hard to stop reading, but it was by far the most horrendous experience ever because the author didn’t use quotes for the entire book and I had a real hard time following the dialogue.

    Just finished also a couple of novellas which were a really nice and different from the more intense (e.g. action heavy) books I tend to read. They were the first books I’ve read where the protagonist is non-binary and referred to as they. It was challenging in some ways but also very good for me as well. A Psalm For The Wild-built and it’s sequel A Prayer for the Crown-Shy.

    Writing styles can certainly make a break books.

    That Meltdown book looks interesting!

    •  Nerples   ( @Nerples@beehaw.org ) English
      5•1 year ago

      I desperately need to read Priory! A Psalm For The Wildbuilt was so good, was short but probably my favorite read of the year! I’ve been meaning to get to the sequel but haven’t managed to find time

      •  ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔   ( @GlassHalfHopeful@beehaw.org ) English
        5•1 year ago

        The sequel novella is just as short, but I was fortunate to be able to read them back to back. I enjoyed them so much and found them so refreshing in so many ways.

        I don’t remember The Priory having the same pacing issues as it’s prequel, so I hope you really really enjoy it. And to be clear, I liked the prequel a lot too.