She’s also supposed to be on the Gambling with an Edge podcast this week. I first heard of her two years ago on the same podcast.
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It’s a fairly big book (her 3rd) and she’s doing a lot of pub and podcasts. Search for last month on youtoob and she’s in a lotta places.
I love that relationship, and I love Hobb, mainly because she’s prolific and FAST. No BS 10-year-hiatus between books for her.
Currently about 25% of the way through The First Black Slave Society: Britain’s ‘Barbarity Time’ in Barbados, 1636 - 1876 aaaaaand:
Parts of it aren’t terribly well-written. There’s a particularly confused and confusing passage about the early days of the colony, where events from 1640 seem to be casually referred to during a part about the 1660s, but overall it’s very informative. Possibly because I just didn’t know all that much about Barbados/Caribbean slavery generally.
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It’s been a while since I read them so I don’t really remember which trilogies are which, but I remember loving the Burrich character too.
Blasting my way through this and it’s really good!
Finished the orphan masters son, was very enjoyable.
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starting
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
This is the one where the sociologist goes down to Louisana to figure out why tea partiers are voting against their own best interests. I only read over the intro pretty much last night but he mentions Whats the matter with kansas that I read as well in the last year or so. Whats the matter basically posits that the poor/white demo votes GOP now because they have been “duped” by the GOP to vote for social issues like anti abortion and stuff and prioritize above economic issues that might actually help them. I tend to agree with this but I know this book goes a different way so we will see.
From the little i read, the first guy he talks to grew up poor with a bunch of siblings on an old plantation in an old slave quarters building. He mentions that this guy lost his land or house or a lot of land to a huge sinkhole that opened up there due to presumed enviromental issues, but of course this guy is against enviromental regulations, so we will see.
It’s a good book. I liked it. It does go into the nuts of bolts the process that people get through to end up with a result that is seemingly against their own interests
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Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The last remnants of human civilization on the last ship and sentient spiders. It’s a long, slightly stuffy epic sci fi, but it pays off. I’d give it an 8/10
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Huh. Sounds cool. Added to my list.
I think it is so named because it is what allows you to break free of this 3000 page novel
finished it, I can see where some of these people are coming from but there are still huge logic holes in all of it. Of course all of them rage about govt giving handouts to people that dont need it, welfare queens etc, but then admit that they know people on welfare or who have been helped by the govt and didn’t see an issue with it. Its the same shit as always.
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The story of a “Whisky Priest” getting hunted in Mexico by the authorities in the 1930’s. Based on a surprisingly true history in Mexico where they decided religion is out. Has a bit of a Cormac McCarthy feel to it but way more direct with regards to religious symbols etc.
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I think I read something by him and it was similar to but not as good as McCarthy, although I haven’t read much by either.
Currently reading Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner, my first book by him and also probably my last unless there’s a good reason to go back. It’s my kind of story but not my kind of writing at all, way too dense and flowery (maybe not the best descriptors, he basically writes in run-on sentences that describe things in multiple couched metaphors).
I keep planning on reading more non-fiction but then I don’t get around to it. My wife is reading a book called How Yiddish Changed America and how America Changed Yiddish or something like that, which sounds cool but would also probably bore me to tears if I tried to read it.
Absalom, Absolom! is my favorite book by Faulkner and I’ve read most of them. I read alot of Faulkner before that so I was probably used to his writing style by then. It’s one of the few books I’ve given 5 stars on goodreads.
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I think I’m going to enjoy the story quite a bit and I’m getting more used to it as I progress but not the kind of thing I go back to for more.
I haven’t been able to read much in a long while. No focus. But today, I pledge to read a fucking book. Starting Galapagos, @microbet.
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And so it goes.
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Greene is one of my favourite novelists. There are several others of the same standard as TPATG.
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