What Are You Reading? Part Deux

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cat in a bag said:
I finished The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow last week. I have not been able to start anything new yet, I loved it so much. Part fairy tale, a lot of adventure. Little bit of romance (but not cheesy) and a little horror. I really loved it a lot.

I highlighted a few passages I wanted to share, because they remind me of something and think they will you all, too.

...novels are untrustworthy advisors. They aren't concerned with rationality or sobriety; they peddle in tragedy and suspense, in chaos and rule breaking, in madness and heartache, and they will steer you toward such things with all the guile of a piper luring rats into a river.

"All I know is there are these places--sort of thinned-out places, hard to see unless you're doing a certain kind of looking--where you can go to somewhere else. All kinds of somewhere else, some of them packed full of magic. And they always leak, so all you have to do is follow the stories."

Doors, he told her, are change, and change is a dangerous necessity. Doors are revolutions and upheavals, uncertainties and mysteries, axis points around which entire worlds can be turned. They are the beginnings and endings of every true story, the passages between that lead to adventures and madness and--here he smiled--even love. Without doors the world would grow stagnant, calcified, storyless.

Easily my favorite so far this year and I hope some of you will read it and love it too.
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Reading it now, cat in a bag .
 
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cat in a bag said:
I finished The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow last week. I have not been able to start anything new yet, I loved it so much. Part fairy tale, a lot of adventure. Little bit of romance (but not cheesy) and a little horror. I really loved it a lot.

I highlighted a few passages I wanted to share, because they remind me of something and think they will you all, too.

...novels are untrustworthy advisors. They aren't concerned with rationality or sobriety; they peddle in tragedy and suspense, in chaos and rule breaking, in madness and heartache, and they will steer you toward such things with all the guile of a piper luring rats into a river.

"All I know is there are these places--sort of thinned-out places, hard to see unless you're doing a certain kind of looking--where you can go to somewhere else. All kinds of somewhere else, some of them packed full of magic. And they always leak, so all you have to do is follow the stories."

Doors, he told her, are change, and change is a dangerous necessity. Doors are revolutions and upheavals, uncertainties and mysteries, axis points around which entire worlds can be turned. They are the beginnings and endings of every true story, the passages between that lead to adventures and madness and--here he smiled--even love. Without doors the world would grow stagnant, calcified, storyless.

Easily my favorite so far this year and I hope some of you will read it and love it too.
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Love those passages. Isn't it great to run into a sentence or two that is just so well written, speaks to you, says something amazing?
 
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Started The Perfect King by Ian Mortimer. Its about Edward III and i just know that Edward John will have a stroke at the title!! But honestly its not so much that the author considers Edward the perfect king because, as he says, he was human and all human has faults and so had Edward but more about his ambition for the kingship. He actually wanted to be a good king (according to his idea of kingship of course) in direct opposite to his father Edward II who was a failure at all fronts, both at home and abroad and with gentry and the peasants. He was very good at making people dislike him. Not so Edward III. He was very harshly judged for starting the 100-years war by historians in victorian times but todays historians are more aware of the danger of seeing a historicalfigure through a lense of todays values and ideas and try instead to see in his own merit. Only way really otherwise every king is a tyrant because they opposed democracy which wasn't even thought of then.
 
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GNTLGNT said:
....If It Bleeds.....and lovin' it like my fat azz loves a pizza!!!!.....
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I don't know how you did it but I'm jealous. It's not supposed to be released until 4-21. Save your comments on the book for our discussions happening after the book is released.

I read somewhere that the book was going to be novellas. How many stories are there?
 
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fljoe0 said:
I don't know how you did it but I'm jealous. It's not supposed to be released until 4-21. Save your comments on the book for our discussions happening after the book is released.

I read somewhere that the book was going to be novellas. How many stories are there?
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....wasn’t anything scientific...went to eBay looking for a possible pre-sale, and found a Seller that had copies....
 
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osnafrank Blaze and Joyland are two of my favorites - I zipped right through them - couldn't stop reading until they were over. LOVED THEM.

cat in a bag I'm going to order that from Thriftbooks if I can find it there- The Ten Thousand Doors of January sounds like the perfect escape I need right now.

I just finished Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate - it was a good story. I'm glad I read it - it's about the dreadful Miss Georgia Tan of Memphis and her child stealing/selling. It was an easy read. The author's notes at the end were outstanding - she put a lot of time into research and wove an interesting piece of fiction based on it.

I just started Have You Seen Luis Velez by Catherine Ryan Hyde - it's good so far - not a thrilling "can't put it down novel" - but it's a good story- endearing characters - I worry about the heartbreak I think might be coming - but I have a feeling it will be joyful as well. I've had it around the house for a while and need to read it.

On a recommendation by skimom2 I just ordered Sweet Girl by Travis Milhauser and Fierce Kindgom by Gin Phillips - both of these sound really good. Looking forward to them and to Ten Thousand Doors, and of course, If It Bleeds.

It's a good time to get lost in other worlds.
 
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