_inbetween_’s Comments (group member since Dec 29, 2024)

_inbetween_’s comments from the FAH Reading Challenge group.

Melissa wrote:

Nava was so good, and got so under my skin that when I finally got the last two installments, I couldn't start reading them, and by now I might have to restart all over again.

Melissa wrote: "I'm late responding, but thank you for your update.
The books all sound interesting, but I may checkout Papercuts by Colin Bateman"

Bateman was unbelievably brilliant and hilarious when I first read him, then a few doozies, hope you enjoy

Carmilla -is- a classic, and as vampires literally never die in literature, it's good to know it. Stoker's is of course itself already so different to what people (today) think vampires are!
Just don't choose Radcliffe's Udolfo! That's 90 percent description of scenery, and she'd gotten everything out of books, never having been to the Alps (or Italy etc.)

I think that person changed her mind, she never even replied on FB anmore, right? I would log out of Goodreads to see what was visible but I'm sure I've forgotten my password and couldn't log back in again ...

Thanks, I've seen and enjoyed Rutherford Falls as well, but couldn't remember the name.

As Austrian as Transylvania :)

That Title "We Had a Little Real Estate Problem" is in itself already a perfect joke. I have seen the 1491s members in shows like Reservation Dogs, IIRC.

Oh the Michael Nava books really tore into me. I'd had to end on a horror cliff hanger and back then it took years to get the missing two - and now I can't remember any other details and would have to reread them all before I get to them, and they require a certain mindset (well, mine 20 years ago would do).

Hm, I checked, I haven't written proper little short texts for every book in my thread, most of them are only on my own blog and not summarised yet. Will you compile them all in one post? I don't know if covers can be embedded in small size there but leave that up to you. I had asked the lady on FB if she can see our posts here, but she hasn't replied.


ETA: please tell me if I should add the covers or if you'd rather put only text on facebook

I wish we could swap locations, we haven't had snow in years and while I hate ice, I would take it (and a car). I could hardly believe that Small Things has less imagery and dialogue than the film it seemed a long book because of the Breughel cover (nonsense). I guess what it's about. I've accidentially read too many Irish books this year. And there's a book about a character from Nightmare bC? I guess I'll read Hallet, because I read all of this sort of book. The old lady hero sounds great, too.

That's it, the thank-you list in books went from one name to three pages, but I keep wondering if they all improved on it, how bad it must have been originally. Most likely nobody says anything critical, and the role of the editor is gone or changed. Publishing houses want to quickly cash in on what's hot at the moment - and when you consider that more books than ever are sold but fewer books than ever get read, it makes horrible sense that the content doesn't count much. I'll stop here, I've already clogged up other platforms on that subject :)

OMG I started reading at the top and wondered about the choices until I realised that was last year!
I want to listen to an audiobook by Steve Martin now, that's how I would chose them anyway, by the audio narrator rather than author.

I like classical novels for all the work and care that went into them, though I can't remember if I read Middlemarch and Tess. I do know that I refuse to read Hemingway, culture is oversaturated with masculinity more than enough.
Very amused by you playing HP. Perhaps Arms will write us a sketch in which the clueless Foil will of course have to be Malfoy.

These days so many premises with promise don't get the execution they would need.
ETA: have you read it? Or "After the Silence" (that already drags from the start and I don't know if to go on)?

I've mentioned it on some platforms as well. I was too shy to ask, I've seen that they had pinned FAHNcontests in the past.
(Melissa, do you know if you are "relevant" on the FAH feed, aka if your comments are visible to people? I know that after all this time I'm still being hidden in their posts by FB, just interested :))

Melissa wrote: "Just so people know, I listen to a lot of audiobooks. I read daily, but very slowly. Audiobooks help me enjoy books I wouldn't otherwise experi..."

It's great that they work for you! And the sketch just turned it around, it was poking at those who listen and those who oppose it :)
I've struggled a whole week to get an audiobook to continue playing, I think it broke my stereo, and finished it on the phone today. As with worse made audiobooks, I sadly fall asleep every half hour though it was excellently made. The amount of effort with all digital formats is frustrating; what do you use to listen, can you make it continue at a certain point, set bookmarks??

I've read the Tana French, and the one about NYC venues sounds interesting.

Another book FAH own and "read" in their sketches, and at first it seemed I could recommend it to one of them. But Eggshells doesn't deserve to be read, so I should do the opposite in case the first pages attracts someone.
It's the first of these (often Irish) books that contains an "Oisin", mention of a Connor on the women's loo, a duck and something I have to insert the quote for later - I'm not happy about the many links to prompts I found.

Could one of you reach out and ask FAH if they might pin a post about this reading challenge onto their last vid, it just fits so well. I think one person commented in the FB post but YT has the most readers. Perhaps it's a bit late already but there was a great interest in the subject.

I'm drowning in connections, so many books have bird covers, need to get onto other prompts. Have you selected some titles yourself yet?

I think GR has a page tracking graph now as well, and I like it's "compare books" function. I even found they still have the option of chosing covers here.

Yes :)

At Swim Two Birds
On page 30 of this classic 1939 novel, a comment on (post) modern fiction reads like a description of fanfiction.

... it was explained that a satisfactory novel should be a self-evident sham to which the reader could regulate at will the degree of his credulity. It was undemocratic to compel characters to be uniformly good or bad or poor or rich. Each should be allowed a private life, self-determination and a decent standard of living. This would make for self-respect, contentment and better service. It would be incorrect to say that it would lead to chaos. Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their characters as required, creating only when they failed to find a suitable existing puppet. The modern novel should be largely a work of reference. Most authors spend their time saying what has been said before - usually said much better. A wealth of references to existing works would acquaint the reader instantaneously with the nature of each character, would obviate tiresome explanations and would effectively preclude mountebanks, upstarts, thimble-riggers and persons of inferior education from an understanding of contemporary literature.