hi there, friend f*ck the government is right! you always have such an interesting variety of books to read for your various book clubs. keep us posted on how it goes. i'm already curious to know what you think of boys enter the house and the empusium as both sound so interesting. i wish my book club had read one of these for october instead of the dumb ghost story by peter straub. i'm going to have to write these titles down for next year. my jaw almost dropped when you said you went back to that gwynne series and malazan. haha. seriously though, it's good that you are willing to go back. i wonder if you have given yourself enough time though before going back. perhaps it's too soon? a friend of mine liked red rising and gave it to me as a xmas present last year so i read it. i thought it was good for maybe young adults but i wasn't tempted to read more. at all. i keep hearing the outlaw bookseller's voice in my mind saying that you only need to read the first book in a series because the others just offer up diminishing returns. i think he's right love the sheer joy on your face when you talk about brooms. that's what a good story does. it plucks our emotional strings. i just got a notice from my library that my copy of smashed has arrive. i'm looking forward to that one based on your recommendation. it's time i read a graphic novel as it seems like forever i agree with you about nina kiriki hoffman. i liked her short work better. i read one of her novels and don't recall the title right now so that tells you something. your discussion of catalyst and how you like weird stuff reminded me of jeff vandermeer's work. you aware of him? he's a "new weird" writer and i just bought absolution, the fourth volume (sort of) of the area x series. i'm going to go against the outlaw bookseller now because area x was a series that i really enjoyed and i think the first three books are really one story divided into three parts, if you get my meaning. if you want weird, then check out area x or even better borne by vandermeer i read kitchen by banana yoshimoto a while back....or i think i did. it was short and i liked it. but why can't i recall anything about it?! will also look forward to your take on kitchen. maybe it will help me remember the story. lol death out of thin area sounds cool but the best thing is that you and your dad are reading together. how cool is that? awesome cool! i got my hands on a copy of titus awakes a few months ago but for whatever reason i put it aside and then returned it to the library without reading it. are you really going to make me take a second look? ;) as i recall crisis on infinite earths was so good. what a shame that this final crisis you read was so lackluster. then again i stopped reading comic books regularly quite a while ago. maybe that was a good thing? i would still encourage you to read the second series of the teen titans from the 80s. i have them all in a box somewhere and still remember them very fondly. great storytelling and that's what it's all about, right? thanks for putting up too much coffee right up to the camera. i was able to pause and read it. very amusing! great poem by frost. and you're right there is a kind of darkness or sadness in many of his poems. i really look forward to your poems and think it's a great idea to finish the videos that way. it's kind of your signature. well done, my friend! have a great week and talk to you on the other side cheers
hi friend Empusium was sooo good, a real slow burn eerie read, im 2nd guessing if i should use it for my book swap and just keep it. sadly im not enjoying the boys enter the house, it's really disjointing with the way it follows the victims, and reads more like a wiki page of Chicago history. honestly i dont know if ill finish it. red raising was way too YA, i cant believe all the ppl who hate on Fourth wing but praise red raising. i think the outlaw book seller is very wise and will listen to the advice about sequels lol i got the whole southren reach serise by jeff vandermeer and just gotta make room for it in my huge TBR. i Just got lent the Null A series but AE Vogt so thats gonna be my next SF series, and LOTR will be my fantasy counter. YES go back and get Titus Awake!! I feel sad just remembering the end. Im so happy you were able to read too much coffee man. ill hold one up next time. i try to give comics a break seeing how they gotta wrap up while leaving something for the next writer but when its bad its bad, and your right its all about story telling. I havent kept my book buying ban (i blame the outlaw book seller) and I'll be picking up kitchen and a few other books soon. apparently second sale on ebay thinks i buy too much and wont let me get the buy 3 get one free deal till a 10 rest, i did pick up Speak though before my ban lol thanks for making time to write, see you on the other side cheers
@@PoorPersonsBookReviewer always great to hear from you, my friend. i put empusium on my book club list so i will get to it...eventually! and, yeah, let's not talk about tbr piles. it's crazy. but in a good way ;) very happy to hear you have the southern reach series. i just picked up absolution the fourth book though when i saw vandermeer in boston at readercon about 18 months ago he said it was not really a "sequel" but a group of related stories (three). he's very creative and area x is awesome so i am willing to give it a try. as i said it's the exception that proves the rule. i will get on titus awakes as soon as i can. well, that won't wash as there is never time so i'll have to figure something out. maybe second sale has a copy? (that's funny about how they have "banned" you) yay for more coffee man! i forgot i had recommend speak to you. yes, read it. you can probably finish it in a day. SO good. i'm sure you will be able to see why teens love it. i taught it for years and years until one parent complained (it was nonsense) and then my admin got nervous and forbade me and my teaching partner from teaching it again. needless to say, i don't work at that school any longer thank the gods it's friday. i'm looking forward to the long weekend. here's hoping you have a great one cheers p.s. did i forget to include a castle? how did that happen?! here you go 🏰🏰🏰
Thanks for the shoutout man, I'm glad you've enjoyed it so much. I still need to read Titus Awakes actually 😂 🏰
Its a short read and so worth it as a final goodbye to Mervyn Peak 🏰
Good spear throw reality check ;D
When I have to put down the book and start googling average javelin throws, it’s not a good sign 🤣
hi there, friend
f*ck the government is right!
you always have such an interesting variety of books to read for your various book clubs. keep us posted on how it goes. i'm already curious to know what you think of boys enter the house and the empusium as both sound so interesting. i wish my book club had read one of these for october instead of the dumb ghost story by peter straub. i'm going to have to write these titles down for next year.
my jaw almost dropped when you said you went back to that gwynne series and malazan. haha. seriously though, it's good that you are willing to go back. i wonder if you have given yourself enough time though before going back. perhaps it's too soon?
a friend of mine liked red rising and gave it to me as a xmas present last year so i read it. i thought it was good for maybe young adults but i wasn't tempted to read more. at all. i keep hearing the outlaw bookseller's voice in my mind saying that you only need to read the first book in a series because the others just offer up diminishing returns. i think he's right
love the sheer joy on your face when you talk about brooms. that's what a good story does. it plucks our emotional strings. i just got a notice from my library that my copy of smashed has arrive. i'm looking forward to that one based on your recommendation. it's time i read a graphic novel as it seems like forever
i agree with you about nina kiriki hoffman. i liked her short work better. i read one of her novels and don't recall the title right now so that tells you something. your discussion of catalyst and how you like weird stuff reminded me of jeff vandermeer's work. you aware of him? he's a "new weird" writer and i just bought absolution, the fourth volume (sort of) of the area x series. i'm going to go against the outlaw bookseller now because area x was a series that i really enjoyed and i think the first three books are really one story divided into three parts, if you get my meaning. if you want weird, then check out area x or even better borne by vandermeer
i read kitchen by banana yoshimoto a while back....or i think i did. it was short and i liked it. but why can't i recall anything about it?! will also look forward to your take on kitchen. maybe it will help me remember the story. lol
death out of thin area sounds cool but the best thing is that you and your dad are reading together. how cool is that? awesome cool!
i got my hands on a copy of titus awakes a few months ago but for whatever reason i put it aside and then returned it to the library without reading it. are you really going to make me take a second look? ;)
as i recall crisis on infinite earths was so good. what a shame that this final crisis you read was so lackluster. then again i stopped reading comic books regularly quite a while ago. maybe that was a good thing? i would still encourage you to read the second series of the teen titans from the 80s. i have them all in a box somewhere and still remember them very fondly. great storytelling and that's what it's all about, right?
thanks for putting up too much coffee right up to the camera. i was able to pause and read it. very amusing!
great poem by frost. and you're right there is a kind of darkness or sadness in many of his poems. i really look forward to your poems and think it's a great idea to finish the videos that way. it's kind of your signature. well done, my friend!
have a great week and talk to you on the other side
cheers
hi friend
Empusium was sooo good, a real slow burn eerie read, im 2nd guessing if i should use it for my book swap and just keep it. sadly im not enjoying the boys enter the house, it's really disjointing with the way it follows the victims, and reads more like a wiki page of Chicago history. honestly i dont know if ill finish it.
red raising was way too YA, i cant believe all the ppl who hate on Fourth wing but praise red raising. i think the outlaw book seller is very wise and will listen to the advice about sequels lol
i got the whole southren reach serise by jeff vandermeer and just gotta make room for it in my huge TBR. i Just got lent the Null A series but AE Vogt so thats gonna be my next SF series, and LOTR will be my fantasy counter.
YES go back and get Titus Awake!! I feel sad just remembering the end.
Im so happy you were able to read too much coffee man. ill hold one up next time. i try to give comics a break seeing how they gotta wrap up while leaving something for the next writer but when its bad its bad, and your right its all about story telling.
I havent kept my book buying ban (i blame the outlaw book seller) and I'll be picking up kitchen and a few other books soon. apparently second sale on ebay thinks i buy too much and wont let me get the buy 3 get one free deal till a 10 rest, i did pick up Speak though before my ban lol
thanks for making time to write, see you on the other side
cheers
@@PoorPersonsBookReviewer always great to hear from you, my friend. i put empusium on my book club list so i will get to it...eventually! and, yeah, let's not talk about tbr piles. it's crazy. but in a good way ;)
very happy to hear you have the southern reach series. i just picked up absolution the fourth book though when i saw vandermeer in boston at readercon about 18 months ago he said it was not really a "sequel" but a group of related stories (three). he's very creative and area x is awesome so i am willing to give it a try. as i said it's the exception that proves the rule.
i will get on titus awakes as soon as i can. well, that won't wash as there is never time so i'll have to figure something out. maybe second sale has a copy? (that's funny about how they have "banned" you)
yay for more coffee man!
i forgot i had recommend speak to you. yes, read it. you can probably finish it in a day. SO good. i'm sure you will be able to see why teens love it. i taught it for years and years until one parent complained (it was nonsense) and then my admin got nervous and forbade me and my teaching partner from teaching it again. needless to say, i don't work at that school any longer
thank the gods it's friday. i'm looking forward to the long weekend. here's hoping you have a great one
cheers
p.s. did i forget to include a castle? how did that happen?! here you go
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