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In further coronavirus reading adventures, I have moved on from The Andromeda Strain to Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama, written in the ‘70s about first contact! With aliens! In space! And, um, it seems very little has changed since he wrote it.
Having run out of classic science fiction (and being unable to get more while the library is closed), I’m on to book 3 of my COVID-19 reading adventures: Packing for Mars, by @mary_roach! Maybe this will all be more fun if we pretend the social distancing is astronaut practice?
For my own archival purposes, I’m adding Book 1 (The Andromeda Strain, because why the hell not) to the thread here. https://twitter.com/alleiraknablexa/status/1240652187551895553?s=21 https://twitter.com/AlleiraKnablexa/status/1240652187551895553
Quarantine Reading Log, Day Who-The-Fuck-Even-Knows-Anymore:
The Martian, by @andyweirauthor! This whole stay at home thing is bad, but at least we have more than potatoes and “nothin’ tea”!
I am quickly running out of space books and I am very sad about it.
The Martian, by @andyweirauthor! This whole stay at home thing is bad, but at least we have more than potatoes and “nothin’ tea”!
I am quickly running out of space books and I am very sad about it.
I have now run out of space books, so while waiting for NK Jemisin’s new book to arrive in the mail, I am retreading Austenland, by @haleshannon. Because, I dunno, @sarahshachat got me thinking about Pride & Prejudice, and also why the hell not?
Still waiting for The City We Became to arrive in the mail, so today’s book was Snow, Glass, Apples, by @neilhimself and @ColleenDoran. The art is absolutely gorgeous and the story is CREEPY AS FUCK (in a good way). Picture from frontispiece to avoid spoilers or NSFW content.
Eeeeeeeeeee it finally arrived!!!! Up next, @nkjemisin’s The City We Became, which I‘ve been looking forward to so much that I’ve had its release date on my calendar for months. Thanks to @mcnallyjackson for helping me get ahold of it!
Also the cover has secret tentacles on it!!
Also the cover has secret tentacles on it!!
Next up on the coronavirus reading list, Leviathan Wakes, by @JamesSACorey.... aka the basis for The Expanse! I got it for free at a season 2 preview screening at @AlamoNYC but never got around to reading it. So far, it’s fun to see familiar characters in their original medium.
You know those books that you reread because you know they’ll make you cry? I’ve had a particularly strange and sad week and could use that kind of literary catharsis, so I’m thinking it’s time to reread an old favorite: The Story Sisters, by @ahoffmanwriter.
For Pandemic Book #10, I’m now reading Mr. Justice Raffles, by E. W. Hornung. It’s the fourth in the series, but it’s the only novel, and also the only one that doesn’t exist as an audiobook. In these strange times, it’s good to be back with my old friends Raffles and Bunny.
After @curliQtube lent it to me months ago and I let it just sit on my shelf, I finally got around to reading Chicken with Plums, by Marjane Satrapi. It was absolutely beautiful. And now apparently there’s a movie I need to see?
The sci-fi books I ordered have yet to arrive, so I figure it’s time to reread Coraline, by @neilhimself (with illustrations by @DaveMcKean!). It’s been ages since I last read it, and I’m especially enjoying how the crackling yellowed pages of my copy fit right in with the story.
I was going to discontinue this thread because nobody reads it and also the shutdown is going on for long enough that it’d make my end of year reading recap list redundant, but I came across this in @tazmuir’s Gideon the Ninth and it was just too good not to share.
