Curious Readers Podcast

Adding to my TBR. Heard him for the first time on the For The Wild podcast a few years back and found what he was saying about different modes of intelligence really engaging.

One of my favourite literary biographies.

Great review. I read COT a few years back and loved it, but never went any further with the series. Tried to read Alien Clay recently and ended up DNFing halfway through. I think I need to revisit.

That Venn Diagram is surely just a circle?

YES!

OK, I'm intrigued! On to the TBR it goes 📚

Amen. Now let's do Instagram. Looking forward to starting Jesus Christ Kinski soon. Slightly obsessed with KK's Jesus Tour since watching Peter Geyer's doc.

I think I'm going to join you. It's time.

I still want to read it, but can't help but feel that if I'm going to tackle an epic western, my first rodeo should probably be Lonesome Dove.

Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z Danielewski – House of Leaves author returns with a 1200-page western A quarter century after that landmark cult novel, this new epic has aspects of brilliance but seems designed for academic study rather than readerly enjoyment

"In the end, Tom’s Crossing feels as though it’s been written with at least one eye on the literary immortality bestowed by academic study. Its aesthetic decisions seem designed to stimulate seminars rather than enjoyment."

OUCH. Marcel Theroux not sugaring the pill #BookSky

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Naturally!

It's giving "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" vibes.

Loved this chat with Alison, so interesting. Great episode 👏

I’ve heard such good things about this book. I read his book about the Romanovs a few years back on a summer holiday break and I can’t honestly tell you anything about that holiday because I was so engrossed.

Oh wow, I need to read this!

Hello! Nice to see you here 🥸 One I haven’t read, although I remember a friend finishing it and saying it made her feel depressed. I enjoyed Heaven (once my ear tuned to the dialect) but didn’t get on with All The Lovers In The Night at all.

Great conversation and great pod. I’ve been binging episodes 🎧📚

Good morning #BookSky! Matcha is brewing, cat fed and fussed, TBR pondered over. What is everyone reading today?

A friend read this on a group reading retreat a few months back and has been raving about it ever since. Adding to TBR.

Drawing up a shortlist of recommendations for our forthcoming episode on graphic novels. So many gems to choose from. If anyone has any great recs please shout! #BookSky #GraphicNovels

*snort*

Yet to tackle the Ken Follett or Moby Dick (I know), but the others were worth the struggle! I would add Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu to that stack as another big book worth investing some time in.

Great post I think I'd concur with a lot of your thoughts. It's interesting to see how divided readers are over Flashlight, a big disappointment for me, especially after Susan Choi's Trust Exercise which I thought was a brilliant novel.

A Brief History of Seven Killings, Disgrace and The God of Small Things get my vote. I'd also add Milkman by Anna Burns and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Perhaps I'm being childish, but it amuses me greatly that fans of A LITTLE LIFE are only just now discovering that the man on the cover of the paperback version of the novel is, in fact, NOT crying. It's all in the title folks - 'Orgasmic Man', Peter Hujar (1969) #Booksky

Day 3 of #NovellasInNovember is Turkish writer Ayşegül Savaş's WHITE ON WHITE which follows a young art history student researching gothic nudes as she moves to an unnamed city and becomes embroiled in her neighbour's dysfunctional life #BookSky #LitFic

Another blustery mid-morning walk along the coast. Time to continue my Stephen King reread marathon with IT which I last read twenty year ago at 16. So far it’s aged well. I’d forgotten how much more space King gives to the Stan Uris suicide storyline in the book vs adaptations - much more pathos.

I am three quarters of the way through Caroline Fraser's new narrative non-fiction 'Murderland', which I would highly recommend.

Yep. Really glad he’s made this stand and that it’s being reported, but that phrasing is egregious.

Keep it up Barry! What a star!