Books you've read in 2023

[RS]

@The Unholy Ghost it would look good next to its sister in my place.

 

[RS]

The one I have was bleak too.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I don’t like the font, especially the o, and what’s going on with the t and h?

BIN!

STOP IT

 

[Cerro de Casa]

It looks like a book about a sad twink so definitely bin.

SHAN'T.

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

It looks like a book about a sad twink so definitely bin.

Looks like a right load of stinking dog shit

@Suedey

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

I find it hard to trust or like people called Jon. John is fine but not Jon. However I have overcome this terrible prejudice on occasion and bought albums by Jon Hopkins although I WOULD rather he be called JOHN

#braveryawardgoesto

 

[Jocasta Clun]

Each to their own darling. Personally ORGANIZED (or even worse COLOUR-CODED) BOOKSHELVES make me want to COMMIT ARSON

 

[jivafox]

Books about sad twinks are the best. Especially if they’re dissected in chapters-long gruesome and graphic detail in an isolated windmill in Holland in the end.

 

[Beverley]

jon ransom is v. nice!

 

[RS]

Each to their own darling. Personally ORGANIZED (or even worse COLOUR-CODED) BOOKSHELVES make me want to COMMIT ARSON

Then set yourself on fire bitch!

 

[Phoenix]

Do not come for RS’s rainbow shelves

 

[RJN]

I want @RaspberrySwirl's book collection (aesthetically, I'd never get around to most of them)

 

[Jocasta Clun]

I find it hard to trust or like people called Jon. John is fine but not Jon. However I have overcome this terrible prejudice on occasion and bought albums by Jon Hopkins although I WOULD rather he be called JOHN

#braveryawardgoesto

But darling calling the baby JOHNATHAN would be TERRIBLY PRETENTIOUS, N'EST-CE PAS?

 

[Mats]

paging @RaspberrySwirl 's bookshelf https://www.abebooks.com/books/british-library-crime-classics-series

 

[RS]

paging @RaspberrySwirl 's bookshelf https://www.abebooks.com/books/british-library-crime-classics-series

I saw them when I was in London and almost screamed. They’re so pretty. I need to buy more shelves.

 

[Mats]

I am currently reading Steinbeck's East of Eden. I am a sucker for this kind of literature

also, daddy

 

[Mats]

@Moderator can this thread be stickied and last year's unstickied please?

 

[AGinAg (37)]

paging @RaspberrySwirl 's bookshelf https://www.abebooks.com/books/british-library-crime-classics-series

DEATH OF A BUSYBODY

 

[Phoenix]

A good start for 2023 for me after a very mediocre 2022

 

[Generic Account]

I am currently reading Steinbeck's East of Eden. I am a sucker for this kind of literature

also, daddy

I was just about to embark on this collection after two years. I'm feeling very of that era after seeing The Girl from the North Country so much excite.

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[Generic Account]

 

[RJN]

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I love that cover

 

[Rachey]

I've suddenly got back into reading after years of not.

So far I've read:

Just started this one:

 

[Rachey]

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I read Jane Eyre and The Tenenant of Wildfell Hall this month (Wuthering Heights I read back in 2020). They’re nice stories. Jane Eyre is a beautifully written Gothic novel… but my God they were both too long and need a lot of editing. They could’ve easily been 300 pages shorter each. (Wuthering Heights was a lot shorter and part of why so much better)


Now I feel done with the old classics. I need something quick and exciting.

I love Wuthering Heights. It's the only Emily Brontë book I've fully read I think. And who my cat Heathcliff is named after

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Recommended me some 200-400 page novels please Moopy!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I'm just about to finish my fourth of the year, which is probably my most since about 1991 (not including enforced uni stuff). Not quite sure why, I've started again. Maybe it's just me in my forties. My current pile looks uninspired.

 

[Phoenix]

Recommended me some 200-400 page novels please Moopy!

Do you have a genre in mind?

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Do you have a genre in mind?

Pretty much anything except Sci-Fi/ Fantasy.

 

[RS]

Pretty much anything except Sci-Fi/ Fantasy.

Those of us who read The Bell by Iris Murdoch last year really liked it. From my reading list from last year I think it’s the one you’d like the most.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Those of us who read The Bell by Iris Murdoch last year really liked it. From my reading list from last year I think it’s the one you’d like the most.

I'll add that to the list, although I note that's 50s and I'm just on The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, so maybe something more recent next.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I quite fancy some QUEER LITERATURE. I popped into Waterstones and I swear it's all bloody Heartstopper.

 

[RJN]

I quite fancy some QUEER LITERATURE. I popped into Waterstones and I swear it's all bloody Heartstopper.

I read this last year and it was great

 

[RS]

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I read this last year and it was great

I thought this one was poorly writte, but it’s nice to re-live some gay cruising/dating stories before the
social media era.

 

[RS]

The Bell has a queer theme too.

The one by the Vietnamese American gay is I think the only recent book I’ve read in the past three years.

 

[RJN]

The one by the Vietnamese American gay is I think the only recent book I’ve read in the past three years.

What’s this?

 

[Beverley]

@Ag have you thought about reading some Olga Tolarczuk? A lot of her work is about Polish history, so you might like it.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

@Ag have you thought about reading some Olga Tolarczuk? A lot of her work is about Polish history, so you might like it.

Ooh lovely. Cheers. Flights seems to be the one with most acclaim.

 

[RS]

What’s this?

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.

 

[Generic Account]

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.

His poetry is better than the novel I think.

 

[RS]

His poetry is better than the novel I think.

I found the novel average