Speaking of James Patterson, the Mystery/thriller genre doesn’t count as high-quality stuff either, even if it’s a gritty Norwegian thing. People went wild over the Stieg Larsson books, but then people went wild over Harry Potter too. Doesn’t mean it’s literature, Darling. I hardly ...
As well as the new books that I managed to read though, I did re-read the first five books in the Throne of Glass series, as I’d completely forgotten what happened and wanted to catch up before reading the latest one. If you count these into my stats, February actually wasn’t that...
I am currently reading a 982-page novel that was shortlisted for The Booker Prize in 2019, “Ducks, Newburyport” by Lucy Ellman. It is a stream-of-consciousness novel, and it is just amazing. (It also should count as a longer book, because it has no chapter breaks, hardly any paragra...
The emailer told how she had ordered my books for her son through an approved vendor, as required by the prison rules. After reading and enjoying them, he shared the books with others on his unit and they became fans as well. I was told they loved the relatable characters, familiar loca...
Having seen some of the other cease and desist letters she’s sent, she deserves everything that’s coming to her – especially as she now thinks that she owns the name Luna (see her one star review of The Bodyguard by Elena Davinski on Goodreads) But don’t worry, someone has ...
I would suggest reading as much Linear Algebra books as possible, followed by some probability and statistics texts. For the first, I suggest Gilbert Strang's "Linear Algebra and Its Applications", while for the second, "Probability, Random Variables And Random Signal Principles" by Peebles is ...
-). And books selling few or none that might be great – but nobody’s reading them. whether because nobody’s heard of them, or found them, or they found them and passed over them because all they looked at was the review count, and it only had… Well, you get the picture. ...