OK, Jellies, New Year, new titles! Anybody reading cool books?

“James” by Percival Everett. Is excellent. It is a retelling of Huck Finn from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. There is a lot about code switching which would be relevant to the discussion on here of Ebonics as well.

I’ve started reading the entire Dune series in order starting with The Butlerian Jihad.

@Caravanfan I’ll be starting God Emperor of Dune some time this winter.

I’m currently reading Beartown by Frederik Backman, as well as Alice Munro’s Open Secrets.

Considering that my TBR is now over 700 volumes and I generally read about 30 books in a year (mostly novels), I will have to prioritize. Next up is The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima.

@Demosthenes I have that same dilemma! I have so many TBR titles in the queue that it’s a bit overwhelming.
@janbb James is in the top ten of that pile.

When Brooklyn Was Queer

All about the history of sexual minorities in Brooklyn beginning with Whitman.

I have a few I am wanting to start, mainly Star Trek books.

But right now, I have been flipping through Smithsonians “Atlas of Space” , “The Planets” and National Geographics “Space Atlas” (which is similar to the Smithsonian, but has more charts and maps.)

I am reading Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kinsolver. It’s a great book but rather heartbreaking. I started reading another book that was called The City of Dusk. I wasn’t too far into it though and there was a big inconsistency at one point so now I don’t even know if I want to continue. It seems like a stupid thing to stop reading a book over but I don’t know how it got past the editor.

Basically the main character is meeting three people from his team, one from the water concentration, and the other two from fire and earth. (They are all elementalists.) So as he goes on to describe the three people, he gives their names and their appearances. But all of a sudden he’s using the they/them pronoun for the water person. So I thought at first that maybe it was somebody who used those pronouns, although it reads really weird and I’m not sure it should be used in the context of a book. But then when he got to the other two, the fire and earth people, he only gave the name and description of one. So there’s a missing person? I thought maybe there were two older people but the other one’s name is not given. Those are the kind of things that make me wonder if I want to keep reading a book.