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I have (rather belatedly) added the monthly category for Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban, chosen by @Apocryphal which will be our March read. Now's the time to set up notification preferences!
Looking ahead, we have a current rotation of @NeilNjae in April, me in May, @clash_bowley in June and @Apocryphal in July.
However if @BarnerCobblewood or @Michael_S_Miller want to host something somewhen in that span of months please post a message accordingly!
I have started Riddley Walker!
For April, it's a toss-up between The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi (review) and The Red Scholar's Wake (review), both of which are on my "to be read without a moment's hesitation" list.
Any preferences?
They both sound intriguing. It's harder to work out what's going on in The Red Scholar's Wake so that might be a reason for choosing it!
Both sound excellent! No particular preference!
I'm open to either, but if I had to pick one it would be the first one.
It seems the choice has been taken from me. I've been ambushed by the arrival of my pre-ordered The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi;I'll have finished it long before we get to April.
So, April will be The Red Scholar's Wake!
I have just now added the monthly category for The Red Scholar's Wake, by Aliette de Bodard, chosen by @NeilNjae which will be our April read. Now's the time to set up notification preferences!
Boughted, though Amazon at first said they had only paperback and hardcover, starting at $22... Finally went roundabout and bought it for $9.50 or so from the big A...
For May I'm thinking Daughter of Redwinter, by Ed McDonald - it's a fantasy book published in 2022 which was passed on to me fr comment from our local bookshop and which I reckoned was pretty good. It's available in kindle, audible, and physical copies https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daughter-Redwinter-Chronicles-Book-One-ebook/dp/B094VKXCC8/
Any thoughts?
Also for fun I've added an "about the author" section to this month and next month's selections.
Category added for May's read, Daughter of Redwinter, by Ed McDonald. A good time to update notification preferences.
As discussion about Riddley Walker seems to have slowed down this is a good time to remind us all about April's read, The Red Scholar's Wake, by Aliette de Bodard, chosen by @NeilNjae - it's already in the monthly discussions area
I am having no trouble reading Red Scholar's Wake! I will definitely be participating!
There may well be some more chatter about Red Scholar's Wake now that the excitement of the weekend is past (we've had a major cycling event here in Cumbria on the same weekend as the coronation) but this is also to remind everyone that May's read will be Daughter of Redwinter, by Ed McDonald.
@clash_bowley have you had inspired thoughts about a June book?
I am thinking two things: James Michener's Caribbean or Audrey Shulman's Theory of Bastards.
Feedback appreciated!
They both look interesting but Caribbean is a monumental length (898 pages according to Amazon, but some of that is an extract from another book). Maybe too long for a single month?
The other book I’ve never heard of. Seems generally well reviewed, and one a Dick award, which seems ironic for a feminist novel.
Ah! I didn't notice the length of Caribbean, though I should have thought of it. That's not all that long for a Michener book. Hawaii was over 1100 pages. Caribbean's a Michener I have never read, and I have been a fan of his work since I read Hawaii in about 1966, at the age of ten. If people want to do it, I wouldn't mind taking two months. The other just looked interesting.
So... final choice?
No interest either way. I'll go with Theory of Bastards because it's shorter.
I'll set up the discussion area tomorrow
Category now added, with book and author descriptions therein. Time to update notification preferences!
I finished as well.