Watch out Davy, everybody is after your Preciousss.

Folio just announced a Great Gatsby restock. Good timing.

Looking forward to the restock of Foundation trilogy too. Just hope these aren’t printed and/or bound in China!

tigersgogrrr wrote:

For those fans of Gideon, Alecto is now going to be the fourth book. Nona the Ninth is next.

Ooh, nice. I'll need to re-read Harrow, I read it too fast first time (like I tend to with books I really like) and can't remember much.

Tolkien fans are going apeshit because a sampler of The Nature of Middle-Earth came out and it contains new details about how time works in the age of the magic trees that pre-dated the sun and moon. Their MINDS are BLOWN.

poprock wrote:

This is written by a pal, has been getting outrageously great reviews since it came out, and is going for 99p on Kindle today.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07YLBBNM3

I’ve just bought it, some of you might fancy it too.

Started reading this a few days ago with no great hope that I'd like it - it's not really my kind of genre. However. I can't put it down. The main character is a bit of a pretentious dick, as are many of the supporting ones but it's a really, really fucking good read so far.

Finally finished American Pastoral and what an absolute triumph of fiction. Wonderful.

What other Roth do peeps recommend?

Finished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel.

That was a lot of book. And I'm not sure what I read. Seemed to be almost 800 pages of people irritating each other and have quibbles about it all the time. Very British I guess.

Must say that I did really enjoy it in the end. It's no Piranesi, but still very good, and very different. 
Reading issue 4 of Berserk now (they're all checked out all the time so hard to get a hold of them through the library), and have The vanishing act of Esme Lennox ready for after that. My mom is reading that now and says she enjoys it. She recently finished Piranesi as well and enjoyed that, so only fair that I read something that she recommended after.

edit, Actually, now I think about it, Strange and Norrel is pretty much this forum when someone asks what biscuits are, or that one sausage that wasn't really a sausage, or when exactly tea happens and what you'll have during, or how to drink tea, but not during tea time.

For those who liked Jonathan Strange, I would highly recommend The Night Circus by Erin Morginstern. I read this via a freebie from work last year and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Wisdom of crowds arrived a couple of days ago. Just finished it. Demolished it because it’s brilliant as normal from Abercrombie. But also, just so dark, it’s really sad that
All in all though, very glad it seems to set up more books. Long may they continue.

Gah Piranesi down to £1.49 on Kindle less than 48h after o finally bought a physical copy. Foiled again.

I can read it before Dr thing and Mr thing, right? Think I asked that before and people said "yes"?

Incidentally, Piranesi recently won this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction award.  It’s a great book.

Yeah Piranesi and the Dr and Mr book are quite different. I bought my mom a copy of Piranesi and she loved it as well, it's not something she usually reads, but she messaged me after and said, "i'm not sure if I fully understand it, but I don't think it matters, as it's still beautiful". 

Love that book so much.

Tolkien book porn time! Got my super deluxe edition of The Lord of the Rings today which, for the first time ever, includes Tolkien’s own art. It’s beautiful. I don’t remember how much it was when I preordered it, but I ended up paying £110 for it, which is definitely the most I’ve ever paid for a single book. No regrets.

I forgot that was out. Looks nice!