Definitely. I don’t hate Hurt Locker but I still think about the last shot of A Serious Man even 15 years later.

One of the things I loved about the book was how well Butler showed the system of slavery was evil and it corrupted everyone. Slavery wasn’t perpetuated by just “bad” people. It was enforced and continued by people who considered themselves to be good. People who could be sympathetic and human. That was illuminated in…

For me the best book in the series is the 5th book, Victory of Eagles. It is the only one that really breaks out of the formula she had set up (visit new continent, meet new dragons), and it is better for it. I enjoyed all of the Temeraire books, but that one showed how good of a writer she could be.

Just finished Scalzi’s The Interdependency series. Enjoyable in that Scalzi way and an easy read. Now I am reading Uprooted by Naomi Novik. I read all of the Temeraire series and Spinning Silver, but somehow missed the book she actually one a Nebula for. I am, of course, really liking it. Novik has turned into a…

I think it is great you are reading and enjoying Moby Dick, a classic that does not deserve its reputation. It is incredibly funny and weird, and just a great read. I hope more people find their way back to it.

I am almost done with Nixonland and completely agree. It definitely helped me understand what is happening in now.

Piranes is on my list next! Right now I am reading Nixonland, and while I wish I had picked something a bit more escapist, it really is a good book to help me understand what is happening right now. That and it is a very well written book, funny and irreverent, which is not what I am used to when reading historic…

Read a lot of Scalzi by finishing up the Old Man’s War books, The Human Division and the End of All Things. Scalzi is soothing to read right now because these books are full of competent people doing the right thing. Why are they not a television series yet? Good plots, great characters, interesting world. It is a…

That is a shame about Mitchell. He is also one of my favorites, but the reviews and the topic of this book made me hesitant to dive into this one. I’d be curious what you think after you finish it.

I am in the middle of a LeGuin re-read right now, but with Earthsea. Just luxuriating in her prose, it is so beautiful.

Why it certainly is! Yes, a giant orgy, a live sex show, and a peasant uprising. It is a weird book.

It’s been a while since I’ve been able to update on a What are You Reading post. Last few books included, The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. I enjoyed it in general, Stephenson is hit or miss for me, but the world and the story line following Nell, I really enjoyed.

I’m fairly certain the call letters are meant to be a winking reference to War of the Worlds rather than a realistic call sign

I do take issue with you naming Brokeback Mountain in your list. It is a great film, and one of the best romances I have ever seen on screen. It got a reputation for being what you are describing, I think mostly by people who had never seen it (and because of South Park), but it definitely is much, much more.

Just finished Book 1 and 2 of the Broken Earth Trilogy, and will start Book 3 today. The series is wonderful, and NK Jemisin deserves every accolade. I am recommending it to everyone I know who likes scifi/fantasy. It has been a long time since I’ve enjoyed a new(ish) series this much.

Just started the Broken Earth Trilogy and am really enjoying it so far. Fascinating world with interesting characters, so I’m sold.

I’m excited for you to discover all that Jane Austen has to offer! Pride and Prejudice probably is the best book to read first. There is a reason that it has the most adaptations, it is a fast, funny, read with great characters and a compelling romance. I can almost guarantee if there was a line in the play that you…

My entryway to Jane Austen was the 1995 Pride and Prejudice miniseries. I had heard her works were boring, stuffy English melodramas, and believed it, even though I had never actually read anything she had written. Oh, how wrong the detractors were.

Thank you for saying that about Bram Stoker’s Dracula so that I didn’t have to. I’m not sure how someone sees this as a great film. Is it the acting, which includes terribly wooden performances by Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder, and the beginning of Anthony Hopkins scenery chewing phase? Is it the over the top set…

That is what I found so great about the book, how the interplay between the two parts kept you interested and reading, and really highlighted both parts of the story. I liked both parts equally, the Fair parts for their “how the hell are they going to make this work against all odds”, and the Holmes part for the…