#SixBooks to get to know me:
1 The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho: I randomly bought this and finished it the same day. It’s about following your dreams and really spoke to me.
2 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell-Susanna Clarke: Changed how I thought about fantasy.
3 Life of Pi-Yann Martel: Bananas do float!
4 The Joy Luck Club-Amy Tan: No book ever made me cry so much…
5 1Q84-Murakami Haruki: He makes people doing mundane things riveting, lol
6 Push by Sapphire: Actually, this book made me cry as much…
#SixBooks to get to know me:
1 The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho: I randomly bought this and finished it the same day. It’s about following your dreams and really spoke to me.
2 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell-Susanna Clarke: Changed how I thought about fantasy.
3 Life of Pi-Yann Martel: Bananas do float!
4 The Joy Luck Club-Amy Tan: No book ever made me cry so much…
5 1Q84-Murakami Haruki: He makes people doing mundane things riveting, lol
6 Push by Sapphire: Actually, this book made me cry as much…
#SixBooks to get to know me:
- The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
- In a Dark, Dark Wood, Ruth Ware
- The Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
- Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey
- Vita Nostra, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko
Man of Bronze - Kenneth Robeson
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Lipstick Traces - Greil Marcus
Idols of Perversity - Bram Dijkstra
Days Between Stations - Steve Erickson
#SixBooks
#SixBooks to get to know me? An embarrassment of riches! #books #bookstodon
Neuromancer—William Gibson
The Stand—Stephen King
Swan Song—Robert McCammon
The Unbearable Lightness of Being—Milan Kundera
Flowers For Algernon—Daniel Keyes
Cat’s Cradle—Kurt Vonnegut
So it took me way too long to pick only #SixBooks but I really enjoyed these titles:
1. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
3. Charlie Wilson’s War by George Crile
4. The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
6. The Swamp: the Everglades, Florida, and the Power of Politics by Michael Grunwald
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#readingtheworld #bookstodon #Books #sixbooks
So it took me way too long to pick only #SixBooks but I really enjoyed these titles:
1. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
3. Charlie Wilson’s War by George Crile
4. The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
6. The Swamp: the Everglades, Florida, and the Power of Politics by Michael Grunwald
#Books #bookstodon #readingtheworld
#readingtheworld #bookstodon #Books #sixbooks
#introduction, the hashtag version--
Retired professional nomad: #englishprofessor
#stagehand
#equinevet assistant, #boardingfarm owner
#GenX
#horses
#positivereinforcement / #+R, #sciencebasedtraining
#bitless #traditionaldressage #equinemassage / #equinebodywork
#mastersonmethod
#sixbooks:
#IfWomenRoseRooted
#BurningWoman
#HorseBrainHumanBrainTheNeuroscienceofHorsemanship
#TheTaoofEquus
#TheStand
#introduction #englishprofessor #stagehand #equinevet #boardingfarm #genx #horses #positivereinforcement #sciencebasedtraining #bitless #traditionaldressage #equinemassage #equinebodywork #mastersonmethod #songbirds #nature #wildlife #sixbooks #ifwomenroserooted #burningwoman #horsebrainhumanbraintheneuroscienceofhorsemanship #thetaoofequus #thestand #indycar #indy500 #nymets
Six books to get to know me:
Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K le Guin
Clear Waters Rising by Nicholas Crane
How I Won the Yellow Jumper by Ned Boulting
The Algebraist by Iain M Banks
Mountain Light by Galen Rowell
Ask me again tomorrow and three or four of these might be different.
#writing #reading #books #sixbooks #bookstodon
Six books 📚🧐😌
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Dog Boy, Eva Sallis
The Year of Living Dangerously, Christopher Koch
Clearances, Seamus Heaney
The Broken Shore, Peter Temple
Touching the Hem, Noel Rowe
#books #bookstodon #literature #auslit #sixbooks
My #SixBooks to get to know me *cannot* be _just_ six books so there's that. 😆
1. The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey (Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise, and Magic's Price) - 1st Image Attached
2. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
3. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Universe by Douglas Adams
4. A Pilgrim At Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard and/or The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
5. Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
6. Twilight by Stephanie Myers/Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
I keep seeing this all over my feed and in #bookstodon, so might as well try my hand in it.
Six books to get to know me better:
Area X by Jeff Vandermeer
Watchmen by Alan Moore
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
#bookstodon #books #sixbooks #gettoknowme