One of my most loved books, without doubt!
I'm pretty sure I have an older copy of A Hard Day's Write somewhere around the house but my sister-in-law (not knowing that) just sent me a newer copy for my birthday published by MJF Books. In this edition, the Beatles songs from Live At The BBC and Anthology 1-3 are included with their regular discography. All those songs are covered in 357 pages and when you include the chronology, discographies, bibliography, index, etc. it runs a total of 382 pages. With the inclusion of the Beatles songs from Live At The BBC and Anthology 1-3, that should cover everything.
I’ve never read this many books in a year and I’m honestly not sure if I would want to again. It required a lot of dedication at the expense of practicing music or enjoying other things.Just wow! I look at this pic, and I'm not sure I'll read so many books in 5 years. It is difficult for me to read new. I rather like to re-read something familiar. Christmas is coming soon, and my dear Moomin books by Tove Jansson are waiting for me
Some of 'em just take longer than others, and in general, I find that the slower ones tend to stick with me longer. You kinda have to go at the pace that a book wants to be experienced. There's something satisfying about reading a book in a day, but another kind of satisfying to spend a week or two or more with another kind of book. I wouldn't want to miss either.
Ya can't let the number of books or pages try to be the boss of you. 
I’ll have to look that up! Thanks for the recommendation!One of my most loved books, without doubt!
Also seek out Berendt's other travelogue/memoir/mystery, The City of Falling Angels - equally as intoxicating
and every bit as compelling!
And wow, that is a mind-boggling number of books to have breathed in in just a year, Luke.
I went through my diary and have read just shy of 1 and a 1/2 rows of your poster haha,
and I thought I'd had a good year!
I’ve been picking up the reprints of EC Comic Series as often as I can. Tales Fron the Crypt, Vault of Horror, etc, have always been favorites of mine and it’s nice to see them reprinted in such high quality.
I've got a big stack of those EC Annuals! I've got several of the larger hard cover editions as well. I've been sitting on them way too long and they are taking up space so I've got to get around to reading them and then selling them. They brought me back to my childhood when I loved all those horror/suspense/science fiction comics. I got caught up in the nostalgia and bought up a bunch of them.
Me too! Not a big poetry fan, but I'm willing to make an exception now and then...
I told my mom recently that I think I learned more morality tales as a kid from Tales From the Crypt than from church and she was mortified.
Yeah, I mostly read Robert Frost, Robert Burns and various Cowboy Poets. I read it whenever the mood moves me.
I read that this year! PLEASE let me know your thoughts when you finish it because that was a book that stuck with me for a while after I finished it!
I talked about this book earlier in this thread but if you want to read a book that will stick with you for a (long) while after reading it check out The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski. I read it in the early 80's for the first time and it has still stuck with me after all these years. I can still see and feel myself reading it back then and I've read it multiple times since. It's very dark so it's not for the sensitive soul.
but these aren't even that -- they're aimed at tweens and early teens, and still entertaining as all get-out.
My wife collects Sherlock Holmes pastiches and I try to find Holmes books in other written languages whenever I’m somewhere that that’s a thing. She has a fun collection of French, German, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and… want to say Indian but can’t remember for certain (it’s been a few years).You may have seen that the second Enola Holmes movie just came to Netflix and set a bunch of viewership records right out of the gate. I haven't watched it yet (opting out of TV in favor of ukeing these days!), but I dug the first one (2020) enough to check out the books, and they're DYNAMITE. I absolutely love 'em, and vastly prefer them to the (still quite entertaining) movies.
Enola is the 14 year-old sister of Sherlock and Mycroft (the latter of whom figures heavily in the first one, and less so as the series continues), and the first mystery she attempts to solve is the disappearance of her mother. She doesn't crack the case, but stumbles into others along the way. I will admit that I read the first four in this series of eight teen novellas by Nancy Springer, loved 'em all, then moved on to other things.
The new movie was a reminder that I need to get back to these. I just finished the fifth, The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline, and couldn't believe how much I enjoyed it! Only 188 pages, which is about how long they all are. I've mentioned that I read a lot of YA books and their emphasis on stories where stuff happens
Any fan of Sherlock, of plucky young heroines, Victorian-era mysteries, gentle historical feminism and the like will get a kick out of these. A big part of the storyline is her trying to outwit her much older brothers and their attempts to stuff her into conventional Victorian young womanhood, eg, get her into boarding school, corsets, and marriage immediately, and her determination to be the free spirit her mother the suffragette raised her to be. I especially enjoyed how they connected her upbringing to Sherlock's, with the same kinds of emphasis on curiosity, observation, a wide range of learning, and physical activity over social conformity. After all, it's not like Sherlock ever exactly fit into genteel society. Why should his sister?
That's more subtext than text, though. The books aren't exactly about that. They're about a smart, capable girl unexpectedly alone in the world, trying to find her way by helping people. I like that. Helping yourself by helping other people. AND they're fast, fun, and funny. Gotta love that.
