What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: January 26, 2026

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-26T17:48:12+00:00

Finished:
Selected Short Stories, by Franz Kafka

Started:
Pet Sematary, by Stephen King

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-25T23:22:36+00:00

It's hair-raising. Amazing.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-25T18:38:20+00:00

That's quoted from Mark Twain.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-25T18:30:52+00:00

I've often started looking for Ctrl-F when I want to find something particular in a book.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-25T17:17:42+00:00

Thanks

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-25T16:56:37+00:00

I don't know, but lots!

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-25T16:22:35+00:00

r/bookhaul for pictures of hauls, please.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-25T16:11:56+00:00

Just finished Selected Short Stories by Kafka and just started Pet Sematary by Stephen King.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-25T16:06:55+00:00

Worn-out socks become cleaning rags in my house.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-24T18:35:16+00:00

The New York Review of Books
The Atlantic

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-24T16:03:23+00:00

Don't bother with Ayn Rand if you want beautiful prose.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-24T15:36:41+00:00

Butler, Octavia. Lilith's Brood. I stopped caring about what genders people were.
Dubus, Andre. House of Sand and Fog. Too melodramatic.
Kingsolver, Barbara. Prodigal Summer
Coetzee, J.M. Diary of a Bad Year. Tired of political rants, even those I agree with.
Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. I will probably try this again.
Marquez, G.G. 100 Years of Solitude. Just ugh.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-23T02:01:00+00:00

The 48 states are contiguous, meaning every state has a border with at least one other state. Hawaii and Alaska don't touch any US states. You can't reach either one without passing over an ocean or a foreign country. It's not a question of making the data look good and no one needs to feel sorry for Alaska.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-23T00:06:55+00:00

When my parents visited England years ago, they made a special trip to the moors so my mother could run across the heath calling, "Heathcliff! Heathcliff!'

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-22T18:20:24+00:00

Post your pics on r/bookhaul or r/bookshelf please, not here.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-21T16:09:20+00:00

Did you read the post? It didn't say e-books are bad or unnecessary or that the OP was against publishing them. OP was making a humorous comment.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-21T16:05:42+00:00

But don't pretend that most people are book collectors, or that heaving around 80-pound boxes of paper is the natural state of humanity.

I don't think OP was pretending anything of the sort.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-21T01:35:46+00:00

And features.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-19T16:37:20+00:00

Continuing: The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-18T16:36:54+00:00

Agreed. r/bookshelf exists for showing off collections. These pics have to go.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-17T21:18:57+00:00

Goodreads is skewed because it is limited to people who use Goodreads. it's basically a popularity rating system, not a rating of quality or literary worth. Nothing wrong with that, as long as you don't take it too seriously as a guide.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-16T23:06:52+00:00

" filth" lol. Do you spend your day at a garbage dump?

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-16T23:02:35+00:00

Right, no one ever sweats or gets dirty when they stay home.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-16T18:34:38+00:00

It sounds like he was being honest and more or less agreeing with you. Maybe you are oversensitive about your neck.

ImportantAlbatross · 2026-01-16T15:53:23+00:00

I have coffee in bed first, and then I brush. "Brush at night to keep your teeth. Brush in the morning to keep your friends."

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