On Jana Aston’s FB group, a reader asked for recs of authors similar to Jana and one reader recommended Kayley Loring. There’s no reference to her in r/RomanceBooks but there should be. Many of her books are on Kindle Unlimited. I loved SLEEPER. I found it funny and silly without being over the top. What was also refreshing is that the male leads ex-wife, while a bit narcissistic, didn’t have it out for the female lead.
I love the type of book that feels like someone recounting an anecdote to me in a natural, unaffected way. I like literary and stylised stuff too, but right now I'm looking for a comfort read, and this is the kind of thing that serves that purpose for me. It needs a good plot hook, and a sense of humour too, though the jokes don't necessarily need to be the funniest I've ever read – I just like the friendly feeling I get from a book that's at least trying to give me a giggle now and then. Other than that I don't really mind what genre.
Authors I love, but whose back catalogue I've pretty much used up:
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
P. G. Wodehouse
Bill Bryson
Garrison Keillor
Neil Gaiman
These are great for upper-intermediate and advanced ESL learners. Students are to match the author puns with the book titles. For example, the first book is titled "Why cars stop". It should be matched with the author M. T. Tank (empty tank).
https://eslvault.com/funny-book-titles-and-authors/
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I rewatched Dr. K's talk with Reckful yesterday out of the blue and now today I was reading the "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman" book and came across an eerily similar piece of advice to the one Dr. K gave to Reckful during their talk.
To refresh your memory the basic summary from their talk was that Reckful got into photography when he was a teenager and he really enjoyed it. He took some pictures he was happy with and went around to see if any art places would put the pictures up. And one place did!
Shortly after that he stopped with the photography. Reckful's conclusion was that it could've been because people at the art gallery liked the other pictures more than his. Dr K's conclusion was that Reckful had achieved so much that he felt done with it. Even if Reckful didn't see the experience as a win Dr. K pointed out that getting an art gallery to put up your pictures when you're an amateur and a teenager is a huge win.
To give you a very very short background on the author Richard Feynman and how he got himself involved with art. He was a world famous physicist and Nobel prize winner known for God knows how many things. If you don't have direct contact with God then Feynman's Wikipedia page is the next best thing if you're interested in learning more about him, which I encourage you to do!
The peculiar thing about Feynman was that he was a very eccentric person, especially for being a scientist, and in this particular part of life he had just met a person invested in art and they had made a deal that the person was going to teach Feynman about drawing and Feynman was going to teach him about science since both were good in their respective fields but clueless about the other. The drawing went well and he even managed to both sell some paintings and also to get a one-man show where only his paintings were to be displayed.
Here is the segment from the book I'm referring to.
> There was a guy there at the county art museum named Maurice Tuchman who really knew what he was talking about when it came to art. He knew that I had had this one-man show at Caltech. He said, 'You know, you're never going to draw again.'
> 'What? That's ridiculous! Why should I never . . .'
> 'Because you've had a one-man show, and you're only an amateur.'
> Although I did draw after that, I never worked as hard, with the same energy and intensity, as I did before. I never sold a drawing after that, either. He was a smart fella, and I learned
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Chit Chat the Mirror Dinghy published in 1995 in Florida, sounds like a kid-friendly Knight Rider in boat form!
Hi guys, I am looking for any recommendation of a GREAT local read, I don't mind wattpad stories as long as it's worth reading... you know... not like... cringy or cliche. Preferrably in Tagalog sana, or taglish maybe? Para damang-dama yung comedic sense.
Please don't recommend Bob Ong or Eros Atalia. No offense. I did enjoyed them CENTURIES AGO. I laughed out loud at Bob Ong books when I was in highschool, seriously. I DID.
I find them annoyingly trying-too-hard-to-be-funny now. Don't get me started on Eros Atalia, with the "Pukangama" thing. It's literally pissing me off. They were meant for some certain age group and they were supposed to be funny (at least for the Grade 8s, I think). I'm obviously not the target audience now.
I prefer books with bone dry humor now, the sort that had to sink in to make you laugh. The kind of humor in which the comedy is "serious". Kinda like Good Omens, or Me and Earl and the Dying Girl or It's kind of a funny story.
Thank you in advance! Happy Holidays!
The title was something along the lines of sex drugs & rock n roll. There's 2 stories in particular that I remember. The first was of a private investigator who was hired by a man to follow his wife he suspected was cheating. The pi does his job and finds out she was. So he goes to the house one night to drop the proof off and sees the wife in the drive way. So he blackmails her and still shows the husband. The next day he sees in the paper there was a murder suicide and it was the couple from the night before. The second was of a man who meets a plus size woman who works in a bank and begins dating her. He then convinces her to rob it with her(his intentions all along). When they finally do he shoots her, but not where they agreed. As he's leaving he tells her he never loved her and dating her was like riding a moped. Fun to ride but you don't want your friends to see you on it.
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Was discussing literature with a co-worker and when I mentioned I liked John Irving she implied I liked more “high-brow” reading. Is he high-brow? Either way, seeking realistic fiction with themes of comedy and tragedy, potentially written in Dickens style of writing about generations.
I’ve read all of Irving’s traditionally good books, and I just finished A Man called Ove. Ove was great, but I prefer a slightly older style of writings like Irving’s. Any suggestions for books that will make me laugh, cry, and never be sure where the plot is headed?
My recent reads: The Sellout (Paul Beatty), A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
I'm looking for something that will hook me/get me invested and is full of wit and hilarity
(I also like tragicomedies so any recommendations on that front are much appreciated!)
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So I finally read "Blood Meridian" - a book that had been on my list for quite a while... It was my first Cormac McCarthy book and I thought it was incredible. But now I am reluctant to read another McCarthy book because I don't know if my expectations are unreasonably high and I will be let down by whatever I read next? I know it's irrational, and I've read plenty of authors after reading their prime works (I've read at least eight Steinbeck books since reading "Grapes of Wrath" and every single one of Murakami's books after "Windup Bird")... I'm sure I will read McCarthy again but I may wait it out. Anyone else ever run into this?
Let me start with this - I absolutely hated season one. It was so wrong on many levels. Then a friend started watching season two and told me it starts very well so I watched it too. Four episodes in I thought - ok, if I forget this is an adaptation then it's quite enjoyable. I was honestly and positively surprised how much I enjoyed it. I was ready to give it some good reviews despite of not being strictly truthful to the books at all, but then the rest happened...I lack words. I'm absolutely shocked how disrespectful this is to the author, to the books and the fanbase. I've never seen such an insult to the original material ever in my life. I'm in a total disbelief that someone has done it. There is absolutely not a single thing that isn't made up. Characters are completely different people to those in books and they only share the names. There is nothing from the books story wise. Absolutely zero. It's as if Harry Potter in The Order of Phoenix turned into a muggle, decided to transition and call himself Sherry, then moved to Syberia and lived selling chocolate pizza. Hissrich has completely outdone herself. This show is an insult to the books and to all those wonderful stories and characters I love. Why? Hissrich why are you doing this? Why couldn't you keep it low but still resembling the books? You've totally erased every identity and story. Why did you have to do this? I don't know what more is there to say. This post will be probably deleted anyway. Reddit is known for not allowing people to dislike something. So long live the fake positive image... For those of you who never read the books - go and read them. There is something much deeper and much more satisfying to experience.
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It's really nice to see that I'm not alone with my opinion. I think it's important we voice our criticism. This was supposed to be an adaptation and while everyone can enjoy it, I don't think it's right or cool to just use original material as a mean of personal promotion and financial gain. After all, if you want to 'do your own thing' then by all means do so - write your own book. Don't ride on the back of someone's creativity and don't lie to the fanbase to lure them into this. Hissrich I am saying this to you since I am sure you are here in this Reddit.
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I will not hear anymore nonsense saying that the show was not supposed to be an adaptation or that no one said it would be truthful to the books. In fact, Hissrich herself has stated repeatedly that the
##Background
Carmen Mola is (or was) a reclusive female Spanish math professor who divided her time between a job as an academic and a role as the author of a series of acclaimed mystery thrillers. After being nominated for the Planeta Prize and the million euros in cash that go with it, "Carmen" revealed herself to be three male Spanish writers who adopted the pseudonym as a marketing gimmick. With their alter-ego having been praised for years as offering a daring female literary perspective, and the three men having maintained the ruse to the extent of commissioning a fake author photo and giving email interviews in-character, some critics, readers, and other authors are denouncing their actions as fraudulent, unethical - or at least very weird.
/r/Books is a support group for readers of Young Adult fiction general-interest subreddit for news and discussions about books and reading.
##The Thread
A popular but now-locked thread on this affair in /r/Books is littered with deleted comment chains, many removed for civility violations, but spicy exchanges remain as users largely coalesce around the position that readers should never care about the authors of the books they read, and that anyone who does is reading books wrong.
Brushfire over the legitimacy of #OwnVoices publishing.
>>> "If three men can accurately fake being a woman writer, then maybe the 'hunger for works of female authors' is a nonsensical desire"
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Does being a woman matter at all? Should it?
>>> If you've heard the author writes good stories, or you've read other books by them and know their a good writer, that's one thing. Anything beyond that is
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Naturally, she took to twitter to document this bit of trauma.
part 1: https://i.imgur.com/vSfqVlE.png
part 2: https://i.imgur.com/lLrrdnJ.png
Now a bit of good news: many of the twitter replies declared that they had purchased her book because she had her name mispronounced. So, it all ended happily-ever-after.
I'm the New York Times–bestselling author of six books, including The Disappearing Spoon, The Dueling Neurosurgeons, The Bastard Brigade, and today’s book, The Icepick Surgeon. I specialize in the human side of science: heroes, villains, conflict, drama—all the juicy stuff.
The Icepick Surgeon is a collection of true stories about people who got so obsessed with some topic that they took things waaaaay too far—trampling ethical boundaries and even committing crimes in the name of science. You’ll learn about Cleopatra dastardly deeds, Thomas Edison’s mercenary support of the electric chair, the warped logic of the spies who infiltrated the Manhattan Project—as well as murder,fraud, piracy, and more. It's the illicit thrill of true crime fused with the wonder of scientific discovery.
My books have been featured on "Radiolab", "Science Friday," and "Fresh Air," among other shows. You can learn more about them at samkean.com/books. I also have a podcast, which debuted at #1 on the iTunes science charts: samkean.com/podcast.
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