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My Century | G�nter Grass

I was wrong, I actually read 4 last month that I could add to my #192019 Challenge!

Good Morning, Midnight #1939
Strata #1981
Dune #1965
Book of Lost Tales Vol 1 #1983

Slowly, but surely.☺️

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Crazeedi Your idea is totally cool! 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Crazeedi I wish I could take credit, but all the credit goes to @Marchpane who thought up this great idea and shared it with us here on Litsy. 6y

Crazeedi @Riveted_Reader_Melissa is it too late to jump in? When did this start? I could look back to start date and see what books I've read 6y

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CoffeeNBooks What a cool idea! 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Crazeedi When I started and asked the same question, she said it started as soon as you join, and count from then. But it‘s really independent, so if you want to go back to the beginning of this year, go for it. 6y

Crazeedi @Riveted_Reader_Melissa thanks!😊 6y

JazzFeathers Wow! You're making such good progress 😄 6y

DreesReads It‘s filling in! Have you heard from @Marchpane lately? 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @AudreyMorris No, I haven‘t. But I‘m hoping she‘ll be back eventually. But it has been quite awhile. 6y

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Dune (40th Anniversary Edition) | Frank Herbert

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I really enjoyed this science fiction epic story, the world building was phenomenal & very unique, filled with great mythology and political strife. My only real disappointment was the few forbidding elements at the very end, almost like the author started wrapping everything up nicely and then realized he had a sequel brewing in his imagination, so twisted just a bit of the undercurrent at the end to pull you into the next chapter of the story...

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ... (not that there‘s anything wrong with that). #LitsyClassics #LitsyAtoZ #MountTBR #192019 #1965 (edited) 6y

JazzFeathers I really need to read this. I'm not really a SF reader, but this series sounds so different that it's a pity not to read it 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @JazzFeathers I was reading the afterward by his son, who continued on with the series after his father, and finding a few similarities that I couldn‘t help but notice with Tolkien. Both patterned a female lead off of their wife, had trouble getting published, it was a bit surprising. 6y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @JazzFeathers I think you‘d like this, there‘s a lot of fantasy in this adventure, what makes it “science fiction” is that it‘s set on another planet and there are a few space ships. 6y

BarbaraTheBibliophage Great review! I‘m percolating mine today. 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @BarbaraTheBibliophage Yea, I had to wait a day after mine to write too. 6y

BarbaraTheBibliophage Sometimes I make notes right after I finish, but the best phrases usually come to me after a bit of space. At least that‘s how it usually works. 6y

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The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon

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I pushed through most of it in 1 day, half read/half audio just to get to the end & see if there was any real ending. For me personally it was The Da Vinci Code with postal conspiracies, but with less science & scholarly work, full of impaired informants, whose cast in my mind‘s eye looked like 60‘s typecast players (I pictured cast members of WKRP)

If you are a Vonnegut fan, this one is most likely right up your alley, but it just wasn‘t for me.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa #Reading1001 #1965 6y

GarthRanzz I felt exactly the same way! Nothing against philately but this book didn‘t do their hobby any favours. 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @GarthRanzz Sadly, if it had been a straight postal history possible conspiracy, written more like a historical mystery novel, I would have enjoyed that. But there‘s a lot of subplots and possible clues that he goes into way too much depth with (the play and the movie comes to mind), that just muddy the waters. And I know some will love the satire of the times tangents, but to me those were annoying. 6y

BookwormM Still waiting for my copy 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @BookwormM Sorry. The audio version is on Scribd if you want to sign up for the free trial month and listen to it there....just remember to cancel then, unless you love it. 6y

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