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[QUOTE]dustydigger - 2023-05-31  4:45 AM

Ouch,long time since I was on here. Too many illnesses to cope with,the occluded eye is now almost useless,still waiting for an appointment to see an eye consultant,never mind an actual  operation. My back is terrible,5 minutes is the maximum I can be on my feet before the pain is overwhelming and I must sit down. Plus the anaemia is awful,the docs are worried and I have to have a bone marrow procedure to see just what is wrong. All in all,not much fun. I still read but rather sporadic. Anyhoo,lets see at least a quick outline of what I read for the Pick N' Mix in April .Couldnt cope with heavy or difficult stuff much,so I read some light fluff on kindle unlimitedwhich are not on WWEnd data bases,so I cant count them for my P&M. Pity.
I finished Two Towers and Return of the King. First read in 1968,and many times since,but this was the first time I seemed to find it dragging a little at times,the pace was rather glacially slow. Maybe it was because of my health problems and pain,but it could be that the modern style of frenetic pace has affected me at last,and older stuff feels slow. Oh dear,I hope not,all the old literary classics are like that! lol. 
Certainly John Scalzi's  Kaiju Preservation Society whizzes along briskly enough. I will Scalzi himself tell us about it
?KPS is not, and I say this with absolutely no slight intended, a brooding symphony of a novel. It?s a pop song. It?s meant to be light and catchy, with three minutes of hooks and choruses for you to sing along with, and then you?re done and you go on with your day, hopefully with a smile on your face. I had fun writing this, and I needed to have fun writing this. We all need a pop song from time to time, particularly after a stretch of darkness.? sheer fun and nonsense.
I  enjoyed my reread of Holly Black's early novel Tithe,but had a hard time coping with Amy Kaufman's YA  Aurora Rising. Too much teenage angst,rivalry etc for this old lady,but an OK fluff read.
C S Lewis's That Hideous Strength was another s-l-o-w read,but fascinating,if rather strange. Lewis readers are split bewtween thinking it is his worst,or his best book. Certainly it is very different from the first two books in the Ransom trilogy.I enjoyed it and found it thought provoking but odd. Certainly not a book for religion haters,their blood would boil continually.
And that was it for April.May was to be the Horror MAYhem challenge on Booktube. Our mission to readshorter horror works,short stories or novellas. 
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Ouch,long time since I was on here. Too many illnesses to cope with,the occluded eye is now almost useless,still waiting for an appointment to see an eye consultant,never mind an actual operation. My back is terrible,5 minutes is the maximum I can be on my feet before the pain is overwhelming and I must sit down. Plus the anaemia is awful,the docs are worried and I have to have a bone marrow procedure to see just what is wrong. All in all,not much fun. I still read but rather sporadic. Anyhoo,lets see at least a quick outline of what I read for the Pick N' Mix in April .Couldnt cope with heavy or difficult stuff much,so I read some light fluff on kindle unlimitedwhich are not on WWEnd data bases,so I cant count them for my P&M. Pity.
I finished Two Towers and Return of the King. First read in 1968,and many times since,but this was the first time I seemed to find it dragging a little at times,the pace was rather glacially slow. Maybe it was because of my health problems and pain,but it could be that the modern style of frenetic pace has affected me at last,and older stuff feels slow. Oh dear,I hope not,all the old literary classics are like that! lol.
Certainly John Scalzi's Kaiju Preservation Society whizzes along briskly enough. I will Scalzi himself tell us about it
?KPS is not, and I say this with absolutely no slight intended, a brooding symphony of a novel. It?s a pop song. It?s meant to be light and catchy, with three minutes of hooks and choruses for you to sing along with, and then you?re done and you go on with your day, hopefully with a smile on your face. I had fun writing this, and I needed to have fun writing this. We all need a pop song from time to time, particularly after a stretch of darkness.? sheer fun and nonsense.
I enjoyed my reread of Holly Black's early novel Tithe,but had a hard time coping with Amy Kaufman's YA Aurora Rising. Too much teenage angst,rivalry etc for this old lady,but an OK fluff read.
C S Lewis's That Hideous Strength was another s-l-o-w read,but fascinating,if rather strange. Lewis readers are split bewtween thinking it is his worst,or his best book. Certainly it is very different from the first two books in the Ransom trilogy.I enjoyed it and found it thought provoking but odd. Certainly not a book for religion haters,their blood would boil continually.
And that was it for April.May was to be the Horror MAYhem challenge on Booktube. Our mission to readshorter horror works,short stories or novellas.

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