About 7 years ago I wanted to read more. And like you, screens bother my eyes after a period of time. I knew I couldn’t have a device that did more than what an actual book could do. (Squirrel!) And being of an age where the tiny fonts of some paper books made for a headache of experience, and the book wouldn’t get read. Enter the B&N Nook. Followed recently by a Kindle. But the result is the same. I read. (Both in the past and present tense.) A lot. From serious to fluff. And thank goodness for the Libby app connecting to my local library. Good luck on your reading venture!
Station Eleven is on my list for this year (can't recall if I finished watching it though), soon as I finish The Border Trilogy books by Cormac McCarthy. Last year I was on a reading frenzy, read pretty much every Michael Connelly book, worked through Dune and the Dark Tower series. Might have go back and re-read Neuromancer and Peripheral, both of which you recommended to me years ago.
I used to visit a bookstore in Berkeley called The Other Change of Hobbit, which I never knew was an offshoot of another store. The name makes a lot more sense now.
Honestly don't remember 'Consider Phlebas' that well, I think it was one of his earlier books. I read 'Matter' this past summer and liked it quite a bit. Banks wrote by two versions of his name, Ian Banks for his fiction novels and Ian M. Banks the sci-fi series. I've only read the sci-fi end of his stuff and kinda fell in love with the Culture after a couple of books.
Crouch is very current day and cutting edge science it seems to me. Honestly don't know which to recommend, all three fell into my lap in random order, two books one audio, and I didn't even realize I was reading the same author at first. Really liked all three though.
I just love getting lost in a good sci-fi book. Takes all the worries away, lol.
If you haven't read anything sci-fi by Ian M. Banks, do so. Absolutely mesmerizing.
I've been cruising through a ton of sci-fi lately and currently a little bogged down with Neal Stephenson's 'Fall.' Love Stephenson, but this one is a little slow. Just finished three by Blake Crouch, Dark Matter, Recursion and Upgrade... and wow they are all mind blowing... but Banks, what a mind and what a story teller and what a world the 'Culture' is. Check him out.
It's interesting how some books have a profound influence on us and in this instance it's a little bit weird , that one book that has stayed with me is The Outsider (singular) by french writer Albert Camus. I still have the copy that I bought in my 20s and I find it hard to let it (and others) go whenever I think of downsizing my book collection, so they all stay.
About 7 years ago I wanted to read more. And like you, screens bother my eyes after a period of time. I knew I couldn’t have a device that did more than what an actual book could do. (Squirrel!) And being of an age where the tiny fonts of some paper books made for a headache of experience, and the book wouldn’t get read. Enter the B&N Nook. Followed recently by a Kindle. But the result is the same. I read. (Both in the past and present tense.) A lot. From serious to fluff. And thank goodness for the Libby app connecting to my local library. Good luck on your reading venture!
Haha! I remember my Aiwa Walkman. Way more advanced than any of the Sony ones at the time.
Station Eleven is on my list for this year (can't recall if I finished watching it though), soon as I finish The Border Trilogy books by Cormac McCarthy. Last year I was on a reading frenzy, read pretty much every Michael Connelly book, worked through Dune and the Dark Tower series. Might have go back and re-read Neuromancer and Peripheral, both of which you recommended to me years ago.
I used to visit a bookstore in Berkeley called The Other Change of Hobbit, which I never knew was an offshoot of another store. The name makes a lot more sense now.
I use my Kindle when traveling as I still prefer the book as a book.
Honestly don't remember 'Consider Phlebas' that well, I think it was one of his earlier books. I read 'Matter' this past summer and liked it quite a bit. Banks wrote by two versions of his name, Ian Banks for his fiction novels and Ian M. Banks the sci-fi series. I've only read the sci-fi end of his stuff and kinda fell in love with the Culture after a couple of books.
Crouch is very current day and cutting edge science it seems to me. Honestly don't know which to recommend, all three fell into my lap in random order, two books one audio, and I didn't even realize I was reading the same author at first. Really liked all three though.
I just love getting lost in a good sci-fi book. Takes all the worries away, lol.
If you haven't read anything sci-fi by Ian M. Banks, do so. Absolutely mesmerizing.
I've been cruising through a ton of sci-fi lately and currently a little bogged down with Neal Stephenson's 'Fall.' Love Stephenson, but this one is a little slow. Just finished three by Blake Crouch, Dark Matter, Recursion and Upgrade... and wow they are all mind blowing... but Banks, what a mind and what a story teller and what a world the 'Culture' is. Check him out.
It's interesting how some books have a profound influence on us and in this instance it's a little bit weird , that one book that has stayed with me is The Outsider (singular) by french writer Albert Camus. I still have the copy that I bought in my 20s and I find it hard to let it (and others) go whenever I think of downsizing my book collection, so they all stay.