Topic: Nintendo Life Book Club

I got a copy of a book with all the Sherlock Holmes stories.

I am currently reading "The Shadow of the Gods" by John Gwynne. I'm only about ten chapters deep, but it's an easy read so far. If you're a fan of Skyrim or the television show Vikings, it's in the same vein.

I took a bit of a break from reading after finishing five weeks in a balloon. Turns out physical books require a bit of a proper mood, and being at my desk in my dimly lit home office doesn’t spark that mood.

Sigh I gotta invest in a real “reading corner”!

The digital books I have “active” at the moment are Pet Sematary and The Shining. But they’re both at the ugly parts at the same time so I’ve been kind of avoiding them for now.

Im currently reading The Silmarillion along with Micheal Chricton's Jurassic Park. Been a long long time since i read the original Jurassic Park novel since it had darker and graphic stuff in the very beginning

Ah Jurassic Park is my favorite novel. I like how you can find little bits of it in every JP/JW movie.

Have fun with it!

I've just discovered a genre I've never heard of before called Solarpunk. It's like cyberpunk but for hippies using tech to fix global warming. So I've ordered A Psalm for the Wild by Becky Chambers to give it a try.

A dimly lit room sounds like a perfect mood setting for Stephen King though. I suppose you can try reading it in an abandon mental hospital or the wreckage of a burnt down church for a better ambience?

Finished The War of the Worlds the other day. Couldn't believe how awesome it was.

@jump those are on the kindle. I was talking about the physical Jules Verne books I got last year.

@Eel yeah the Jurassic Park 3 uses a little bit of the T rex at the river and waterfall moment from the original Jurassic Park novel.

Shame that the movies never go into the whole frog dna gibber jabber from the Jurassic Park novel.

@XandertheWise they reference it on the first Jurassic World (along with the divorce subplot for the kids!)

I think the first Jurassic Park movie makes a mention of it too.

currently reading Stephen King's Duma Key and Hyperion Endymion

It’s been a delayed process, but I’m almost done with Pet Sematary (decided to focus on that one for now since I haven’t been reading as much).

It’s getting pretty intense. You really want Louis to come to his senses and stop, but being such a popular story it’s inevitable knowing where this is going.

After that I’ll continue with The Shining, and probably The Exorcist after that.

@Eel You should read Doctor Sleep after The Shining. It's the sequel to The Shining and I really liked it, it's lighter on scares but it's more weirdly fun and the characters are richer.

Went to a book sale there recently and picked up a few new ones:

• McDonald's - Behind the Arches: A book on the founding and story of McDonald's and how it came to be the biggest fast food franchise in the world. I may hate the restaurant but the story is far too interesting to pass up.
• Candor: A book by Pam Bachorz about a boy called Oscar who lives the perfect life as the mayor's son in the town of Candor. The catch? Every single resident is brainwashed to make them lose free will, making it easy for said mayor to rule the village. However, when a new girl arrives that Oscar falls in love with, he has to make the difficult decision to keep things as they are or risk it all to keep the person he loves the same. The premise immediately caught my eye and am excited to start reading it once I get the opportunity to do so.
• The Illustrated History of Football: A compilation of archived newspaper articles by the Sunday Times documenting different eras of classical football over the last 100 years (up to the book's print in 1995). It's the kind of book me and my dad absolutely adore so I just had to pick it up.

And lastly:

• The DC Comics Encyclopedia: A thorough guide of every character in the DC Universe, from as iconic as Batman to as obscure as Owlwoman. These are the kinds of books I live for, having similar books for brands like Pokemon, Marvel and, as previously mentioned, football. It's great being able to go to any page in the book and immediately find something interesting to read. Very glad I managed to pick this up.

@jump I did get both at the same time so it absolutely is an option I’m considering.

I did kind of read a bit of the exorcist already so I figured I would get that out of the way first.

Finally my Bulgarian copy of Bram Stokers Dracula arrived!

Yeas ago I bought English copy of the book and I fell in love with it! After that I got a Bulgarian copy and it was terrible. So much cut content because they couldn't translate the old English phrases!

But this copy is translated perfectly! Every line is translated and there are so many explanations why some things are said that way in order to keep the authenticity of the original!

Ok that cover art is really cool, and that language somehow makes it look even cooler.

The font is... really... really cool. It's incredibly... gothic. Dunno what else to say, lol. A copy like that in English wouldn't be too hard on the eyes.

@Rambler I envy you for that Someday I would visit Bram's Castle in Romania. If only I did not hate to travel

The notes are like 1/5 of the book! They even describe how the names of Cities changed due to certain political events after the time of writing.

And on top of that it is extremely cheap for a new edition of a hardcover book. Only 12$ + delivery!(converted from my currency)

That's a really awesome cover! It definitely fits the gothic vibe, particularly the font used. I received a copy of the book - with less awesome cover art - a couple of years ago as a gift but confess that I have yet to read it. Similar to games, I have a booklog. 😅 Though it isn't as scary lol.