Topic: Nintendo Life Book Club

I do not know if this counts for this thread, but today I've got the Dark Souls Trilogy Compendium

It is awesome. It is with hard covers and comes in a hardcover slip. Inside the lore of the 3 games are explained thought the texts of various items. There are also maps and art.

I am really happy to read through it!

And in the mail, I am waiting for the Bloodborne artbook and Elden Ring vol. 1 and vol. 2 artbooks

I've been slowly going through Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, probably my favorite living author now that McCarthy's passed (pbuh). It's great. Very bleak and miserable and surreal. I think the Melancholy of Resistance is more thought-provoking and War & War's ending makes it unforgettable, but Satantango is a good window into the depths of human failure.

Obsessed with Lisa Stone's books just now. They are very gripping thriller novels and real page turners.
Currently reading 'Taken' by her and will be sad when it is over.

I try to learn Russian, therefor I am reading " The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Buratino" now. The book is fifty years old and from the Sowjet Union, which is cool because I like old stuff. It will take quite some time until I can understand something like "War and Peace" but stories for children are easy enough to understand without looking up every word.

That said, I did read War and Peace this year but only the German version. Probably the most exciting book I ever read. I finished it after less than two weeks I think, often just doing the bare necessities and reading the rest of the day, like a kid, who just stands up to play his new favourite video game. Well I can understand now why this book is so famous, even though it is definitely too dark for me.

I am thankful, that I can live in peace and enjoy simple stuff like reading, so of course I will support peace and harmony.

just bought Wheel of Time Gathering Storm paperback from walmart online a day or two ago. Should be getting it in the mail tomorrow or Friday.

its still a great book series. i heard there's a 14th/15th book thats a prequel. Is that any good?

Gone back to the first Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson because of the new one that came out the end of last year.
Damn I love the Cosmere, especially Wax and Wayne books (Mistborn second era)

@Bunkerneath nice! I re-listened to the entire stormlight series before W&T came out. I’m with you, love the cosmere. I believe Mistborn Era 3 & Elantris 2 are next up, which im very excited about!

@seinfeldfanatic I am listening through all the books, on Knife of Dreams now. After reading through many comments, I decided to skip the prequel and looked at summary articles. I just couldn’t bring myself to go backwards, some books have been a bit of a slog for me. Maybe one day I’ll get through it, but I REALLY want to get to the Sanderson books.

@Barbiegurl777 ive seen those Creepers books at the Dollar Tree store last year.

Books im busy with this month

Wheel of Time Gathering Storm paperback. have about a 100 or so pages left to read through
ebook version of Star Wars Rise and Fall of Galactic Empire novel
the old paperback of Jurassic Park 2 The Lost World

Haven’t been reading much but a few months ago I ended up buying a book called Hollywood Cartoons: American Cartoons In Its Golden Age by Michael Barrier.

It’s a book that documents and talks about the history of old American cartoons and characters from the 1920s all the way to the 1960s from various companies and studios like Disney and Warner Bros., and even some defunct ones as well. The book also features some interviews he had with some animation legends and goes over some of the techniques used in those cartoons, and something cool is that there are around 3 flipbook drawings scattered around the book that demonstrate a specific style of old animation, like rubberhose. I got it months ago for cheap at a store since I am super into older cartoons at the moment, but I think I’ve only completed around one to two chapters of it that went over earlier predecessors to older animation and Disney’s earlier animated works (like the Alice Comedies) which are more obscure and lesser known. I’ll definitely go back to reading it soon since it’s a pretty long book.

Bought Queen of the Damned paperback to re-read since its been years since i read it. and going to re-read Memnoch the Devil next month then jump into Prince Lestat

and try to catch up on some old Jack Ryan and Jack Ryan Jr stuff

I'm reading through The Taming of the Shrew before I see the Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton 1967 film version.

I've found if I try to watch Shakespeare cold, it quickly just becomes "blah blah blah" to me.

I finally finished reading Rosemary’s Baby.

The first half is super slow, and I already knew how the movie ends, so I lost interest around the 30% mark. But I’m glad I decided to push through, it really gets going after that initial slog.

Of course I already knew the ending (it’s basically the only thing I remember from the movie), but since the novel is basically all Rosemary’s first person perspective, the entire time you end up gaslit along with her during the heavier parts. I even considered the possibility that the novel had a different ending for a bit!

It’s interesting to see her basically go through the stages of grief in record time over the state of her son at the end, and how it ends with what’s either a heartwarming sense of hope, or pure delusion.

It was a fun read in the end, if somewhat heavy with its themes.

just started reading My Best Friend's Exorcism. borrowed the paperback from my sister. she's more into stuff from that Grady Hendrix.

I think Prime Video has the movie already I think

For my government class in school, I read "Mornings on Horseback", a biography about U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt before he became President. It was an interesting read.

https://the-authors.fandom.com/wiki/Avron
Hey guys, I know it isn't a "real" book or anything, but the NLife Writers Thread is archived, so I figured I'd drop this here. If enough folks are interested, I could make a new thread for us authors!

@CaleBoi25 this is so well written!!! i love how you effortlessly switched the story’s years, and the character development was so good, you really made them connectable and delivered their emotions perfectly. end is amazing. thank you for sharing 😸

@CaleBoi25, loved the story, thanks for sharing! Also, about the Writers Thread, please do make one! I should of thought of that sooner, since I want to publish books and everything! If you made this thread, I would share milestones and book publish dates on it in the future!

@ShieldHero @OctolingKing13 Thank you both so much!
OKing, thanks for noticing, it took me ages to figure out the timeline lol
SHero, I'll make one, then! Give me just a minute!

It's (regretfully) been many years, but thanks to the fact that my position at my job generally has a lot of lulls during the day (at the time being), I've been getting back into reading.

At first I just scrounged up some books I had lying around the house since back in high school and have read three of them:

• Jurassic Park (Michael Chrichton) - Just as gripping & exciting as it was back when I read it in school. It's been so long that I had forgotten the fate of some of the cast, so it was still able to string me along.
• Tom Clancy's Endwar (David Michaels) - Tie in to the PS360 game of the same name (have no idea if it's an adaptation of the game's narrative, a prequel, or else). I can see why I liked it as a teen as it's absolutely full of action scenarios, and although I still have a nostalgic connection to it can admit it's little else than pure jingoistic "'Murica, Heck Yeah!" in novel form. Due to background narrative reasons Russia invades Canada, and since the Canadian government meekly thinks they can just negotiate away the literal active invasion without any sort of military response whatsoever (this actually happens, lol), the US steps in because if "Canada won't guarantee it's own sovereignty, the US will because it's in our best interest" (there's a quote almost word for word copy of this). Anyhow, it largely follows the perspective of service members from each branch of the military (sans Coast Guard) across the Canadian theatre, and like 2 or 3 of them are pretty much the same cliche army guy personality.
• Tom Clancy's Power Plays: ruthless.com (Tom Clancy & Martin Greenberg) - With a narrative that comprises more corporate espionage & political posturing than overt warfare action scenarios I was almost certain I never read it as a kid because of it, however about halfway through & towards the end there were a few pages I clearly recognized, so I either got further than I remembered or just didn't remember much of it. Anyhow, I do think I connected better with it this time and it managed to keep me engaged, and narratively it was a bit more mature & nuanced than "Endwar's" blatant jingoism.

After that I picked up a stack of books (new, if only to me in most cases) from various stores and I've just started going through them:

• A Dog's Purpose (W. Bruce Cameron)
• Godzilla & Godzilla Raids Again (Shigeru Kayama)
• I Am America: And So Can You! (Stephen Colbert)
• the King of Late Night (Greg Gutfeld)
• Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court & Constitution (Amy Coney Barrett)
• Promise Me, Dad (Joe Biden)

Finished up Amy Coney Barret's Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court & Constitution last week.

I really liked the first several chapters detailing the history & work of the (Supreme) Court, which were filled with little anecdotes about the author's own experience working there. The chapters on the Constitution felt little more than a recap of what we learned in High School Civics class (just a necessity to get to explain the last section of the book), with the last set of chapters explaining the different schools of thought when it comes to how courts interpret laws & the Constitution (the Author's biases were, admittedly, more prevalent in these chapters).

Overall it could be a bit dry considering the topics at hand, but it had it's fair share of interesting tid bits and anecdotes, and since it focuses (mostly) on why the court does this or that as a matter of fact rather than focusing the author's own opinions/biases, I would say it's a worthwhile read even if you don't sit on the same political affiliation you'd assume the author herself does.