April and May Reading Wrap Up (also: The end of the world)

[@artandbooks5850]

I am reading The Sentence is Death after seeing your recommendation and I LOVE it. I read Magpie Murders years ago and liked it. I want to read all 5 of the Hawthorne Horowitz series, I am hooked!

[@justjuanreader]

😍😍😍

[@elenagreads]

Tengo la misma (intimidante) edición de Gormenghast, y cuando lo vi en el thumbnail pensé: "el empujón definitivo para por fin empezarlo!" peeeero...no 😂. Como siempre, me encanta escuchar las recomdaciones, tan variadas que me identifico mucho con tu gusto lector!!

[@justjuanreader]

Jajaja no! Te lo juro Gormenghast vale la pena! Creo que hay que aprender de mis errores: no te recomiendo leerlo muy pausadamente, hay que “lanzarse” como decimos en México, sin miedo y rapidito. Ya me conozco, seguramente en un tiempo lo volveré a intentar y ya sabiendo cómo abordarlo va a ser de mis libros favoritos jaja

[@marianamasbooks]

Juaaaaaaan!!! I’ll write this part of the comment in English because I saw some people in your comments saying some nonsense. 🙃 The heatwaves were insane. INSANE. (Just in case someone reads this comment, the heatwave we had in Mexico was not normal, it was an actual climate phenomenon called a heat dome. It was a climate crisis that was covered in international news channels). Anyway 🫠 Vi el título de tu video y aún antes de verlo sabía exactamente a qué te referías con el fin del mundo. Calor, elecciones, el horror. 🫠 (Yo estoy en Puebla). ¡Espero que todo salga (o haya salido), bien con tu cirugía!

[@justjuanreader]

Gracias!!! Muchas gracias por tu comment Mariana! Todo ha salido muy bien post cirugía 😉 Suerte en el fin del mundo poblano climatologicosociopolítico

[@marianamasbooks]

@@justjuanreader Jajaja sii, al menos ya no hay que soplarse más debates. 😅 Qué bueno que todo bien con tu cirugía, espero que también mejoren las lecturas conforme avance el año

[@frannook]

We are, indeed, screwer. Best wishes for your surgery!!

[@sandrahollins3520]

Good luck with the surgery and a speedy recovery. I worked in Riyadh for a couple of years and soon realised there's lots you can do to warm yourself up, but very little to cool yourself down. Heat is so debilitating. I hope your weather cools down soon.

[@justjuanreader]

Thank you!!

[@ericg34]

Can you go over "Under Heaven" by Guy Gavriel Kay?

[@warlockofwordschannel7901]

Yowza, hope things stabilize a bit moving forward. Books are such a needed refuge.

[@mariaquintana1436]

Hi Juan, it's great to see you here again. I can't stand hot weather either (I'm from the south of Spain but live now in Scotland), so I understand perfectly. Also, I could not finish Gormenghast, bored me to death. Best wishes for the shoulder surgery and a speedy recovery.

[@justjuanreader]

Thank you!

[@SarahJ70]

Ghormengast scares me. I own the hardcover edition but the story was not for me. It’s one of those books I respect for its beautiful descriptions, but it was not an enjoyable read. Very dense, feels like a chore to read, but one I very much respect because I know it has influenced famous writers like Gaiman and Moorcock etc

[@Leoslittlebooklife]

Omg, you dnf’d Ghormengast! I can understand it being not your kind of writing, but I beg to differ about it having almost no plot. If you had kept reading you would have found it to become a page turning adventure filled with action, leading up to a thrilling finale (at least book one and two, book three is a complete letdown). I think you having put it aside for so many months could be a reason it didn’t gell with you, I think it’s a novel to read faster than that. In my opinion!! 😉 Where Ghormengast also excels in, are its crazy fantastical and funny Dickensian characters, it’s the humor of the book I appreciated very much. But that’s also a very personal thing of course. Calling it (almost) plotless however is doing this work injustice.

[@justjuanreader]

I totally agree, Leo! I probably shouldn’t have put it aside for that long. But now; knowing the book’s challenges, I will be able to pick it up again sometime and read it differently

[@DougerSR]

You live in Mexico. It’s hot there. And water is wet. Weather happens get over it.

[@leopercara3477]

You don't need to be a cunt about it.

[@justjuanreader]

Hello, sir. Several people (including children) died here this month due to the heatwave and other weather related accidents, very insensitive comment. (By the way Mexico City is not usually hot)

[@Alexqzd-mi1ni]

Unnecessary comment bro, this is his channel, let him vent.