Too many books! December 2024 Book Haul

[@sfwordsofwonder]

I love your dog chillin on the couch in the beginning. Yay, Simak.

[@JosephReadsBooks]

She is always around. For some reason the video lights scare her to death so normally she is sleeping in the hallway. She was brave during that filming session 😂.

[@MacScarfield]

Have you read «The Day of the Jackal» by Frederick Forsyth? While mostly a Thriller Fiction, the opening is based on an actual attempt by the Hard-Right French-Algerian OAS Faction to assassinate the French President and WW2 Leader Charles de Gaulle in 1962 after his pullout from Algeria. Also, Albert Camus was a «Pied-noir» (Algerian-born French Colonist), so his Philosophical Absurdism Classic «The Stranger» is set in then contemporary (1940s) French Algeria! My own November Haul: The final two novels in Mary Gentle’s «The Book of Ash» series (90s Alt-History Military Fiction), «The Wild Machines» & «Lost Burgundy», as well as a Hardback Edition of Tolkien’s «The Fall of Numenor», Matthew Harffy’s «Forest of Foes» (Historical Fiction set in Anglo Saxon Britain), «The Lion & the Sword» by Roberta Cray (90s Fantasy inspired by Alexander the Great’s Conquest of Greece: Something of a hidden gem going by the few, but very enthusiastic reviews I found of it, anyway, I just saw that glorious cover by the lauded Tolkien Illustrator John Howe, and just had to have it!😄).and «The Women of Troy» by Pat Barker (retelling of the aftermath of the Iliad from the perspective of Briseis, the «War Bride» of Achilles)! So far in December I have received: «Sun Eater» 3-6: «Demon in White», «Kingdoms of Death», «Ashes of Men» & «Disquiet Gods» by Christopher Ruocchio (Space Opera) «Anitra» by Hilde Susan Jægtnes (Alt-History Fiction, about an imagined granddaughter of the Composer Edvard Grieg living in Fascist Rome, torn between her creative dreams of creating an opera with the support of the totalitarian regime and her lesbian lover, a Jewish musician) «Mannen som bar solen» («The Man Who Carried The Sun») by Kristian Bang Foss (Historical Fiction set in the Nordic Bronze Age) I also expect the Broken Binding Special Edition of Professor Philip Chase’s «The Way of Edan», which the Good Professor was so kind to show me a preview of during his Scandinavian Holiday this Summer! 😎🙌 Cheers!

[@OnlyTheBestFantasyNovels]

You didn't highlight Sando's latest, so Christmas book haul confirmed 😂

[@JosephReadsBooks]

You got me 😂

[@XanaduCastle]

i actually got my first John D MacDonald book recently so thanks for getting me interested in his work. funny seeing 3 dollar mule because i remember seeing that book a lot in elementary school but i never read it but that is an amusing story behind it

[@JosephReadsBooks]

I hope you like John D Macdonald as much as I do!

[@MPScrimshaw]

Wow, I also read the great brain in 4th grade right after I got into reading. Crazy

[@JosephReadsBooks]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one 😅.

[@Rando7024]

You might be interested in the Jean Larteguy trilogy about Algeria.

[@JosephReadsBooks]

I picked up the first one on audible(it is on sale right now). Thanks!

[@kevintowle9665]

Nice haul. I plan to read Fionavar Tapestry trilogy in 2025!

[@JosephReadsBooks]

Me too! Now that I have read four GGK novels and loved them I am letting fate decide which of his books I read next. Fate decided on Fionavar.

[@secretfirebooks7894]

I can’t exactly remember the first book I read by myself, but it might have been A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein. That probably explains why I'm such a hipster when it comes to books. 😅

[@JosephReadsBooks]

I read those too as a kid. Now I have my daughter reading them. They are just as fun to read now as they were when I was a kid.

[@secretfirebooks7894]

@JosephReadsBooks Sweet. Good parenting, Joseph. 👍