The need to escape from the backwoods of Taichung County, and re-familarize myself with the English language above a grade two level, compelled me to spend a couple of days in Taipei. Before I came away, I made the obligatory trip to Page One and picked up a copy of a book I hadn’t read since the n…

[image] lostinasia: American Gods , brilliant, I’m loving the TV show first season and so I’m going to read the book. [image] lostinasia: if this is your first Discworld, Color of Magic It’s my first Discworld and I thought it would be good to start in chronological order so we’ll see…

[image] tango42: It’s my first Discworld and I thought it would be good to start in chronological order so we’ll see. Cool, and that’s a good reason for reading it. But if you finish it thinking “Huh, why do people like this series?”, yeah - there’s not much reason for loving the series in th…

[image] OrangeOrganics: Reading this, it’s about the Jewish business empires in Shanghai pre-revolution This is on my list along with the Last Boat Out of Shanghai. And just read China to Me by Emily Hahn.

Last Boat out of Shanghai I have also read

This Terry Pratchett Discworld thread is good. Don’t be misled by the title as that is only a minor part of the whole discussion. r/books - Sir Terry Pratchett was making fun of the hyper-sexualization of... 26,669 votes and 1,748 comments so far on Reddit

American Gods [image] What TV shows are you watching (2021)? Arts & Entertainment American Gods finished season 1. Damn this show is creative, screen adaptation is amazing and I haven’t even read the book and I can’t imagine the book being able to inspire the creative im…

The child side of me recently got curious about the Moomins. First saw these characters on mugs and stationary when I visited family in central Europe, then in Japan where they seem very popular (I saw a whole retrospective at a museum in Osaka). Decided to buy a comic book and see what their storie…

I just can’t get past the “horse with no mouth” look…

[image] Baxter: Moomins the comics seem thoughtfully funny. I wonder if the books are the same as the comics or different. And movies [MoominComic_Moomin-Falls-in-Love_Tove_1956_f-copy]

[image] tango42: It’s my first Discworld and I thought it would be good to start in chronological order so we’ll see. I read them out of order and am kinda glad that I did. You don’t need to read them in order, and now reading them all for the second time in order I get to discover the world…

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