Kindle shop Recommendations

[Kingpin]

Can only add 2 things that were on my wishlist (and my wishlist is stuff I might take a punt on if cheap, compiled from here and various best-of-year lists):

 

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy: US poet's witty memoir of growing up with an oddball conservative priest father.

Exciting Times - Naoise Dolan: Only on my radar because it's an Irish author, I think this one gets recommended in the same breath as Sally Rooney's output.

 

 

[Stopharage]

7 hours ago, Kingpin said:

Can only add 2 things that were on my wishlist (and my wishlist is stuff I might take a punt on if cheap, compiled from here and various best-of-year lists):

 

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy: US poet's witty memoir of growing up with an oddball conservative priest father.

Exciting Times - Naoise Dolan: Only on my radar because it's an Irish author, I think this one gets recommended in the same breath as Sally Rooney's output.

 

 

Turns out when I did the list that only half of the deals had been added. So more bargains below:

 

They - Kay Dick £2.99

 

Mona Lisa Overdrive (The Neuromancer Trilogy) - William Gibson

 

I'll Never Write My Memoirs - Grace Jones

 

Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3) - Steven Eriksen

 

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia - Peter Pomerantsev £2.99

 

A Prayer for Owen Meaning - John Irving

 

Murder in the Neighborhood: The true story of America’s first recorded mass shooting - Ellen Green

 

Just Kids - Patti Smith £2.99

 

A Canticle For Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr

 

Red Country: A First Law Novel - Joe Abercrombie

 

The Appeal - John Grisham

 

The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives - Jude Rogers

 

I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai

 

Blacktop Wasteland - S.A. Cosby

 

Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde

 

The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro £2.99

 

Where Have All the Bullets Gone? (Milligan Memoirs Book 5) - Spike Milligan

 

Star Wars: The Last Command - Timothy Zahn

 

Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine - Hannah Fry £1.99

 

Dominicana - Angie Cruz

 

The Collector - John Fowles

 

Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock

 

The House of Special Purpose - John Boyne

 

I Love This Game - Patrice Evra

[ZOK]

I went to buy the Grace Jones one and apparently I bought it in 2021! 

[wev]

Ended up with 6 this month! One of which (The Sound of Being Human) I very nearly bought during my lunch break from Waterstones (I got Chopin's Piano instead)

 

The others I bought were Travellers in the Third Reich, Life in the Third Reich, A Brief History of Seven Killings and the two Star Wars books that were listed

[QuackQuack]

Any crime podcast sickos might enjoy The Collector in the above list.
 

About a man who abducts a middle class art student and keeps her locked up because she is the ideal. He just wants to talk to her and get her to produce art. 

 

Bit of a weird book but I tore through it. Maybe I’m a sicko. 

[Kingpin]

1 hour ago, QuackQuack said:

Any crime podcast sickos might enjoy The Collector in the above list.
 

About a man who abducts a middle class art student and keeps her locked up because she is the ideal. He just wants to talk to her and get her to produce art. 

 

Bit of a weird book but I tore through it. Maybe I’m a sicko. 

 

That sounds creepy and weird, let me check that out. Oh....

 

[QuackQuack]

7 Mark Billingham books for 99p each today

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=s9_acsd_al_bw_c2_x_c2cl?node=4725112031&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-4&pf_rd_r=ZSWD5ENB8VF635VSJ2NR&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=c3a09b1b-fba5-41c8-a72c-4fa3794c9232&pf_rd_i=5400977031

[Bushtopher]

As posted in the Pratchett thread…. 
 

The Terry Pratchett biography is 99p in today’s kindle daily deals:

 

https://amzn.eu/d/85YxscH

[Talvalin]

Cheers for that! Timely too, as I've embarked on a Discworld re-read from February and am currently on Mort.

[Bushtopher]

I’ve been slowly re-reading them too - maybe one in every tenth book is a Discworld novel - and absolutely loving it. Just finished The Fifth Elephant. I’ve realised that there’s a point at which I’ve only read a number of them once or maybe twice, quite a number of years ago, so I don’t quite remember the whole story which is great. 
 

If I take long enough, and with old age setting in, I’m hoping to be able to start over again at some point and have forgotten the key plot points again!

[Stopharage]

Emily St. Mandel’s The Glass Hotel is 99p today.

[Darren]

*clicks link*

 

Quote

You purchased this item on 5 Aug. 2022. 

 

Curse you, invisible virtual pile of shame!

[Sane]

9 hours ago, Stopharage said:

Emily St. Mandel’s The Glass Hotel is 99p today.

I read this last year and enjoyed it a lot! 99p is a steal.

[Mike S]

On 03/03/2023 at 11:36, Kingpin said:

 

That sounds creepy and weird, let me check that out. Oh....

 

 

Same!

 

But 22nd March 2022.

 

 

[Uncle Mike]

Same, but 1 Jun. 2021.

[Talvalin]

5th August 2022 lol. I should probably read the damn thing eh

[Stopharage]

William Gibson’s Agency (sequel to The Peripheral) is 99p today.

[Mike S]

On 21/03/2023 at 08:52, Talvalin said:

5th August 2022 lol. I should probably read the damn thing eh

 

 

Me too. 

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I have bumped it to the next in line but only just started on Pileggi's 'Casino' so it'll be a little while. I am also a good way into listening to William Peter Blatty's amazing reading of The Exorcist so the kindle isn't getting as much attention as the pile of shame suggests it needs...

[Stopharage]

Nothing much for me here. 

 

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

 

The Years by Annie Ernaux £3.49

 

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

 

Broken Yard: The Fall of the Metropolitan Police by Tom Harper £4.29

 

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

 

The Tombs of Atuan: The Second Book of Earthsea (The Earthsea Quartet 2) by Ursula K. Le Guin

 

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

 

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

 

The Witcher - Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski

 

Moxyland by Lauren Beukes

 

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain £2.59

 

The Second Half by Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle

 

Ubik by Philip K. Dick

 

Me:Moir by Vic Reeves

 

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

 

Star Wars Trilogy by George Lucas

 

The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees

 

Chocky by John Wyndham £1.99

 

Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott

 

Why We Kneel How We Rise by Michael Holding

 

A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd £2.19

 

Queenie by Candice Carty Williams

 

Kindred by Octavia Butler

 

Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle

 

The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett

[Timmo]

Ubik is incredible. Anyone who likes Sci-Fi at all should check it out.

 

I might grab those Ursula K. Le Guin books, need to read some of hers. Cheers!

[Sane]

Thanks! I bought Ubik, Left Hand of Darkness, The Wasp Factory and The Holocaust.

[wev]

Ubik and A Village in the Third Reich for me, got everything else I would have bought

 

[Mogster]

This was one of the more expensive months for me. I picked up the Le Guin books I haven't got, Ubik and Blood of Elves.

[Stopharage]

Only things I bought were the 2nd Earthsea book and two books I didn’t include - Introduction to Philosophy (as the eldest is taking it next year) and a Stanley Tucci cook book. 
 

I’ve read quite a few of the others - Bourdain being a stand out. 

[rumbletum]

Nothing for me this month, but thanks again for doing this each month @Stopharage, really appreciate it.

[little che]

Hamnet is in the daily deal today and it's magnificent. 

I have bought Lanny which is also in the deal, it's meant to be very good. 

[Stopharage]

1 hour ago, little che said:

Hamnet is in the daily deal today and it's magnificent. 

I have bought Lanny which is also in the deal, it's meant to be very good. 

Lanny is terrific, like pretty much everything Max Porter does. He’s going to be one of those top tier authors whose oeuvre stands the test of time. I’m currently reading his new book Shy, which came out today. 

[Miner Willy]

1 hour ago, little che said:

Hamnet is in the daily deal today and it's magnificent. 

I have bought Lanny which is also in the deal, it's meant to be very good. 

 

I've had Hamnet for ages but never got round to it for some reason. I shall remedy that. 

 

I loved Lanny. 

[Garwoofoo]

Yeah, Hamnet is superb. Definitely worth picking up at that price.

[smac]

Oooh, just spotted that China Mieville's Perdido Street Station is 99p

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003GK21A8/