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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 9512701" data-attributes="member: 3400">I read to my wife nightly. She has trouble reading on her own without using an audiobook because long COVID brain fog makes it hard. Lately, we've read:Infinite Mass by JK RaymondForsaken Beauty and the Etherbeast by Kelsey JosephsonTomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle LevinRed Shirts by John ScalziBookshops and Bonedust and Legends and Lattes by Travis BaldreeAnd we just finished We Have Always Lived in a Castle by Shirley Jackson. We decided to read it after seeing the movie, which keeps to the story pretty well overall.Most of these have been pretty good, but some... not. I'm increasingly wary of certain kinds of publishers because they don't seem to do enough work with their authors to properly edit their works. And if any of you think LotR is kind of tedious (I don't, but I know some of you do), just think how it would read without a good story editor working with the author.We are currently reading The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. The amusing coincidence with this one is that I'm also watching The Terror on Netflix. The coincidence of the Franklin Expedition has entered my life from two different media at the same time amazes me. So, of course, I had to dig out my copy of Pagan Publishing's Walker in the Wastes campaign for Call of Cthulhu for a third.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 9512701, member: 3400"] I read to my wife nightly. She has trouble reading on her own without using an audiobook because long COVID brain fog makes it hard. Lately, we've read: [B]Infinite Mass[/B] by JK Raymond [B]Forsaken Beauty and the Etherbeast[/B] by Kelsey Josephson [B]Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow[/B] by Gabrielle Levin [B]Red Shirts[/B] by John Scalzi [B]Bookshops and Bonedust[/B] and [B]Legends and Lattes[/B] by Travis Baldree And we just finished [B]We Have Always Lived in a Castle[/B] by Shirley Jackson. We decided to read it after seeing the movie, which keeps to the story pretty well overall. Most of these have been pretty good, but some... not. I'm increasingly wary of certain kinds of publishers because they don't seem to do enough work with their authors to properly edit their works. And if any of you think LotR is kind of tedious (I don't, but I know some of you do), just think how it would read without a good story editor working with the author. We are currently reading [B]The Ministry of Time[/B] by Kaliane Bradley. The amusing coincidence with this one is that I'm also watching [B]The Terror[/B] on Netflix. The coincidence of the Franklin Expedition has entered my life from two different media at the same time amazes me. So, of course, I had to dig out my copy of Pagan Publishing's [B]Walker in the Wastes[/B] campaign for Call of Cthulhu for a third. [/QUOTE]

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