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Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! July has shrivelled up like a freshly laundered sock left on the radiator for too long, and yet, it’s still hot enough that even typing the word radiator makes me want to inject concentrated Solero straight into my bloodstream. With my last remaining un-fugged brain cells, I have wrenched this column back from its hiatus, and who better than to get us into the swing of things once more than Baldur’s Gate 3 lead writer and bloody RPS legend Adam Smith! Cheers Adam! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf?
I have a habit of reading too many things at the same time. Usually I aim to have one non-fiction book and one fiction book on the go simultaneously because I tend to be in the mood for one or the other, but the distinction isn’t always clear. Erik Larson tickles the non-fiction part of my brain, for example, while Herman Melville tickles non-fiction. Or lobs a harpoon through it.
In reality, I rarely have two books on the go at a time, it’s usually three or four. It turns out graphic novels occupy a different space, and teeny-tiny books have a slot of their own, and sometimes a short story collection outlasts a whole pile of books as I take bites out of it over a longer period. Right now, I have three books in progress.
House of Leaves. It feels like the answer everyone who knows me would expect me to give and I wish I could be more original, but it’s the truth! I often have to apologise after they read a hundred pages of it and tell me how much they dislike Johnny Truant. Then I tell them to listen to Poe’s album Haunted instead/as well.
The Third Policeman.
Adam told me he enjoyed the column, which was nice, And yet! even this familiarity did not elevate his passing lip service to every book in existence to any sort of effort to actually name them all. With yet another guest failing in this laughably paltry task, we must continue ever onwards. So, join us next week for another paper-pilled guest telling us about their favourites. Book for now!
