The Magician'S Land
by Lev Grossman · first published 2014
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"The Magicians", "The Magician King", "The Magician's Land" - Lev Grossman. 4/5 "Inside Job" - Connie Willis. 4/5 "Norwegian Wood (Tokio Blues)" - Haruki Murakami. 4/5 "Old Man's War" - John Scalzi. 5/5 "Persepolis" - Marjane Satrapi. 5/5 Non fiction: "The…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗…illustrated by Anya Ulinich 29. 'Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book' by Richard Ford 30. 'Lila' by Marilynne Robinson 31. 'Lovers At The Chameleon Club, Paris 1932' by Francine Prose 32. 'The Magician’s Land' by Lev Grossman 33. 'The Moor’s Account' by Laila Lalami 34. 'Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals' by Patricia Lockwood 35. 'My Struggle. Book 3: Boyhood' by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Translated by…
on “Notable Books of 2014” ↗I was on a sf kick this year apparently. Full list (why can't amazon show me the read dates of my kindle books?!): - Ancillary Sword - The Magician's Land - The Three Body Problem (incomplete) - Libriomancer, Codex Born, Unbound - Thank You, Jeeves - Omon Ra (incomplete) - Stations of the Tide - 1Q84 (staggeringly incomplete) - The Desert Spear (incomplete)…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗I purposefully read both the last Harry Potter (which I assume everyone knows) and Lev Grossman's "The Magician's Land" (which I assume less people know) slow for that very reason.
on “Post Virtual Reality Sadness” ↗…wonderful wispersync feature to seamlessly pick up my kindle or audible audiobook, which ever is most convenient. I highly recommend the Aubrey/Maturin series read by Patrick Tull. Currently listening to The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman.
on “America's biggest new reading trend: obsessed with multitasking via audio books” ↗