Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2024 here. If you’re interested in reading other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can do so here.
A Book I Wish Were More Popular
Well, any of mine, for starters!
On a more serious note, however, there are several books I wish people made more of a fuss about.
One of them is ‘Red Mars’ by Kim Stanly Robinson. It is the first book in a trilogy, with the other two being ‘Green Mars’ and ‘Blue Mars’. The first book tells the story of the first hundred colonists on Mars and all the ecological and political struggles that go into creating a new society. I think the world-building is brilliant — Robinson really knows how to make you feel as if you’re there — and the research he must have done to be so correct with the science and the Martian topography is admirable.
Another book I wish was more popular is the recently published ‘Goyhood’, which I have reviewed here. It tells the story of two brothers, one of them a Talmund scholar who, having grown up believing themselves to be Jewish, discover, upon the death of their mother, that she lied. It is not the sort of book I would usually read, but I enjoyed it very much. The relationship between the estranged brothers is interesting, and the scenery described as they take a road trip across America is nothing short of stunning. Though, as I said, Goyhood was only released in April, so maybe it will become a hit and be read by everyone.
Finally, more people should definitely read The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson. She had such a lovely way with words, and her poetry is beautiful. Two of my favourite poems are ‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers’ and ‘Because I Could not Stop for Death’. I can’t recommend the book enough.
Well, that’s me for post 34! I wonder which books you’ll all choose.
Thank you, as ever, for stopping by to read my words. I appreciate it.
Until next time,
George
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GEORGE L THOMAS 
I loved Red Mars and the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
Goyhood sounds good, too.
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It’s not the sort of book I’d normally read (Goyhood), but I really enjoyed it.
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I have heard of the Red Mars trilogy. It popular among the sci-fic and fantasy nerds of the online booksphere.
I loved Emily Dickson’s poetry. More people need to read her poems.
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I agree. She had such a beautiful way with words.
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Goyhood sounds very interesting. Vaugely reminds me of Shtetl Days, this alt-history story about a living-history town in Nazi Germany where, decades after the triumph of Germany and the final solution, actors are paid to live as Jews in a Jewish village….but one man finds living as an observant, faithful Jew far more meaningful than living as a secular subject of the ‘modern world’.
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That sounds like an interesting read, too.
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I can second the vote for Emily Dickinson. The others sound interesting, too.
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