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Justin McElroy

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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Piranesi, I realized in this, my second read, is my favorite book. Don’t research. Just go read it. It’s short. If you’ve read before, and are considering rereading, I’ll remind you that The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; it’s Kindness infinite.
The cover of Piranesi, a little goat, dude on a plinth playing a double flute
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hey, read the Murderbot Chronicles. They’re so short. I found the first one so … relatable which is … maybe bad? I dunno! It’s a novella, read it!
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
My episode of Big City Greens is on Disney if you wanna see it
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Fever House by Keith Rosson was the very scary first part of a duology about a disembodied hand that fills people near it with murderous impulses. It’s October, treat yourself!
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Syd and I read the whole ACOTAR series since last we spoke. They’re books about horny fairies that I found invigoratingly inventive in a structural sense and terribly romantic. Maybe I’m just going soft in my old age, I dunno
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
So: Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh is an astounding account of modern popular music. He condenses and contextualizes like 75 years of music in a way that rearranged my whole outlook on how I listen to music.
Red print on a yellow background reading Major Labels A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Hey, like all Elmore Leonard I’ve read, Get Shorty is a real treat. I think I might be bad at book reviews. I try to only read stuff I’ll like and I usually do. Like them that is. Especially if I finish them
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
THE DADLIEST CATCH: Just finished Essex Dogs, a historical fiction following one hard-bitten company during the Hundred Years War. I know nothing about history, this might as well have been set in Enchancia for all I knew, but it’s a really compelling story!
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Syd and I read The Appeal together. When I tell you it is an epistolary murder mystery set in a British community theater group told almost entirely through emails you know with 100% certainty if you will love it. if you think you will after reading that just go get it
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
I finished Crooked Kingdom, and it was thrilling, watching the author evolve through this series and watching her tie her universe together. Some great action writing as well.
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Y’all, Chain Gang All Stars is an incredible, devastating, wildly-entertaining book that’s so inventive in how it delivers its message and story. Read it!
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Both, actually, here’s the back. So I never thought of it as a spoiler, sorry if I messed it up for anybody!
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
A very warm and funny book book about a woman who is raised with a chimpanzee for a sister. As you might suspect, it’s about the blurred lines between person and animal and how memory plays into that divide and it’s just lovely
“We are all completely beside ourselves” book cover by Karen joy fowler
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
This was a little heavy on world building at first, but it’s a really incredible world, more about political and societal struggles than a typical fantasy novel that’s rife with big battles. There are two more that I’ll probably read, but I think I’ll do something a bit more grounded next.
Cover of City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennet. A ghostly hooded figure hovers above a city
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
I found so much of Pete Holmes’ church upbringing and journey out of that past incredibly relatable. I thought this was a refreshingly vulnerable book that I really got a lot out of.
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
All were correct: Six of Crows, a fantasy heist novel, is fun from beginning to end. I read the preceding Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is just fine, but it’s cool watching Bardugo evolve by leaps and bounds
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Justin McElroy @justinmcelroy.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Just finished this weird little novella, unsettling stuff!
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