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1MarcusBastos
Mai 7, 2017, 7:58 am

Read And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie. Put a review in my thread.

2MarcusBastos
Mai 7, 2017, 10:32 am

Finished listening The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer. Posted a review in my thread.

3cindydavid4
Mai 7, 2017, 3:21 pm

Teju Cole Known and Strange Things (No its not Harry Potter you sily Touchstones!)

4lilisin
Mai 8, 2017, 12:28 am

I can finally contribute to this thread. I finally managed to read the last 60 pages of Hara-kiri, mon amour (American title: The Obituary Arrives at Two O'Clock) which I read the majority of last year. Second book of the year. Glad to have it off my shelves.

5AlisonY
Mai 8, 2017, 3:00 am

Whilst I'm waiting for the last instalment of the Ferrante Neapolitan novels to come into my library, I'm starting My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout.

6thorold
Mai 8, 2017, 3:55 am

Finished La Disparition last week (and although I said I would not, I did post about it lipogrammatically...); since then I've been dipping into Jonathan Raban's Old glory (which seemed vaguely appropriate for a sailing weekend) and Thomas Bernhard's Frost (it's not quite that cold here at the moment, but not far off...). Haven't got very far with either yet.

7ipsoivan
Mai 8, 2017, 7:28 am

Cross Channel by Julian Barnes, after finishing his England, England yesterday, which I loved.

8stretch
Mai 8, 2017, 9:45 am

Finished The Pencil Perfect finally finished an actual book.

9cindydavid4
Mai 9, 2017, 3:17 am

>7 ipsoivan: Ive not read Cross Channel, will have to try that. And yes, England England is just so perfect; I can totally see this actually happening!

I also just realized I have been confusing Julian Barnes, with Julian Fellowes who wrote Snob as well as the script for Dowton Abbey. Well, both Julians are English, very funny and usually on target with their take on English society so I guess its easy to do! I would recommend Snob, by the way - very funny take on someone's rise and fall through English high society.

10RidgewayGirl
Mai 9, 2017, 6:58 pm

I'm reading Human Acts by Han Kang, which is an intense and visceral read. I'm also reading Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips, so I'm going to need to add a number of pleasant crime novels to balance things out.

I finished The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood. The first half was brilliant, the following quarter shaky and she finished up with the most expected and easy ending possible. So weird.

11lilisin
Mai 10, 2017, 1:12 am

Decided not to let myself pause after finishing the last book so I picked up the very short L'Étrange Bibliothèque (The Strange Library) by Haruki Murakami. I didn't like it but at least it's read and off my shelves.

12bragan
Mai 10, 2017, 6:30 am

I've recently finished When the People Fell by Cordwainer Smith, a story collection I had mixed feelings about, and The End or Something Like That by Ann Dee Ellis, a YA novel I had very different kinds of mixed feelings about.

I'm now reading Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West, about which my feelings so far are not mixed at all, because Lindy West is hilarious and fierce and generally great.

13AlisonY
Mai 10, 2017, 11:37 am

Feeling faintly underwhelmed after finishing My Name is Lucy Barton. Back now to the last book in Ferrante's Neapolitan series.

14VivienneR
Mai 10, 2017, 3:39 pm

I think My Name is Lucy Barton is one of those books that has to be picked up at just the right moment.

15AlisonY
Mai 10, 2017, 4:13 pm

You could be right. It was so different from Ferrante that it just felt a bit 'meh'.

16cindydavid4
Mai 10, 2017, 6:21 pm

>14 VivienneR: I read this before my surgery to repair my broken hip. At the time I found it calming, thinking about the med staff who care for me and the family that is near by. That was last year. Last month I read it for a book group and while most of us liked the writing, we felt much of the book was missing.We also wondered whether or not Lucy was hallucinating her mother being there

17MegEynons
Mai 11, 2017, 1:16 pm

I am reading The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall. I just started it last night and it is riveting. The size of the book and the material could have been very dry, but the author writes in such a way that the pages fly by.

18Simone2
Mai 12, 2017, 8:18 am

>14 VivienneR: I guess so, I loved it. I remember being very calm in my head, reading it in one go and being deeply touched by it. I even gave it as a present to two of my friends. They said they loved it as well but perhaps they were just being polite :-)

19japaul22
Mai 12, 2017, 11:29 am

>17 MegEynons: I loved The Peabody Sisters as well. I snapped up Megan Marshall's newest book about Margaret Fuller as soon as it came out and loved it as well.

Despite really liking it, I seem to have set aside The Lacuna in favor of the captivating Eline Vere, a Dutch 19th century classic that I'm loving. Also just started The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

20torontoc
Mai 12, 2017, 11:31 am

I just started 'A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker and am really happy with this read. ( I just finished a book for my book club and did not like it)

21ELiz_M
Mai 12, 2017, 12:05 pm

I'm reading several things, other than The Good Soldier Svejk! I recently finished Homegoing and The Arcanum and have now started The Garden of Finzi-Continis

22RidgewayGirl
Mai 12, 2017, 7:45 pm

I'm reading the newest Elizabeth Strout, Anything is Possible. It's set in Amgash, the small town Lucy Barton was from and it's set up as a series of related short stories, like Olive Kitteridge. I'm loving it.

23cindydavid4
Mai 12, 2017, 11:54 pm

>22 RidgewayGirl: New York Times has a wonderful review of that book. Loved Lucy Barton and really eager to get that one very soon!

24bragan
Mai 13, 2017, 5:04 am

I'm going through books at a good pace this month. I just finished Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, which was entertaining, but overrated. I'm now reading Ella Enchanted, which, slightly to my surprise, is not over-rated. And next up is Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in three Great Ancient Cultures by Anthony Aveni, because it's one of those books that have been on the TBR shelves for a decade plus, and I'm making a point of trying to read some of those this year.

25Simone2
Modifié : Mai 14, 2017, 1:55 am

>22 RidgewayGirl: >23 cindydavid4: I am so looking forward to it. The Guardian did a good review as well, comparing Strout with John Steinbeck and Ann Tyler.

26thorold
Mai 14, 2017, 12:22 pm

I've allowed myself to get sidetracked into reading Barthes' Mythologies over the weekend - more fun than it sounds - as a warm-up for La septième fonction du langage, which I keep hearing about because the English translation has just come out in the UK. Naturally, I'm not going to read the translation...

27MegEynons
Mai 15, 2017, 8:23 am

>19 japaul22: I picked up the Margaret Fuller as well! Am glad to know it is good and I have something to look forward to!

28dchaikin
Mai 16, 2017, 7:48 am

>26 thorold: I started Mythologies once, but only go a few essays in.

I finished The Undoing Project last week, but don't have another audiobook yet. (Listening the Hamilton - the musical - a lot...).

And last night, well actually this morning, I finished Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer which I had some kind of emotional reaction too that not easy to put into words. It got to me, anyway.

I'm planning to start A Time for Everything by Karl Knausgård today.

29MsNick
Mai 18, 2017, 9:03 am

Time for a little non-fiction. I'm reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.

30cindydavid4
Modifié : Mai 18, 2017, 9:12 am

Amazing book!

Current reads:

Open City Teju Cole

Angels and Ages

31ELiz_M
Mai 18, 2017, 10:46 pm

I finished The Garden of Finzi-Continis and can now hunt down the movie, which is supposed to be wonderful. I've started Ashes and Diamonds, which I have been wanting to read for a while mostly because of the title.

And I have a request: I am looking for a good, not insanely dense, introduction to Greek mythology. Any recommendations?

32MarcusBastos
Mai 18, 2017, 10:50 pm

Finished Sleeping Murder, by Agatha Christie. Review in my thread.

33Nickelini
Mai 18, 2017, 11:55 pm

I'm still reading The Sister aka The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams. It's not a long book, but for some reason I'm reading it very slowly. It's one of the better books I've read this year, so I guess I should be happy that I'm stretching it out.

34thorold
Mai 19, 2017, 8:45 am

Finished La septième fonction du langage this morning - and almost missed the bus because there were only a few pages to go. Fun, but rather silly, and very retro.
I don't know what's coming next - I'm still halfway through Frost, and I've been dipping into some essays by Robert Walser, but I feel more in the mood for something lighter. Time to raid the TBR!

35cindydavid4
Mai 19, 2017, 9:17 am

>51 japaul22: loved that book, and the movie is a very good adaptation of it.

36bragan
Mai 20, 2017, 3:18 pm

I'm reading the short story collection Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh, which is good, but not by any definition pleasant. Next up is Tinkers by Paul Harding.

37AlisonY
Mai 20, 2017, 4:28 pm

That's the Neapolitan series done and dusted now. Not sure what to go on to - I might give Eugenides' The Marriage Plot another go, but I'm not sure I'm in the mood for sticking with it.

38cindydavid4
Mai 20, 2017, 8:42 pm

I loved Middlesex and was excited about Marriage Plot, just couldn't get into it.

Reading Elizabeth Strout Anything is possible

39AlisonY
Mai 21, 2017, 4:34 am

>38 cindydavid4: same. I'm remembering why I wasn't feeling the love for it - not up for a second attempt after all (and also LOVED Middlesex).

40thorold
Mai 22, 2017, 3:44 am

>34 thorold: I had a couple of false starts over the weekend before settling on Javier Cercas' El Impostor, which seems to be a non-fiction novel about a character called Javier Cercas writing a non-fiction novel, and managed to catch my attention enough to make me keep on reading. So far, at least: it's another of those deceptively long ebooks...

41Simone2
Mai 22, 2017, 8:27 am

>31 ELiz_M: I read Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece a long time ago. It is very informative and to the point and might be a good introduction.

>37 AlisonY: Yes, give The Marriage Plot another try, I am almost sure you'll like it!

I finished the great The Mothers by Bret Bennett and am now reading On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry, which I like so far but is hard to get into. Next will be A Lesson before Dying by Ernest J Gaines and The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus (because it is supposedly Knausgaard's favourite novel).

42AlisonY
Mai 22, 2017, 4:12 pm

>41 Simone2: I don't think I'm in the mood for a second attempt just at the moment. I've started The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch instead.

43MegEynons
Mai 22, 2017, 4:27 pm

I have started White Horses by Alice Hoffman. Like all of her books I am hooked in the first few pages.

44dchaikin
Mai 22, 2017, 4:53 pm

>31 ELiz_M:,>41 Simone2: - another nice Greek Mythology intro is Edith Hamilton's Mythology. It's kind of a fun read. (My review, which isn't too long, here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/220674#5532879 )

45ELiz_M
Modifié : Mai 23, 2017, 2:26 pm

>41 Simone2:, >44 dchaikin: Thanks!

Dan, your review helps -- I was worried it would be too dry/academic. However, since my library has both as ebooks, I've added them to the wishlist.

46Simone2
Mai 22, 2017, 9:41 pm

>42 AlisonY: A good choice as well!

47MegEynons
Mai 23, 2017, 9:23 am

Finished Their Eyes Were Watching God and just started On the Road

48bragan
Mai 25, 2017, 1:52 pm

I've finished Into the Wild by Jon Krakuer, which I may be one of the last people on Earth to read, and followed it up with The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 1: Squirrel Power by Ryan North, which was fun, even though I'm still not a fan of superhero comics in general.

Next up is The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell.

49MsNick
Mai 25, 2017, 3:57 pm

>48 bragan: I loved The Death of Bees! Enjoy! :)

50bragan
Mai 25, 2017, 8:03 pm

>49 MsNick: I've only read about 15 pages, but I'm already very interested!

51japaul22
Mai 25, 2017, 8:13 pm

I recently finished The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. Now I'm reading The Observations by Jane Harris. I loved her book, Gillespie and I that came out a few years ago and I've finally gotten to another of hers.

I'm also continuing on with The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin about Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, and newspaper media of the time. It's really interesting but also slow. And long.

52mabith
Mai 25, 2017, 8:30 pm

>48 bragan: I'm the same on superhero comics but also really enjoyed Squirrel Girl. I have trouble with the Marvel and DC universes wherein all the characters exist at once and comics about them also exist.

Just starting Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam. Probably starting a biography of William Wells Brown soon as well.

53bragan
Mai 25, 2017, 10:56 pm

>52 mabith: I guess the idea is that in their universe the comics are supposed to be non-fiction? I don't know. It all confuses me a little bit.

54MarcusBastos
Mai 25, 2017, 11:02 pm

Finished A Murder is Announced, by Agatha Christie. Miss Marple did it again! Review in my thread.

55mabith
Mai 25, 2017, 11:39 pm

>53 bragan: Yeah, I get that, just something that I think is very hard to deal with if you didn't start reading superhero stuff pretty young. Or at least you need to love detailed extended universes and 'canons,' which I don't particularly.

56bragan
Mai 26, 2017, 12:18 am

>66 Simone2: There are fictional universes I know frankly disturbing amounts about, I love diving into them so much, but the comics are definitely not one of them. And there are only room for so many of those in my brain, anyway.

57RidgewayGirl
Mai 26, 2017, 8:25 am

I've started several books at once and I'm enjoying each of them.

I wanted to read War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans when the Reading Globally group was looking at Benelux authors. I'm late.

I'm reading A Separation by Katie Kitamura for the upcoming Tournament of Books summer reading program. It feels a lot like Rachel Cusk's Outline so far - not just being set in Greece, but also the sense of detachment and lack of agency from the main character.

I'm also reading Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America by Amy Johnson Frykholm and Otessa Moshfegh's uncomfortable and off-putting collection of short stories, Homesick for Another World. It's an interesting juxtaposition.

And I'm continuing on slowly rereading A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. He really is an extraordinary writer.

58japaul22
Mai 28, 2017, 9:42 am

I'm starting volume 3 of Proust, The Guermantes Way. I'm also reading my first book by Penelope Lively, How it All Began.

I've set aside The Bully Pulpit. Though it is interesting, I'm just not in the mood to read about heated politics, the divide between rich and poor, and media coverage. I suppose it would be good to read it, given the parallels to today, but I cannot stomach it.

59stretch
Mai 28, 2017, 11:01 am

Finished The Book about the history of books. My READING this year is very meta. While very detailed and through I wanted more detail and miniscue.

60mabith
Mai 28, 2017, 11:12 am

Between Two Worlds by Zainab Salbi was a fascinating read.

Just starting Malinche by Laura Esquivel.

61thorold
Mai 28, 2017, 4:09 pm

Finished El impostor yesterday, which I enjoyed as much as all the Cercas I've read so far. I spent most of today on the balcony reading The old devils - which made me laugh a lot, but didn't quite win me over to the side of the Amis fans.
This evening I've started - slightly tentatively - Les solidarités mystérieuses, a Pascal Quignard novel I found on the TBR shelf.

62AlisonY
Mai 29, 2017, 2:28 pm

70 pages in with The Sea, the Sea and I'm feeling very bored with it. Can anyone give me hope that it's worth sticking with? The language and scenic descriptions are lovely, but I don't think they'll sustain me for another 450 pages.

63thorold
Mai 29, 2017, 2:42 pm

>62 AlisonY: Stick with it. After about 400 pages of hating Charles, it will suddenly all fall together, and you'll wonder why you ever had any doubts about it as a novel. But you'll still hate Charles.

64AlisonY
Mai 29, 2017, 2:47 pm

>63 thorold: I'm finding him dull as ditchwater at the moment, but you inspire me to plough on for another while. Thanks!

65ELiz_M
Mai 29, 2017, 3:56 pm

>64 AlisonY: It sounds like you haven't yet gotten to the part where the book gets weird.

66Simone2
Mai 29, 2017, 3:58 pm

>62 AlisonY: I loved that book but I did so from the first pages, so I can't promise it will get better for you. However, a lot is happening in that book that will hopefully wake your interest!

67cindydavid4
Mai 29, 2017, 9:56 pm

>62 AlisonY: I have always found Iris Murdoch's life interesting (there was a fabulous movie about the latter years of her life with Judith Dence and Jim Broadbent). So I wanted to read some of her work and started with this one. Tried and tried to get into it, and just couldn't. So you are not alone

68AlisonY
Mai 30, 2017, 2:42 am

>65 ELiz_M:, >66 Simone2: - thanks, I'm sticking with it for another while, but I remain unconvinced that I'm ever going to love it. I hope you all prove me wrong!

>67 cindydavid4: I suspect I may stay feeling the same way. I actually liked the first few pages, but I'm finding his ramblings about life in the theatre dull at the moment. Hopefully this is just a lull.

69MegEynons
Mai 30, 2017, 9:26 am

I just finished The Handmaid's Tale and started The Elegance of the Hedgehog which I have to say, three chapters in is just like being in another world. It grabs you immediately.

70japaul22
Mai 30, 2017, 9:59 am

>62 AlisonY: Honestly, I never "love" Murdoch's novels, but there's something about them that keeps me coming back for more. I find her writing intriguing and interesting but not particularly readable.

71thorold
Modifié : Mai 31, 2017, 3:09 am

Finished Les solidarités mystérieuses last night (excellent, but puzzling), and started Statt etwas, oder der letzte Rank, a new novel by the apparently indefatigable Martin Walser (90 this year). Unexpectedly Beckettish in the opening chapters, don't know how it will continue...

>70 japaul22: Hmm. I still have two or three Iris Murdoch novels on the TBR shelf, they don't seem to move off it all that fast. There obviously is a threshold to get over each time, but it has always turned out to be worth it up to now.

72stretch
Mai 31, 2017, 10:29 am

Finished a second this month! Into a Black Sun by Takeshi Kaiko, A japanese veiw of the Vietnam War during 1964. Insightful but dragged for me in parts.

73Simone2
Juin 1, 2017, 6:04 am

I finished The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus, hmmm. I am halfway through Proust's The Guermantes Way and have started both Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar for the Group Read in the 1001 Group as well as Old Filth by Jane Gardam. This last one gets suddenly much attention in Dutch media because of being translated. I hadn't heard from it before but it sounds as if I might like it a lot. The first chapter is indeed promising.

74thorold
Juin 2, 2017, 3:58 am

Last night I started on another long-term resident of the TBR shelf John Rechy's City of night - fun in an anthropological sort of way, and touching to see that fifty years ago people still believed you could undermine the hegemony of the established order by omitting apostrophes and writing "youngman" as a compound noun. Well, I suppose it was no less effective than hanging a Che Guevara poster on your bedroom wall...

Rechy is a trade paperback, too heavy to take travelling, so I'll have to look for something else on my e-reader for the Whit weekend.

75bragan
Juin 3, 2017, 11:33 am

I've now finished In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea by Danny Goldberg (which was an ER book) and The Adventures of Tintin: The Shooting Star by Hergé (which was lent to me by a friend who keeps wanting me to read more Tintin). And I'm now back to my intermittent Discworld re-read with Terry Pratchett's Jingo, and boy are there things about this one that feel even more painfully relevant today than they did when it was written.

76cindydavid4
Juin 3, 2017, 4:48 pm

What makes all of Pratchetts books a treat is that they are all a mirror to our life and times to some extent, but Jingo, Truth, Going Postal and Carpe Jugulum all go above and beyond - painfully relevant indeed.

77fuzzy_patters
Juin 3, 2017, 4:57 pm

Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

78mabith
Juin 3, 2017, 6:41 pm

I finished the William Wells Brown: An African American Life biography, which was really interesting, and a little Agatha Christie jaunt with Partners in Crime.

Now I've started The Chinese in America by Iris Chang and Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck, just random coincidence that they ended up together.

79MarcusBastos
Juin 3, 2017, 8:12 pm

Finished 4.50 From Paddington, by Agatha Christie. Get some insights in Miss Jane Marple's wisdom. Review in my thread.

80VivienneR
Juin 6, 2017, 4:17 pm

Sorry, as usual I've fallen sadly behind with threads.

>16 cindydavid4: Mother as a hallucination? That sounds quite reasonable. I thought of it, but couldn't come to a conclusion.

>62 AlisonY: That's exactly how I feel about Iris Murdoch. Don't think I've ever finished one, but keep on buying them. Fortunately my husband is a fan.

>75 bragan: My son keeps exhorting me to read Tintin. I'm told he has a case of tintinitis.

81cindydavid4
Juin 6, 2017, 7:51 pm

>80 VivienneR: Viviene, a few weeks ago the NYer had a fascinating article interview with Eliz Strout. Talks a bit about her new book and Lucy Barton. She doesn't give any answers to questions about the plot or about whether its based on her life, but its till a very interesting picture of this author, who's become one of my favorites over the years

Now reading Gargoyle Hunters, which I put down a few months, back, picking up back up and finding Im liking it better (might be the beach in the background, ....)

82VivienneR
Juin 7, 2017, 12:37 am

Thanks for that info, Cindy. I'll look it up.

83mabith
Juin 7, 2017, 1:48 am

Still reading Pavillion of Women by Pearl S. Buck and greatly enjoying it. Also partway through The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World and just starting an ER book, Roots, Radicals, and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World. Lots of world changing in there!

84AlisonY
Juin 7, 2017, 9:29 am

I did it! I made it to the end of The Sea, The Sea, and thank you to all who spurred me on to do so - I really enjoyed it in the end (but boy, she made it hard work at the beginning).

On now to something totally different - Porcelain: A Memoir by Moby. I randomly came across a review of this online recently, and it got some decent reviews. Here's hoping they're right.

85bragan
Juin 7, 2017, 11:17 pm

I've now finished I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman, which I liked, and Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer, which I didn't much. Next up is City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett, which I've been looking forward to.

86thorold
Modifié : Juin 8, 2017, 2:29 am

>84 AlisonY: That's a relief! :-)

I haven't got anywhere with John Rechy yet - I put it aside for the weekend and unexpectedly got a long way into Thomas Bernhard's Frost, which I've now almost finished. Worth it, of course, but a strange thing to be reading in early summer...

87MarcusBastos
Juin 8, 2017, 5:11 pm

Finished listening (for the second time!) Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, by Eric Metaxas. Review in my thread.

88RidgewayGirl
Juin 8, 2017, 6:35 pm

I'm reading The Long Drop by Denise Mina. It's a departure for Mina, being a novel about an actual case in 1958 Glasgow, mostly involving the relationship between two men - one who would hang for killing the other's family. Mina's writing is just brilliant. She knows how to evoke a time and place.

I'm also reading The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge, which is sort of about Lovecraft. It's weird.

89AlisonY
Juin 9, 2017, 6:24 pm

Whizzed through 400 pages of Moby's memoir - really enjoyed it. Now on to our favourite CR Marmite author - Jonathan Franzen and Purity.

90avidmom
Juin 9, 2017, 9:04 pm

I am reading Yes, My Accent Is Real by Kunal Nayyar aka "Raj" on the "Big Bang Theory". Love it!

91cindydavid4
Juin 9, 2017, 10:47 pm

Picked up several NYRB Classics a few months back, finally getting around to them. Now reading The Tenants of Moonbloom. Never heard of this author before but apparently he was on to a very successful career before it was cut short by an anerysm at the age of 36. Intro by Dave Eggers. Liking it quite a bit so far

My next read will be The First Fifteen Lives of Henry August by Claire North. Some folk recommended it highly on LT, looks very interesting (I love time travel, time slips, reincarnation and all that those trops involve.)

92Nickelini
Juin 9, 2017, 11:58 pm

Reading How It All Began by Penelope Lively. I'm enjoying it a lot, but life is getting in the way, so I'm moving slowly. I find myself having to reread a lot. My problem, not the book's.

93cindydavid4
Juin 14, 2017, 12:09 am

>91 cindydavid4: This book will sure to be high on my top reads of this year. Went to the bookstore and found another by this author: The Sudden Appearance of Hope

94thorold
Juin 14, 2017, 2:00 am

Finished several books over the weekend, then came home with a small pile from the charity shop yesterday, the TBR is not getting any smaller at the moment...
Since I saw that I now have three unread Daniel Pennac novels waiting for me, I decided to read La fée carabine next. Fun so far!

95bragan
Juin 14, 2017, 8:09 am

I've just read Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast, which was very good, and The Singles Game by Lauren Weisberger, which was not my sort of thing.

Next up is On the Beach by Nevil Shute, and I'm looking forward to finding out whether it seems more or less horribly depressing than it did when I read it back in high school.

96japaul22
Juin 14, 2017, 10:41 am

I've finished and absolutely loved volume 3 of In Search of Lost Time. In fact, I'm getting so involved in it that all other books are suffering in comparison.

Speaking of suffering in comparison, I'm reading Memoirs of Hadrian which I'm pretty bored by. I'm also reading The Siege by Helen Dunmore which I am actually enjoying.

97Simone2
Modifié : Juin 14, 2017, 4:09 pm

>89 AlisonY: Looking forward to your thoughts on Purity. I have been postponing reading it while I do like Franzen. Somehow I don't feel up to it yet. Maybe your review will change that.

>95 bragan: I also have great memories of reading On the Beach in high school. I still can picture some of its scenes. I never dared reading it again. I am interested in what you'll think after the re-read.

>96 japaul22: Wow, how fast you read it. I am also almost finished with The Guermantes Way and enjoying it. Memoirs of Hadrian I stopped reading, too boring indeed, for now.

I am reading Autumn by Ali Smith. After the Proust book I'll start with The Nix.

98bragan
Juin 14, 2017, 5:59 pm

>97 Simone2: I'm only about 30 pages in now, but mostly what's struck me is the fact that I seem to have remembered none of the details of the book, but to have remembered its feel disturbingly well. (Possibly because it's the same feel a lot of my Cold War-era nightmares had.)

99Simone2
Juin 15, 2017, 2:09 am

>98 bragan: I remember her planting flowers. Broke my heart. But I was fifteen back then.

101thorold
Modifié : Juin 16, 2017, 5:41 am

>94 thorold: Finished La fée carabine, but I still have three unread Daniel Pennac novels, since another one took up residence on the TBR shelf yesterday...

Started Geert Mak's De Brug, which was a Boekenweek gift about ten years ago, and am planning to follow that up with another book set in Istanbul, Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants by Mathias Enard.

>96 japaul22: >97 Simone2: I'm not sure if I ever finished Memoirs of Hadrian - I have an awful feeling that I might have put it aside 25 years ago to wait for a moment when I was in the right mood. Must check if it's still got a bookmark in it...

102MarcusBastos
Juin 17, 2017, 11:06 pm

Just finished Trent's Last Case, by E. C. Bentley. Liked it. Review in my thread.

103japaul22
Juin 18, 2017, 7:29 am

>101 thorold: Memoirs of Hadrian is definitely a book I could understand setting aside and forgetting!

I've recently finished Helen Dunmore's The Siege which was really good. Now I'm reading a mystery, The Glass Devil by Helene Tursten. I'll probably start something new today but I'm not sure what yet.

104ELiz_M
Juin 18, 2017, 7:31 am

I did not get very much reading done on vacation -- was enjoying seeing everything too much and scheduled very little down time. So, only three books: The Magus by John Fowles, Mythology by Edith Hamilton, and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.

105thorold
Juin 18, 2017, 8:33 am

Finished the two Istanbul shorts, and have started Así empieza lo malo, which is likely to keep me busy for a while. As you would expect from Marías, after 70 pages we know less than we did when we opened the book...

>103 japaul22: I checked - there's a bookmark on p.206. Further than I would have guessed, so maybe that's not the real place I got to. Since it's an American Book Centre The Hague bookmark, and I was reading in English not French, I'd guess I was reading it sometime around 1990. Maybe I'll try again in French one of these years, but it's not at the top of my list.

106japaul22
Juin 18, 2017, 8:50 am

>105 thorold: Interesting! I didn't love it, but a lot of people in the 1001 books group really loved it.

107torontoc
Juin 18, 2017, 8:56 am

I just finished By Gaslight and The Virgin Cure - both really good

108MarcusBastos
Juin 25, 2017, 12:08 pm

109RidgewayGirl
Juin 25, 2017, 3:05 pm

I've picked up Joyce Carol Oates's latest book of short stories, Dis Mem Ber, and the first story was very good. Creepy and ambiguous with that way of writing that makes me think that she's just recounting something that actually happened to her.

And I'm reading Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.

110Nickelini
Juin 26, 2017, 1:57 am

Today I finished Outline by Rachel Cusk. Parts were amazing, parts were boring. Now I'm on to Cooking with Fernet Branca. I'm looking forward to it because it's set in the part of Italy I know best -- close to where my husband's friends and family are from.

111bragan
Juin 26, 2017, 4:01 pm

I've recently finished Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds by Daniel C. Dennett, which was mostly a little too technical/specialized for me; The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Volume 2: Squirrel You Know It's True by Ryan North and Erica Henderson, which was fun; and an ER book, Mothers and Other Strangers by Gina Sorell, which was not bad, but a little disappointing.

I'm now reading Magnificent Desolation, the autobiography of Buzz Aldrin.

112ELiz_M
Juin 26, 2017, 10:09 pm

Recently finished Memoirs of Hadrian which is an astonishing piece of writing, even if not quite my cup of tea. I am now struggling with Nausea and flying through The Birds.

113MsNick
Juin 27, 2017, 10:55 am

I've just started reading The Child by Fiona Barton.

114dchaikin
Juin 27, 2017, 2:38 pm

Reading Ovid - a collection called The Love Poems, that includes three books and a fragment.

On audio, I'm trying We Have Always Lived in the Castle

115thorold
Juin 29, 2017, 8:09 am

Got sidetracked again, thanks to a tip in the Reading Globally group - last night I started Draußen nur Kännchen, essays on German culture by the German-Ethiopian writer Asfa-Wossen Asserate. Fun, but I haven't got to the bit about coffee yet...

116japaul22
Juin 29, 2017, 8:14 am

I'm finishing up Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior and starting Lincoln in the Bardo which I'm really excited about. I'll also be starting He Knew He Was Right by Trollope with a group read in July.

117bragan
Juil 2, 2017, 1:19 am

I've just finished Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman, a kids' book that I thought was decent, but probably would have loved as a kid, and am now reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin.

118AlisonY
Juil 3, 2017, 10:40 am

>97 Simone2: I've had to ditch Purity. I normally like Franzen, but after 100 pages I couldn't stand the voice of the protagonist (or other characters, for that matter) for a page longer.

I've picked up Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee instead.

119ELiz_M
Juil 3, 2017, 11:23 am

Making up for not reading enough on vacation, I have recently read Matigari, Inferno, and The Vegetarian and have just started Judas, probably based on reviews I've read here.

120thorold
Modifié : Juil 5, 2017, 3:21 am

Over the weekend I finished Draußen nur Kännchen and also read Le figuier sur le toit, an autobiographical novel by the German/French-Canadian writer Marguerite Andersen, who - if this book is anything to go by - seems to be rather unfairly neglected.

Started Goytisolo's Señas de identidad, which looks very interesting so far, but it's at least the third "long and difficult" book I've started in the last few weeks, so it may take a while (and the only copy I could get hold of is an old and heavily-annotated paperback with dried-out glue that cracks when you turn the pages, so it's not much fun reading it...).

121AlisonY
Juil 5, 2017, 6:00 am

Slow Man was, well, slow. On now to another McEwan - Saturday. Has me gripped already - looks like it could turn out to be a goody.

122Simone2
Juil 6, 2017, 8:06 pm

>118 AlisonY: I'll definitely leave Purity on my shelves then, for now.

I am reading The Dog after finishing Diary but I am having a hard time reading. I'm into Litsy which takes a lot of time. Also, because of many reviews here and on Litsy, I keep buying new books and don't know where to start reading. I feel a bit paralyzed.

123MarcusBastos
Juil 8, 2017, 3:40 pm

124mabith
Juil 8, 2017, 9:57 pm

Finished Anna Karenina starting The Silk Roads now, and Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. Also almost done with Chronicle of a Last Summer, a novel about recent Egyptian history.

125japaul22
Juil 9, 2017, 8:49 am

I just finished an interesting biography about Jane Austen: A Life.

I'm about half way through He Knew He Was Right by Trollope and I've just started The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. I'm finding the characters really annoying in the opening pages. I also just found out that The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is available at the library after being on hold.

And after loving listening to Mansfield Park on audio, I've started Persuasion.

126bragan
Juil 9, 2017, 11:23 am

I just finished Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years by Geoffrey Nunberg, and am now about to start The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith.

127RidgewayGirl
Juil 9, 2017, 11:51 am

I've been on vacation for a week and most of the reading was good. I brought two fun vacation reads with me, and one was satisfying and diverting (No One You Know by Michelle Richmond) and the other was mind-bogglingly bad (The Only Child by Andrew Pyper).

I also finished Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson, an important book I'll have to buy my own copy of; Marlena by Julie Buntin, which was everything I had hoped The Girls would be; and Exit West, Mohsin Hamid's novel about immigration and refugees.

I'm now reading Gish Jen's The Girl at the Baggage Claim, about the cultural differences between Western and Eastern cultures and The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt, a novel about misogyny and the art world.

128MarcusBastos
Juil 9, 2017, 7:06 pm

Finished listening The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction, by Terry Eagleton. Second time listening to it. Great book! Review in my thread.

129thorold
Juil 10, 2017, 4:12 am

Finished Goytisolo's Señas de identidad over the weekend - an amazing book that's almost certainly going to be one of my top reads of Q3. Moved on to Herta Müller's Heute wäre ich mir lieber nicht begegnet (The Appointment - why do so many of her books have unrecognisably different titles in English?).

>126 bragan: Fun! I don't think you'll find much evidence of Assholism in a McCall Smith novel...

130MarcusBastos
Juil 10, 2017, 6:22 am

Finished A Time to Kill, by John Grisham. Now I know why the man is a best seller author. Good book, interesting story. Review in my thread.

131bragan
Juil 10, 2017, 11:00 am

>129 thorold: Yes, the contrast was actually kind of nice. Precious Ramotswe is pretty much the polar opposite of an asshole. :)

132cindydavid4
Juil 10, 2017, 7:48 pm

Couldn't find the Chernow book on Hamilton today but did find what might be as interesting: an historic fiction account of Hamilton and Eliza The Hamilton Affair It looks like it covers more than just the affair, but looks at the lives of both, and Elizas life after the duel. Will be interesting to compair it with Chernow's non fiction bio.

133MsNick
Juil 11, 2017, 3:31 pm

134japaul22
Juil 11, 2017, 5:13 pm

Just finished and HATED The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides.

135cindydavid4
Juil 11, 2017, 5:55 pm

I didn't even finish it; so disappointing after Middlesex

136japaul22
Juil 11, 2017, 6:09 pm

>135 cindydavid4: "finished" was used loosely! I skimmed the last 50 or so pages.

137avaland
Modifié : Juil 13, 2017, 10:15 am

Have been preoccupied and away from Club Read for some time, but am trying to get back into the swing of it....

Currently reading:

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich (due Nov 2017, dystopia!)
The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided, Michael P. Kinship (2005)
A Pound of Flesh by Alex Gray (2012, crime novel)

and listening to a 2017 "Great Courses" on Utopian/Dystopian literature.

I'm trying to remember the books I've read this year and catch up by writing short reviews. I hope to get around and see what some of you are reading soon.

138RidgewayGirl
Juil 13, 2017, 1:49 pm

Oh, a new Louise Erdrich!

139avaland
Juil 13, 2017, 2:05 pm

>138 RidgewayGirl: And it is very good; apparently she wrote most of this in 2002. I'm about 1/3 way through it.

140AlisonY
Juil 14, 2017, 3:59 pm

Starting The American Boy with some trepidation. Have a feeling it might be one of those long-winded affairs, but let's see.

141MarcusBastos
Juil 15, 2017, 12:30 am

Finished listening The Modern Scholar: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, by Peter Kreeft. Review in my thread.

142kidzdoc
Modifié : Juil 15, 2017, 7:51 pm

I'm reading the script for Bertolt Brecht's play The Life of Galileo, which I saw at the Young Vic Theatre in London last month. I've just started Rotten Row, a new short story collection by Petina Gappah, which she will discuss at an author event that I'll attend during next month's Edinburgh International Book Festival. I'm still working on The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee, but I hope to finish it by next weekend.

143mabith
Juil 16, 2017, 9:54 am

Trying to speed through Circling the Sun by Paula McLain for a book club on Monday. It's historical fiction about Beryl Markham and really not working for me (I read her memoir earlier this year).

Also working on Roots, Radicals, and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg.

144avidmom
Juil 16, 2017, 2:29 pm

Once again, I find myself suffering from reading ADD but I think I have finally settled on Carrie Fisher's The Princess Diarist.

145avaland
Juil 16, 2017, 3:28 pm

Have finished the Erdrich mentioned in #137 above. Most of it was riveting but I'm somewhat dissatisfied with the ending. Will eventually put together a short review on my thread.

Continuing with the Ann Hutchinson volume. Books are piling up!

146Simone2
Juil 17, 2017, 8:28 am

I finished Ill Will by Dan Chaon which was brilliant, I think. I am now reading Waiting for Bojangles bu Olivier Bourdeaut, which I read about last year in Club Read. It is a bit strange but I think I am going to like it. Next will be Anything is Possible by Elisabeth Strout or The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge, I am still doubting.

147AlisonY
Juil 17, 2017, 2:03 pm

Have decided I'm not in the mood for a big book like The American Boy at the moment. I've picked up Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin instead.

148dchaikin
Juil 18, 2017, 1:23 am

before a recent family road trip I finished Brysons The Road to Little Dribbling on audio. Then, during the road trip I managed to finish a collection of Ovid's "Love" poems (translated by A. D. Melville) and snuck in an entertaining (to me) book by four authors called The Quest of Theseus.

I'm working through Ovids Heroides and, on audio, We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

149MsNick
Juil 18, 2017, 8:34 am

I've just started Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt. I loved The Sisters Brothers, so I'm hoping this one will be a treat as well.

150bragan
Juil 20, 2017, 4:34 pm

I've read quite few things since I last checked in here:

Mastodonia by Clifford D. Simak, a 1978 time travel novel.

The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel, the true story of man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years.

Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich, yet another of her Stephanie Plum novels.

Star Trek Cats by Jenny Parks, which features beautiful drawings of, uh, Star Trek cats.

The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett, the latest in my Discworld re-read.

And I'm now reading A Word for Love by Emily Robbins, which I suspect I am not remotely enough of a romantic for.

151torontoc
Juil 21, 2017, 11:52 am

I'm reading The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray and am thoroughly enjoying the novel

152RidgewayGirl
Juil 21, 2017, 3:43 pm

I am wholly caught up in The Patriots by Sana Krasikov, about a family's connection to the Soviet Union and later to Russia. The stuff set in modern times is fairly interesting, but the main story, of a Jewish woman from Brooklyn who emigrates to the USSR in 1934 and what happens to her is fascinating.

153VivienneR
Juil 22, 2017, 2:21 pm

To celebrate Canada's 150th birthday this month I've read several books by Canadian authors. At the same time I've been working through Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. I'm finding it requires some effort to keep my focus.

154MarcusBastos
Juil 22, 2017, 9:36 pm

Finished reading The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side, by Agatha Christie. Another book in my Group Challenge (Miss Jane Marple Challenge). Review in my thread.

155Simone2
Juil 22, 2017, 10:58 pm

Finished and loved Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout. Now on to The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge.

156AlisonY
Juil 23, 2017, 5:50 am

I've finished the incredibly poignant Giovanni's Room, which I expect will stay with me for some time. In readiness for my forthcoming holiday I'm starting Why the Dutch are Different: Into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands by Ben Coates.

157ELiz_M
Juil 23, 2017, 7:47 am

I recently finished The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto and Solitude by Víctor Català. I am now reading too many books -- The Unwinding, Modern Romance: An Investigation by Aziz Ansari, The Case Worker, and The Radiance of the King.

158cindydavid4
Modifié : Juil 24, 2017, 6:00 am

>153 VivienneR: Margaret Atwoodand Timothy Findley are two of my favorite Canadian writers Really sad at the passing of the latter, read a bio of him by his partner that was excellent. My fav of his was Pilgrim. Can't decide on a fav of Atwood, but my last read of hers hag seed was not only a great read but a master class in Shakespeares The Tempest

159dchaikin
Juil 23, 2017, 1:19 pm

>156 AlisonY: noting. Giovanni's Room is on my list to read sometime. I don't know much about it.

----

I'm planning to start Ovid's metamorphoses

160AlisonY
Juil 23, 2017, 2:10 pm

>159 dchaikin: I'd never even heard of it before, Dan. Love those occasional hits that come from a random perusal of the library shelves.

161kidzdoc
Juil 26, 2017, 6:21 am

162dchaikin
Juil 26, 2017, 7:49 am

Metamorphoses starts out a lot more entertaining than I expected.

On audio I'm trying Hungry Heart a memoir by author Jennifer Weiner.

163japaul22
Juil 26, 2017, 9:06 am

I've started volume 4 of Proust.

Also close to finishing The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, a new book by Hannah Tinti.

165thorold
Modifié : Juil 26, 2017, 1:56 pm

I've been on holiday for a few days, which gave me the chance to finish two more book club selections, The Rotters' Club (fun, and one I've been meaning to read for ages) and the real-life West Wing memoir Who thought this was a good idea? (obviously the person who proposed it for the book club must have: it wasn't).
I also read Marlen Haushofer's classic Die Mansarde from the TBR shelf.
Currently reading what may well be the start of a new poet-project, Wolfgang Leppmann's Rilke-biography Rilke : sein Leben, seine Welt, sein Werk.

Reviews coming when I finish unpacking...

166bragan
Juil 26, 2017, 6:31 pm

I've just finished Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan, which was excellent, if hypochondria-inducing, and You Can Fly: A Sequel to the Peter Pan Tales by Chuck Rosenthal, a far-from-excellent ER book I'd have been better off not requesting.

I'm now reading The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez, which I'm very much enjoying so far.

167japaul22
Juil 27, 2017, 5:15 pm

I finally got The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry after waiting patiently for it to come in at the library for months!

168Simone2
Juil 28, 2017, 4:50 am

I am reading The Night Ocean, which I like very much. Next will be the longlisted books for the Man Booker Prize. I'll probably start with Days Without End or The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.

169AlisonY
Juil 30, 2017, 4:24 pm

I think I'm going to start Nutshell. I'm not deliberately reading a lot of McEwan this year - I just seem to keep coming across copies in different places.

Also deliberating whether to bring the next Knausgaard or The Children's Book away with me on holiday. If anyone has read The Children's Book do you think it would be a slog for holiday reading or is it a good, absorbing read?

170kidzdoc
Modifié : Juil 31, 2017, 5:28 am

I'm starting my foray into this year's Booker Prize longlist with The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

>169 AlisonY: I loved The Children's Book, and I think it would be a great choice as a holiday read.

171AlisonY
Juil 31, 2017, 4:03 pm

>170 kidzdoc: thanks Daryl. Decision made!

172lilisin
Modifié : Juil 31, 2017, 7:44 pm

Forgot to mention that I read Han Kang's The Vegetarian in July although it was just a 'meh' kind of read for me. Well written, very well translated, but a plot I'll forget fairly quickly I'm afraid.

173Simone2
Août 1, 2017, 7:48 am

I finished Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor for the Booker Longlist. Enjoyed it a lot. Now on to the next, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy. I hear a lot of mixed reviews about that, so am eager to find out myself whether it can match The God of Small Things.

174mabith
Août 1, 2017, 9:25 pm

175cindydavid4
Août 2, 2017, 1:09 am

Oh I hope you enjoy Venice as much as I have - need to reread it soon.

Love Goodwin - Having read that one yet, been reading her bio of LBJ, which I am finding rather interesting (didn't realize this was her first book; as good of a writer as whe was back then, she certainly gets better and better with each book)

176avaland
Modifié : Août 2, 2017, 6:00 am

Read the The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso and am still reading
The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson by Michael P. Kinship

After reading an article in The Atlantic I had some musings on "surreality TV" and fictional responses to our present social and political climate which I posted on our thread if anyone has thoughts please drop by.

177mabith
Août 3, 2017, 5:46 pm

>175 cindydavid4: Cindy, it's my first book by either author! Had been putting both off for far too long.

178bragan
Août 4, 2017, 6:30 am

I've recently read Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life by Colin Ellard, which was interesting, but not as much so as I'd hoped; The House of the Scorpion, which ws surprisingly dark, but which I enjoyed; and Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday by Nancy Atherton, which was a quick read, but dull.

I'm now about to start Getting Stoned with Savages by J. Maarten Troost.

179torontoc
Août 4, 2017, 12:34 pm

I just started Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz- so far -a great summer read!

180MarcusBastos
Août 6, 2017, 11:11 pm

Finished The Annam Jewel, by Patricia Wentworth.
Review in my thread.

181Simone2
Août 7, 2017, 3:42 am

I finished The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and unexpectedly ended up loving it.
Now onto the next Man Booker longlisted, Lincoln in the Bardo.
I am a hundred pages in and understand why everyone is loving it!

182mobileqca
Août 7, 2017, 3:55 am

Cet utilisateur a été supprimé en tant que polluposteur.

183AlisonY
Août 9, 2017, 1:24 pm

I had a change of heart about my holiday reading and so am in the middle of Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders instead.

184AlisonY
Août 10, 2017, 6:03 am

>183 AlisonY: oh, and also finished Nutshell while I was away. McEwan is so surprising.

185japaul22
Août 10, 2017, 6:07 am

I'm about half way through volume 4 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. I'm also reading a page turner, horrifying of course, account of the Donner Party's journey called The Indifferent Stars Above. Not sure what will be up next because we're doing a few short family trips so I may want to find kindle books for ease of packing.

186dchaikin
Août 10, 2017, 7:42 am

>185 japaul22: I really enjoyed The Indifferent Stars Above. I read it as an LT Early Reviewer.

187avaland
Août 10, 2017, 11:49 am

Reading Adua by Igiaba Sego (Italian of Somali parents). It's very good thus far.

Also reading yet another crime novel by Alex Gray, this one is The Swedish Girl

188AlisonY
Août 14, 2017, 1:07 pm

I finished The Woodlanders (all hail Hardy), and am on to I Found my Tribe (or will be when I can see properly again). Its a non-fictional account of a young Irish mother whose husband is struck down by motor neurone disease, and how she copes with the support of fellow swimmers also battling various emotional issues who brave the cold waters of the Irish Sea.

189MsNick
Août 15, 2017, 9:08 am

>193 AlisonY: I loved Ready Player One!

I'm reading The Nest. Meh.

190Yells
Août 15, 2017, 1:26 pm

>193 AlisonY: Armada is pretty good as well. More of the same sort of thing.

191japaul22
Août 15, 2017, 1:38 pm

I've picked up Jude the Obscure after Alison's Hardy-love. I read two of his novels several years back and needed a long break from the depressing outcomes, but I've steeled myself to the inevitable depression and started.

192ELiz_M
Août 15, 2017, 2:40 pm

I recently finished the ridiculous Female Quixote and am now reading Fifth Business.

193AlisonY
Août 15, 2017, 5:46 pm

>197 I can't promise no depression but I hope you fall in love with his writing again.

194dchaikin
Août 17, 2017, 1:39 pm

I finished Ovid and was going to read Chernow's Hamilton (since I adore the musical soundtrack. Haven't see the play). But instead I find myself reading A Wave Watcher's Companion and also About This Life by Barry Lopez

Also, on audio, I finished the Carrie Fisher memoir of sorts. I'm going to try Jill Lepore's The Secret History of Wonder Woman

195AlisonY
Août 17, 2017, 4:17 pm

Loved, loved, loved I Found My Tribe. So thought provoking and inspiring.

On to Once we Were Sisters by Sheila Kohler.
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