September 2018: What are we reading?
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1ted74ca
Still slowly working my way through Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, which I started but then quit half way through the series, many years ago. I finished A Breath of Snow and Ashes last night.
2mdoris
Thank you Terry, i was just about to post a September thread. I have just started Women Talking by Miriam Toews (one of my favourite authors) and I know it will be very good and insightful.
3rabbitprincess
Just finished a lovely little Big Finish audio drama: Cyberman 1.2: Fear, by Nicholas Briggs. Earlier I was knitting while watching Endeavour, screwed up the pattern, and had to rip back the entire thing and start again. The audio drama was just the right amount of time to get mostly back on track.
4LynnB
mdoris, I just finished Women Talking and loved it.
I'm now re-reading Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.
I'm now re-reading Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.
5rabbitprincess
Started a new-to-me series set in Edinburgh with its third installment, Perfect Death, by Helen Fields.
6LynnB
I'm about to start Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill by one of my favourite authors, Charlotte Gray.
7rabbitprincess
Ended up bailing on >5 rabbitprincess: because it just wasn't grabbing me.
I celebrated "Read a Book Day" by finishing two books: Beneath the Mountain, by Luca D'Andrea (translated by Howard Curtis); and Mary Queen of Scots, by Antonia Fraser.
I've also started a Doctor Who novel, The Silent Stars Go By, by Dan Abnett.
I celebrated "Read a Book Day" by finishing two books: Beneath the Mountain, by Luca D'Andrea (translated by Howard Curtis); and Mary Queen of Scots, by Antonia Fraser.
I've also started a Doctor Who novel, The Silent Stars Go By, by Dan Abnett.
10ted74ca
Enjoyed a clever whodunit, story within a story-- Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz.
12ted74ca
Finished a book by one of my favourite crime fiction writers-Ann Cleeves. This one was The Seagull from her Vera Stanhope series.
13ted74ca
Read a thriller, pretty good one, on this lazy rainy day: The Day She Disappeared by Christobel Kent
14ted74ca
Once I started this novel last night, I couldn't stop reading it. Really gripping tale of obsession and jealousy and flawed character, with the added delight of an unreliable narrator, which I really like in a novel. The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison
15rabbitprincess
Just finished The Deepest Grave, the latest book in the Fiona Griffiths series by Harry Bingham, and am now switching gears to read The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster.
18LynnB
I've started Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar.
20rabbitprincess
Not getting too much read on vacation, but I did finish 47 Sorrows, by Janet Kellough. Now I've picked up Death-Watch, by John Dickson Carr.
21ted74ca
I really liked this horror/coming of age/ mystery novel: The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor
22ted74ca
Rainy weather reading continues: a good "thriller" finished today-The House Swap by Rebecca Fleet
23LynnB
I'm reading Lives of the Family: Stories of Fate and Circumstance by Denise Chong.
25LynnB
I'm reading The Halifax Explosion: Canada's Worst Disaster by Ken Cuthbertson.
26rabbitprincess
Just started The Dam Busters, by Paul Brickhill.
27MaggieFlo
I just finished “A tree grows in Brooklyn” which I loved as part of the PBS Great American Reads
28ted74ca
Excellent, as all her novels have been so far: Downhill Chance by Donna Morrissey
29rabbitprincess
Finished The Dam Busters and have moved on to two very different books: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume; and Mrs. Pollifax Pursued, by Dorothy Gilman.
30ted74ca
Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper, a "literary" ghost story, which according to Library Thing's record of my reading, I have previously read and enjoyed 7 and a half years ago. Didn't remember it all!
31LynnB
I have decided to attempt Ulysses by James Joyce. Wish me luck!
32Cecrow
>31 LynnB:, good luck! A couple of links that helped me:
The Wikipedia article, which outlines how it lines up with Homer's Odyssey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)
This Sparknotes guide, which I reviewed as I read each part to confirm I "got it": http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/ulysses/
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The Wikipedia article, which outlines how it lines up with Homer's Odyssey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)
This Sparknotes guide, which I reviewed as I read each part to confirm I "got it": http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/ulysses/
{Looks like you have to copy/paste that Wiki link, LT won't take the bracketed part as part of the URL}
33LynnB
thanx, Cecrow. I'm going to a lecture tonight at the University on how to read Ulysses, which should also help!
34Cecrow
>33 LynnB:, a lecture on how to read it, wow! Best advice I heard was just to breeze through it on a first pass, feel your way through without getting caught up too much in stopping to read every interpretive footnote. If it becomes too much study, it becomes too little enjoyment. But it does help to know what his objectives were, what he was aiming for. And it's important to at least know that he didn't write anything in it just for the sake of writing lines, all of it (and the way it is written) is to serve a purpose.
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