What are You Reading Now?

[khiddy]

Re-reading one of my all time favorites:

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One of my favorites, and an annual Lenten season read. I didn't get around to it this year, but I guess I still have a few hours before lent officially ends...

 

[makhorkasmoker]

 

[dozicusmaximus]

Red Rising trilogy. Halfway through the second book, Golden Son. Pretty fun, easy to read Scifi.

 

[huntertrw]

Ray Bradbury's "The Toynbee Convector" - Alfred Knopf 1988. This is a collection of 23 of his short stories, each memorable and worthy of rereading.

 

[LeafErikson]

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I can’t recommend this book enough, fellas. It is absolutely hilarious.

Take everything you know about samurai virtues like loyalty, honor, fealty to one’s lord, self-discipline, courage, and anything else encompassing Bushido culture, and throw that shit out the window. The big homie Katsu is out here banging whores every night, stealing, extorting, getting hammered, getting into fist fights over petty shit, abandoning his family, and making money by flipping samurai swords at pawn shops throughout Edo (modern day Tokyo).

You can’t trust a word he says, as he seizes every possible opportunity to embellish his stories, but I’ll be damned if it isn’t entertaining as all hell.

 

[JOHN72]

Reviewing Robert Graves, with his Greek myths, I decided to complement it with another interesting reading, with Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy.

 

[brooklynpiper]

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk



Tokarczuk received the Nobel Prize in 2018.

 

[krizzose]

Every 4 or 5 years I revisit the OGs. It’s time again

 

[Aylesbury Pike]

 

[ssjones]

 

[Masson]

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Only into the first few chapters but it is very similar to "Water for Elephants" in a lot of ways if you've read that one. The main character is a dust bowler whose family succumbed to the dust bowl pneumonia. He heads east to New York to find work as a dock worker with the only family he has left. Shortly after his arrival in New York a terrible hurricane rips through the area resulting in nearly killing him, and definitely taking his cousin...the last bit of his family and the only job security he has. In the aftermath of this storm, still in a daze he wanders to the dock to witness the arrival of a pair of giraffes who've just arrived on a ship from Africa. A bewildering and also somehow inspiring moment for him. He is drawn to these wondrous creatures and so follows thier convoy without knowing exactly why.

The story is part fiction and part true. The story of two giraffes surviving a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic en route to the San Diego zoo is true, and recieved a lot of press in the 1930s and their owner now needs to find bank statement https://bankstatementgenerator.org/product-category/usa-banks/ to transport them. The book is good so far...but as I've said, I'm only a few chapters in.

It sounds like you’re diving into a story that captures both emotional loss and unexpected wonder, much like Water for Elephants. The protagonist’s journey from despair during the Dust Bowl to a moment of strange inspiration upon seeing the giraffes feels deeply symbolic—almost like a turning point in the story where grief meets hope. The imagery of the dock and the arrival of the giraffes suggests a kind of quiet rebirth, even if he doesn’t yet know what it means.

In a different but similarly emotional context, Onda’s situation also speaks to that sense of uncertainty and powerlessness. Like the character in your book, Onda is navigating a world that’s changed dramatically—only in his case, it’s through legal and immigration challenges rather than environmental disaster. The feeling of not knowing what’s next, of having your stability ripped away, resonates strongly between both stories.

Both narratives show how people respond when everything they’ve known is taken from them—sometimes they find unexpected paths forward, even if it starts by simply following something that stirs their heart, like giraffes on a dock or the hope of justice in court.

 

[brooklynpiper]

The Appointment by Herta Muller



Another Nobel Laureate - this Romanian-German writer was awarded the prize in 2009.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I'm going to bet this is going to be fun!

 

[ashdigger]

Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides

 

[brian64]

Every 4 or 5 years I revisit the OGs. It’s time again

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I just keep rewatching the movie version.

 

[RAGallup]

Just beginning "The Last Manager" by John W. Miller, a biography of Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Last-Manager/John-W-Miller/9781668030929

 

[ssjones]

Just beginning "The Last Manager" by John W. Miller, a biography of Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Last-Manager/John-W-Miller/9781668030929

There are famous radio show interviews he did, a true character.

 

[ssjones]

Still reading this and now I see they made it a movie, Mop Cops, just out.

 

[krizzose]

I just keep rewatching the movie version.

I’m also a Dapper Dan man

 

[jaingorenard]

If anyone has come across Michel Thomas as a language teacher, this is his biography. I think there's some debate about how accurate it is, but certainly an interesting read: