What are You Reading Now?

[Buffalo]

The Boy in Striped Pyjamas

It's good but man, depressing as all hell.

You are spot on. It's a really interesting book but also incredibly heartbreaking as well.

 

[mark777]

I am currently reading the dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell, published in 1949. Current at this time. Definitely recommend!

 

[giacomo]

Proust: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2 (Within A Budding Grove).

 

[judcole]

Continuing my Pat Conroy re-read, with "The Death of Santini". Not reading these in any particular order.

 

[avail]

 

[vates]

Project Hail Mary is a 2021 science fiction novel by American novelist Andy Weir. Set in the near future, the novel centers on junior high (middle) school-teacher-turned-astronaut Ryland Grace, who wakes up from a coma afflicted with amnesia. He gradually remembers that he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system, 12 light-years from Earth, to find a means of reversing a solar dimming event that could cause the extinction of humanity.

How do you like it?

 

[vates]

This one:

 

[edger]

Billy Boyle: A World War ll novel by James R. Benn. Just started it. My Dad was stationed in London during the war so the descriptions are interesting.

 

[Akousticplyr]

How do you like it?

Only about a third of the way into it but it’s not bad so far

 

[krizzose]

Just finishing this:


Then moving on to this:

 

[Indygrap]

The October Country by Ray Bradbury. A great collection of short stories by him & perfect for this time of year

 

[Indygrap]

Well, yes, what they do to the kids is deeply disturbing. Horror, for sure. I also have a kid, but so far, managed to keep it separated. There's just some kind of distance in the book for me that keeps it from coming home.

I guess I was looking for something that might make me think twice about sleeping with my widow open. This isn't doing it. I rarely read horror though, so I missed the mark on what I felt like getting, which was looking over my shoulder at shadows in the night and nearly pissing my pants.

Have you read any Neil Gaiman? I finished “Trigger Warning” by him a few weeks ago & there’s a few stories in there that freaked me out. “Smoke & Mirrors” & “Fragile Things” are both good too.

 

[mark777]

"The Collected Poems of Robert Bly," working on all 500 and some pages of work. Bly died in November 2021 in his nineties after a long and illustrious career in poetry and writing about mens' issues. My interactions with him, I'd give mixed reviews, but I've always been interested in his work, the poetry more than the "Iron John" epoch. There is a great emphasis in his work of a kind of floating consciousness, dropping the reader as he called it, like you'd drop a fledgling bird to get it to fly. There's gold in there, but you have to march through a lot of beautiful but seemingly arbitrary images. The loose context makes memorable lines infrequent for me. But here's one I really liked, one of the few I underlined: "...more full of joy than a wagonload of hay." During my last duty station in the Navy, I was living in a ravaged welfare hotel, saving money for out-of-state tuition, and I sent Bly some poems that included some humor, and being a rather serious old Norwegian, he scrawled on the rejection slip, "You are a wiseass." Thanks Bob, my fellow Navy veteran. My favorite book of his was his Vietnam War, "Teeth Mother Naked At Last." Ironically. Robert was one of those whose poems and poetry can be broken down into quotations. In his poetry, he praised the problems of the present through the past. Sometimes I see myself in his depiction of poems www.phdresearchproposal.org/ i.e. your personal. His defeats, problems, successes and victories. That's all Bly talks about.

"Teeth Mother Naked At Last." is my favorite book after George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. But Bli is definitely a favorite in his niche

 

[Bengel]

 

[warren]

Just finished "No Left Turn."

 

[Optimistic Pessimist]

Doing some re-reads of Fellowship Of The Ring, God Emperor of Dune, & Necroscope II: Vamphyri.

 

[sosakan]

Currently, germs, guns, and steel…interesting stuff written in a dry way. I may abandon it.

 

[ssjones]

New James Patterson, a bit of a departure for him. A US President goes off the rails. Not bad.

 

[DrTeeth]

 

[condorlover1]

I picked up this rather amusing book...

I'm an expert on farts and have written a book all about why we pass wind

A PROFESSOR has come up trumps with her new book — on the history of farts. Anthropology expert Dr Kirsten Bell, 47, has had a gas over the last 20 years studying people’s attitudes towards taboo s…

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