What are you reading right now?

[Scout]

I'm reading Marauders by Tom Cooper, set in Louisiana after the oil spill. It's fiction, but it gives insight into what life was like for the residents whose livelihoods depended on the Gulf waters. If you like Elmore Leonard and James Lee Burke, you might want to give it a read.

[Mehreen]

Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon by Fitzgerald.

[Quantum]

Dark fantasy - The House of Shattered Wings
Phenomenal writing style!

Thriller - Revenge is a Dish Best Served on the Mongolian Steppe: A Furtive Khan Thriller
Fast-paced. Also this month's group read.

YA Fantasy - Brave Story
Elaborate world-building

[Bunny]

Mehreen wrote: "Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon by Fitzgerald."

Love F Scott Fitzgerald. I read Tender is the Night a while ago and really enjoyed it. I think, of his completed novels, it's beaten only by The great Gatsby. Haven't read The Last Tycoon yet, what do you make of it?

I'm currently midway through War and Peace for the second time (first read it when I was eighteen, now just about to turn thirty seven). There's been a few plodding 'books' but book eight was brilliant and, now that war's about to break out, things look to get even more intriguing.

[Eric]

A house divided

[Scout]

I had always wanted to read War and Peace but had never had the time, so when I retired it was the first book I read. I'm sorry to say that I was disappointed and would never read it again. I'm sure I missed something because it's considered by most to be a great novel.

Right now I'm reading a puff novel, Jonathan Kellerman's Heartbreak Hotel. I think I've read all his novels, with the earliest being the best.

[Scout]

Sorry I have the italics backwards

[Jen from Quebec :0)]

I JUST NOW finished Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations by John Cusack and Arundhati Roy, where they go to London and Moscow to meet and chat with Julian Assange and Ed Snowden. It was a very interesting read and really makes you think, but raised more questions in my mind than it actually answered.....However, I think that was their intent. ---Jen from Quebec :0)

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

MY REVIEW of it

[Bunny]

Scout wrote: "I had always wanted to read War and Peace but had never had the time, so when I retired it was the first book I read. I'm sorry to say that I was disappointed and would never read it again. I'm sur..."

I love Tolstoy and I'm enjoying War and Peace but I admit that it could do with a little editing there are a couple of books that could quite easily be cut down and amalgamated into one (such as the ones depicting Pierre/the Rostov's homelives between wars). During these books I quite often found the novel to be more of a test of endurance than an enjoyable read.