What Are You Currently Reading?

[Jan]

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Agatha Raisin and the Witches' Tree
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

[Jan]

Andrea AKA Catsos Person wrote: "In addition to Daniel Deronda, I am also reading The Count of Monte Cristo and [book:The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo|13330922..."

I have read the Black Count in a history read book club.

[Charlene]

Abigail wrote: "Several books have gone by since my last note—The Heroine, Or, Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader, The Daughters of George III: Sisters and Princesses, [book:Miss H..."
The Queen's reading room is covering some of the history behind Frankenstein. https://www.instagram.com/p/CzCEE1NsdBG/

[Abigail]

Thanks, Charlene! I am reading it with the Goodreads group The Readers Review. I will see if Instagram allows me to take a peek without having an account.

[Georgia]

If anyone is looking for something short and beautiful, I just finished Virginia Woolf's short novel Jacob's Room. My review is here
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Mary]

I just finished a lovely re read of , “Over Sea, Under Stone” , the first book in the epic, “The Dark Is Rising” by Susan Cooper.

[Jan]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time finished
The Green Mile The Bad Death of Edward Delacroix finished
The Windsor Knot finished
The Lost Cyclist abandoned
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital I have set this aside but plan on going back to it at some point.

[Elizabeth]

Not really a 'currently reading' but a 'recently read':

A couple of months ago, one of the nominated books was South Riding by Winifred Holtby, and I liked the sound of it enough that I decided to read it even though it didn't win. I absolutely loved it. It had echoes of a Brontë-esque Yorkshire Gothic, but subverted the standard tropes in ways that were sometimes sweetly comedic, and sometimes took the form of incisive social commentary. But mostly I loved the love of life and the empathy for a wide range of human characters that suffused Holtby's writing.

[Charlene]

I highly doubt any of us need a reason to read Jane Austen but in case you do, Hallmark Channel is doing a book club and reading Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. In February, they will have movies inspired by her books.

https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/loveu...

[Charlene]

https://www.theworldwar.org/events/mo...

Willa Cather’s One of Ours will be discussed.

[Abigail]

Currently reading Daniel Deronda by George Eliot and The Mingham Air by Elizabeth Fair.

[Jassmine]

I finaly wrote a review for Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft. I read that book almost half-a-year ago, but writing the review made me realise again, how much I love it.

Here is my review if you are interested: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


I'm also currently reading A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf, which is a selection from her Diaries by her husband Leonard Woolf. My mom got this for me for Christmas and I do really like it, even though it definitely isn't a book to read in one sitting.

[Mary]

Just finished an another by a favourite author ; Barbara Pym . this was Crampton Hodnut . Loved it .
Now on to another of hers , “An Academic Question”

[Abigail]

Reading Near Neighbours by Molly Clavering. So far, I’m charmed!

[Jan]

[Morgan]

Currently reading The Secret Garden and loving it. I feel like the writing is exceptional, it is just so easy to read because of how captivating it is. Also, I like the use of fantasy and beauty and sadness

[Jan]

Morgan wrote: "Currently reading The Secret Garden and loving it. I feel like the writing is exceptional, it is just so easy to read because of how captivating it is. Also, I like the use of fantasy and beauty an..."

I love it as well.

[Abigail]

Currently reading Daniel Deronda by George Eliot and Talking Across the Divide: How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Even Change the World by Justin Lee, and starting South Riding in a couple of days.

[vale;nna]

Currently reading Emma

[Jan]

[spoko]

Just started Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier—it already reminds me of My Cousin Rachel, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Very moody.

[Georgia]

I just started Under a Glass Bell by Anais Nin. It pulls like an undertow. Strong sentences. Direct and full of passion.

[Abigail]

Reading Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy.

[Jan]

Tailspin by John Armbruster
'Twas the Bite Before Christmas
G is for Gumshoe

[Abigail]

Reading Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil Brinton.

[Janice]

I am rereading one of my favourite books that I like to read in the month of April: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim. I am also rereading 1 Corinthians in the Bible.

[Jan]

Janice wrote: "I am rereading one of my favourite books that I like to read in the month of April: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim. I am also rereading 1 Corinthians in the Bible."

Do you read a book with the current month in the title every month? I thought it would be a fun challenge to do for a year. I just started it last month. My May book was dreadful. I have not read my June book yet but I have checked it out from the library. If this is your thing, feel free to suggest your favorites. I have not made a list for the year though I have a tentative July book in mind. I also thought I would do a season in the title book as well, so I need a Summer, Autumn or Fall, and Winter.

[Charlene]

Jan wrote: "Janice wrote: "I am rereading one of my favourite books that I like to read in the month of April: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim. I am also rereading 1 Corinthians in the B..."

I know that this group has read July's People before.

[Jan]

I have heard of it. It is on my radar.

[Janice]

Jan wrote: "Janice wrote: "I am rereading one of my favourite books that I like to read in April: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim. I am also rereading 1 Corinthians in the B..."

I love that idea, Jan! I would love to do a challenge like that too! Do you have your books on a list I can see on Goodreads? I went through my books list and I have lists of books for seven months out of twelve months with only two of those listed read: Middlemarch by George Eliot and The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim. I also have several books listed for Winter and Summer but not many for Spring and Autumn/Fall. I have only read two books out of these lists as well: Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery by Agatha Christie and Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart.

I have the seasons of winter, spring, summer, and fall/autumn on my bookshelves if you want to have a peek. :)

[Jan]

I read May Day which was momumentaly awful. I am going to read Faith, Hope, and Ivy June and probably July's People. I have not picked any more books for the upcoming year. I also read Sugarbush Spring and I think I will do Summer: Edith Wharton (Classics, Literature) Annotated .

A few years ago, my daughter and I decided to read a book set in each state. Even though I read a lot of books, it took longer than expected. At first it is quite easy but after awhile it becomes challenging to find something after you are already committed to various books to various book clubs. Iowa was my last state.

[Mary]

The Christmas Cottage by Sarah Morgan

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Speaking of Wharton...I have just finished The Custom of the Country & I think it is my favourite read of the year - definitely my favourite fiction work.

Undine is one of the (view spoiler)[ great unlikeable female characters of fiction! (hide spoiler)]

[Anisha Inkspill]

I've finished reading The Castle by Fraz Kafka (narrated by Allan Corduner) another one delivered by Libby unexpectantly. 3.5*

and being new to George Eliot I'm starting with this short The Lifted Veil

[Mary]

I’m reading an author unfamiliar to me ; and really enjoying it . It’s The Good, The Bad and The Dumped by Jenny Colgan .
It’s yes chick lit but it’s acerbic, smart and hilarious .

[Elizabeth]

Not exactly classic literature, but I feel this is Women's-Classic-Literature-adjacent...

I came across this article last year: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...

Immediately ordered the anthology on which the article is based: Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

The book is organised in a slightly surprising way: not by theme, or diarist, or strict chronology, but with a selection of entries for each day of the calendar year. (Okay maybe that shouldn't have been surprising given the title.) So I have decided to make this a year-long reading project for 2025. Really interesting so far, and a couple of gems like this one from Caroline Fox on 4 January 1848:

"Such a beautiful day, that one felt quite confused how to make the most of it, and accordingly frittered it away."

[Anisha Inkspill]

Six Tragedies: Phaedra / Oedipus / Medae / Trojan Women / Hercules Furens / Thyestes (Oxford World's Classics) (Seneca; Emily Wilson), this has been on my tbr and have read the first of the six plays, Phaedre, ummmm ouch!!!!

[Jan]

Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
Olive Kitteridge
The Only Good Indians

[Debbie]

I'm currently reading Frankenstein: The 1818 Text for this group, The Ultimate Book of Useless Information: A Few Thousand More Things You Might Need to Know #nerdalert, and listening to: Martin Chuzzlewit for the group read of the Victorians group. My first Dickens and it is dense so switched to audio. Seán Barrett is a wonderful narrator.

[Anisha Inkspill]

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a 2018 translation. Tough but really enjoying it.