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[[deleted user]]

M wrote: "I am re-reading Walking by Thoreau."

This is something I also come back to now and again.

If you liked Walden, you might also like Neil Ansell's Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills.

[Pharmacdon]

I am reading The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner for 1965.

[Pharmacdon]

Dave wrote: "Finished Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood."

Do you plan to read the rest of the trilogy of Oryx and Crake?

[Reed]

Are you asking me?

[Dave]

Pharmacdon wrote: "Dave wrote: "Finished Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood."

Do you plan to read the rest of the trilogy of Oryx and Crake?"

I very well may, but not immediately.

[Tom]

I have just read Jane Austen’s Emma and I am part way through The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

[Janice]

Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

[Dave]

I finishedThe Odysseyby homer and started by Virgil

[Morgan]

Finished : Villette by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Started: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

[[deleted user]]

I finished The Magic Mountain. I'll read Mann's Princeton lesson on this novel (1939), just 10 pages, and tomorrow start the first of four novels by Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room

[Luffy Sempai]

I have finished reading a thriller of poor taste and pace, Two Nights in Lisbon. My one star review.

[Reed]

The Power of One by Bryce Courtneay

[Graham]

I am about to begin The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb. A debut novel from this year that I have heard nothing but GREAT things about. Very excited to see what I think of it!

[Wreade1872]

Finished these over the last while
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf [4/5] review
The Player of Games by Iain M.Banks [3/5] review
The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories by Angela Carter [3/5] review
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin [3/5] review

Currently reading
The 3rd of the Cornelius quartet The English Assassin by Michael Moorcock, which i'm finding quite poor.
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, which so far has ripped off 3 different H.G.Wells novels, and started the final part of my Narnia reread the Last Battle by C.S.Lewis.

[Halima]

I am a few chapters into Humans by Matt Haig - it’s really making me chuckle!

[Candace]

Halima wrote: "I am a few chapters into Humans by Matt Haig - it’s really making me chuckle!"

I read it a few years ago before I’d ever heard of Haig and I was pleasantly surprised. I also thought it was funny throughout!

[Dave]

The Tenant by Katrine Enberg and started No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy.

[LiLi]

Hardback: _Wie is dat op dit uur?_, by Lemony Snicket (a Dutch translation I found at the thrift store)
Audiobooks: Pimsleur Italian, level 1, lessons 1-30; _Ten Days that Shook the World_, by John Reed

[Valérie]

I am reading War Animals, the unsung heroes of World War 2. By Robin Hutton. I am really enjoying it. I just started reading it and it is very interesting on when, how, why, and who started it. Back then Hollywood really cared about the country. Big thanks to Britain for introducing the training for the War Dogs.

[Kevin]

I am reading The Young Man's Guide

[Dave]

I started Little Dorrit by Dickens

[Luffy Sempai]

I'm reading The Life of Greece. I'm not quite happy with it. Durant I think took the geographical view over the linear one, and I prioritise time over everything else. The book is good enough, but not fun to read.

[Pharmacdon]

I am reading The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen. It won the Pultizer Prize for Fiction this year. I am reading with a dictionary at hand and enjoying the witticism.

[Graham]

I am currently reading An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor and I am unsure of how I feel. I really like the relationship building between the two main characters, Doctor O'Reilly and Doctor Laverty. It's a solid old-teacher-and-student kind of bond. However, the rest of the book is pretty scatter-brained AND rather cheesy. I'm hoping it gets better because the two main characters are the only thing keeping me in the pages.

I also read The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb. I was excited to read it and it lived up to the hype. Great book! Heavy but great.

[Reed]

I’m reading The Power Of One by Bryce Courtenay really good and interesting so far

[Pillsonista]

Pharmacdon wrote: "I am reading The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen. It won the Pultizer Prize for Fiction this year. I am reading with a dictionary at hand and enjoying the witticism."

It's one of the funniest books I've read in some time. The fact that Ruben Blum is based in no small part on Harold Bloom made it even more amusing.

[Dave]

I have started The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles and finished Oedipus the King.

I have also started The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

You do know, all this thread does is add to my TBR list. ;)

[Dave]

I have started The Complete Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Travels with Charlie in Search of America by Steinbeck.

[Kevin]

I have started The Winter of Our Discontent

[Mary]

I just finished reading Brave New World, i found the novel disturbing and confronting to say the least. I'm interested in the genetic engineering and control through technology aspect, so please let me know if anyone knows novels or movies similar to this novel (doesn't have to be a classic). Thank you!

[[deleted user]]

Mary wrote: "I just finished reading Brave New World..."

I also read it recently. Thoughts on controlling the language and on staying in the present as a form of manipulation (we usually associate it with mindfulness and mental health) were also particularly well articulated, I find.

[Pharmacdon]

I am reading The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck.

[Darren]

Mary wrote: "I just finished reading Brave New World, i found the novel disturbing and confronting to say the least. I'm interested in the genetic engineering and control through technology aspect, so please le..."

"Gattaca" is the most obvious movie to spring to mind
(that's an original screenplay, not adapted from a novel)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/

[Kathleen]

Mary wrote: "I just finished reading Brave New World, i found the novel disturbing and confronting to say the least. I'm interested in the genetic engineering and control through technology aspect, so please le..."

For the genetic engineering aspect, you might try Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. I liked the whole series (but I am an Atwood fan).

[Patty]

A group of present-day women go in search of evidence of a 17th century army battalion that disappeared in a forest with mythical powers. 3/5 stars.

Read my review linked below:

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

[Patty]

2/5 stars. Read my review linked below:

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

[Luke]

Mary wrote: "I just finished reading Brave New World, i found the novel disturbing and confronting to say the least. I'm interested in the genetic engineering and control through technology aspect, so please le..."

Not so much genetic engineering (although the selective breeding is a prelude to that) but very much the control through technology is War with the Newts by Karel Čapek. I just finished it, and it more than fully earns its reputation.

[Darren]

I have just had a "changing of the guard" in my reading over the last couple of days: finishing 3 books and starting 3 more, namely:
July's People
The Way Some People Die
Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady, Volume 1

[LiLi]

_Clarissa_ has been on my TBR for ages, but after slogging through _Pamela_, I've been allowing a long break in-between.

[Luffy Sempai]

I read an adventure book called Les Six Compagnons et l'homme au gant. This is my review.

[Wreade1872]

Finished The English Assassin by Michael Moorcock [2/5] review, really hope the last in the quartet is better.

Need one more non-fiction work for a list, so looking around i noticed there are several art books in the house i'm pretty sure no one ever read so grabbed one of the thinner ones 100 Masterpieces of Art by Marina Vaizey .

[Dave]

Finished Desolation Island by Patrick O’Brian and started The Fortune of War by same.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished two more books:


The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Fair Land, Fair Land by A.B. Guthrie Jr.

I also started reading a whole bunch of books for various group reads:


City by Clifford D. Simak


Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce


The Collector by John Fowles

[Dave]

I finish “The Return of the King” and my third reading of The Lord of the Rings.

[Dave]

I have started Oedipus at Colonus, the second of the Theben plays by Sophocles.

[sabagrey]

Just finished The Vicar of Bullhampton (a group read).

I'm listening to David Copperfield while working on a time-consuming textile project.

I pepper it with some important non-fiction: Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet, and when there's no notebook around to read e-books, I re-read Thief of Time

[Michaela]

Hope you´re listening to Richard Armitage performing David Copperfield, sabagrey! :)

[sabagrey]

Michaela wrote: "Hope you´re listening to Richard Armitage performing David Copperfield, sabagrey! :)"

definitely YES! :-) - astounding performance; although, for my taste, a little over the top in some of the characters - I understand it's a major challenge to find different voices for all of them, for the sake of audio-only, but some voices end up too ... wheezing, panting, lamenting etc. But that may be just my impression because I listened many hours in one go (up to 10!) while I was working on that project.

[Michaela]

sabagrey wrote: "Michaela wrote: "Hope you´re listening to Richard Armitage performing David Copperfield, sabagrey! :)"

definitely YES! :-) - astounding performance; although, for my taste, a little over the top i..."

Agree about some voices being overdone, and I´m curious about your project. :)