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[Luffy Sempai]

Darren wrote: "Judith Roser wrote: "For the day of the book in Spain I finally decided to buy “Crime and Punishment” and read it. I’m on the page 200 more or less. I’m enjoying it so much, no regrets."

LOL Snap!..."

Hey Darren, congrats on reaching 2100 posts. Shows your commitment.


Last Movie: Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988) 5/10

[Greg]

Quick question for mystery readers out there: I quite liked The Daughter of Time, but I've never read anything else by Tey. There's a deal on Audible right now where I can get 6 Inspector Grant novels for 1 credit. I'm tempted, but I don't know what they're like. Has anyone read them, and did you like them?

[Cleo]

Greg wrote: "Quick question for mystery readers out there: I quite liked The Daughter of Time, but I've never read anything else by Tey. There's a deal on Audible right now where I can get 6 Inspec..."

I've read The Man in the Queue and A Shilling for Candles and I really enjoyed both of them. Tey's stories are all very different and unique which is what I like about them. They are also well done. However, I've heard The Daughter of Time is her best, but still I think the others would be well worth it!

[Teri-K]

Greg wrote: "Quick question for mystery readers out there: I quite liked The Daughter of Time, but I've never read anything else by Tey. There's a deal on Audible right now where I can get 6 Inspec..."

I've read five of them, though it's been a lot of years since then. I agree that Daughter of Time was my favorite, but I enjoyed all of them. so it's probably worth taking the deal, if you like the narrator and generally enjoy that type of mystery.

[Greg]

Thanks Teri-K and Cleo, I think I'll buy it! :)

[Cleo]

Greg wrote: "Thanks Teri-K and Cleo, I think I'll buy it! :)"

Yay! Please check in when you read another one and let us know what you think!

[Janice]

I have been rereading one of my favourite novels, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I had a bad case of Covid last week and so am taking it easy. :)

[Linda R,]

I am over half way through Women In Love. I am enjoying D.H. Lawrence unique style.

[Amyjzed]

Jane wrote: "Luffy wrote: "I made a one time payment and got all of Shakespeare's plays with a side by side translation into modern English, from Litcharts.com."

How does that work, Luffy? Do you subscribe for..."

Interesting! I didn't realize LitCharts has that. I'm guessing PDF files.
I am reading Hamlet (never read it before!) and getting ready to teach it to my grade 12 students. Luckily our local theater is putting on a production currently and they have a teaching staff person leading an online Zoom class for 4 weeks, so I am taking advantage of that now. I have several editions that have notes on the left page and notes in the margins, but the editions I bought for my students are the "No Fear Shakespeare" with the original text on the left page and modernized translation on the right. I'm sad that there are no notes explaining the terms or references anywhere, though.

https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfil...

[Jane]

Amyjzed wrote: "Luckily our local theater is putting on a production currently and they have a teaching staff person leading an online Zoom class for 4 weeks, so I am taking advantage of that now."

How fortunate! Luffy, do the LitCharts PDFs include notes along with the modern translations?

[Teri-K]

Amyjzed wrote: "Jane wrote: "Luffy wrote: "I made a one time payment and got all of Shakespeare's plays with a side by side translation into modern English, from Litcharts.com."

How does that work, Luffy? Do you ..."

I think Folgers editions have the right amount of explanation and definition, without drowning the reader in them, I also really like their intros and the bit at the end where they interview a director. The Hamlet essay is particularly fascinating, I think. I'd recommend that edition for your reference or for your students who are ready to appreciate Shakespeare more deeply.

I hope it goes well. It's always fun and challenging as a teacher to teach something new to you, isn't it?

[Luffy Sempai]

Jane wrote: "Amyjzed wrote: "Luckily our local theater is putting on a production currently and they have a teaching staff person leading an online Zoom class for 4 weeks, so I am taking advantage of that now."..."

No :(



Last Movie: Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988) 5/10

[CindySR]

Janice wrote: "I have been rereading one of my favourite novels, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I had a bad case of Covid last week and so am taking it easy. :)"

Yes, rest, and I hope you can avoid "long covid"!

[❃A.J❃]

Murder on the orient express by Agatha Cristie

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Janice wrote: "I have been rereading one of my favourite novels, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I had a bad case of Covid last week and so am taking it easy. :)"

I am so sorry you were sick Janice. I hope you feel better soon.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the domestic suspense classic


Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The 10:30 From Marseille AKA The Sleeping Car Murders by Sébastien Japrisot

[Janice]

CindySR wrote: "Janice wrote: "I have been rereading one of my favourite novels, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I had a bad case of Covid last week and so am taking it easy. :)"

Yes, rest, and I..."

Thank you and me too!

[Janice]

Lynn wrote: "Janice wrote: "I have been rereading one of my favourite novels, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I had a bad case of Covid last week and so am taking it easy. :)"

I am so sorry yo..."

Thank you :)

[Chris]

Finished John Hersey's Hiroshima. Short, haunting & horrific nonfiction narrative of 6 survivor stories of the bombing of Hiroshima. Written 1 year after the bombing it was the first time the American public became aware of the total devastation/human toll of this new weapon of mass destruction.

[Greg]

Finished The Library at Mount Char (★★★★ (4.0)) and quite enjoyed it, though the climax of my interest happened a little while before the book ended. I liked the resolution, even though the pace slowed down for me in the last quarter.

Also finished The Moon Is Down (★★★★ (3.5)) by John Steinbeck, and I quite enjoyed it. It's an unusual take on foreign occupation, much less hard edged than I'm used to for books on that topic, but it was compelling nevertheless. I loved its unrelenting humanity, its stubborn assumption of core humaneness within the human being.

I'm reading Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens) slowly with another group . . . and I've also begun both The Nickel Boys (Colson Whitehead) and Exhalation (Ted Chiang). I'm enjoying all three in very different ways.

[Greg]

Chris wrote: "Finished John Hersey's Hiroshima. Short, haunting & horrific nonfiction narrative of 6 survivor stories of the bombing of Hiroshima. Written 1 year after the bombing it was the first time the Ameri..."

I completely agree Chris - it's a beautiful and searing, haunting book. After reading it, I couldn't stop thinking about it for months.

[Tayjah]

Frankenstein

[Wreade1872]

Tayjah wrote: "Frankenstein"

Frankenstein was better than i expected hope you like it.

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Finished:
Tales of Wonder by Lord Dunsany [2/5] review and Dune by Frank Herbert [4/5] review

Started:
The Martian Girl by Andrew Martin completely random book i found at a closing down sale. Not a classic but partially set in victorian london i think.
Also reading Illustrated encyclopedia of the mineral kingdom because i try to read 5 non-fiction a year and this was in the house.
And another item from the Merril Collection The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London.

[Amyjzed]

Teri-K wrote: "Amyjzed wrote: "Jane wrote: "Luffy wrote: "I made a one time payment and got all of Shakespeare's plays with a side by side translation into modern English, from Litcharts.com."

How does that work..."

Yes, I am enjoying discovering the play (Hamlet) basically along with my students. It's sometimes better than working with material I taught many times and already have answers to the ins and outs in the back of my mind.
I just started Act I with my students and they seem to be enjoying it. They elected to read parts from the "plain English" No Fear Shakespeare version, which is keeping them engaged and keeping the flow going so far. We can always look back at the original language on the other side of the page for some of the more famous lines. Hopefully we can keep the momentum going for the next 3-ish weeks to get the main gist of it all!

[sabagrey]

Ann of Green Gables (audiobook) - trying to fill in an English-American culture gap, because everyone seems to know it.

I'm not far in, but if that girl keeps on running her mouth off much longer, I won't finish - I can't stand it, and if I were the Cuthberts, I would return her to sender immediately. ;-)

[Jane]

sabagrey wrote: "I'm not far in, but if that girl keeps on running her mouth off much longer, I won't finish - I can't stand it, and if I were the Cuthberts, I would return her to sender immediately. ;-)."

It's actually a Canadian story. But yes, Anne's spunk is why it's so beloved!

[Teri-K]

sabagrey wrote: "Ann of Green Gables (audiobook) - trying to fill in an English-American culture gap, because everyone seems to know it.

I'm not far in, but if that girl keeps on running her mouth off much longer..."

Yes, Anne is Canadian, though we Americans love her and dream about seeing PEI one day. As for her constant chatter, my daughter was like that - my husband used to say "Never an unspoken thought". It's Anne's personality, though it does get toned down in later books.

Have you read Little Women? I'd venture to guess it's the quintessential American girl's classic. (I know, it's not just for girls, but you get my drift.)

[sabagrey]

Jane wrote: "It's actually a Canadian story."

In my book, 'America' is the name of a double continent, and 'English-American culture' refers to those aspects of culture that are shared by the UK and the English speaking part of that continent, to wit, the major part of Canada and the U.S.

It's a bit of cultural appropriation to limit the name of 'America' to the U.S., isn't it? I know it's quite usual to do so, but I need not and do not join in.

(I also try to be precise when talking about 'Europe' - much too often the name stands in for the EU, while Europe, the continent, comprises more countries)

[Teri-K]

sabagrey wrote: "Jane wrote: "It's actually a Canadian story."

In my book, 'America' is the name of a double continent, and 'English-American culture' refers to those aspects of culture that are shared by the UK a..."

Interesting. In the US we'd use North America, and then include Mexico, too, of course. I call myself an American, and mean I live in the US, so to call AoGG Americans feels like stealing one of their cultural treasures. :)

As for the thread topic - I'm teaching myself to read Spanish and am working my way through Agatha Christie. I just started Némesis.

I'm also reading through Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914, an interesting Penguin collection of short stories about women of that period. I do wish the stories had even brief introduction, as I've been looking them up as I read and there's some interesting information behind the selections. So far I've only read one of these - The Yellow Wallpaper.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the mother of all high seas pirate adventure books:


Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading the short novel


The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I also finished the French thriller


The 10:30 From Marseille (AKA The Sleeping Car Murders) by Sébastien Japrisot
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar

[Gavin]

I'm reading Everville

[Linda R,]

Silent House by Orhan Pamuk.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the second book in the "Beloved trilogy:"


Jazz by Toni Morrison
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Martin Eden by Jack London

[Reed]

Into The Wild

[Teri-K]

Eva wrote: "Reading King Lear with my husband and we are loving every moment of it!"

So good - but so dark!

I'm on my last few Agatha Christie rereads with Why Didn't They Ask Evans?. Also rereading The Virginian by Owen Wister. I pick this up every couple of decades, and always there are parts I don't remember.

I also picked up a $5 book with six Alistair Maclean novels, and I'm reading Guns of Navarone right now. I've read it before but that was a long time ago.

[Reed]

I’m reading Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer very good and interesting

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the short novel


The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading another short classic novel


Summer by Edith Wharton

[Pharmacdon]

I finished reading The Hunter by Richard Stark, the first in the Parker series. The view from the other side of the law

[Savita]

Reed wrote: "I’m reading Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer very good and interesting"

Oh , I think it is a group read in June , and I am planning to join in . Glad you're finding it very good and interesting .

[Darren]

Pharmacdon wrote: "I finished reading The Hunter by Richard Stark, the first in the Parker series. The view from the other side of the law"

one of my fave crime novels, made into one of my fave movies "Point Blank" :oD

[Janice]

I have just finished Venetia by Georgette Heyer and started The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve.

[Janice]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "I finished the short novel


The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show......"

I have Summer on my very long TBR list. :) I have quite a few of her books on my list, and I haven't read one yet. :)

[Wreade1872]

Finished The Iron Heel by Jack London [4/5] review which i pretty much gave an extra star due to not being able to get it out of my head.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Janice wrote: "...I have Summer on my very long TBR list. :) I have quite a few of her books on my list, and I haven't read one yet. :)"

I'm enjoying it so far. It's not very long so I should finish it later this week and I'll post my thoughts and a review then.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished


The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading more Sword and Sorcery tales by the creator of Conan the Barbarian


Kull: Exile of Atlantis by Robert E. Howard

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished reading an excellent classic murder mystery from the 1950s


Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Janice]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "Janice wrote: "...I have Summer on my very long TBR list. :) I have quite a few of her books on my list, and I haven't read one yet. :)"

I'm enjoying it so far. It's not very long so I should fini..."

I look forward to reading your review. :)

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Janice wrote: "I look forward to reading your review. :)"

Thanks Janice. I finished it and rated it 4 stars. I'm going to have the review up in a few days - I want to read some of the introduction and critical analysis pieces in my copy first.

[Janice]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "Janice wrote: "I look forward to reading your review. :)"

Thanks Janice. I finished it and rated it 4 stars. I'm going to have the review up in a few days - I want to read some of the introduction..."

I look forward to your thoughts when you are done. :)