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[Ron]

Branden wrote: "I am reading Dune. I have been hooked since the second film came out and it is turning out to be one of my favourites!"

Sweet. I have the books, but have yet had time to read them. Want to at some point. Just don't know when.

[Darren]

I am currently happily ensconced in Mason & Dixon :oD
just to encourage anybody dubious about trying it: Pynchon's style is not as dense/"difficult" as in some of his earlier books, and the doorstop size is ameliorated by lots of short/episodic chapters

[Franky]

Currently finishing up and about half way through .

[lu]

Teri-K wrote: "lu wrote: "I'm trying to finish Murder on the Orient Express but I'm getting bored and blaming myself for that, cause I loved And Then There Were None."

Don't blame your..."

Exactly, it's tedious. Which one of her books would you recommend me?

[Rora]

lu wrote: "Which one of her books would you recommend me?"

Hello lu, you might like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. I read it last year and enjoyed it very much.

Currently reading The Children of Green Knowe Collection and The Death of Ivan Ilyich and other Stories

[Robert]

Currently reading Himself by Jess Kidd. it's not one I'd usually read, but I bought it for my daughter and she loved it. 100 pages in and it's holding my interest. I believe it's her first novel, so I'm impressed.

[rainn]

I am currently reading No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

[Teri-K]

lu wrote: "Teri-K wrote: "lu wrote: "I'm trying to finish Murder on the Orient Express but I'm getting bored and blaming myself for that, cause I loved And Then There Were None."

D..."

Since you've read And Then There Were None, I also recommend A Murder is Announced, Death on the Nile, and maybe After the Funeral to start with. Those four give you a good idea of the scope of her writing and you get stand-alones as well as a Poirot and a Marple. Then you can go from there and explore her entire list whenever something strikes your fancy.

The Murder of Roger Akroyd is also good, and gives you a lovely twist ending. Or try The Seven Dials or M or N? for a spy-romp, if you like those. (I do!) They're just not "typical" Christie and some folks really dislike them.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I have finished Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver...."

I have this one on my TBR list and was wondering if I should read David Copperfield first. I'm not a real fan of Dickens though.

[Alex]

I’m currently reading The Shining by Stephen King. Enjoying it so far.

[lu]

Rora wrote: "lu wrote: "Which one of her books would you recommend me?"

Hello lu, you might like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. I read it last year and enjoyed it very much.

Currently reading [book..."

'Right, putting on my list.... thank u

[Linda R,]

I am focusing on all the novels I can find written about the French Revolutions. I've just started Anatole France's masterpiece The Gods are Athirst which is set against the reign of terror. It starts out very interesting. I'm interested to see where it goes.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

The Thinking Machine by Jacques Futrelle. This author's name came up in another thread so I have decided to begin reading his mystery short stories. I found an ebook edition edited by Harlan Ellison. When I say edited - Ellison likes to discuss the selections. I like his style as an editor.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Nimarsin wrote: "I’m beginning The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry..."

I hope you enjoy it, Nimarsin. I haven't read the book, but I loved the film version when I watched it a few years ago.

[Teri-K]

Just sat outside in the sun and read The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa. It's a short book but deserves the praise it gets - exquisite, touching and also kind of sweet.

[CindySR]

Teri-K wrote: "Just sat outside in the sun and read The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa. It's a short book but deserves the praise it gets - exquisite, touching and also ..."

That was a sweet one.

[Greg]

Teri-K wrote: "Just sat outside in the sun and read The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa. It's a short book but deserves the praise it gets - exquisite, touching and also ..."

I really enjoyed that one!

[Milena]

Teri-K wrote: "Just sat outside in the sun and read The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa. It's a short book but deserves the praise it gets - exquisite, touching and also ..."

I loved it.

[Chris]

I finished Far From the Madding Crowd with help from the Hardy group. Another wonderful read by Hardy.

[Franky]

Chris wrote: "I finished Far From the Madding Crowd with help from the Hardy group. Another wonderful read by Hardy."

I've read four books by Hardy and enjoyed them all. He really has a knack for digging into the nature of humans and their settings. I bought Desperate Remedies a year or two ago and hope to read soon.

[Milena]

I am reading Watership Down and Kolyma Stories.

[Teri-K]

Greg wrote: "Teri-K wrote: "Just sat outside in the sun and read The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa. It's a short book but deserves the praise it gets - exquisite, tou..."

Yes, to everyone! Housekeeper and the Professor was a book I was kind of afraid to read, due to my own life experiences. But it was kind, tender, and touching. There's so much there for such a short book. I'm glad I finally gave it a try.

I'm now rereading Watership Down. Another really good one.

[Ayush]

I am reading Don Quixote (By: Edith Grossman) published: December, 2003 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra while I am also reading Les Miserables: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Victor Hugo at a slow pace.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Nimarsin wrote: "...I admit it's difficult to imagine how the film turned out. The story is very...carnal.
Love is high praise though, so I think I'll search for the movie!

I'm 30-ish pages in The Picture of Dorian Gray, and it's decent. It's too soon to judge.
I'll be starting OSC's Speaker of the Dead sometime this week! Really looking forward to it after Ender's Game."

I can't compare the book to the film since I haven't read the book, but the film was fairly carnal as well, much more so than I had anticipated. And it's especially fascinating to see a very young Jeff Bridges and Cybil Shepard in prominent roles.

Enjoy Picture of Dorian Gray! I liked that one a lot too, and actually got around to watching the film version a few months back. Seeing a young Angela Lansbury took me by surprise.

I'll be interested to see how you like Speaker for the Dead. It's quite a bit different from Ender’s Game. Card actually wrote Ender's Game just so he could write Speaker for the Dead but most readers, I think, prefer Ender's Game to the sequel.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Milena wrote: "...Kolyma Stories."

I just finished that one earlier this year. I found it to be a tough read, an honest look at the author's years in a Siberian prison camp. I would say I hope you enjoy it but maybe that sounds strange due to the grim subject matter, so instead I'll just wish you a fulfilling reading experience.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the short novel


The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading another short novel


The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West

[Milena]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "Milena wrote: "...Kolyma Stories."

I just finished that one earlier this year. I found it to be a tough read, an honest look at the author's years in a Siberian prison camp. I woul..."

Yes, a very tough read. It's short stories, so it helps to be able to spread it out.

[Milena]

Nimarsin wrote: "Milena wrote: "I am reading Watership Down and Kolyma Stories."

Watership Down is gorgeous. I hope you have an enjoyable experience!"

It's a reread. I am loving it just as much as an adult.

[Ian]

“Tales from Watership Down” is an interesting sequel, or companion volume. I missed it on its first appearance in 1996, when I wasn’t buying much, and only recently got it on Kindle (and on sale, if I remember correctly).

I first read “Watership Down” as a college student, and was knocked over by it. Of course, I was taking Latin at the time, and part of my response was that it was the Aeneid, but with animals. (And The Lion King is Hamlet…..)

[Greg]

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


The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Rating: 4 stars..."

Loved that one RJ!

[Ian]

It satisfied some of my curiosity about rabbit culture, but the lack of an overall dramatic background to the stories did make it a start and stop reading experience. Which is the usual way I read anthologies, but not single-author collections, which I tend to go right through — although I might skip a story if I find I really don’t like it (unless it is part of an evolving series, and I want any new information that might be in it).

[Alex]

Heretics of Dune, I’m 86% done with it.

[Cynda]

I'm reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. This is more a conceptual novel than a plot-driven novel. While not enlightening (so far) it is a thought-provoking meditation on what simply serves and that which pleases or charms.

[Luffy Sempai]

I'm reading Eisenhower in War and Peace. The start is so good that I think I might even try the second chapter, maybe finish reading its 900+ pages. Who knows I might even bother to write a review?

[Brian E]

Luffy (Oda's Version) wrote: "I'm reading Eisenhower in War and Peace. The start is so good that I think I might even try the second chapter, maybe finish reading its 900+ pages. Who knows I might even bother to write a review?"

I thought that book was very good as were all three books I've read by Jean Edward Smith. I feel that Smith is underrated as a biographer. I believe he ranks with better known political biographers such as David McCullough and Ron Chernow.

These are the books I have by Smith:
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation - 4 stars
Grant - 5 stars
Eisenhower in War and Peace - 4 stars https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
FDR - on my TBR shelf

Here are his 5 major political biographies in publication order.
1996: 2002: 2007: 2012: 2016:

Smith was a Professor at several American universities, including a stint as the John Marshall Professor of political science at Marshall University in Huntington West Virginia where he was when he died in 2019. But I've thought it most interesting that this Washington D.C.-born chronicler of the lives of American founding fathers and Presidents, spent 35 years, the bulk of his career, as a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto.

[Chris]

I finally finished Independent People by Halldor Laxness. This book won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. Writing is gorgeous, but the story is so very bleak. Set in Iceland.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Chris wrote: "I finally finished Independent People by Halldor Laxness. This book won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. Writing is gorgeous, but the story is so very bleak. Set in Iceland."

That is a book that has been on my TBR list for quite a while. Time to move it up and read it.

[Franky]

Cynda wrote: "I'm reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. This is more a conceptual novel than a plot-driven novel. While not enlightening (so far) it is a thought-provoking meditation on wha..."

I thought it was a very thought-provoking read as well.

[Cynda]

I am continuing with We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
and starting Black Boy by Richard Wright.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Greg wrote: "RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "...

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers..."

Loved that one RJ!"

Thanks, Greg. Yeah, I really liked it. It was my first by McCullers, but I liked it enough to track down the Library of American collection of her novels and I think I'll read them all, eventually.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Franky wrote: "Cynda wrote: "I'm reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin...

I thought it was a very thought-provoking read as well."

Agreed. I also enjoyed reading on Wikipedia (I think) how Huxley was accused of blatantly ripping it off when he wrote Brave New World.

[Lady]

The Yorkshire Pudding Club

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished this short novel about bitter disappointment and the American Dream


The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

[BookishDramas]

JERK

3.5 stars
Read as a BookSirens ARC.
Book Published May 21, 2024
Worth enjoyable thriller.

My review here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Lynn, New School Classics]

I am currently reading a cookbook. I am actually reading it, not just using it as a reference. It is the Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book . Betty Crocker of course was a marketing image not one person, but this is the first book that started the Betty Crocker Industry.

The story of Betty Crocker.
https://www.bettycrocker.com/menus-ho...

Originally published in 1950 it still has War Era Recipes with War Era Names. I bought a version that was republished in 1980. It is more of a How To than just a recipe book. There are sections on the Nutrition - the 7 Food Groups, balanced meal planning, economics, how to set a table, kitchen equipment, and then the recipes. It is fun to see the older names for things; for instance, the word Goulash was replaced by "Hamburger Helper" when that product was introduced. (1970's?) I am really interested in the older recipes, but at the same time am using my Instant Pot pressure cooker a good bit more. Those recipes are working well. I can't wait to try Tamale Pie using my Instant Pot.

I think this will qualify as a "non-fiction" book for challenges. It might even be a "book that reminds you of someone", but not in my house. My mother's cookbooks were the Southern Living Series which I now own.

[Terry]

Lynn, I love reading cookbooks! And books about cooking and food. I hope you’re having fun with Betty Crocker!

[Cynda]

Reading Black Boy by Richard Wright, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, and Backteria: & Other Improbable Tales by Richard Matheson.

Matheson wrote such good sci-fi horror.

[Luffy Sempai]

No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters

This will be the first book I'll have reviewed this year when I finish it. I usually hate every book Le Guin has written, but this is a fantastic exception.

[Franky]

Currently finished up and am reading and The Visitors by Clifford D Simack and just started .

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Terry wrote: "Lynn, I love reading cookbooks! And books about cooking and food. I hope you’re having fun with Betty Crocker!"

The first cookbook I was tempted to "read" (instead of just using the recipes) was Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer. I didn't make it very far though. Maybe someday I'll try it again.