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[Pam]

I’m reading Hunger by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and a graphic novel titled The Lighthouse by Paco Roca, translated from Spanish.

[Rosemarie]

I am reading Some Great Thing by Lawrence Hill. It is set in Winnipeg,Manitoba.

[Pam]

Rosemarie- Some Great Thing sounds good! My library doesn’t have a copy, though, so I’d have to request it through the ILL program. It’s surprising to me how many Canadian books are not easily accessible in the US.

[Rosemarie]

My favourite book by Hill is Any Known Blood. It is really funny at times - a great read for these cold winter days.
I hope you can get a copy of the book, Pam.

[Mj]

Enjoy!! I've read and enjoyed both and preferred what you're currently reading. Hope you enjoy it as well.

[Carol]

Storyheart wrote: "Carol wrote: Mentioning The Pledge makes me swoon :) "

Ooh...haven't checked that one out yet, but sounds like you're a fan."

It is in my top 50 of all time, and there’s nothing like it. Everyone should read it :)

[Carol]

I’m halfway through The Street, and also reading Thumbprint (takes place in Switzerland) by Friedrich Glauser and our group read, One Night, Markovitch (takes place in Israel) by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. All are good.

[Ana]

I'm reading The Nightingale, after reading a lot of books about II world war this is just ok, easy to read but I'm not loving it. I read The Great Alone and I like it much more, I think is more mature writing.

[Andrea]

im reading the oddisey of homero and i reading the middle of the book. its not bad!

[Madeleine]

I’m reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Considered one of the very first detective novels. Not that far through but so far so good and surprisingly straightforward to read for a book published 150 years ago!

[Rosemarie]

The Moonstone is good. So is The Woman in White, by the same author.

[Stargazer]

I am currently reading the Legend of Drizzt and I am about to read Siege of Darkness.

[Madeleine]

Rosemarie wrote: "The Moonstone is good. So is The Woman in White, by the same author."
I read the Woman in White for an English Lit class a few years ago but don't remember it very well so think I'll give it another read!

[Rosemarie]

I hope you enjoy it.

[Story]

I've just finished The Museum of Modern Love with tears streaming down my face.

It's about several people who view or sit with artist Marina Abramović during her remarkable work of performance art "The Artist Is Present" (where she sat motionless for 736 hours over a period of 2.5 months making prolonged eye contact with anyone who sat in front of her) and the effect this has on all their lives. Over 750,000 people viewed or sat with the artist in real life.

Highly recommended for anyone interested in art and creativity. some passages were so beautiful I've copied them out to hang over my desk.

[Anita]

Just starting book 2 of the Sandman Slim series.

[Kimberly]

The Question of Red

I've just finished the Diary of Anne Frank for first time (believe it or not!) and have started reading The Question of Red.

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I just picked up Outlander for the first time, and so far I'm giddy. I can't tell if it's the wine or Jamie...or both!

[Doreen]

Right now I am reading Madame Bovary, which I believe would cover France. I wasn't too sure about it but the more I get into it the more I'm really liking it.

[Bela]

I have just started with the autobiography of Michelle Obama...Becoming. N I am listening to it on audible in her own voice which is making it extra special. I am really enjoying it so far.

[Karen]

I am currently reading The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale. Loving it so far.

[Ana]

Madeleine wrote: "I’m reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Considered one of the very first detective novels. Not that far through but so far so good and surprisingly straightforward to read for a book published..."

I really liked it, but my favorite is The Woman in White

[Ana]

I´m reading Ordinary Grace So far so good.

[〰️Beth〰️]

Just finished The Name of the Rose, it didn’t live up to the hype for me.

Finishing up The Time Regulation Institute next, which is good so far.

[Doreen]

Mila 18 by Leon Uris.

[Debby]

Diane wrote: "Share what you are currently reading."
I'm more in the middle of an author instead of one book. I picked up "Blue Highways" by William Least Heat-Moon and loved his way with words--and what a vocabulary he has to work with!--but didn't finish that before we obtained "Here, There, and Everywhere," which wanders not only around the U.S.A. but to Japan, New Zealand, Italy... which scooped me up into faraway places, and then my husband came home with "River Horse" which makes me want to do an Internet search for each place mentioned so I can learn more about it. I'm currently in the middle of the first two and won't go beyond chapter 1 in the third until I finish at least one of the others. These are not books to read quickly just for finding out where they end--they are books to meander through slowly without missing a turn in the road.

[John]

Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands, life in the country as observed by a resident British expat.

[Carol]

I started Oliver VII by Antal Szerb. Hungary/the fictional Alturia immediately before WWII. My copy is a Pushkin Press publication and the feel if the paper and smaller size is almost 20% of the fun.

[Yana]

I am reading Herta Müller Herztier and Hunger Angel. Really recommend!

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I am reading . It is a very emotional read.

[Vlad]

Still read this short story again and again

The Chronicles of Cambodia

[Carol]

I am reading Becoming by Michelle Obama, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, and Grab a Snake by the Tail: A Murder in Havana's Chinatown by Leonardo Padura. It’s a great mix of topics, styles, locations.

[Carol]

FYI, all, Vlad is the author of the story he is touting in comment 1909 above.

[Anita]

[Andrea]

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[alexander craig]

I've just started on a discovery of the human body: psychology, neurology and now on physiology and a wee bit of chemistry. Never would have read this stuff when I was younger surprisingly enough.

[alexander craig]

Carol wrote: "I started Oliver VII by Antal Szerb. Hungary/the fictional Alturia immediately before WWII. My copy is a Pushkin Press publication and the feel if the paper and smal..." I have one of those books, they are gorgeous, I've got the Oliver book never read it though.

[Rosemarie]

I read that one last year, Farideh. It is a very unusual book.
I'm reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.

[alexander craig]

Just started reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, very sad and thought-provoking book written by a slave who taught himself to read and write in the early 19th century.

[Bela]

Right now I am reading “ Life on the Mississippi “ by Mark Twain. It gives an account of his life as a pilot of a steamboat in his early years. This was before he wrote The adventures of huckleberry Finn.
I am also reading “Pinjar” by Amrita Pritam. It was originally written in punjabi and has been translated by Khushwant Singh . It is set during the turbulent times of partition of India and Pakistan.

[alexander craig]

Absolutely adored Huck Finn, the vernacular in the book makes it more pleasurable to enjoy. The opening of the book where Huck's in a gang, where they treat it like a brigand. The content is very bountiful in his dialogue of the Jim.

[Lorinda]

I just finished Gunflint Burning by Cary Griffith. The BWCAW (Boundary Waters Canoe Area wilderness) has played host to my favorite summer memories as a lifelong Minnesota resident. Griffith's book paints the picture of the Ham Lake fire off the Gunflint Trail. I thought I knew the details of this fire, but I learned much from Griffith's winding of nonficition account of the devastation.

[Pam]

I’m reading 3 very different books: 1) White Rose by Kip Wilson - the story, written in-verse, of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose anti-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany; 2) DNA USA: The genetic portrait of America; and 3) a German classic The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

[Carol]

I'm reading Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera (Sri Lanka), The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri (a variety of European refugee camps), and Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (U.S.).

[alexander craig]

Pam wrote: "I’m reading 3 very different books: 1) White Rose by Kip Wilson - the story, written in-verse, of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose anti-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany; 2) DNA USA: The gen..."

Stasiland is a great book.

[Jovan]

Stefan Zweig "Magellan and Fouche", but also "Mess in Barca" by Eduardo Mendoza and "The Song of Achilleus" by MM

[alexander craig]

alexander craig wrote: "Absolutely adored Huck Finn, the vernacular in the book makes it more pleasurable to enjoy. The opening of the book where Huck's in a gang, where they treat it like a brigand. The content is very b..."

Loved Adventures of huckleberry Finn the character Jim's dialogue was great.

[alexander craig]

Just read An Ice Cream War by William Boyd was in the style of J.G Farrell. It's a treat to read. Quite startling to see how Africa was colonised and then served a huge part in the first world war.

[Anita]

About halfway through Slow Boil Rising . It's a satire novel, but in some places it's so close to the truth about today's society I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[Eric]

I just finished Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. I know some people love this book and some don't. But I loved it. Well written, gripping story, original. As an American living in India for the past 3 years, I could relate to a lot of the descriptions and observations he made.