Readers thread: what or who are you reading right now?

[RVA21]

Yakov and the Seven Thieves - Madonna

 

[DharmaGirl]

I was reading a history of the early Popes. I had to stop, they were horrific people. I don't understand how they could have been so awful when they headed the Catholic Religion. My parents are Catholic, and I know the previous Pope was well loved. I just don't get it.

 

[RVA21]

@DharmaGirl I think they still are horrific - just more covertly. Jordan Maxwell talks about them on youtube. Says the Pope is the 'boss of all bosses'(I think even above the Mafia), he shows photos of one Pope signing contracts with Hitler and with Mussolini.

 

[Mee]

Leaders of all sorts pretty much always have clay feet. Well, don’t most of us? I think being reacquainted with that horror - every day like a slap in the face with a wet mackerel caught last Tuesday ... is a real horror of this disorder.

When books speak only good or bad about anyone I wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the content. Even the heroes and the heinous.

Reading the oracle year. It’s far too late at night. :(

 

[blackemerald1]

every day like a slap in the face with a wet mackerel caught last Tuesday

^That's a new one! :laugh: :hilarious: :)

When books speak only good or bad about anyone I wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the content. Even the heroes and the heinous.

^Completely agree.

 

[12birds]

Hitler's Furies. It sheds light on the true involvement of Third Reich women in the war and the Holocaust, especially in the eastern killing fields.

 

[Mee]

I am excited about the next one! An American Marriage. I hope it’s as good as reviews have suggested.

 

[Mee]

^That's a new one! :laugh::hilarious::)
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Do you know that some people don’t realise I have a sense of humour? I can be quite dead pan.

 

[Mee]

I have just downloaded a book called ‘days by moonlight ‘. This decision was made on the basis it had absolutely no reviews, is narrated by the author and was in what I think might be my favourite genre: magical realism.

 

[blackemerald1]

it had absolutely no reviews,

^You could do the first review?

is narrated by the author a

^If a job is worth doing....? I admire people who do their own thing.

avourite genre: magical realism.

^hmm what is this? Sounds like an oxymoron?

 

[blackemerald1]

I've just started reading a novel, A book of scars - William Shaw Quercus

So far a broken detective goes to recuperate on a farm where a brutal, unsolved murder has happened. Yeah that's so common...

It had better pick up the pace and get on with something better sooner than later or I will throw it back in the library bag.

The epigraph is compelling... - :If we are going to sin we must sin quietly - Eric Griffith-jones, Attorney General, Kenya, June 1957

 

[blackemerald1]

On a Lighter note... I just finished a good read called the The land before Avocado... very funny in parts and tragic in others.

It is a quick look into the idea that Australians 1960 - 1975 were better off/happier etc than now? Yes a whole book on that idea. It concludes that we are better off now in most ways - if still far from perfect. I agree.