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

[Mee]

^You could do the first review?



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



^hmm what is this? Sounds like an oxymoron?

Magical realism has a realistic setting But elements of fantasy, either implicitly or explicitly whether as storyline or metaphors. Sometimes it’s a small element, sometimes it’s a main feature.

So unlike, say Narnia or the Shires with fawns and elves the setting might be Calcutta or a mall.

I believe it’s a tradition we saw in folktales and fairytales.

Literarily there is a pretty good tradition of South American writers in this area. Gabriel García Márquez is the pinnacle. Other well known writers who use this device are Salmon Rushdie, Joanne Harris. Um...it’s frequently found. Sometimes it’s brilliant. Sometimes it’s not!

 

[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.

Days by moonlight was so good I listened to it twice through.

I now want to read everything by this author. Lots of food for thought in this book. He’s lighter than Rushdie and less .... worthy than Coelho ( whose books I don’t much like, too positive and pointed, answers not questions) , and less picturesque than some . One imagined place, where sign language is used, and the things that could be seen from that ( subversive use of oppression as identity, ‘museum ‘ or ‘quaintification ’ of past . Very interesting way to allegorise it. Powerful for me.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Leaders of all sorts pretty much always have clay feet. Well, don’t most of us?

They had orgies and raped people etc. I mean there is one leader I could accuse of that, but he would have me thrown out of the country, lol. This isn't about what they did secretly, it was out in the open. One of the reasons Martin Luther broke with the church. I don't mean to dis the Pope, or the Catholics, my family is Catholic. I just found it horrifying that it was allowed to go on. A lot of good came out of it too.

 

[DharmaGirl]

agical realism has a realistic setting

I'm listening to the Emberverse series, which is set in where I live. It's post apocalyptic, but has Wiccans and Pagans, Catholics and other Christians and in that world all of these are real. If you pray to a saint, he/she listens. I love the guy's voice, it puts me to sleep.

 

[Mee]

They had orgies and raped people etc. I mean there is one leader I could accuse of that, but he would have me thrown out of the country, lol. This isn't about what they did secretly, it was out in the open. One of the reasons Martin Luther broke with the church. I don't mean to dis the Pope, or the Catholics, my family is Catholic. I just found it horrifying that it was allowed to go on. A lot of good came out of it too.

Yes. But then look at our world leaders I guess.... power corrupts . :(.

 

[Ellabella44]

Diamond in my pocket. A high school girl finds out she has cosmic powers and has to bring a diamond with a group to exchange it for others of her kind that were kidnapped.

 

[Mee]

A fantasy book whose name i can’t remember but 21 glorious audible hours. 21. Twenty one. ?.

 

[Mee]

A fantasy book whose name i can’t remember but 21 glorious audible hours. 21. Twenty one. ?.

But I don’t want to listen to the sequel. It was only ‘meh’.

Listening to ‘house of salt and sorrow’ which was well reviewed but is not great at all and he narrater has an awful voice but i’ll Finish it.

I got a couple of ‘real’ books today. The one I am most excited about is called Dig and is about rich people whose family were potato farmers and i think it looks at power issues, white privilege and things like that which are things I am really interested in right now.

 

[Mee]

Diamond in my pocket. A high school girl finds out she has cosmic powers and has to bring a diamond with a group to exchange it for others of her kind that were kidnapped.

Are you enjoying it?


All the birds in the sky just downloaded. Already enjoying it more than the last two :).

 

[Ellabella44]

Are you enjoying it?


All the birds in the sky just downloaded. Already enjoying it more than the last two :).

Yes it was good. Found it on book bub. Was on their free or discounted book list.

 

[Rani G2]

Machines like me from Ewan McEwan
David Foster Wallace = Mindblowing
J.M Coetzee waiting for Barbarians
James Baldwin
Aldous Huxley

 

[Rani G2]

power issues, white privilege and things like that which are things I am really interested in right now.

Swimming in similar waters...

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