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

[LunaticOnTheFritz]

3rd Degree by James Patterson

 

[sidptitala]

I just finished Post Traumatic by Chantal V Johnson. People on here might like it I think - the main character is frustrating but reads like so many of us.

 

[somerandomguy]

Just finished All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot which was a delight - can't believe I'd never read it before. Now I'm tucking into a condensed version of Harold Nicolson's diaries - on page 2 he makes a comment on the voluminous nature of Rudyard Kipling's eyebrows. Great!

 

[Rose White]

@somerandomguy loved that book! Read it as a sullen teenager, and it made me realize that life could be pretty f-ing delightful!

 

[Aprilshowers]

Waymaker by Ann Voskamp

 

[Freddyt]

Where Have All The Bullets Gone? Terrance "Spike" Milligan When you got PTSD, his is easy to spot......unfortunately he was (to my knowledge) never diagnosed.

 

[Friday]

Just finished All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot which was a delight - can't believe I'd never read it before.

It lived on the phone table in the upstairs hallway at my grandparents, along with All Things Bright & Beautiful; A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court (Twain), Big Red (jim kjelgaard) & White Fang (Jack London), a couple of advanced physics books, a few musical scores, last months medical journals (this months lived in the loo), & The Wind In The Willows & a few sticker/colouring books.

IE (mostly) read 1,000 times favorites for anyone sitting by the phone to occupy themselves, and passing things to distract kids whilst busy.

((The downstairs phone table had the phone books, Chinese checkers, bicycle cards, & bubble wands. Clearly, if one was “waiting by the phone” it was upstairs.))

 

[Rose White]

@Friday damn good selection!

 

[mszl]

I'm reading Oriana's Fallaci 1968.

 

[Defaultxlove]

Milk and honey

Rupi Kaur

 

[Lost in the Woods]

Books have been the most faithful love of my life. Sometimes I hide in them. Sometimes my pain is so great I can’t focus on what I am reading, I call those stare at the ceiling days. Anyway, I am usually reading a half dozen at once. I even have a bath tub book that I only read when soaking in the tub, currently The Dawn of Everything, A New History of Humanity. As I write this I am taking a break from the PTSD Workbook. Most of my attention in the last couple of days has been on Consciousness and the Novel. I have also been rereading things I read 30 or 40 years ago like Kerouac’s Big Sur which I am finding a bit of a disappointment. Most of the things I am rereading I feel greater emotional impact, possibly a positive aspect to emotional dysregulation. I experience art the same way, particularly abstract art which bypasses thought. Currently on the to read pile are: The Electric Coolidge Acid test (cuz), Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari (a favorite author), Waiting for the Fear (Turkish short stories by Oguz Atay, something different), Revenge of the Tipping point, Malcolm Caldwell (another favorite author), Nietzsche by Kaufmann, Borges, The Total Library, Non Fiction 1922-1986, The Desert Smells Like Rain, Nabin, Consciousness Explained by Dennett, Four Square Leagues, Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico ( a friend is one of the authors), The Myth of Normal by Mate.

I will read anything that doesn’t have an embossed cover, I do have some standards. I recently purchased 29 volumes of the Harvard Classics which will be my deep winter binge reading. I did the same thing with the 21 volumes of the Collected Works of Theodore Roosevelt, I started on volume one and read them straight through. I have been reading more poetry lately, right now some Pablo Neruda. With poetry my dysregulation again makes it richer, straight to the heart, not just reading but experiencing to the point of physical sensation.

Yes, I am a book junkie.

 

[Midnightmoon]

Milk and honey

Rupi Kaur

I adore her stuff, haven't tried the book but I bet it's beautiful