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

[mumstheword]

How Yoga works, by Geshe Micheal Roach & Christie McNally :-)

 

[anthony]

Just read the 5 David baldaci camel club series books. Starting on some other Clive cussler ones now.

 

[Mee]

I have lost the habit of recording reads here.

Notable recent reads- the man who sees everything. Exceptional.



Expectations. Reviews are funny , it’s either aired or loathed. Loathers complain about its mundane first world whining. Those who love it connect with struggles of career , friendship, relationship, loss. The ‘normal’ struggles of life. I think I am sad because I was left a little hollow by it but I don’t think it should be seen as an entitled book. I think it should be seen as a book devoid of ‘unreal trauma’ . Lives we should hope to have to struggle through rather than the lives we are facing. To have no compassion for those normally expected hardships seems to make us less human; not the author or the ‘first worlders’ She writes about.

Currently reading The Witch’s daughter

 

[DharmaGirl]

I'm listening to The Witch's Daughter! I also listened to and read The Black Witch, The Iron Flower, Wandfasted and The Light Mage all set in the same fantasy world. For teens, but speaks a lot toward racial inequality. I'm also listening to The Fellowship of the Ring. I will listen to the trilogy, then The Hobbit, then watch the movies after surgery. I know there are more, but a lot of light stuff.

 

[Vero]

I started reading "Me before you" by Jojo Moyes. I like it a lot so far, but I heard it has a sad ending...

 

[blackemerald1]

Six Tudor Queens - Anne Boleyn - A King's Obsession by Alison Weir

This is very interesting. I knew a little about Anne Boleyn, her relationship & fate at the hands of the King. However, there is a huge amount of information in this book, apparently based on research, that brings her story to life.

It seems the men in her life very much created the life she would go on to live though it would be a mistake to blame them entirely.

Anne Boleyn suffered from a lust for power and revenge and she coveted many things that were never destined to be hers. However, she was also a very early feminist of sorts and much reform was instigated through her designs.

 

[Mee]

@DharmaGirl- how fun, To read at the same time . There are a couple of sequels, I might get back to them. :)

Vox the novel. A sort of handmaiden ‘s tale for today. Reviews aren’t great but i’m Reading truth in this dystopian tale.

 

[Rani G2]

How Yoga works, by Geshe Micheal Roach & Christie McNally

Need to check this out..

I'm diving in four books lately...

Its... Sasa stanisic "origins"
Silence of the lambs/How neoliberal society works
Edward Snowden - Permanent Record
John Burnside-I put a spell on you..

 

[DharmaGirl]

I just got Vox out of the library, but I have to finish a few others before I start. Shouldn't be too hard.

 

[Firefly]

I don't really know that we've ever had a thread (not that I recall) for reading. So, for any readers - what are you reading right now? Fiction, non-fiction... if it's a book let's share?

I like to work my way through authors here lately and am doing Mark Haddon (after reading his novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time") and am on the hunt for Zora Neale Hurston novels after finishing "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (originally published in 1937).

It became my habit and a hobby to find an author I like and to track down as many of their works as I can find. I've already done Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Tom Robbins, Richard Bach, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, Margaret Atwood, C.S. Lewis & many others.... you get the idea.

I also like works of fiction written by international authors which are then transcribed to English, and I have a penchant for vintage cookbooks and Manners and Etiquette books before 1940.

Thought it might be fun and interesting to see and share what we're reading? Articles, Magazines, Audio books... all in bounds... it's hard with PTSD brains to read. For me it was something I formerly enjoyed that I had to re-acquire. So let's keep it social please and share?

I have coming in the mail T.E. Lawrence’s the Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
The last book I have finished was Nine Years Among the Indians by Herman Lehmann- definitely recommend this book

 

[Mee]

Black leopard, Red Wolf. It’s pretty difficult at times. Lots of button pushing for me :/. I think that I am not reacting so much to it shows that exposure to stuff through even fantastic fiction is exposure of sorts.

 

[Mee]

The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness ( several other crane wives!) . Almost finished. Feeling a little bleak