What are you reading?

[wojt]

Hemingway’s worst is still better than most authors’ best. I enjoyed it, but it’s certainly not as good as his other work. My favorite is The Sun Also Rises.

reading at the moment

 

[imatlas]

Just finished The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. Well written fantasy set in a really unique world.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

I am currently reading Chernobyl by Frederik Pohl, which is a brilliant and moving fictional account of the disaster and the people involved. Pohl is mainly known as a science-fiction writer, but this is a completely straight historical novel.

 

[edinatlanta]

 

[FlyingMonkey]

Now on to His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet, which was a finalist of the Booker Prize a couple of years ago. It concerns a brutal murder case in the Highlands of Scotland in the Nineteenth Century, and it is wonderfully written so far.

 

[HORNS]

I’m listening to

Read by Dennis Quaid, who lends a perfect voice and feel to this narrative.

 

[edinatlanta]

Welp. Wish me luck grrrrlfraaaands!

 

[imatlas]

Welp. Wish me luck grrrrlfraaaands! View attachment 1180966

Is that the gigantor multi-volume biography? I've heard good things.

 

[seattlefromson]

Life is a dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright, Spanish golden age theatre

 

[imatlas]

I saw a production of that last year at California Shakespeare Festival, directed by a friend.

 

[Fueco]

I’m still catching up on classics that I’ve not read. I started Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac, this morning.

 

[Joffrey]

Is that the gigantor multi-volume biography? I've heard good things.

Yup, book 1 of 4 (5 is coming up at some point). I have read and own 3 of the 4 and they are all incredible. Caro can sometimes over stress some points but you will never be bored nor regret the commitment to any or all the books.

 

[imatlas]

I’m still catching up on classics that I’ve not read. I started Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac, this morning.

I’ve met two people who claimed to be characters in that book. That was definitely true of one, Gary Snyder, aka Japhy Ryder, who spoke at my graduation and attended the same college that I did, some 40 years earlier.

It turns out that the second public reading of Ginsberg’s Howl was on our campus, due to Snyder’s friendship, and the earliest known recording of the poem was made that night and was discovered in the school archives a few years ago.

 

[edinatlanta]

Yup, book 1 of 4 (5 is coming up at some point). I have read and own 3 of the 4 and they are all incredible. Caro can sometimes over stress some points but you will never be bored nor regret the commitment to any or all the books.

"Over stress" or "be thorough". I lean to the latter but it also doesn't mean it's an easy read. Caro has such elegance to his writing though...

 

[comrade]

Don Quixote, part II.