lunababymoonchild Posted October 6, 2023 Author Share Posted October 6, 2023 Just bought, The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznarhorkai, in paper back, Under Ground by E S Thomson and Letters from Life: Words to feed your heart and soul by Becky Hemsley. All paper this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggle not Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 I have the Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros on hold at the library. The library has 32 copies of the kindle version but I am 92 on the list. The book has a 5 star rating on Amazon and the reviews are really good. Has anyone read the book? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 Just begun Family Ties by Celia Buckmaster, a Dean St Press reprint. The first paragraph leads me to expect I'm going to enjoy it. 😊 Mr. Monsoon was known in the village as "the old gentleman," and nobody minded when he said, "Amen, Amen, Amen," when the prayers got too long on Sunday morning; people knew he had rheumatism, and in any case the Vicar was apt to ramble on and on. He kept the sermons short too by sighing and clearing his throat after a certain time. But when the old Vicar died and a new one came, all this was changed. The old Vicar had always chosen something out of the Old Testament as a text for his sermon, and generally preached about woe and destruction. This was comforting for his congregation, who knew what to expect, and it had suited the tone of his voice, which had been low and quivering and full of poetic emotion. The new Vicar was quite different and spoke about "Conditions in the modern world" in his sermons (with a text taken from the New Testament) and nobody knew what he was driving at. Besides which, he used his normal everyday tone of voice in the pulpit and was apt to say—"And that means You and You and You" (pointing)—which made everyone nervous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 Finished Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston for my tour of the States (Florida), and Chess Story by Stefan Zweig for Reading the World (Austria). Both really good: 4 stars for the former and 5 stars for the latter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted October 13, 2023 Author Share Posted October 13, 2023 9 hours ago, willoyd said: Finished Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston for my tour of the States (Florida), and Chess Story by Stefan Zweig for Reading the World (Austria). Both really good: 4 stars for the former and 5 stars for the latter. I read the Zweig and thought it was brilliant. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hux Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 Heaven by Mieko Kawakami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 Starting a new book tonight, Upgrade by Blake Crouch. If it’s anything like Dark Matter or Recursion then I’m in for a treat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted October 30, 2023 Author Share Posted October 30, 2023 The Melancholy of Resistance has been parked for a while and I've started The Woman In Me by Britney Spears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 A bit of a hiatus on my part here, and three books down since last posting: October Sky by Hiram Holkham (previously entitled Rocket Boys), The Meaning of Geese by Neil Ascherson, and, finished today, Mr Weston's Good Wine by TF Powys, in chrono order, but also in descending order of enjoyment. Not sure what moving on to next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 I finished Upgrade the other day so I made a start on my next book, Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy. I'm not sure about the writing style at the moment but I'll stick with it as it gets such positive reviews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 Have moved on to La Curee (The Kill) by Emile Zola. Ten pages in, and it's already easy to see why it's a classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted November 1, 2023 Author Share Posted November 1, 2023 (edited) Lynn Shepherd, The London Vampire Edited November 1, 2023 by lunababymoonchild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted November 8, 2023 Author Share Posted November 8, 2023 Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind, Sue Black Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 (edited) Finished Emile Zola's La Curee (The Kill). Excellent - 5 stars (out of 6). Edited November 17, 2023 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 Finished The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, the book for Nevada in my tour of the United States. Far more than 'just' a Western! 5/6 stars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 And now finished The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad, my book for Pakistan in Reading The World. Another 5/6 stars: short,vivid and gripping (only started 2 days ago). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted November 26, 2023 Author Share Posted November 26, 2023 Juat bought My Name is Barbra: Barbra Streisand . It's a long one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted December 17, 2023 Author Share Posted December 17, 2023 Found out yesterday that there really was a man in an iron mask kept in prison, for 34 years. So I'm now reading The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexandre Dumas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 A few books read since the last post here, the latest, both this week, being Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie, and A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov. Best of those not covered since my last post was definitely The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams, which is one of the very 6-star reads I've had this year. Not great literature, but a great story, really well meshed in with 'real' history. Loved it! More detailed comments on my blog thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hux Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 Started 'Of Human Bondage' by W. Somerset Maughan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggle not Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 I read many very good books in 2023 and am thankful. I just read where the Amazon Editors have selected one of the books I read, "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store", as their choice for book of the year. Another book that i read, "The River We Remember", was also selected as a top choice by their Editors. I feel sad though that there will be no more books by Cormac Mccarthy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 Currently reading The Children of Gods and Fighting Men by Shauna Lawless as recommended by Books Do Furnish a Room. It's great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonRomero Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Currently I am reading the book "The Lost Ways" by author Claude Davis. This is a book about survival and I'm still reading it every day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sib Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 I'm reading The Flower Show by Denis Mackail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggle not Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 i am reading this book on my computer which I downloaded from the library. I don't like sitting at my computer to read but the poems are worth it. Amazon.com: Blanche: Poems of a Blue Ridge Woman: 9781952485435: Ledford, Brenda Kay: Books 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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