What are you reading?
I’m reading Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.
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Catching up on my New Yorker issues. Summer happens, the magazines piled up.
What is hitting me most is the velocity of Jill Lepore’s output. I don’t understand how one person can write in such depth on so many subjects.
The New Yorker – Jill Lepore
The Old Man and the Sea.
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MacBeth
I just finished the Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler, upstairs I’m starting The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd and downstairs I’m starting Timescape by Greg Benford.
Funny that you should aak … I just finished (yesterday, as a matter of fact) one of the best books about “what made the world the way it is” that I have ever read:
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (link )
A fascinating, well-written and very compelling book. Highly recommended.
I always feel so inadequate when I read these types of questions. Everyone else seems to be reading the classics or famous historical events and I am always reading the latest trashy detective book.
If it makes you feel better, @chyna, I’m planning on rereading Elric of Melnibonë, which is about as trashy as 1960s fantasy novels get.
Nah, @chyna, Xenogenisis is Sci Fi, Mermaid Chair is chick-lit, and Timescape is more Sci Fi.
I also like superhero movies. ;-)
I am reading your mind….
__You like men__
“Across the Face of the World” (fantasy), “Adam Bede”, “About the Night” (which is wrenching my heart in two right now), a few others.
Fabulous collection of short stories by Ted Chiang.
At the moment i’m reading Brexit Fallout – Crass & Ignorant: Losing Disgracefully by A Mixedbagofdullards.
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos. This is the only book I know that gives an overview of what is going on with Big Data and machine learning. I figured that if computers are going to take over the world it might be nice to at least have some idea of how they are going to do it.
I have mixed feelings toward the book so far. There are interesting historical and philosophical discussions, but the technical information is sometimes hard to follow.
Graphic novel, Sheriff of Babylon
@Hawaii_Jake I just sent for “Moonglass” and “The Quilter’s Apprentice”. I get ideas from other jellies suggestions/recommendations.
@CWOTUS, I’ve just put that one on my library request list. Thanks.
@Lonelyheart807, I read Adam Bede a couple of months ago and loved it, even though it was slow going at times. I don’t think anyone is better than Eliot at seeing into the ways of the human heart.
@canidmajor, how do you like Timescape? Do you recommend it?
@ragingloli, can you see all the stuff I’m forgetting? If so, I’ll just phone you from the grocery store.
@Jeruba, I am literally on page one, but I have liked Benford in the past.
@Hawaii_Jake
Because…..hmmm…. good lord, you should be ashamed!
Can We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast – a great graphic memoir by the cartoonist about caring for her parents in their old age. And concurrently with that *The Hundred year Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared” by Jonas Jonassen, a Zelig-like picaresque novel.
The Tvos Apprentice: Beginning Tvos Development with Swift 2 by Eric Cerney, Jerry Beers, and Sam Davies.
I pretty complete intro. I would suggest it if you have no interest in ever getting laid again.
The Gunslinger or Part I of The Dark Tower trilogy by Steven King!
“The Betrayal of Lili’uokalani” She was the last queen of Hawaii 1838–1917. Interesting history of how the Europeans took over Hawaii.
I’m about to start The Murderer’s Daughter, by Jonathan Kellerman. I almost didn’t pick it up at the library because I am unreasonably irritated by the apparently faddish formula “The Somebody’s Something” in book publishing (The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Orphan Master’s Son, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, etc., etc., etc.). The idea that somebody’s chief identity is as the relative of somebody else just grates on me. If the somebody else is so important, let’s have the story about him, then (and it usually is a man, isn’t it?).
However, I’ve enjoyed several Kellerman novels before (Jonathan, not Faye), and I’m still in page-turner mode.
Well, I wouldn’t put down Faye Kellerman, @Jeruba – not that I think you were. I’ve learned more about day-to-day orthodox Judaism from her novels, I think, than from any other single source. And the stories are good, too.
Right now I’m working on my own stories. I hope to be published before the snow melts.
Right now it is a fiction short based on my own experience, but highly embellished to appease readers. It involves a woman with stiff person syndrome, but unlike me, she has an undiagnosed temporal lobe epilepsy.
I wrote it hoping to gain attention for sufferers of rare or obscure chronic conditions.
It exposes some of the frightening and upsetting episodes usually kept hidden from the public.
I am going to self publish it as an e-book.
I wrote it in longhand, and now I am two finger typing it on my computer.
I finished my novel length fairytale. I am still working to find a market for it.
My next project is a fiction novel about some average adults who found themselves quite suddenly in the Jurassic.
After that is a novel I shelved about a year ago. I think I am ready to work on it now.
Somewhere between I plan to read some foodie murder mysteries recommended by another Jelly.
Then too are some fiction shorts about the early natives to inhabit north America. I get back to working on them occasioally.
I’m a short way into Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue. I might drop it before finishing. A rare thing for me. Disappointing.
I was floored by his books The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and Moonglow. They were perfect. I adored his writing. Still do.
But Telegraph Avenue is like someone saw the movie Jackie Brown and thinks, “Oh yeah, I recognized that. I know black people! I am so street!”
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