What book have you just started reading?

Mythos by Stephen Fry.
Reading, as in listening.

I am reading a lot of crossover fanfiction these days.

Becoming by Michelle Obama. I am really enjoying it.

If you have
interest in Indian Yogic culture here’s a magnificent book I’m reading currently “The Incredible Life of a Himalayan Yogi: The Times, Teachings and Life of Living Shiva: Baba Lokenath Brahmachari”. It’s available on Amazon Kindle.

Haven’t yet started but just about to start: Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice, by Bill Browder. Browder is the man behind the Magnitsky Act, which is a major thorn in the side of the ruling class of Russians and reportedly figured in the infamous Trump Jr. meeting with Russians in 2016. Essentially it prevents the oligarchs in Putin’s kleptocracy (and their other global counterparts) from spending and investing their ill-gained wealth in Western democratic nations as a sanction for their human rights violations.

I generally alternate heavy stuff like this with lightweight comfort reads. I’m about to finish a folklore-fantasy tale called The Green Man’s Heir, by Juliet E. McKenna, which isn’t going to rate four stars from me on literary grounds but is nevertheless welcome escapist entertainment.

The Neverending Story must be a bit intimidating to start. :-)

I’m reading A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr. A delightful little English novella. It was a film in the 80s with Colin Firth.

The new Lee Child book – Past tense. (jack Reacher)

Fields of Blood
– Karen Armstrong

Good so far

Just started reading The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews by Martin Amis. I’m going to need a fictional work to read soon, so I’m probably going to start Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco, since it’s been on my to-read list for so long.

All books mentioned so far I’m interested in reading next. So thanks jellies!

( but not sure I’ll finish since it’s a neverending story I’m reading ) : )

Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon. It’s a book detailing every aspect of depression possible. I’ve been reading it for a month now so “started” isn’t really the right word here, but gosh this book is huge! I still haven’t finished one third of it yet. I’ve previously read Darkness Visible and the book defiled all my knowledge of depression. Noonday Demon is a good expansion of Darkness Visible and adds some interesting scientific facts too.

BTW my current reading list is something that would terrify someone who doesn’t know me well. I like that Fluther gives me a good space for talking about it :)

@josie, that sounds like one for my list. I’ve read two or three of her others.

@Demosthenes, I tried, but I could not get through that Eco. I’ll be interested to know how you do with it. I like to trade off fiction and nonfiction too, at a ratio of about 2 or 3 to 1 (that’s number of titles but probably not number of pages—the nf typically run much longer).

@Mimishu1995, did you mean “defied”? or “defined”? It doesn’t sound like “defiled” is what you intended. Bringing two posts together—Karen Armstrong has an interesting book about depression, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness.

@Jeruba I mean defied :P I was trying to say that the book showed me that my previous knowledge about depression was wrong. And thanks for the recommendation. I may check it out when I’m done with thia gigantic book.

@Demosthenes Thanks for reminding me. Always wanted to read Eco’s The Name of the Rose. The film based on it I really love revisiting from time to time.

Burmese Days by George Orwell

@dxs That was good.

Murder in Chinatown by Victoria Thompson. Sarah Brandt is a midwife in the early part of the 20th century, in New York City. She helps to solve crimes, inadvertently, and on purpose, with or without the consent of a tough, but compassionate detective, Frank Malloy, a man, who like Sarah, has lost a spouse, and is still still struggling to cope with loss.