Books: What have you been reading?

[Deathstroke]

I finished reading an advance copy of the S.L. McInnis thriller Framed.

[Chubistian]

The Stranger, by Albert Camus

[The Darknight Detective]

The Stranger, by Albert Camus

I just got that for Christmas. Eight more books before I get to it, though.

[Chubistian]

I just got that for Christmas. Eight more books before I get to it, though.

I had it for years in a shelf. I went to a french school and we had to read this book in its original language, but as the lazy student that I was I managed to skip my way through the task. Nowadays, I want to reinforce my french that has been lacking because I haven't practiced it ever since I finished high school (except for some comicbooks I own in french), so this book presented itself as a great way to see the current state of at least my reading comprehension. I started it and so far it's an amazing reading! (though I never had a doubt that it was good)

[The Darknight Detective]

I had it for years in a shelf. I went to a french school and we had to read this book in its original language, but as the lazy student that I was I managed to skip my way through the task. Nowadays, I want to reinforce my french that has been lacking because I haven't practiced it ever since I finished high school (except for some comicbooks I own in french), so this book presented itself as a great way to see the current state of at least my reading comprehension. I started it and so far it's an amazing reading! (though I never had a doubt that it was good)

We had to read a small part of it for my senior year in high school 37-something years ago, but this will be the first time I actually read it in its entirety (though not in the original French ).

[The Darknight Detective]

On my Kindle, I just started reading The Crystal Stopper (1912), the fifth Arsène Lupin novel by Maurice Leblanc.



By tomorrow, my latest hard-copy read will be Pursuit of Honor (2009), the tenth Mitch Rapp novel by Vince Flynn.

[Vegan Daddy]

A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising (1967) by Miron Białoszewski

On August 1, 1944, Miron Białoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland’s most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five years of Nazi occupation, an uprising that began in a spirit of heroic optimism. Sixty-three days later it came to a tragic end. The Nazis suppressed the insurgents ruthlessly, reducing Warsaw to rubble while slaughtering some 200,000 people, mostly through mass executions. The Red Army simply looked on.

Białoszewski’s blow-by-blow account of the uprising brings it alive in all its desperate urgency. Here we are in the shoes of a young man slipping back and forth under German fire, dodging sniper bullets, collapsing with exhaustion, rescuing the wounded, burying the dead. An indispensable and unforgettable act of witness, A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising is also a major work of literature. Białoszewski writes in short, stabbing, splintered, breathless sentences attuned to “the glaring identity of ‘now.’” His pages are full of a white-knuckled poetry that resists the very destruction it records.

[Jack Dracula]

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

[Tofali]

Slugfest by Reed Tucker.
The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas

[Styles]

[Chubistian]

The gambler, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Deathstroke]

Here's my Top 10 Mysteries & Thrillers of 2019.

[Vegan Daddy]

Washington Square (1880) by Henry James

[Enigma]

Kate Mosse's Labyrinth. I absolutely loved the read but I got annoyed at her pointless use of french, seemingly at random. It added nothing to the point of the book and was annoying because not all of it was translated by context. Anyway, other than that it was brilliant

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[The Darknight Detective]

Latest book on the ol' Kindle: Depraved Indifference (1989), the second book in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series by Robert K. Tanenbaum.



Happy New Year!