Books: What have you been reading?

[Aymon]

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This book explains the principles needed to manage the mind and thoughts.

[The Darknight Detective]

New books I'm reading: The Bootlegger (2014), the seventh Isaac Bell novel by the late Clive Cussler.



On my Kindle, I'm taking on Rowdy of the Cross L (1907) by B.M. Bowers.

[The Darknight Detective]

Latest Kindle book: Cardigan (1901), the first of the Revolutionary War series by Robert W. Chambers.

[FluffySheep]

How are you finding it???

I am currently reading 'Winter in Sokcho'

Good so far. I'm only about 70 pages in. My reading time has been limited during the past week!

[comicscollector]

I finished Everything's Eventual by Stephen King.And i thought it was a good reading.The variety of the stories made this book a interesting book to read.
I will be buying another book of short stories by him,probably one of the first short stories books next time i buy a new book by Stephen King.

And i started reading Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick recently.

[KOSLOX]

Currently reading Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston

My sister is named for ZNH.

[Deathstroke]

I finished Paige Shelton's Lost Books and Old Bones, the third book in her Scottish Bookshop mystery series.

[The Darknight Detective]

Now reading The Maul and the Pear Tree (1971) by P.D. James and T.A. Critchley.

[Deathstroke]

I finished reading an advance copy of Ellen Hart's In A Midnight Wood last night for a review I'll be doing for Mystery Scene magazine.

My Mystery Scene magazine review can be seen HERE!

[Dante Milton]

Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie and Docile by K M Szpara.

[comicscollector]

I finished reading Ubik.
And i am curently reading A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977) a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters.

[The Darknight Detective]

Latest book I'm reading: Cuba (1999),the seventh Jake Grafton novel in the series by Stephen Coonts.

[Crazy Diamond]

My sister is named for ZNH.

That's awesome!

I need to read more of Hurston's works. Which ones have you read?

[Crazy Diamond]

Finished reading The Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler. It made me upset at times (slammed the cover shut once) but it was a great read. Really timely too.

Currently reading Mindgames - Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey by Roland Lazenby because I'm obsessed with the Chicago Bulls teams of the 90s.

[Jim Kelly]

Finished VANITY FAIR. It's purely happenstance that I picked this up after finishing WAR AND PEACE, given I knew nothing about the content of VANITY FAIR. But they work out as good companion novels. Tolstoy's is about the Napoleonic wars as they progressed--with the 1812 war as the main focus-- and Thackeray's is about the end of the wars--with Waterloo being pivotal to the plot. As well, the lives of these noble houses and the bad behaviour in them is nearly the same. It's just the authorial voice that makes all the difference.

The only thing I knew, opening up VANITY FAIR, was that Becky Sharp is the central protagonist--and in that I was labouring under a misapprehension. She can't really be considered the protagonist--more like an antagonist. Maybe some consider her an anti-hero. In the first part of the novel I was pulling for her and expecting her to come out well. But I eventually realized she's a villain. And for me not a lovable villain. It's her treatment of her son that put me off her. I could go along with her abusing others--but her innocent son, a baby, didn't deserve such an abusive mother.

However, you could argue that the heroic Prince Andre Bolkonski, in WAR AND PEACE, is a poor excuse for a father and not someone we should really admire, either.

Thackeray was made of sterner stuff than me. He allows very bad things to happen to good people and very good things to happen to bad people. Which is how the world really is--but if it was me, I'd be too tempted to give some of the nicer characters a better outcome.