What are you reading?

23 April 2020, 05:08 PM

I finished A Rose for Virtue last night. Now I need to read the wiki article on Hortense Beauharnais to see what she did the rest of her life after Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled the second time, since that's where the book ends.

Not sure what I'll pick up next.

I have a house full of books.

12 July 2020, 03:01 PM

CHAS

Moskva by Jack Grimwood

Fun read. I like his style.
Put the Thomas Merton book down when the started a Christianity is What Makes America Great bit.

12 July 2020, 03:18 PM

Steve Miller

I am reading "The Potlikker Papers" by John T. Edge. It was billed on Splendid Table as a "Food history of the modern South", but is actually much more than that. The emphasis is on the cooks and how they participated in various civil rights actions, rather on what they cooked.

Excellent so far, and lots of stuff I had never heard before.

12 July 2020, 04:09 PM

dolmansaxlil

Four things...
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo. I’m in a book study with some folks from work for this one, and will be attending a virtual session with her in August.

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher. This one is a borrow from the library and I’m not sure I’ll finish it before I need to return it. I’m enjoying it, though, so maybe I need to prioritize it.

The Last Emperox by John Scalzi. A favourite author. This is the third in a trilogy that I love. I’m sad it’ll be over soon. Listening to this one on audio.

The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson - a middle-grade novel that I was investigating as a read-aloud for the fall. It’s a bit too old for my Grade 3/4 kiddos, but I’m enjoying it so I’ll finish it.

12 July 2020, 06:12 PM

jon-nyc

Robert Service's Lenin bio.

12 July 2020, 06:27 PM

ShiroKuro

My before-bed book is a book called "Why are pianos black?" written by a Japanese piano tuner. A chapter ago he was very gingerly walking the line between Yamaha and Kawai, and although he doesn't say it directly, he seems to favor Yamaha. Now he's heavily dissing Chinese piano makers. It's kind of funny!

12 July 2020, 06:30 PM

BeeLady

I have had a hard time concentrating on reading (or knitting) these days.

I started "White Fragility" as recommended at work. We are all doing some work on this to better serve our community. I can read some, then have to put it down to process.

Today my newest book came, "How to be an Anti-Racist" by Ibram X. Kendi. This has been on my list since it came out last year as the author is local and on radio very often..I find the way he frames things click with me. The introduction has sucked me in....I expect I will finish this before the former.

Books for 'fun'? Cannot think of a single one I have on deck..I am reading this thread to look for something...Somehow seems hard to find pleasure these days.

12 July 2020, 07:57 PM

dolmansaxlil

quote:
Originally posted by BeeLady:
I have had a hard time concentrating on reading (or knitting) these days.

I started "White Fragility" as recommended at work. We are all doing some work on this to better serve our community. I can read some, then have to put it down to process.

Today my newest book came, "How to be an Anti-Racist" by Ibram X. Kendi. This has been on my list since it came out last year as the author is local and on radio very often..I find the way he frames things click with me. The introduction has sucked me in....I expect I will finish this before the former.

Books for 'fun'? Cannot think of a single one I have on deck..I am reading this thread to look for something...Somehow seems hard to find pleasure these days.

I subscribe to the Anti-Racism daily email list and it’s excellent. If you’re interested, you can sign up here: https://www.antiracismdaily.com/

Also, I’m in the middle of So You Want to Talk About Race and I’m really appreciating that author’s voice. How to Be An Anti-Racist is next on my list.

Sorry - I just realized that I recommended things that definitely aren’t fun!

12 July 2020, 08:12 PM

BeeLady

quote:
Originally posted by dolmansaxlil:

Sorry - I just realized that I recommended things that definitely aren’t fun!

No apology necessary..I am of a certain age, 60, who now lives in a very diverse city..and I have seen this crap for decades .I feel like we should have moved further ahead....

I LOVE the young generation's loud, proud declarations..but it feels so heavy..like I have failed my kids' generation...

I am trying to read and learn as much as I can but there are days when it is just too much for me to process without weeping.

Dol, thanks for the link..I signed up.

12 July 2020, 08:53 PM

CHAS

quote:
Originally posted by jon-nyc:
Robert Service's Lenin bio.

Ordered a sample

01 July 2021, 02:42 PM

Steve Miller

I just finished "Save Me the Plums" by Ruth Reichl. She was Editor in Chief of Gourmet Magazine during it's final ten years of publication.

Interesting person, interesting stories, very well written. It even has recipes.

I think a lot of you will like it.

01 July 2021, 11:26 PM

BeeLady

I find it so funny that you, Steve, posted to this old thread..I started a new one recently..

But what a gift to look back again at good books!

I just today finished "Nomadland" the story of folks who live in their cars, vans, RV's. This book inspired the recent movie...Much like "Nickeled and Dimed"

02 July 2021, 12:41 AM

Steve Miller

I didn’t realize it was an old thread. I searched on “What are you reading” and it’s the first thread that came up.

30 September 2021, 10:19 PM

Steve Miller

“The Kite Runner”. Yikes!

01 October 2021, 10:54 AM

Jack Frost

quote:
Originally posted by piqué:
Just finished reading "Paris in the Present Tense," the new Mark Helprin novel. It was a gift from the author. He thought it might be meaningful to me because of the musical themes in it. It is a profound and beautiful book that I am sure I will reread. And I almost never do that.

Loved it.

J