Literature What are you currently reading?

[Second Summer]

Started to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It's supposed to be an American classic, and since the wife is from there, and a lot of you people are too, I feel like I should do my part to bridge the gap between the cultures!

So far I'm amazed at how civilized you lot are compared to some of the characters in that book

 

[ledboots]

Started to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It's supposed to be an American classic, and since the wife is from there, and a lot of you people are too, I feel like I should do my part to bridge the gap between the cultures!

So far I'm amazed at how civilized you lot are compared to some of the characters in that book

It's banned in some schools because of racial terms. I like Mark Twain, he was writing just as people in Mississippi spoke back then, I think.

 

[Kenickie]

Down & Out in Paris and London - George Orwell

 

[Kasandra]

A long way home

 

[Pirate]

Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino. It reminds me in a weird way of American Psycho. I was reading Death Cure (by um, the guy who wrote The Maze Runner) but I managed to lose it haha

 

[Mikkel]

Just started on book two of "Game of Thrones".

 

[ledboots]

Just started on book two of "Game of Thrones".

So did my daughter (25). She liked the first one.

 

[Tom L.]

"Board Stiff", by Piers Anthony- it's the latest one of his very-pun-heavy "Xanth" novels, although this is the first in that series I've read.

 

[PTree15]

I just finished "We Were Liars," a YA book selected by my book club. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I didn't hate it because I managed to finish it, but I can't say I loved/liked it all that much, either. I loathed almost every character, of which there were too many. I just couldn't connect with or feel anything but animosity toward them. Tomorrow night's session should provide for interesting discussion, though.

 

[Spang]

Playing the *****: The Work of Sex Work, by Melissa Gira Grant

It's a quick, and very informative, read, and I quite recommend it.

An excerpt:

Sex work is not simply sex; it is a performance, it is playing a role, demonstrating a skill, developing empathy within a set of professional boundaries. All this could be more easily recognized and respected as labor were it the labor of a nurse, a therapist, or a nanny. To insist that sex work is work is also to affirm there is a difference between a sexualized form of labor and sexuality itself.

 

[Spang]

The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail, by Óscar Martínez.

 

[GingerFoxx]

Just started on book two of "Game of Thrones".

Me too! Well actually, I am about 700 pages into the second book. I have not seen any of the television series, but I am told they are a close match for the most part. All the characters and their connections are a bit dizzying at times. So many names to keep track of, I am always forgetting who some of the secondary people are. I think I need to watch the series at some point, just to help me follow the story better.

 

[Moll Flanders]

Everything That Remains. Everything That Remains - The Minimalists

 

[hungryraccoon]

I just finished "We Were Liars," a YA book selected by my book club. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I didn't hate it because I managed to finish it, but I can't say I loved/liked it all that much, either. I loathed almost every character, of which there were too many. I just couldn't connect with or feel anything but animosity toward them. Tomorrow night's session should provide for interesting discussion, though.

I've just started reading this! & have heard nothing but good things about it, so it's interesting to hear a different perspective.

 

[Kill Uncle]

Down & Out in Paris and London - George Orwell

Im on this soon.Right after The Moaning of Life by Karl Pilkington

 

[PTree15]

I've just started reading this! & have heard nothing but good things about it, so it's interesting to hear a different perspective.

I hope you enjoy it.
I am now reading Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. I like her writing style, but I am having trouble staying interested. The copy editor in me wants this too move along much faster. I am too used to mysteries, lol.

 

[hungryraccoon]

I didn't enjoy it. Although I did find the end twist sad. Got through it quickly so I could read something else!

I'm now rereading Night Watch as I've realised there's 2 new books in the series since I last read them.

 

[PTree15]

Alas, I feel your pain. It was at least a quick read.

 

[Spang]

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields

 

[PTree15]

Arcadia, by Lauren Groff. I picked it for our book club, as I am the hostess this time.