Next genre up - Suspense / Thriller
The Girl On The Train - Hawkins
followed by You are Not Alone and Gone Girl, no doubt
i have Gone Girl on the shelf
I couldnât get past the first chapter.
I did read Gone Girl, though.
A Paper Orchestra by Michael Jamin. Short stories, memoir-esque.
For a book club. Liking it more than I expected.
Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris
Lightening up the dense reading of Swannâs way with some Sherlock Holmes. Never realized the majority of these are short stories as Iâd only read Hound of the Baskerville. Really quick but captivating stories.
Another book club read: Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin.
Not super excited about this one but Iâm a few chapters in and itâs not terrible. I was shocked to learn that we taxpayers spent $20 million on his defense. I donât get it. He admitted his guilt, so why?
Sorry, thatâs a topic for another thread.
Sounds interesting. I saw a documentary showing how Ruby Ridge and Waco led to the Oklahoma City bombings (and to extreme right-wing movements of today). Fascinating, and scary, to see how this has developed.
Yes, Iâm just getting to Waco in the timeline.
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Last year I read a nice YA fantasy - Holes by Louis Sachar. It was a fun read!
very popular movie when my kids were young
I finished the two Aristophanes plays, all of Menanderâs extant plays, and 5 plays by Plautus (I lied about the break): The Ghost, The Rope, A Three-Dollar Day, Amphitryon (this got a few guffaws from me), and The Pot of Gold. I also finished Orlando, Lyorn, and The Goddess of Buttercups and Daisies (a fictional telling of the writing of Aristophanesâ Peace). I also finished The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
Iâm currently reading way too many books: 3/4 of the way through Moby Dick, 2/3 through Endymion (the sci-fi novel, not the Keats poem itâs named after), 1/4 of the way through The Eyre Affair and Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde (both re-reads). I also started Jade City, and am continuing to read Virginia Woolfâs The Waves, Vaslav Nijinskyâs diary, Orlando Innamorato, Le Morte dâArthur, and Paradiso.
Finally got around to re-reading Dune. Wish I had re-read it before seeing the current duo of movies as my recollections from reading it 50 or so years ago were hazy. Book is rich in detail that canât be captured in a movie.
Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews.
started and abandoned some slow moving book set in 1939 eastern europe.
started Elie Mystalâs âAllow Me to Retortâ
i tend to like non-fiction more than fiction unless the fiction starts out with something that grabs you
I finished Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati.
Iâm now starting Elantris by Brandon Sanderson.
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy.
I finished Vera Wongâs Unsolicited Advice for Murderers. A dead body is found in the has-seen-better-days tea shop of Vera Wong and she decides to investigate. Thereâs a lot of humor of the âtraditional Chinese motherâ sort, which keeps the book light and moving until it gets to the last 10% or so. There, it loses a lot of steam in trying to wrap things up and loses the lightness. It kind of ended up as a little disappointment overall because of it, I thought.
Also, the murderer seemed obvious from the start even though the reason why didnât occur to me. If Iâd given it some thought, Iâd have gotten that, too, though. Even more importantly, it seemed clear from the start that her list of suspects included only those who were going to end up innocent just based on how they were presented.
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Just finished a re-read of The Dresden Files. Itâs fascinating to me how well Butcher weaves multiple mythologies together into the modern worldâŚreally impressed with his world-building, or rather re-imagining of our own world. He published the last 2 both in 2020 about 5 years after the previous bookâŚIâm hoping the next one comes out soon!!
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