Had a good walk today - 4 Little Libraries, took 3 books - Gone Girl, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas & Disclosure – have seen all the movies. Still not 100% sure how to classify them
Starting Ben Hur tomorrow if the weather is nice
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The Bible as History by Keller. It’s a 1958 printing of the 1955 edition.
I finished Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. It takes place in the far future in a society where status is determined by what color or colors on the spectrum a person can distinguish (with no ability to see color on the bottom, then going up by through the visible spectrum to UV) and everything is done by a set of old rules (including many that make no sense at all). A “red” is sent to a remote town as punishment and as he’s stuck there, he begins to have more questions about the society.
It started very slowly, I think partly because you have to get through quite a bit before you really get the idea of the society there. At the start I thought it was just trying for quirky humor (which it has) - maybe as if it was trying to be like a Hitchhiker’s Guide book - and didn’t seem to be doing a very good job of it overall. But it gets a lot better as it goes on as you get a better feel for the characters and society and as the plot develops.
Apparently it’s going to be a series. I’ll be interested to see where it goes.
Well, it was going to be a series… 9 years ago. We’ve yet to get book #2
I liked the premise, more than the one in Early Riser or The Constant Rabbit.
I read that a couple of years ago.
Maybe I should do a reread of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I last read it as a teenager.
I got Handmaid’s Tale from the library but I haven’t started it yet.
That would be interesting given some of the discussion on another thread.
Finished Malibu Rising. It did not end how I expected but I was engaged to the end.
Was gonna get back to my Michael Connelly but I just got Nora Roberts’ Legacy from the library, so I’ll be starting that today.
Also back into The Passage of Power, wherein our hero LBJ just took the oath of office. (Hope that wasn’t a spoiler…)
When I finish this I want to read something on Jackie O.
Why the 1955 edition? It made me look to see what the latest was and I got a laugh at the Amazon blurb “now thoroughly updated with the latest …” but the publication date is 1983.
Oh. They pulled that right off the inside flap.
Wikipedia says Fforde tweeted he was starting the followup this past March.
Interesting. I remember really liking that book and being disappointed that he didn’t write the promised sequel.
Well, this book is based on what was confirmed via archaeology, though some of the stuff uncovered is written stuff.
Because that’s the copy I have?
I probably got it from a library sale, from when they’re really desperate to get rid of the books ($5 per box, for example). I end up with a lot of odd books that way
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Oooo it’s about time. I read the first book back when meep recommended it way back when.
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If you liked Never Let Me Go, you’ll like Klara and the Sun, though it’s a little slower, it has a very similar feel/themes.
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman.
I read the first two books of The Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis this month. I love how he writes - here is a nice description of that, as well as the story line.
Federal regulations and guidance have taken over my life.
I borrowed the Wisdom of Finance book and it’s going to automatically return itself before I even get to the first chapter 
Next up, The Burning God by R.F. Kuang (book 3 of the Poppy War trilogy).
Then: Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente, Heartless by Marissa Meyer, The High Window by Raymond Chandler, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carré.
Amusingly, I first borrowed the audiobook version from the library, but then had to check out the physical book because of just a couple things. A lot of books I’ve done as audiobooks first and then have to get the text to see how certain things were spelled (mainly names)