What are you currently reading?

[NikF]

The gym I've started to use has less benches than my old gym. While only a minor issue it does mean there can be extended periods of waiting for one to become available. So I've been taking a book along.

[Ken B]

The gym I've started to use has less benches than my old gym. While only a minor issue it does mean there can be extended periods of waiting for one to become available. So I've been taking a book along.

Book as bait? 

[Florestan]

Book as bait? 

[Karl Henning]

Hitchcock's most familiar film is probably "Psycho" (1960), with its famous scene in which Anthony Perkins stabs Janet Leigh to death in a shower. The scene inspired one of Hitch's most famous exchanges with a viewer, "Dear Mr. Hitchcock," the fan wrote, "after seeing 'Diabolique," my daughter was afraid to take a bath. Now she has seen 'Psycho' and Is afraid of the shower. What should I do?"

Hitchcock's reply: "Take her to the dry cleaners."

[aligreto]

And how are you finding it? 

Slow to start but I like the characterization.
Did you enjoy Lost Illusions?

[NikF]

Slow to start but I like the characterization.
Did you enjoy Lost Illusions?

Good. I do enjoy it if characters are well written or shaded to offer depth. Hope the pace picks up for you.

Yes, I'm enjoying it so far. But I had to pause in my reading because - and I'm going to be blunt here - I needed a book for taking to the gym, and because I like to run there/back something smaller in size than Lost Illusions was required. 

Also -

Book as bait? 

Scurrilous, tabloid worthy rumour. My innocence in such matters remains lily-white.

[aligreto]

Good. I do enjoy it if characters are well written or shaded to offer depth. Hope the pace picks up for you.

Yes, I'm enjoying it so far. But I had to pause in my reading because - and I'm going to be blunt here - I needed a book for taking to the gym, and because I like to run there/back something smaller in size than Lost Illusions was required. 

Perhaps you could use it as part of you weight lifting regime 

[NikF]

Perhaps you could use it as part of you weight lifting regime 

As it is my year on slow reduction in strength is enough of a different kind of Lost Illusion to deal with. 

[Karl Henning]

Illusions Regained!

[Ken B]

Nick might find "Penis Reduction Surgery For Beginners" useful.

[Draško]

In former Yugoslavia we all pretty much grew up on Italian comics in the 70s and 80s, and I still have the soft spot for them today, despite their quality.

[Florestan]

In former Yugoslavia we all pretty much grew up on Italian comics in the 70s and 80s, and I still have the soft spot for them today, despite their quality.

protiv svakog pravila = against [...] law?

[Draško]

protiv svakog pravila = against [...] law?

Against every rule  Law would be zakon

[Florestan]

Against every rule  Law would be zakon

Thanks. 

[NikF]

[Karl Henning]

Geo. Will's tribute

The Charles Krauthammer I knew

[SimonNZ]

Finished (whew!) 1,000 well-packed excellently written pages on one of my favorite figures in American history. More sympathetic to the subject than many other biographies while still acknowledging his various frustrating limitations, mostly the result of putting guileless trust in the duplicitous surrounding him. Brilliant at background detail and context.

[Mookalafalas]

Finished (whew!) 1,000 well-packed excellently written pages on one of my favorite figures in American history. More sympathetic to the subject than many other biographies while still acknowledging his various frustrating limitations, mostly the result of putting guileless trust in the duplicitous surrounding him. Brilliant at background detail and context.

I like Chernow, but have read two other Grant bios in the last few years, so am going to have to wait for a while before I read this one. I love how he has been regenerated, however. He really is one of the true American heroes of the 19th century.

TD:
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It seems a lot of people dislike this because it has not plot or action.  I'm enjoying it a lot so far.

[TheGSMoeller]

Author, humorist, essayist David Sedaris' new book, Calypso. A gift for my birthday from my wife, one of our first dates was seeing Sedaris speak live in Richmond, VA. Calypso also has my vote for book cover of the year (so far).

https://www.amazon.com/Calypso-David-Sedaris/dp/0316392383/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529765455&sr=8-1&keywords=david+sedaris

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Finished Silmarillion (again) and now turning to The Book of Lost Tales. Also reading Little Dorrit every now and then.