What are you currently reading?

[AnotherSpin]

I'm not quite sure how far I'll get with this book, nor how much of it I'll truly take in — but I'm setting off with a certain quiet curiosity, all the same.

[Karl Henning]

The odd Poe short story. It's been decades since I read most of them, and I'm starting with obscurities of which I remember next to nothing. "Thou Art the Man" and "The Sphinx."

[SimonNZ]

Followed the first book in the Slough House series immediately with the second. Will probably get through much of them in the near future:




And now finally getting around to Tocqueville, which is so far proving a much easier read than I expected:

[ritter]

Leafing this beautifully produced anthology of screenplays (some of which never made it to production) by the "Queen of Cinecittà ", Suso Cecchi d'Amico.



Cecchi d'Amico wrote over one hundred screenplays for the greatest Italian directors of the post-WW2 golden age of Italian cinema —de Sica, Visconti, Blasetti, Antonioni—. She also wrote the libretto for Nino Rota's opera I due timidi, and her husband was the eminent music critic Fedele d'Amico.

[AnotherSpin]

Just started reading. I don't know yet if I'll read it to the end though. Right now I'm adjusting myself to the text.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

The Power of Negative Thinking. Bob Knight.

[Mookalafalas]

The odd Poe short story. It's been decades since I read most of them, and I'm starting with obscurities of which I remember next to nothing. "Thou Art the Man" and "The Sphinx."

  Remarkable coincidence. I too am reading Poe short stories. I assigned several to a student as part of an assignment, but figured I'd better reread them as well (it's been decades).

[Henk]

[Ganondorf]

Almost finished with Mann's Joseph in Egypt. I had almost forgotten how magnificently Mann writes here. Mann may very well be the first writer to portray Potiphar's wife in a sympathetic light, even giving her name and instead of old BS about portraying her as a simple temptress, he describes how she was basically sold in marriage and then Joseph comes along and instead of turning her down or avoiding her, the narcissistic prick actually cruelly plays with her feelings because, secretly, he enjoys such attention. No wonder he gets thrown into the pit, so to speak, twice!

[DaveF]

Holiday re-reading.  If not quite my favourite novel, it's the one more than any other that I would like to have written myself.  One of the very few perfect novels in English, IMHO (which is perhaps why it's been called "The greatest French novel in English).