What are you currently reading?

[huntsman]

After an age of being nagged by my wife, I finally decided to read this novel of a convict on the run, who falls in love with Bombay. Supremely insightful, the volume has a strong base in truth, yet covers the gambits between love and hate, success and abject failure, kindness and disaster, in spades.







It is well-paced, beautifully written, and perfectly captures the spirit of Bombay and the Indian people and ex-patriots that swell its ranks.

9/10. (Nothing gets 10!)

[Daverz]

I've heard good things about Cloud Atlas.  Let me know what you think.

Having finished the novel, I have to say that the film is a travesty as an adaptation.

[Brian]

Picked up a book for my Kindle. I'm now, the Kindle says, 70% finished - after starting it on the train ride to work this morning!



Unreasonably entertaining! Actually, given this story's narrator, I should say... shrewdly reasonably entertaining!

[Karl Henning]

. . . Unreasonably entertaining! Actually, given this story's narrator, I should say... shrewdly reasonably entertaining!

+ 1

[Bogey]

[Cato]

Picked up a book for my Kindle. I'm now, the Kindle says, 70% finished - after starting it on the train ride to work this morning!



Unreasonably entertaining! Actually, given this story's narrator, I should say... shrewdly reasonably entertaining!

Many thanks!   

My "agent" in fact promised today that Volume II, Dial Emma for Murder, will be ready for Kindle in two weeks.

However, he has been promising this for over 2 years!     This time...it might actually happen!

[Octave]

Has anyone opinions on the relative merits of two unabridged translations of Hugo's LES MISERABLES, the old Wilbour vs. the new (2008) Julie Rose?  I was set to check out the Julie Rose, but a harsh comment at Amazon led me to some other harsh comments.  I've yet to look up a review or critique by someone who clearly has serious credentials, but maybe some of you have experience with the French original and one or both translations?  The critiques of the Rose translation seem to center on extraordinary liberties she takes with the language to make it "more contemporary" (to us).  This book remains a huge gap in my booksense; unfortunately my French is super weak, otherwise I'd just tough it out.

[Karl Henning]

Many thanks!   

My "agent" in fact promised today that Volume II, Dial Emma for Murder, will be ready for Kindle in two weeks.

Excellent!  Will there be hard copy for those of us who ain't kindling?

(Although, there's an Amazon Kindle app on my Droid, will I nil I . . . so I may be able to do with the Kindle edition, after all!)

[Cato]

Picked up a book for my Kindle. I'm now, the Kindle says, 70% finished - after starting it on the train ride to work this morning!



Unreasonably entertaining! Actually, given this story's narrator, I should say... shrewdly reasonably entertaining!

Many thanks!   

My "agent" in fact promised today that Volume II, Dial Emma for Murder, will be ready for Kindle in two weeks.

However, he has been promising this for over 2 years!     This time...it might actually happen!

Excellent!  Will there be hard copy for those of us who ain't kindling?

(Although, there's an Amazon Kindle app on my Droid, will I nil I . . . so I may be able to do with the Kindle edition, after all!)

I was told that yes, a regular paperback copy will be available, although the Kindle edition will be out first.

[Karl Henning]

I was told that yes, a regular paperback copy will be available, although the Kindle edition will be out first.

Very good. Will be happy to support the author by buying both editions!

[Beorn]

A CLASH OF KINGS 

[HIPster]

Enjoying this very much!

Wonderful read:

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[val]

FRANS C. LEMAIRE:          "La Passion dans l'Histoire et la Musique"     (2011)

I was disappointed with this book. I was expecting a much deeper analysis of the musical interpretations of the Passion, but Lemaire seems more concerned with the search of antisemitic traces in the Passions (including the Gospels).

[DavidRoss]

Solid but not soporific scholarship -- a good read. A nice companion to George Stewart's Committee of Vigilance: Revolution in San Francisco, 1851.

[Bogey]

 We're kinda in the same era with our reading David:

On the "pad":

[Geo Dude]

[Brian]

That's the translation that helped me finally finish Don Quixote. A (very long) joy!

[Karl Henning]

I remember the summer that I read Light in August. That's a book I should re-read.

[DavidRoss]

We're kinda in the same era with our reading David:

On the "pad":

Hey, Bill ... love the history of the American West. Seems to me I read a bio of the gentleman dentist from Georgia many years ago, but it probably wasn't a patch on Roberts's exhaustive work.

[Bogey]

Hey, Bill ... love the history of the American West. Seems to me I read a bio of the gentleman dentist from Georgia many years ago, but it probably wasn't a patch on Roberts's exhaustive work.

We may be sliding through Tombstone on our way to CAl this year, so thought I would happily brush up a bit.