What are you currently reading?

[Ken B]

Just starting this one. It seems that people like it.

I did. Holmes is one my family names ... 

[Moonfish]

Exhausted. In the mood for sword & sorcery! Woohooo!   

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[Mookalafalas]

Reading Alfred Einstein's "Mozart". 

[Ken B]

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You seem to have a thing for Helene Dolmetsch pictures ...

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Reading Alfred Einstein's "Mozart".

I can't help it. I always think when hearing his name: "Since when did Al study Mozart?" It doesn't help that I read they are distantly related.

[North Star]

I can't help it. I always think when hearing his name: "Since when did Al study Mozart?" It doesn't help that I read they are distantly related.

HARMONY OF THE UNIVERSE

[Albert] Einstein, who learned to play the violin as a child and often turned to music in difficult times, was especially fond of the sonatas by Mozart.

[Moonfish]

You seem to have a thing for Helene Dolmetsch pictures ...

Yeah, they forgot to draw the cello on that cover.

[Karl Henning]

"Are snake laxatives a thing?"

(Shan't watch The Show, of course, but I'm enjoying this article.)

[North Star]

I ordered Great Gatsby and Animal Farm as well.

Finished Gatsby an hour ago, both were very enjoyable to read, to say the least.

[Artem]

I like Fitzgerald a lot. Have you read anything else by him besides The Great Gatsby?

[North Star]

I like Fitzgerald a lot. Have you read anything else by him besides The Great Gatsby?

Not yet, but I sure intend to.

[mn dave]

Of course I've read it before, long ago.
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Stephen King's NIGHT SHIFT

[milk]

I did. Holmes is one my family names ... 

Alright then. I'll see how it grabs me.

[Cosi bel do]

I finished Zola's La Débâcle (The Debacle). I still have the 20th and last novel of the Rougon-Macquart series to read (Le docteur Pascal) and I can only heartily recommend it (except La Débâcle was my least favourite).

Also, I read Dora Bruder again, by recent Nobel prize recepient Patrick Modiano. Probably one of his best books, not exactly fiction, not really nonfiction, typical Modiano. Good book, short, not a masterpiece though. You don't read Modiano if you're looking for a masterpiece...

Currently around one third into Vasily Grossman's For a Just Cause (Pour une juste cause in French), which is volume 1 of Life and Fate I have already read a few years ago. This first half hadn't been translated back then. I never really understood why Life and Fate was widely read as a single book. Well yes, I understand, For a Just Cause is a lot less anti-stalinian, but still, it is the beginning of the story... I think it still hasn't been translated into English, by the way...

[listener]

Terry Teachout's comments of a biography of pianist Harriet Cohen http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2014/11/laugh-and-you-laugh-alone.html
got me to find a cheap copy and order it.   She was the mistress of Arnold Bax (and others), unaware of his other mistress, hoped to make the affair permanent but Bax's wife was a Catholic and wouldn't agree to a divorce.  Sounds like the sort of book usually read under the hair dryers.

[Artem]

I finished Jan Swafford's Johannes Brahms: A Biography, which was a very enjoyable book and enhanced my discovery of Brahms' music. I also have his book on Beethoven, but I think I'm going to read some non-fiction for a change before getting into another biography, which is 1000 pages at that.

[Bogey]

Reading these on the side in no particular order, but enjoying them.  I am also reading them out loud to my 12 year old daughter at the dinner table.  She tends to eat slowly and these are not helping her with leaving the table as she always asks for another story from them.

[Bogey]

As for my straight through read:



I believe I posted this on a thread somewhere and it got a favorable nod, but I left it on my nightstand collecting dust.  Just a few chapters in and already hooked.

Here it be:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,13790.msg811974/topicseen.html#msg811974

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Only Salvatore book I've read is attack of the clones. Much better than the movie, goes without saying.

[Linus]

Atonement by Ian McEwan



So, I looked up some "Best novels of the 2000s" lists, started reading a few, but put them down soon enough, pretty disappointed. But then I picked this one up.

I've never read McEwan before. I'm a few chapters in and already feel this might be a future favourite book, if not a favourite author of mine. I'm thinking McEwan might be God, at least his omniscient side -- he seems to know everything about everyone's minds. (It's almost embarrassing to read, undressing us like that. )

I fear this book will end up a huge disappointment as well, but there's always hope, right?