What are you currently reading?

[SimonNZ]

Both of these on the go:



And with rewatching The Night Manager tv miniseries considering a read of one of the few Le Carre's I haven't done yet:

[hopefullytrusting]

Just recently finished This One Summer by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki



A true feminist graphic novel, beautifully drawn and wonderfully crafted - delves very deeply into issues otherwise avoided in most works, and, in my opinion, to their great detriment. On its surface, it appears to tell the tale of two girls who are friends by matter of circumstance of summering, but it grows dark and gritty quite quickly, as reality begins to accrete around the protagonist, who is realistically unlikeable (something most other works wouldn't dare).

High recommendation.

[San Antone]

Alternating between these two novels:

The Sound and the Fury
A Norton Critical Edition
Third Edition
by Michael Gorra (Editor, Smith College), William Faulkner (Author)



The text for the Third Edition is again that of the corrected text scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the novel. David Minter's annotations, designed to assist readers with obscure words and allusions, have been retained. "Contemporary Reception," new to the Third Edition, considers the broad range of reactions to Faulkner's extraordinary novel on publication. "Criticism" represents eighty-five years of scholarly engagement with The Sound and the Fury.

Call for the Dead
A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley Novels Book 1)
by John le Carré

[Crudblud]

Yukio Mishima - Confessions of a Mask (translated from the Japanese by Meredith Weatherby)

[ritter]

Valery Larbaud: Allen.



This is a short novella about five friends traveling from Paris to the Bourbonnais in central France. There cultured conversations touch, among other things, the relationship of Parisians with the provinces (and vice-versa). As always, Larbaud's dandyish - cosmopolitan prose is delightful.

The title of the book is the enigmatic word used as motto by Louis II "the Good", duke of Bourbon, which is thought to be an archaic form of "allons" ("let's go"), although it can also refer to the English "all".

[Florestan]

[Spotted Horses]

The Real Cool Killers, Chester Himes



A crime novel set in Harlem. In some sense a conventional genre novel in which a white man is killed in Harlem and the case is investigated by two black police officers. But with a certain literary quality, and reflecting the reality of race relations in the mid 20th century.

[AnotherSpin]

One of the books by Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari (Chariji), the third Raja Yoga Master in the Sahaj Marg system of the Shri Ram Chandra Mission.

[Papy Oli]

In the last 2-3 weeks:

Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Poe - Murders in the Rue Morgue
London - Call of the Wild.

[foxandpeng]

In the last 2-3 weeks:

Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Poe - Murders in the Rue Morgue
London - Call of the Wild.

Good reading pace!

[ritter]

Lincoln Kirstein's Ballet: Bias & Belief.

[Papy Oli]

Good reading pace!

All helped by getting an e-reader for Christmas, turning reading literature and classics into an easy, very comfortable, faster and now very enjoyable hobby.

[Papy Oli]

TD: Should be finishing Hemingway's The Old Man & The Sea tomorrow.

Gripping read so far.

[foxandpeng]

All helped by getting an e-reader for Christmas, turning reading literature and classics into an easy, very comfortable, faster and now very enjoyable hobby.

I like it!

[steve ridgway]

Nearly finished Mars: Making Contact by Rod Pyle, which I bought from a charity shop. This covers the exploration of Mars up to 2016, so no Perseverance rover, but I found it an enjoyable read.

[hopefullytrusting]

Discovering how much of the greatest European author of all time's work is dependent on the United States:

[ritter]

Discovering how much of the greatest European author of all time's work is dependent on the United States:

Intersting.

There's also this, which I read several years ago:

[hopefullytrusting]

Intersting.

There's also this, which I read several years ago:

This is the quote that sparked it:
"It is strange," Proust wrote in 1909, "that, in the most widely different departments . . . there should be no other literature which exercises over me so powerful an influence as English and American."

[ritter]

Starting Antonin Artaud's short Les nouvelles révélations de l'être ("The New Revelations of Being").



Written in 1937 and published anonymously that same year, this text has been described as an "apocalyptic manifesto", and is infused with ideas derived from horoscopy and the tarot. Shorty after its publication, Artaud travelled to Ireland, from where he was deported —for disorderly behaviour— back to France. His 10 years of internment in psychiatric hospitals started soon thereafter.

[hopefullytrusting]

Endarkening.