Books: Book(s) you are Currently Reading | Part II

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Thucydides

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I've just started Lisa Taddeo's Three Women, that'll be book 90 this year.

I've cut my time on HF a lot but I'd be happy to take part in a book club here.

Nothing wrong with cutting down on internet time. 90 books is a lot. Going to post your favs again this year ?

I have that book on my kobo. Plan on reading it this year as well.

I have the idiot waiting on my shelf as well (are we the same person ? Haha). We will get a book club going in 2020. :)
 
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Nothing wrong with cutting down on internet time. 90 books is a lot. Going to post your favs again this year ?
Don't forget your annual ranking. :teach:

Yes, there'll be a list of my books sometime in January.


I have the idiot waiting on my shelf as well (are we the same person ? Haha).

This is a great sentence out of context.

I've got quite a bit of Dostoevsky on my shelf, and some Tolstoy too. I'd love to read at least some of it this year but I probably won't have time. If we do a book club we should probably start with something shorter than The Idiot, I think our first attempt wasn't helped by picking The Tin Drum.
 
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Last book of the year . This makes for 75 books this year, which is lower than past years, but all good, read some gems this year !

what is everyone’s favourite book they read in 2019?

my favourite & what I think is the most thought provoking book of the year is “the shallows : what the internet is doing to our brains” by Nicholas Carr . Like all powerful books it actually made me change my life.

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pumped for the books that lay ahead in 2020. Hope to do some book clubs with you guys , girls(?) this year.

Really enjoy coming to this thread and seeing what everyone is reading all the time. I find a lot of good books through this thread - so thanks.

Going to step off the internet until the new year. See ya’s then!

happy holidays.
 
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I'm reading another collection of short stories, Some Trick by Helen DeWitt
 

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An account based on the real experiences of an 1830s sailor. In the pre-Panama Canal days, the author sailed as a crew member from the East Coast, around South America, and on to California.
I'm about 25 pages in.. unfortunate dude got sea sick his first night sailing..
 
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Just finished the last book of David Peace's Red Riding Quartet. Spread them out over the past year because it is dark, nasty stuff. Do recommend reading. Don't recommend binging.

There's a beauty in the ugliness. Peace's writing is almost musical, poetic. Staccato like James Elroy. Not for everyone but great if you're on its wavelength.
 

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Good read, if you're interested in the life and career of Rod Serling..
 

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I'm currently reading Ian McEwan's novella on the Breixit mess, Cockroach.
 
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Going for something of a change-of-pace, so it will likely be a police procedural, Peter Robinson's Careless Love.
 
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I'm reading more used copies of the old 8os 'V' series. Brief, entertaining sci-fi..
 

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I'm still reading my 'V' sci-fi.. But thought this title looked interesting. I'm about 50 pages in, its kinda esoteric bcuz it's thoroughly focused on essentially just 4 Biblical passages.. And how they shaped (early Jewish) belief in evil as 'demonic affliction'. Interesting, deep subject matter, but it feels like I'm reading a textbook (or required reading) for a Biblical archeology student.. Dry reading for a layman like myself. I might not be the intended audience.
 

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I've had a life-long fascination with the Lost Colony.. and have visited & worked in the Outer Banks many times over the years. Every couple years I'll read (or watch) something on it..
 
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