What are you reading?

Originally posted by @torunn
Enjoy. 🙂

Thanks. I'm sure I will.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

- Hunter S. Thompson

Irwin Yalom: the Spinoza Problem. Very well done up to now. A nice double Portrait of Spinoza (the philosopher) and Alfred Rosenberg (the Chief ideologue of the Nazi Party)

While waiting for a book from the library, I came across this one:

'The Making of Home' by Judith Flanders

Profiles in Courage

- John F. Kennedy

I renewed membership in city library and borrowed 9 books a week ago.
- Xavier Cercas "Soldiers of Salaminas"
finished;postmodernism under the fur coat of Enrique Villa-Matas. In III part Cercas mentions encounter with Bolano, and how he helped him with the novel. I sensed certain envy toward Bolano, as I did n Matas' obituary...
- Guiellermo Martines "A Repulsive Happiness", short stories
almost half done; too calculated
- Chesterton: "Everlasting Man"
first chapter Cave man is finished: too many pages for something that can be summarized in "no evidence that cave man had beaten his wife, if miracle is slow it isn't more probable" Chesterton's humor is too dry
- Chesterton "Man Who Was Thursday"
fiished; hilarious, but also too calculated
.- Rushdi "The Enchantress of Florence"
first 5 chapters; sometimes sounds like Jackie Collins love hertz novels (nt that I had read them); I simply am not SF and historical novels guy
- Jorge Edwards: "Was Museum"
first chapter done;
- Sabato "Tunnel"
haven't began yet

Rereading

Terry Pratchett: Guards! Guards!

Hillarious now as then. Will reread more Pratchett over the next months.

Stephen/Owen King - Sleeping Beauties

This was truly a slow burner, even by King's standards, I am over 400 pages in and feel that what has gone before could have been condensed without losing anything too major into 100, or less!

But it is S.K., so will plod on through it!

Originally posted by @paul-a-roberts
Stephen/Owen King - Sleeping Beauties

This was truly a slow burner, even by King's standards, I am over 400 pages in and feel that what has gone before could have been condensed without losing anything too major into 100, or less!

But it is S.K., so will plod on through it!

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

I watched a movie tonight - 'Darkest Hour', with Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill. I liked it a lot, mainly because I like Churchill a lot, and Gary Oldman too. I don't think it's a film for everyone though.

"The wisdom of psychopaths"

maybe a must read for the Chess Forum Warriors 😉

Originally posted by @ponderable
"The wisdom of psychopaths"

maybe a must read for the Chess Forum Warriors 😉

Finished the book having gained some insight (or so I feel) and started a thread about a personality test.
The author should be pleasedw ith his impact 😉

Now reading

Robert Silverberg: Time of the great Freeze

Originally posted by @ponderable

Robert Silverberg: Time of the great Freeze

that one was not so fascinating in my opinion. though it had an inetersting starting Point Characters were not very deep. Even though some changed their Point of view during the Story 😉

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Originally posted by @torunn
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

For those of you who have not yet read this book:
"The Underground Railroad, published in 2016, is the sixth novel by American author Colson Whitehead.

The alternate history novel tells the story of Cora and Caesar, two slaves in the southeastern United States during the 1800s who make a bid for freedom from their Georgia plantations by following the Underground Railroad, which the novel depicts as primarily a rail transport system in addition to a series of safe houses and secret routes.[1]

The Underground Railroad was a critical and commercial success, hitting the best seller lists and winning several notable prizes. It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,[2] the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction,[1][3] the Arthur C. Clarke Award[4] and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.[5] It was longlisted for The 2017 Man Booker Prize..." (Wikipedia)

Horrifying story as was the reality it tells us about. I'm glad I came across it at the library - it is also about love and very brave people.