What are you reading?

Jonas Jonasson: "Die Analphabetin, die rechnen konnte" (schwedish Analfabeten som kunde räkna)

A funny read, if sometimes a bit on the grotesk side

@ponderable said
Jonas Jonasson: "Die Analphabetin, die rechnen konnte" (schwedish Analfabeten som kunde räkna)

A funny read, if sometimes a bit on the grotesk side

I will read it.

Stephen King Der Anschlag (original English 11/22/63)

A book lend to my by a friend who realized I ahd a Thing for time travel. I am About a third in it and it is a good read.

@torunn said
Lyndsay Faye: Seven for a secret (2013)

If you would like to try this writer and her trilogy about the first NYPD in New York mid 1800's, you should start with 'The Gods of Gotham' (2012) and then follow up with 'Seven for a Secret'. There is a third book, 'The Fatal Flame'.

The Girl On the Train

This thread.

@cheesemaster said
This thread.

This is an old one. It occurred several times already…

I am now reading (reareacding in fact): Batya Gur: Im Anfang war das Wort (orig. Hebrew, English Translation: Literary murder: a critical case)

The girl in the letter by Emily Gunnis (2018)

@torunn said
The girl in the letter by Emily Gunnis (2018)

It says in the reviews "‘A great book, truly hard to put down..." and I also expect truly hard to read - 'Fast paced, brilliantly plotted and desperately sad at times'.
The story is about St Margaret's - a place where unmarried, pregnant girls are sent in disgrace and locked away to work under slave-like conditions. It begins in 1956.

Re-reading Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

@torunn said
It says in the reviews "‘A great book, truly hard to put down..." and I also expect truly hard to read - 'Fast paced, brilliantly plotted and desperately sad at times'.
The story is about St Margaret's - a place where unmarried, pregnant girls are sent in disgrace and locked away to work under slave-like conditions. It begins in 1956.

I didn't like reading this book, I don't like the way it is written, maybe I will after a time.

Meanwhile I start with Kate Atkinson 'Transcription' (2018)

Anthony Doerr: All the light we cannot see

A very interesting book, intertwinning two fates in alternating chapters. I am through About a fifth and report later.

@ponderable said
Anthony Doerr: All the light we cannot see

A very interesting book, intertwinning two fates in alternating chapters. I am through About a fifth and report later.

Ponderable, that is a very good book.

@torunn said
Ponderable, that is a very good book.

It is indeed. I took a break to read

Ben Kiernan:
Blood and Soil. A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur

I was to hold a lecture on the topic, which was cancelled now, I still read through the book, maybe the need arises again 😉

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson