What Are You Reading?

[axiomatic]

Just finished Tears of the Trufflepig by Fernando Flores and the Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

 

[kissmesweet]

I'm in the middle of I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb.

I am also reading Linda Grant's The Thoughtful Dresser (and other books) at the same time.

 

[MissMagAddict]

Open Book - Jessica Simpson

Wow!
Can’t stop. Don’t want too.

 

[kissmesweet]

Still reading Malala's book. I'm slowly making progress, and it's quite enjoyable!

Also reading Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir. It's incredible so far. I know that I am going to love this book.

 

[cestmagique]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

 

[kissmesweet]

Reading a few books at once. Right now, I'm focused on My Short Century by Lorna Arnold. She is considered by many as Britain's first female diplomat. She's also a talented and well-known historian, whose writing focused on the nuclear programme in the UK. The book is lovely so far!

 

[cestmagique]

Little Gods by Meng Jin... hooked so far!

 

[kissmesweet]

Finished the Lorna Arnold book. I am back reading Sour Hearts by Jenny Zhang. A delightful and dynamic collection of short stories about girlhood and the Chinese-American experience.

 

[cestmagique]

^That sounds really good! I'm going to add it to my list.

I'm reading Into Thin Air about the catastrophic Mount Everest climbing season of 1996. It's insane to me. It makes me want to travel on the one hand, and maybe do some adventuring, but definitely not f*cking climb Everest!

 

[kissmesweet]

^That sounds really good! I'm going to add it to my list.

I'm reading Into Thin Air about the catastrophic Mount Everest climbing season of 1996. It's insane to me. It makes me want to travel on the one hand, and maybe do some adventuring, but definitely not f*cking climb Everest!

I'm more than halfway through Sour Hearts. It gets better and better. Some of the stories are interrelated too! Zhang's voice is so sharp and distinctive. I also love the biting humour.

 

[tigercub]

I'm really into poetry and the classics of world literature.
reading the epic of gilgamesh atm, it's the first epic ever written, possibly around 1800 bc - it was written on clay tablets. it's absolutely amazing and i can't stop thinking about the story haha

 

[lauralynn025]

The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty

 

[Squizree]

"Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee

 

[kissmesweet]

Back to Grace by Grace Coddington–near the final leg, as it were. Also reading The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner. Both are really enjoyable so far.

 

[Benn98]

A local bookstore ran a clearance sale and I've stocked up on some random selections just to use as an excuse to avoid my cousins, who dropped by unannounced since they can't really go on holiday abroad. Anyway, on Monday I've tried White Tears by Hari Kunzru and I must say I've enjoyed it despite not being one for supernatural or ghost stories. Was completely focused and engaged, and finished it in one day, something I've not done in ages. The characters aren't event that original but it's just a really well-written book with tight storylines which really demands your focus.

 

[cestmagique]

I've started Devil in the White City and although it's generally well written and interesting, it has some quirks that I find both hilarious and really annoying. It's nonfiction and the two main subjects are absolutely insistently referred to as handsome (*Googles them*... nope ). But worse is that they both have blue eyes and the author just cannot freaking let it go! Everything is "eyes gleaming like marbles of lapis" this and "his blue gaze" that it's so ridiculous!

 

[kissmesweet]

Been reading about journalism and journalism schools recently. I'm in the middle of Journalism in Action, an old book comprised of essays by Columbia School of Journalism graduates. It is edited by Edward W. Barrett.

 

[MulletProof]

Been reading Bolaños' The Savage Detectives, and also a bunch of papers, trying to keep it focused on spaces (Montgomery's Cultural Quarters, Bourdieu's Physical Space, Social Space and Habitus, etc) but also.. whatever sparks my interest, or feel too judgmental about mostly through ordinary observations and just.. want to change lol but refuse to have wiki as my teacher. I started to read a bit on the "model minorities" in the US, I'm often intrigued by the lack of involvement or political activeness and the rapidness to disapprove and discredit the reasons that pushed the other groups to manifest whatever grievance they had. I didn't know it was a whole topic.. Tumaneng's The ParticipAsian Problem is a short and good read.

 

[cestmagique]

I just finished The Sun Also Rises as well as a collection of Hemingway short stories. I think I've accepted that I just don't like his work. It seems oddly amateur and often I find the characters quite irritating. I'm going to pick up Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and The Scapegoat tomorrow.

 

[kissmesweet]

At present, I'm reading I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith as well as Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I feel like going back to the classics in the meanwhile!