What Are You Reading?

[Drusilla_]

Psmith Journalist (continuing with the Psmith theme) I'm all for the short Penguin paperbacks these days

 

[Cocteau Stone]

Seishi Yokomizo books. Just did The Village of Eight Graves now onto The Little Sparrow Murders.

 

[Drusilla_]

On Writing, by Jorge Luis Borges. It's an essay collection, and I'm rather embarrassed about taking 14 years to finish it (read about half of it back in 2010 then put it away because I didn't understand the references, a lot of the essays are reviews)

 

[Cocteau Stone]

SE Hinton’s “The Outsiders”. Well, actually read it all in one go last night. Fantastically brief in the best possible way and so heart wrenching.

At first I thought it was going to go in the realm of pastiche at the start, in a “West Side Story” kind of way but it was just so honest and so human. I really felt for the characters. Related to them in some odd way. Highly recommend.

 

[blueorchid]

SE Hinton’s “The Outsiders”. Well, actually read it all in one go last night. Fantastically brief in the best possible way and so heart wrenching.

You should read That Was Then This Is Now by SE Hinton! I think it's loosely connected to The Outsiders somehow, but I liked it sooo much more than the outsiders when I went through all those books when I was a teen. I don't remember why I liked it more, though...

I read Blood in the Machine over the last week, it's a history of the Luddites and I must say I am now identifying as a proud Luddite!!

 

[Cocteau Stone]

I’ll add it to my list!

For some odd reason, I’ve just never read any of Hintons books but my sister has and just completely flew in and over my head. Eager to read more by her though, and I think The Outsiders is a nice start. Already have Tex and Rumble Fish on my list so a third will keep me entertained

 

[Drusilla_]

finished Psmith Journalist! Utterly delightful, perfect for a lazy Sunday read.

 

[susseinmcswanny]

Never read any Baudelaire so I started with The Flowers of Evil... the way he talks about boredom makes me hate myself omg

 

[Drusilla_]

Asterix and the Soothsayer I loved my bandes-dessinées as a kid and the art is unmatched

 

[Drusilla_]

The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy

 

[Cocteau Stone]

Blazed through Tex and Rumblefish yesterday after finding copies at home on the farm that my mum kept. I cried at the end of each. SE Hinton truly leaves no word wasted in her novels.

Now trying as I may, still haven’t had the guts to start Killing Commendatore. The strangest part is that I love Murakami, but I think the size and density of the book leaves me intimidated. Hopefully my 4 hour bus ride home snaps me out of it to just start the damn thing.

 

[runner]

anything by ango sakaguchi I can get my hands on.

"humans. they havent changed; they've just revereted to their original state. they fall. there's no preventing it, and prevention wouldn't bring salvation even if it were possible. they live, they fall. there is no shortcut to salvation that sidesteps this process.
they fall because they are human. they fall because they are alive.
they need to follow the path of downfall, falling properly and to the very bottom.
only by falling to the very depths can they discover themselves and thereby attain salvation. "

 

[Drusilla_]

Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano

 

[Cocteau Stone]

Now trying as I may, still haven’t had the guts to start Killing Commendatore. The strangest part is that I love Murakami, but I think the size and density of the book leaves me intimidated. Hopefully my 4 hour bus ride home snaps me out of it to just start the damn thing.

Finished this two days ago. It was long, and didn’t need to be that long. That being said I still enjoyed it for what it was and saw myself in it a little bit so that helped push it along for me. One of my least favourite books by him in the end.

Started and finished The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi. What a surprisingly frantic and enthralling turn of events.

 

[blueorchid]

I've gotten into audiobooks lately, but very specific ones. Non-fiction, but not too serious. I'm currently listening to the book Stiff by Mary Roach about, well, human cadavers. It's pretty interesting, but the chapter about human crash test dummies was a bit too close to home to listen to while driving. 🤐

For fiction... randomly had the desire to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, it's fun!

 

[Drusilla_]

just finished re-reading Matilda for the 17th time, I'm happy to report it's always easy to see why Bruce Bogtrotter vs the chocolate cake is one of the most iconic literary scenes of all time, I'm internally cheering along with the children at the end every time

 

[Drusilla_]

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (reading my way through everything I intend to put in my nephew/nieces' Christmas gift boxes)