Fiction
Related: About this forumWhat are you reading this week of September 10, 2017?
Reading Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon, the story of a young couple who were in the theater booth with Lincoln that fateful night. So far it's really good.
Kind of caught up right now with keeping an eye on the news. It's all rather stunning. Another devastating 9/11. Hope all our members stay safe.
Ohiya
(2,433 posts)I'm reading it for the second time. I read it about ten years ago and I am enjoying reading it again.
It is about a young man from a small island village in Japan who goes to Tokyo to look for his father whom he has never met.
hermetic
(8,622 posts)And oddly enough, we have a group member here who uses that name, Number9Dream. Cool!
raven mad
(4,940 posts)which book is being attacked? Mine are, every one of them, bookworms...............
hermetic
(8,622 posts)She's dancing. We do a lot of that at my house.
CurtEastPoint
(19,182 posts)It's really entertaining!
https://www.amazon.com/Rosie-Project-Novel-Graeme-Simsion/dp/1476729093
hermetic
(8,622 posts)Filled with humor and plenty of heart, The Rosie Project is a delightful reminder that all of us, no matter how were wired, just want to fit in (Chicago Tribune).
lordsummerisle
(4,652 posts)hermetic
(8,622 posts)The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America Hardcover June 13, 2017 by Nancy MacLean
This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all this means for America's future, you should be NPR
I'm already deeply depressed. I think this would put me right over the edge.
lordsummerisle
(4,652 posts)I only got through the first half of Dark Money before I had to put it down...
pscot
(21,037 posts)Hi Hermetic. I had to abridge my summer reading. I had cataract surgery, but I'm back, with new eyes. I'm reading Pride and Prejudice for the umpteenth time. Mr. Wickham has just arrived in Meryton, Bingley is planning a ball and Mr. Collins has come, like froggie, a courtin'.. I'm also reading Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. So far it's about a scientist whose girlfriend has the head of an insect. Body parts are interchangeable and grotesques are propagated by the criminal justice system, headquartered menacingly at Perdido Street Station. The girlfriend is an artist with a terriying commission. She works in bug spit and I think she's in danger. This is steampunk, whatever that may be. God knows where this will lead. I hope you're well above storm surge.
hermetic
(8,622 posts)your surgery went well. Being able to see is quite precious.
Perdido Street Station sounds pretty out there. I'll have to look into that. Love steampunk art, hard to imagine it as a writing form. Bound to be popular, though.
japple
(10,326 posts)the storms, hurricanes, wildfires, flooding and other disasters we've had in the US this past week.
I've finally finished reading Nathan Hill's book, The Nix and must say that in spite of some of the flaws with this book--overlong and the need for tighter editing, I really enjoyed reading it and think the ending was absolutely perfect. It brought back many, many memories of the year 1968, a biggie in my own life, with all of the turmoil, especially the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, complete with Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather. I am going to add this to my list of "Best of 2017."
Hope this week is a better one for all.
hermetic
(8,622 posts)Finally getting rain in the northwest which will hopefully put out all our fires. It was getting hard to breathe around here for a while. Hoping for the best for the east coasters with all the incoming storms.
Yeah, '68 was an interesting year. I'll have to read this just to take me back there.