Tea & Books - What are you reading?
Just finished Clarice Lispector’s “The Passion According to G.H.” and it was excellent. Still gotta mull it over or maybe reread it to get it fully (trigger warning: cockroaches!!!)
Also just picked up the Selected Short Fiction of Ursula Le Guin. Looking forward to the treat of reading a short story or novella on a regular basis for the next good while…
Starting The Fixer by Bernard Malamud. Set in Czarist Russia, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1967, eerily apropos to 2016…
Not usually one for posting, but I’ve been an avid reader since I was little begging my mom to teach me to read (because I got tired of waiting on others to read for me). :)
Currently working on Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson in audiobook format. I spend way too many hours a day commuting and it knocks the socks off talk radio. :)
With the holiday swiftly approaching, I’ll have 4 days off in a row and no big meal to plan/prepare, so I should be able to get some reading done. I don’t have a current book at the moment but debating on starting either Beyond the Rift by Peter Watts (massive fan of his) or sticking with Brandon Sanderson and going with Skin Deep.
Just started “Mrs Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf. I’ve read “A Room of One’s Own”, but this is my first Woolf novel. Enjoying it so far!
Never read any of hers…With absolutely no supporting evidence of any kind, I have a preconceived notion that they would be somewhat gloomy. Am I way off base?
I loved Mrs. Dalloway simply for her writing: her ability to capture both the simplicity of a day in the life (critics complain nothing really happens) and the beauty inherent to this sometime mundane life (her descriptions of the view in the omnibus scene). I’ve also read Orlando, which is my favorite of hers so far.
@gmathis – I wouldn’t say it’s gloomy exactly, but she certainly doesn’t shy away from examining the darker side of life.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Really enjoyed Fledgling by Butler so I’m excited to start this.
Finished Mrs Dalloway over the weekend and decided to go for something much lighter to start the new work week: “Three Wishes” by Liane Moriarty. It’s her first book and so far it definitely isn’t up to the standard of her recent novels. But it’s still a fun read!
the fellowship of the ring. never read the lotr, so now its time.
awesome guys!its so hard to stop reading, and even though ive seen the films, there is lots more to the story when read.
I don’t re-read books much, but try to re-read my fav books twice and maybe some of the top favs even more. I read The Hobbit and LOTR first when I was in college and re-read them for the second time before each of the movies was released, I guess I’m due for another re-read soon…
Savour the books, enjoy :-)
nice, wish i got to the books before the films..
but, ive got my tea and my pipe and the book(s) the holy trinity.
its not a churchwarden, i wish. here it is, based off a song i dont really care for- but i love the design.. http://www.tobaccopipes.com/rattrays-blowers-daughter-50-tobacco-pipe-gray/
Nice! I used to smoke an occasional pipe but haven’t in years. Though this is kind of making me want to break one out.
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