What have you read recently?

This year, I've read:

1. Great Gatsby
2. The Things They've Carried
3. A Farewell to Arms
4. Slaughterhouse-5
5. Jailbird
6. Cat's Cradle
7. Remainder
8. Survivior
9. Choke

And I'm currently reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

One of my recent favorites is Snow in August by Pete Hamill. It's really touching story of a young boy in Post WWII Brooklyn who befriends a Rabbi from Prague. It's a story of friendship, loyalty and overcoming prejudice. I'd recommend it to anyone.

SpoonInSpoon said:

And I'm currently reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

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I'll be reading this one shortly. I've heard a lot of good things about it, so I'm quite looking forward to it.

In the last weeks I had a reading run:
Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Anais Nin, Henry and June
Beowulf
Gracían, The Criticón
Balzac, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (I'm sorry, but I have no idea what's this in english)
Eco, The mysterious flame of Loana (I'm not quite sure about the english title)
Some stories by Lovecraft.

And now I've started with Murphy by Samuel Beckett.

Greetings

Nana by Émile Zola

Part of the massive Rougon-Macquart cycle, Nana tells the story of a Parisian tart whose meteoric rise destroys several French families. Ending with Nana's death and the start of the Franco-Prussian war, Zola uses the novel as an allegory of the decline of the Second Empire.

Told in Zola's characteristic naturalistic style, it's a heady and sensual journey, with descriptions that leave you thinking you were there – you can almost smell the greasepaint in the opening chapter's description of Nana's theatrical success that launches her on Paris.

But Zola is not simplistic – his portrayal of Count Muffat, perhaps Nana's greatest 'victim', is poignant and multi-faceted, but also shot through with a sense that there are great similarities between his overt religiosity and his masochistic relationship with Nana.

Excellent stuff.

well, I have just started Angela Carter's Wise Children. Thoughts on this one?
And I have just finished Michel Tournier's The Golden Droplet, a civilization-conflict book, with an entire theory of image. I loved the idea of steeling ones soul by capturing it in pictures, and the embodiment of this idea.

I'm reading Jane Austen and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor. It's a mystery with Jane Austen (the author) as a detective. The author uses people from her life and creates a mystery involving them. There's a whole series; Scargrave Manor is the first one.


Hopefully, I'll be reading more once my semester is over. That TBR list is getting a bit long.

These are the ones I've read since the beginning of September. I'm currrently halfway through Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer (re-read)
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Dracula by Bram Stoker

I read Armageddon's Children by Terry Brooks and found it immensely hard to suffer through.

BeerWench13 said:

I'm currrently halfway through Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.

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Did you finish Gone with the Wind? Did you like it? I read it years ago and remember it as one of those books you can't put down, even though you know the author is manipulating you, shamelessly.

This is an old thread that didn't need bumping up. Rather than post books you've read recently here, the preference is that you contribute to posts on those books and, if there is no post, start one.

I don't know...the amount of books that get read here and the amount of posts that never appear. And I'm just as bad, I admit, since I started my blog.