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What book are you currently reading?

I’m reading The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien

AndysAttic · 56-60, M

I sometimes go back to the old books, HG wells always pleases. The Island of Doctor Moreau for the I don't know how many times.

Anniedlr · 26-30, F

Lady Death. The Memoirs of Stalins Sniper🙂

Rolexeo · 26-30, M

Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz

hunkalove · 61-69, M

@Rolexeo Is that still around? A big one for college students back in the 60s. Tried to read it several times. Never got very far with it.

Rolexeo · 26-30, M

@hunkalove It seems very worthwhile so far. Like the answers in the back of your mind you don't consider

JustNik · 51-55, F

I’m listening more than reading these days because I’m working on other projects in my spare time so this way I still get my books while I’m busy. Currently it’s another round of Sense and Sensibility. When I need comfort, it’s Jane or Agatha these days, but I’m still building the library. I hope you enjoy Tolkien! Those stories are old favorites. 🙂

SW-User

I'm a BAAAAAD person. I don't read books. They're too long. Even the shortest ones.

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@whowasthatmaskedman

I'm never careful 'bout most things. I guess I'm doomed, then 😧

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@whowasthatmaskedman

You are consistently funny. If you wrote a book as wry as your comments, I'd read it 👍

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@SW-User A read a lot of such books and plagiarise the best..😉

Convivial · 26-30, F

If like to say something deep and meaningful... But in truth its a sci fi trilogy 🤣

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Convivial Not that there is anything wrong with that..😂

Convivial · 26-30, F

@whowasthatmaskedman agreed... Just some light but enjoyable, mental floss🤗

AliceinWonderland · F

little women, divine disruption, wildwood. i love those lord of the rings books and the hobbit!

BridgeOvertroubledWaters · 61-69, M

I just finished Schindler's List

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I usually have more than one on the go.

At the moment, three.

"Joseph and His Brothers" by Thomas Mann (very small print and only read a few pages each week - now around page 1100 of 1500)

"Barbarossa : How Hitler Lost the War" by Jonathan
Dimbleby.

"Treasury of the True Dharma Eye" by Eihei Dogen

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Time for Socialism bt Thomas Piketty.

The Princes in the Tower by Philippa Langley.

Beowulf (a modern English translation).

Harmonium1923 · 51-55, M

@SunshineGirl What do you think of the first one? I’ve never read anything by her but I’ve heard others speak well of her.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@Harmonium1923 It's a sort of feminist version of Jane Austen. Looks at the psychologies of two girls and a woman whose destinies are to be shaped by the will of a patriarchal physician. I'm about a third of the way through and fairly gripped.

Elizabeth Gaskell was once employed to write by Charles Dickens, but he apparently found her impossible to work with!

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

Good question -- just finished THE HOBGOBLIN MURDER by Kay Cleaver Strahan last night, not sure what I'll start to read next. Probably book 3 of The Brentford Trilogy, EAST OF EALING, by Robert Rankin.

SatyrService · M

when possible I suggest people red the BOOK before seeing the films
his writing strength is great for your imagination. when i tired a re- reads some years back? I kept seeing those actors..in my head

hunkalove · 61-69, M

Living the Beatles Legend, by Kenneth Womack (2024). A biography of Beatles' road manager Mal Evans. I think I'm about to give up. One of those "too much information" books. Gets boring.

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

I was reading Lasher by Anne Rice but I got sick of it. I'm sick of Anne Rice.
So now I'm reading a book about Sir John A MacDonald (Canada's first Prime Minister), sounds boring but I like it.