What book are you currently reading?

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

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SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

[i]Wives and Daughters[/i] by Elizabeth Gaskell.

[i]Time for Socialism[/i] bt Thomas Piketty.

[i]The Princes in the Tower[/i] by Philippa Langley.

[i]Beowulf[/i] (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!