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Started- Two kinds of Truth- Michael Connelly
in the middle of The shadow at the door by Tim Weaver
Finished: Mad, bad and Dangerous to Know, by Ranulph Fiennes
Finished: A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
Started: The Direction of Time, Hans Reichenbach
Finish: the prince of machiavelli
Started: **The Essay about the Blindness**, from José Saramago
**Finished: War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy -** I haven’t been active in these threads for a while now, because I was reading this and it has taken me a while. But I don’t know what to say about this book. Anything I put into writing here won’t do it justice. It was the greatest book I have ever read, and I know it is the greatest book I will ever read. I am so behind everything that Pierre stands for. Andrei didn’t deserve what he got. Anatole completely did though. Nicholas had some arc. Natasha was everything, from start to finish. The masons were essentially what any pious organisation is today; that is to say, completely full of blind spots they’ve nit-picked for their benefit. For months I took this book everywhere with me and I don’t know what I’m going to do now – I’m so used to any spare moment being able to tap back in to what’s going on with the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskis, the Drubetskoys, et al., and I’m just floundering now. I’ve consumed possibly the greatest work of art ever conceived and anything that follows will probably be disappointing now. For that reason, I’ve taken a few books out of the library and will give myself a bit of a buffer before going back to the classics.
**Started: Anarchepilago – Jay Griffiths -** I’ve literally only picked up this book so don’t have much to say about it yet, but it’s definitely much lighter than my previous read!
Started – Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Finished:
**Just another story: a graphic migration account, by Ernesto Saade**. A first-person account of a migrant mother and son, as told to a cartoonist cousin.
**How to baby, by Liana Finck**. Cute mini-comics about pregnancy, birth and parenthood. Some are funnier than others.
**So long sad love, by Mirion Malle**. I really wanted to like this one; but the end was very like *Gulliver’s Travels* with the Houyhnhnms (a little too earnest and utopian).
Started:
**Days of destruction, days of revolt, by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco**
Borders Witch Hunts by Mary W. Craig. It is about the women in southern Scotland and occasionally in north England who were persecuted because they were mid wife’s and cooks, sometimes herbalists and sometimes, in a time before allergies were discovered they might be helping a birth and it could go awful wrong. Even after hundreds of successful births one, or god forbid 2 and that person would be ned, shamed and cancelled as todays youth call it , or not so youthful anymore millennials call it. It is extremely interesting.
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman.
Enjoyed the beginning a lot more than the middle and the middle slightly more than the ending.
The concept, I still think, had so much potential. The characters were far too lifeless (pun intended) for my liking. I still enjoyed Gaiman’s writing and I wouldn’t mind giving some of his other works a try. I have my mind set on American Gods for my next Gaiman read.
I have loved harry potter movies and hence decided to read the series. It is so good and so much better than movies. I’d love to read more books on similar genres- any suggestions?
The intimate life od Monica P. – P.D.David. if you like contemporary books. Lots of laughter, but also tears. I realy love it.
Flood by Andrew Vachss
The Judy Chicago autobiography called Judy Chicago. [Thames and Hudson](https://thamesandhudson.com/the-flowering-the-autobiography-of-judy-chicago-9780500094389) published it.
Howdy, folks. First time poster, but longtime active lurker.
I didn’t start the book this week; however, for the sake of sticking to the discussion rules, I’ll just opt to say I did.
The title is *Bluest Eye* by Tony Morrison.
Thus far, I’d say this is one of the most gutting stories I’ve read and I tend toward fairly grim, melancholic works. I’m in awe of Toni Morrison: there are few authors who can command your attention with such lyrical prose. It’s wild, the juxtaposition that is, between something incredibly painful and bleak and dark in terms of an idea or the subject that’s on the page and the prose she employs to elucidate it is nothing less than beautiful. I’m a writer myself and my style is more or less influenced by a lot of Southern Gothic, poetic writers a la Faulkner, McCarthy, so coming across her work — and full-disclosure, this would be my first dive into Morrison’s writing — has been somewhat revelatory and highlights how she was a master of the craft in a class all her own.
Finished *Demon Copperhead* by Barbara Kingsolver.
Started *The Master and Margarita* by Mikhail Bulgakov (rereading an old favorite).
Started and finished The Boy of Chaotic Making – 3rd book in the Whimbrel House series by Charlie Holmberg. Not my favorite book in the series thus far but a good read nonetheless.
Finished Lethal, by Sandra Brown
It was a nice mindless action book, if a bit far fetched. It fit my mood.
Finished 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers, by Abraham Chang.
I absolutely loved everything about this novel. Partially because the timeline lines up with my own coming of age story, and the characters are so vividly written and fun. The book is hilarious, yet so meaningful. One of my favorites of the year.
Finished Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods and Percy Jackson: The Titan’s curse (book III).
Now I’m trying to finish chapter three of Battle of the Labyrinth (book IV). Bad thing is that I read the graphic novel a while back when I wasn’t pulled into the rabbit hole that is Percy Jackson.
I like this series because it fits my style of fantasy (example: Harry Potter).
Started Atomic Habits by James Clear. Loving it so far. Good solid mindset and productivity book. It’s all about the little things…
House of Flames and Shadow , Sarah Maas. I just started this series this week and I’m already on chapter 21. It’s hard to put the book down. The previous book in the series ended in a horrible cliffhanger and I have been dying since last summer to find out what happened next! So far the hero’s are still in a pretty bad predicament but I’m hopeful they will come out alright in the end.
Finished: Lightbringer, by Pierce Brown.
Started and finished the 6 books he’s written in the Red Rising series all in the last month. Unbelievable ride. Highly recommend for the uninitiated.
4321 by Paul Auster
Started Tales of HP Lovecraft edited by Joyce Carol Oates
3 body problem
Tia Júlia e O Escrevinhador by Mario Vargas Llosa
If everyone could please check out my book “Chasing Azra” on Amazon.