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BOOKS: What are you reading?

The Better Angel, Walt Whitman in the Civil War by Roy Morris
 
"Cleopatra's Wedding Present: Travels through Syria" by Robert Tewdyr Moss.

Gay man's travels through that country in the 90s. He was murdered back in London before the book went to press, a real shame since it's a great read!
 
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
 
Just finished "We Are Lost And Found," by Helene Dunham. It's the story of a gay teenager in New York in 1983.
 
Haven't been posting in this thread lately, but some of the books I've enjoyed a lot since I stopped are...

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Flannery O'Connor short stories
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Charon said:
Lolita.
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One of my favorites.

Charon said:
And the Ass Saw the Angel.
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I don't know many people who have read this, but I thought it was superb. Mr. Cave is multi-talented. I read it before the internet was a thing, and my thesaurus was insufficient. It's not too alike Tom Spanbauer's The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon, but you may enjoy that novel nonetheless.

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CharmedFan28 said:
The Book Of Dust Volume 2 The Secret Commonwealth By Philip Pullman
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And what do you think? As I've ruminated on La Belle Sauvage since reading it, it leaves little impression on me, which is a strong contrast to the original trilogy.
 
zoltanspawn said:
And what do you think? As I've ruminated on La Belle Sauvage since reading it, it leaves little impression on me, which is a strong contrast to the original trilogy.
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It is good! This one is set 10 years after the end of the original trilogy His Dark Materials and I am enjoying it.
 
I'm enjoying the heck out of William Dalrymple's The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.

Villainy, subterfuge, violence and greed are the work of the EIC. Yet Dalrymple doesn't spare the faults of the Mughals, Marathas, Nawabs and other Indians who enabled its power. Vivid intrigue.
 
^^ Now that's sounds like a good read. I'm going to have to pick that up!
 
Indra Das' The Devourers. A queer werewolf in Kolkata tells the story of his mom and dad. An easy read but not that rewarding.

I read half each of Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Rabindranath Tagore's Gora, but put them down unfinished. Okri is so profligate with the 'magical' part of the novel's realism it doesn't feel compelling, but nonsensical. Tagore's novel was so philosophically distant (should women go to the circus? is caste prejudice bad? should India self-rule?) from my concerns as to seem inert.
 
I am currently reading "Wait Till Next Year" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. It is her memoir. It is an interesting read and a sad and tragic life so far. I am half way through the book.

Next Book I plan to read is "Find Me" by Andre Aciman. It is the sequel that came out recently of "Call Me By Your Name."
 
"Audience of One: Donald Trump. Television, and the Fracturing of America," by James Poniewozik. He's a TV critic, actually. But what TV hath wrought.
 
"Did You Ever Have A Family," the first novel by openly gay literary agent and best-selling memoirist Bill Clegg. There's quite a cast of characters connected by an explosion in a small Connecticut town.
 
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