BOOKS: What are you reading?

[zoltanspawn]

David Gilmour's exhaustive and fascinating inventory on themes of British life in India, also subtitled 'Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience.'

 

[purina]

Burr by Gore Vidal

 

[Charon]

Frisk by Dennis Cooper.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Nisid Hajari's Midnight's Furies is oddly subtitled: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition. Only the epilogue concerns legacy. The bulk of the book is mostly about Nehru, Jinnah and the events prior to and during the emergence of the modern states.

 

[me203]

I've been recently reading Sue Grafton mysteries. I just got "F" is for Fugitive from the library.

Admittedly, these don't improve my mind...but then we've all given up hope of my mind being improved.

 

[Jacquemar]

THE COSMIC MACHINE: THE SCIENCE THAT RUNS OUR UNIVERSE AND THE STORY BEHIND IT by Scott Bembenek
THE KNIGHT WITH THE LION by Chretien de Troyes
"The Horrible Revenge" by Anonymous
THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES: A SOURCEBOOK OF SACRED TEXTS edited by Marvin Meyer

 

[purina]

Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (Icons of America) by Gore Vidal

 

[theworldwithout]

Not a book, but a story:

How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar

by Rick Larson

 

[purina]

Empire by Gore Vidal

 

[zoltanspawn]

Somewhat poppy, but bright and rigorous.

 

[CharmedFan28]

Marilyn Monroe The Final Years By Keith Badman

 

[purina]

Recently finished with Gore Vidal's Hollywood and now reading the next historically in the "American Chronicles" series, Washington.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narratives_of_Empire

 

[Charon]

Patti Smith's memoirs.

 

[just_mills]

I'm currently reading the Rivers Of London books by Ben Aaronovitch.
At the moment, I am on book 9 of 10!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grant_(book_series)

 

[ClubLevelVegan]

I haven't read in a while, but picked up The Terror by Dan Simmons this morning.

 

[theworldwithout]

Sabotage in Space

by Carey Rockwell

 

[Jacquemar]

THE POETIC EDDA ed. by Carolyne Larrington
THE COMPLETE FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM ed. by Jack Zipes
THE DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY by Pierre Grimal

When I'm done with THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES, I'll add a new fourth.

 

[purina]

The Golden Age by Gore Vidal.

 

[rmcrae]

Rereading Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Loved it ever since the first time I read in 8th grade.

 

[PalacePaul]

Today I'm re-reading The first stone, by Kryzstof Charamsa