BOOKS: What are you reading?

[zoltanspawn]

I have to find a sunny meadow in the trees and way away from other people to appreciate the spellbinding Virginia Woolf.

TtL is complex, as I expected/remembered. I'm appreciating the 30-second rewind feature on my ipod...hell, I listened to chapter one twice. Lacking your embowering meadow, I don't know that I'll become spellbound with its artifice. But it's (so far) crafty and enjoyable.

 

[miaedu]

Garrison Keillor's “The Keillor Reader”

 

[Thad1527]

I just started Rita Mae Brown's A Nose for Justice and it seems pretty good. But the book I want everyone to read before June 6, when the movie premieres, is John Green's The Fault in Out Stars. It's going to be a great movie, I'm sure, but the book is wonderful.

 

[IamNoah]

I'm reading Book II of Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy.

 

[alxwhtmr95]

Thad, I don't like to read a book before seeing a folm- I'm ALWAYS disappointed when they bring a great book to the screen- wondering why they changed this, cut that, etc...if I like a film, I'll read the book after for more background/insight

 

[cubbybear01]

I recently finished The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. A pretty interesting slice of history. There were a few mistakes that the author made regarding chemistry but nothing so bad that it ruined the book.

 

[Pianist]

Just a little while ago I finished up a, new for me, author and fantasy series start: A Turn of Light by Julie E. Czerneda. Apparently she's written a lot of science fiction though I was not previously familiar with her. I quite enjoyed it.

I have been waiting for the mass paper back release of Imager's Battalin by L. E. Modesitt Jr. to show up in my local book store. It's the sixth book in the Imager Portfolio series and though it's out, as is the next in the series, it's not in any of the book stores I frequent though the seventh book IS. Odd that.

Buying online isn't practical for me.

 

[purina]

I watched the 1946 version of "The Razor's Edge" when I came across it on TV. I've always skipped the opportunity before because I thought the spiritual search stuff would be tedious and boring. After finally seeing Anne Baxter's Oscar winning turn, I read the novel, which is even better. Since then I've been reading all the non-fiction stuff I can find by Somerset Maugham.

 

[Pianist]

Er... that should be battalion.

 

[Kulindahr]

I recently finished The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. A pretty interesting slice of history. There were a few mistakes that the author made regarding chemistry but nothing so bad that it ruined the book.

Do you ever write the author when you find an error?

 

[Irish Queer]

A Feast For Crows. I'm on a Game of Thrones roll here lol.

 

[JackinSea]

I have never read any of Hilary Mantel's wildly popular fiction ("Wolf Hall" etc.), but decided to try "Giving Up the Ghost" - her memoir of the early years (before she was famous). Frankly, it's kind of a downer, though she does write well; her fans ought to like this one more than I do.

Do you ever write the author when you find an error?

I did so to an author years ago, having found two (factual) errors. She replied that they were ultimately her fault, even though someone had been paid to edit the book.

Recently, I contacted an audio narrator about a book she read that had a problem I considered significant. She said no one had mentioned it to her, and was a bit defensive in pointing a finger at the "proof listener" at the publishing company.

 

[alxwhtmr95]

I tried to read Wolf Hall- bored to tears, gave up 50 pages in...there's one writer- writing series on Richard the Lionheart, who insists on changing his mother Eleanor's age- younger by 2 years...I've read about 15 books on her- don't agree with her reasons...Eleanor would have been 13 when she became Queen of France...and they always say she was 11 years older than her second husband- Henry II- so was he 19, not 21 when he became king- I'm pretty sure they got his age right originally.

 

[IamNoah]

I have never read any of Hilary Mantel's wildly popular fiction ("Wolf Hall" etc.), but decided to try "Giving Up the Ghost" - her memoir of the early years (before she was famous). Frankly, it's kind of a downer, though she does write well; her fans ought to like this one more than I do.



I did so to an author years ago, having found two (factual) errors. She replied that they were ultimately her fault, even though someone had been paid to edit the book.

Recently, I contacted an audio narrator about a book she read that had a problem I considered significant. She said no one had mentioned it to her, and was a bit defensive in pointing a finger at the "proof listener" at the publishing company.

Hilary Mantel is God. If you want depressing historical fiction try "When Christ an His Saint Slept" about the twelfth century Anarchy (Henry I died his daughter and nephew RUINED the country in a twenty year civil war).

 

[Yuki Sohma]

The Law of the Temple in Ezekiel 40-48
Steven Shawn Tuell
Harvard Semitic Monographs 49

 

[pat grimshaw]

...Lacking your embowering meadow, I don't know that I'll become spellbound with its artifice. But it's (so far) crafty and enjoyable.

Virginia's Diaries and Letters are much more enjoyable than the straining artifice of her fiction. They still contain her nutritious insights but mixed with some humour.

 

[Kulindahr]

Hilary Mantel is God. If you want depressing historical fiction try "When Christ an His Saint Slept" about the twelfth century Anarchy (Henry I died his daughter and nephew RUINED the country in a twenty year civil war).

That's why I like alternative historical fiction.

 

[IamNoah]

Hilary Mantel is God. If you want depressing historical fiction try "While Christ and His Saint Slept" about the twelfth century Anarchy (Henry I died his daughter and nephew RUINED the country in a twenty year civil war).

My d key doesn't work and I misremembered the title.

 

[IamNoah]

That's why I like alternative historical fiction.

I've never found any goo alternative history for the period I love the most (1066-til the Deformation, oops I mean Reformation).

 

[zoltanspawn]

Virginia's Diaries and Letters are much more enjoyable than the straining artifice of her fiction. They still contain her nutritious insights but mixed with some humour.

A cursory look shows that no one has yet committed the Diaries to audio form. You ought to volunteer a reading (anyone can) at Librivox.org.