What are you reading now?

[JasonPalmer]

Reading today's telegraph, interesting quarter page advert for Jacob Rees mogg on gb news. The Tory tv channel eh

[Bryn]

Tony Greenstein's "Zionism During The Holocaust - The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation". Highly recommended, thoroughly researched investigation into the links between political Zionism and the far right from Hitler to Trump et al.

[jayne lee wilson]

Just finished...
The Hero of this Book by Elizabeth McCracken....

Just embarked upon.....
Old God's Time, by Sebastian Barry....

Rereading and perusing...
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout...

[smittims]

I'm re-reading Chekhov's plays for the umpteenth time: nearing the end of the Cherry Orchard. Then it's 'Barchester Towers' I think, as re-reading the Barchester Chronicles is my treat this year.

[gradus]

Vol 3 (of 5) of Jonathan Sumption's history of the Hundred Years War. The final vol is due out in July.

[Pulcinella]

The discomfort of evening
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (trans by Michele Hutchison)
The 2020 International Booker Prize Winner

[eighthobstruction]

.....My Journey to Lhasa :Alexandra David-Neel c1927

[JasonPalmer]

I have been rereading churchill style, a book about the life of churchill by a man who runs a churchill themed shop in america.

[Bella Kemp]

The Grapes of Wrath. It's an extraordinarily well-written and engrossing story as well as being one of the most compelling indictments of the U.S. form of capitalism ever written.

[vinteuil]

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... the Correspondence of Horace Walpole ed WS Lewis vol 34 : letters to the Countess of Upper Ossory vol iii - 1788-1797

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[smittims]

Just getting into 'Barchester Towers' for I think the fourth time, and the Signora has just arrived as Mrs. Proudie's reception.

[french frank]

Just heard from someone who's intending to go to the production of Die tote Stadt (or The Dead City as they term it at the Coliseum) - opening this week. Seemed the moment to reread G Rodenbach's Bruges-la-Morte. My paperback edition has all the original photos of Bruges from the 1892 edition.

[Padraig]

The Grapes of Wrath. It's an extraordinarily well-written and engrossing story as well as being one of the most compelling indictments of the U.S. form of capitalism ever written.

As it happens, Bella, my book (I'm re-reading it) just mentioned yours. "I got stoned alone. . . read The Grapes of Wrath and The House of the Seven Gables which seemed as if they had to be tied for the most boring book ever written . . . " Theo Decker in The Goldfinch.

I tend towards your view!

[smittims]

Another writer who had a thing about Bruges was Pamela Hansford Johnson , who lived there for a while and at least one of whose novels is set there. I think she's due for a reassessment, some of her books coming back into print after having been forgotten for decades.

[Stanfordian]

'The Passenger' - Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (Pushkin Press 2021)