What are you reading now?

[AHR]

Henry James, 'The Ambassadors', last read forty years ago. I'm reading it for an online [social media but NOT X] reading group to which I belong.

[smittims]

I think I prefer The Ambassadors even to The Wings of the Dove and certainly to The Golden Bowl, but it doesn't have ahigh critical reputation.

I'm reading Downhill all the way by Leonard Woolf, for the Umpteenth time. Oneof the most readable writers; I'd love to have met him.

[AHR]

I agree on L Woolf. Read many years ago but still fondly remembered. And on 'The Ambassadors.' We are reading it at a book every two days, much how we navigated 'The Man Without Qualities', 50 pages a day more or less. It doesn't take long to warm to Strether.

[LMcD]

Currently enjoying 'Adrian Mole And The Weapons Of Mass Destruction'. Next up is 'The Battle Of The River Plate - A Grand Delusion' by Richard Woodman.

[smittims]

I've just begun The Waves for,, I think, the fourth time, and am , as always with Virginia Woolf, enjoying it more than before.

[Jonathan]

Having been disappointed with The Left Handed Booksellers of London a few weeks ago, I returned to a more familiar author for the next read; Tom Holt and "The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse", much better! Now on the 8th Rivers of London book, "Lies Sleeping" by Ben Aaronovitch.

Once I get back home from holiday, I'll resume working on my 3rd novel. Book 2 will be published on 14Jun2024 🙂. Publicity will be in place before then too!!

[Xerber]

I'm wading through Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. Not as good as Outliers, which I loved.
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The Shining by Stephen King

[richardfinegold]

The Hate You Give, a coming of age book whose narrator is an adolescent black girl who is driving with a childhood drug dealing friend and watches him being killed by a policeman during a routine traffic stop. The story rises above trope-ism because the narrator lives in a gang infested ghetto but commutes to a largely white private school and has a white boyfriend who lives in a house with black servants. She feels as if she fully doesn’t belong to either milieu.

[kernelbogey]

Man in the Dark, Paul Auster.

[Pulcinella]

Man in the Dark, Paul Auster.

The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster.
£3.99 in Oxfam last week!

[muzzer]

I have just started Enlightenment by Sarah Perry. I never read anything new so this is a punt for me. And it’s great.

[Padraig]

Interesting review in today's Observer. I might buy The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider. Michiko Kakutani. It's an American view of the USA today.
She quotes Heaney's The Cure at Troy - no, not Hope and History - where the Philoctetes of Sophocles has a change of heart and 'the intoxication of defiance' gives way to 'the sober path of adjustment'.

[smittims]

I'm re-reading Fathers and Sons (sometimes translated as Fathers and Children). Turgenev is an old favourite; every time I read him I get more out of it.

[Historian]

I'm re-reading Fathers and Sons (sometimes translated as Fathers and Children). Turgenev is an old favourite; every time I read him I get more out of it.

I have come to him late but agree there is much to enjoy in this work.

[richardfinegold]

Henry James, 'The Ambassadors', last read forty years ago. I'm reading it for an online [social media but NOT X] reading group to which I belong.

I read that and The Bostonians a couple of years ago. We recently were in New York and did an afternoon guided walk on the theme of the Guilded Age. It was interesting how an American Elite emerged after the Civil War that was determined to buy the trappings of culture from the old world