What are you reading?

[table1349]

We know, one of your compatriots posted a selfie.

 

[JonA_CT]

I've been reading essays...many many essays...on the relative merits of multilingualism.

Essay count so far: 400 and change.

That sounds truly dreadful...even if you are just scoring and not giving feedback.

 

[limr]

I've been reading essays...many many essays...on the relative merits of multilingualism.

Essay count so far: 400 and change.

That sounds truly dreadful...even if you are just scoring and not giving feedback.

It's pretty intense. The mornings aren't too bad - I read fairly quickly and still have enough energy to be jittery. Our group breaks for lunch at 12:30, so the afternoon session is shorter, which is good because the reading drags a lot harder after about 2:30. But we do get regular breaks and the coffee is plentiful (thankfully it's not too terrible, either. Not great, but it could be worse.) Still, I'll be glad when we're done on Friday.

 

[Braineack]

last few books Ive read:

The Street Lawyer - Grisham
The Testament - Grisham
The Summons - Grisham
King of Torts - Grisham
A Painted House - Grisham
Skipping Christmas - Grisham
Bleachers - Grisham
Down and Out in Paris and London - Orwell
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time - Sutherland
Playing for Pizza - Grisham (Currently)

 

[jcdeboever]

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Roland Barthes

IMO, very interesting read for photographers

 

[table1349]

last few books Ive read:

The Street Lawyer - Grisham
The Testament - Grisham
The Summons - Grisham
King of Torts - Grisham
A Painted House - Grisham
Skipping Christmas - Grisham
Bleachers - Grisham
Down and Out in Paris and London - Orwell
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time - Sutherland
Playing for Pizza - Grisham (Currently)

I sense a pattern here.

 

[Braineack]

Going back and reading all his books I've missed.

I read a lot of Cussler, Baldacci, and Grisham.

 

[Kenneth Walker]

Just started"A Very British Ending"by Edward Wilson....cold war thriller, great stuff.

 

[table1349]

Going back and reading all his books I've missed.

I read a lot of Cussler, Baldacci, and Grisham.

It was the Orwell that concerned me. I felt a disturbance in the force.

 

[Braineack]

It should be required reading of every human being to read a vast majority of Orwell's work.

That particular book is non-fiction, fwiw.

 

[table1349]

It should be required reading of every human being to read a vast majority of Orwell's work.

That particular book is non-fiction, fwiw.

Read it several years ago, that's why I felt the disturbance in the force. It did not fit the pattern.

 

[Braineack]

I gotta stay grounding reading so many adventure stories...

 

[shefjr]

I just finished "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George S. Clason
Short read and for some I would say it could change a persons thoughts on how they spend their money.

 

[Warhorse]

Currently reading "The Bourne Legacy" by Eric Van Lustbader.

 

[limr]

Back in August, I picked up The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. I was enjoying it, but then school started and I never finished it, so I'm picking up where I left off. I did read a few things in between then and now for my book club, which I mostly can't remember right now, not because my memory is failing, but because the books were kinda boring and once I'm done reading, there's no reason to remember them.

The last thing I read was a novella by Shirley Jackson called We Always Lived in the Castle. Haunting.

Holy crap, y'all, I FINALLY finished The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I started it in July, left it for a few months, read more in December, then left it again during the spring semester. When I picked it up again recently, I still was only about 40% done. (In my defense, it's a 600+ page hardcover with small print). I brought it with me to Kansas City and started it again (after I finished Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.) Got to half-way while I was there and then burned through the last half in the past week.

Part of this pattern was that at first, the story grabbed me enough to keep reading but not enough to sustain the interest once school interfered. And then, of course, school interfered. This was an anomaly, though. My tendency is to devour books, not drag them out for 10 months (even if I did "cheat" on the book and read others in the interims.)

Now I have to hold auditions for my next book.