What book(s) are you currently reading?

Bernard Cornwell: The Lords of The North

It's the third book of The Last Kingdom series.

Very exciting!

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Just finished 'Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar' by Simon Sebac Montefiore.
It's a detailed account of the life of Joseph Stalin, his inner circle and his family during the worst time in Russian history.
It is baffling to read how this monster, who killed millions of his own people, was also a husband and father.

Thin by Grace Bowman.

Willow

element wrote:1984 by George Orwell, Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift, and the Prince, by Machi--something.

...great read.
If you like that, you should take a look at Down and Out in Paris and London.
Another Orwell classic.

The Institute by Stephen King

thegentlepath wrote:Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Still reading this & The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

thegentlepath wrote:

thegentlepath wrote:Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Still reading this & The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

I’m not far into The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk & already finding it triggering. I wasn’t expecting that. I’m not ready to give up yet though. I believe there will be some helpful bits that may make it worthwhile to finish, so we’ll see...

>_< ... I seriously need to stop self-blaming and feeling so insecure about not finishing books*. Michael Witmer's 'The empire of imagination' is a book I'm thankful for. Not too many ppl have the opportunity to rework a thesis topic on such a niche topic as tabletop game history into a publicly published book and I appreciate the narrative efforts, I really do but the less 'tl;dr' alternative is the p.247-254 'Appendix A' chronology providing a chronology of Gary Gynax's life.

I'm increasingly skeptical of the benefits of reading post-Chapter 8 of 'The human voice' by Anne Karpf. The first part was a slog, on developmental physiology and anatomical considerations for the voice (the throat et al). ~'Part II' finally gets around to the emotional, psychological and cultural stuff I was looking forward to but it's not like it's anything uber-novel to me.
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If I 'get the same benefit' a/o am 'just as content' w/the release if not the execution of medio consumption/information of the non-fiction sort from say a video essay several minutes long rather than reading a book or listening to several hours of audiobook,no shame I tell myself >_< T_T

I can confidentally say how my motive for sustaining Spanish comprehension aside, I 'write to read and read to write' by which I mean to say I endeavour to add fiction writing as a hobby adjacent to the ~10+ years of a journalling habit as I feel that would be a way for me to 'reciprocate to the world' for all the years of not always pragmatic but much emotionally a/o intellectually charged and exhausting media content I've consumed*.

We can talk books, we can be broader and include occasional creative fic on the internet but mainly articles, we can be ever broader in including video essays, a media form which goodness knows wasn't too prolific +15 yrs ago.


* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTCEGU9YQcg

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'Paperbacks from hell' and Octavio Paz's poetry career in one book, both English and Spanish are possible prospectives. Answers to this thread are not as 'straight forward' if you pick and choose as neccessary from instructional or DIY books (one on drawing urban landscapes/buildings comes to mind). Also there is an issue of the magazine 'Tricycle' I want to leaf through. At least.

;_; No shame , if I mean to follow drawing and DIY vids for an indeterminate time not being able to better answer the question of what I read. I'm all the more touchy b/c of how I work at library.

Having re-watch or slog through videos for short story research is not too fun @_@