"What book are ye reading ritemeow?"

I did not like The Trial. I finished Stone Desert and give it a slightly over-average "meh". 

Now I'm simul-reading The Compleat Angler and Foundation. The former has my attention and fits well in my recent nautical/aqueous unit preceded by MD. 

The latter isn't bad, but isn't super duper fantastic up to this point. I do anticipate reading more from the series in the future, but likely not immediately. 

Beau Geste: classic 

Just finished Lost Nation: so so and Venus Incorporated: fun vintage sci fi

Just finished Frankenstein by Mary Shelly.  Very good.  Several mountaineering and polar exploration scenes.  Nothing like the movies.  Very feminine voice. All about relationships.  19th Century romantic writing at it's best.  I would rebrand it as Happiness and Horror in the same line as Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility.

philip bonewrote:

Beau Geste: classic 

Just finished Lost Nation: so so and Venus Incorporated: fun vintage sci fi

There are three sequels to Beau Geste that continue the story that are all fantastic reads. 

^ I didn't know that. My selections are ofen dictated by what looks interesting in the free bin. Finished or not, to where they return.

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

It’s more of a collection of individual essays than a novel, so it’s easy to read a chapter every so often when I need it. And every time I read it, that chapter is perfect for where I am at that time. 

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.

About a quarter of the way in and really liking it.

"Modern Manhood: Conversations About the Complicated World of Being a Good Man Today"

By Cleo Stiller

Completely different than what I usually read but was intrigued by it in book store and started reading. Great read with some thought provoking sections. 

Rereading No Ordinary Time about FDR during the depression and WW2. To me one of America’s most interesting and trying times. 

Peace Like a River was pretty cool. No Country For Old Men-- conflicted about. Now: Get Shorty, entertaining.

Been reading the Lonesome Dove series- I'm reading them in chronological order rather than publication order, and I'm about to start the third (and allegedly best) book

When Dipiek Absaroka made the biscuits did you continue? Strongarms joie de guerre turned to pure malice. Did you ride on?
Hitch your wagon to Buffalo Killer Killer. It spills over the banks of the genres tropes. 

I'm in the middle of The Dispossessed right now. Le Guin has been fantastic in all of her works I've read, but this is my favorite by far (over The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming Home). 

Last week I found something on a remainders table that I had not known about: The Annotated Big Sleep. If nothing else, it's a more elegant edition than the standard Vintage Crime paperback--an oversized trade paperback, with larger type, wider margins, and more generous leading. The novel is printed on the verso side, with the recto being reserved for illustrations and commentary. There are historical photographs and maps of 1930s Los Angeles, glosses of period slang, and the usual academic tripe about racism and the tension between homophobia and homoeroticism peculiar to Raymond Chandler's writings. The editors comment, as everyone does, on Chandler's employment of comically exaggerated similes--in a sidebar under the heading, "HE WAS AS SQUARE AS A TEXT BOX IN AN ANNOTATED EDITION."

philip bonewrote:

 No Country For Old Men-- conflicted about. 

Oh man!

I could not put that novel down.

I literally (pardon the pun!) read it straight through in one weekend day.  Like 10 or 12 straight hours.

Blew my mind.  Absolutely loved it. 

Have you finished yet???

Trevor Kerberwrote:

I'm in the middle of The Dispossessed right now. Le Guin has been fantastic in all of her works I've read, but this is my favorite by far (over The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming Home). 

Yes!  I've read "The Dispossessed" and "The Left Hand of Darkness" and loved them both!

Buck Rogerswrote:

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.

I finished "Kafka on the Shore" and it was just amazing prose.  More than a little disturbing in more than one part and aspect, but Brother it was so well written!

Currently reading a Wooster and Jeeves novel, "The Code of the Woosters".  Just a fun, easy read!

Buck Rogerswrote:

Oh man!

I could not put that novel down.

I literally (pardon the pun!) read it straight through in one weekend day.  Like 10 or 12 straight hours.

Blew my mind.  Absolutely loved it. 

Have you finished yet???

This was me experience too. I think I read it in 1-2 days in long sessions.

I love his books, except maybe the last ones he wrote. The Road is also a fantastic read as well as the border trilogy.

No Country for Old Men is a quick read and a good yarn to be sure. This was my second go around with it, something I rarely do anymore. So I guess that says something. A little off putting everyone having identical patterns of speech (w/o quotation marks). The theme of a world in decline struck me as a little hollow, the setting having been home to a previous culture after all. The conundrum involving fate, choice and random events was unresolved. That is fine though. “I worried about it a little bit. But that’s all.”