This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Oops69 wrote: »

Virginia Wolff , To the lighthouse, just started , can't make head nor tail , 12 pages in and thinking of ' giving it a break ' , I know she's supposed to have had an innovative writing style , is it worth my perseverance ?, any help much appreciated !.

Well worth persevering , great writer great book . Although not the one I would have started with if it was my first time reading Wolff

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Under a Pole Star by Stef Peney. Not that far into it but I'm really liking the writing so far.

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White Fang
by Jack London

The Eloquence Of the Dead by Conor Brady

In Praise Of The Stepmother - Mario Vargas Llosa .
I picked this up in the recycling centre and had no idea what it was about , what a strange disturbing little book - unnerving

The Oxford Book of English Verse Chosen by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch .
Another one from the recycling centre first published in 1900 and this edition published in 1939 but without any great changes . It is fascinating to see the change in taste over a hundred years . For example Goldsmith gets just under half a page and two very very short poems and William Drummond gets seven pages .

Ostland - David Thomas
Another historical thriller set in wartime Germany , I am a sucker for these things

Dubliners by James Joyce. I kind of zipped through it once before (or most of them) but the themes are subtle enough that I need to read it again properly.

A June of Ordinary Murders by Conor Brady
(Read the 2nd book first and very much enjoyed the depiction of 1880s Dublin)

The Leopard - Guiseppe di Lampedusa

The Lesser Evil The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-59

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Finished Dennis Lehanne's Shutter Island. First time I had read any of his work. A decent light read which I liked but nothing more then that.

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QUICK & DIRTY
by Stuart Woods

Scribble,Scribble,Scribble - Essays by Simon Schama , a bit hit or miss .

Next up

The House By The Lake , A story of Germany - Thomas Harding

The Cripple Of Inishmaan - Martin McDonagh

Remembering Michael Hartnett - McDonagh & Newman (editors)

Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty

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Grief is the thing with feathers, Max Porter

Farewell my Lovely, by Raymond Chandler (on Audible).

There's a description of a guy at the start that says: "His skin was pale and he needed a shave. He would always need a shave."

I just got to the somewhat widely quoted line that goes "She was a blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window."

Written in 1940, so there's a fair amount of racist language just tossed in, even from Philip Marlowe himself.

On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist by Michael Harding

Collected Poems - Michael Hartnett

The Ulysses Trials , Beauty & Truth meet the Law - Joseph M. Hassett

Les Grand Meaulnes - Alain- Fournier

The First Fifteen lives of Harry August, by Claire North. Pretty good.

Return to Paradise by James A Michener

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LionelNashe wrote: »

The First Fifteen lives of Harry August, by Claire North. Pretty good.

I thought that was brilliant..

LionelNashe wrote: »

The First Fifteen lives of Harry August, by Claire North. Pretty good.

Is that similar to Paul Auster's 4 3 2 1?

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Lincoln in the Bardo, a superb read once you get used to the style of writing.

The Slaughter Man by Tony Parsons

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Finished Dennis Lehane's Moonlight Mile. A light and enjoyable read.

Callan57 wrote: »

Is that similar to Paul Auster's 4 3 2 1?

I don't know that one, but I might add it to my list - it looks interesting. The Harry August book is told in a pretty linear fashion, basically Harry August relating the history of his 15 lives, but with plenty of flashback to incidents from his various lives. It handles time-travel paradoxes and that kind of stuff in a very good way; none of the face-palm stuff you'd see in 'Looper' or 'Back to the Future', for example, where somebody would see themselves fading from a photograph because they interfered with history and were never born.

I'm listening to 'Touch' by the same author now, which has a similar premise to that Denzel Washington film where a demon could jump from body to body and take over the person.

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

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Just finished In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomás González, enjoyed it but found the conclusion a bit of an anticlimax. Going to start The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson now.

New Ways To Kill Your Mother : Writers & Their Families - Colin Toibin

Vivid Faces :The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland 1890-1923- R.F.Forster