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I am about to finish The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

I’m rereading Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. It’s definitely a different experience from reading it when I was younger.

Kyleigh wrote: "I’m rereading Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. It’s definitely a different experience from reading it when I was younger."

I've done a fair amount of rereading over the past few years, and I can relate.

I've just started Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon

I have just started Il nome della rosa an Italian classic I have never read before and so far (I am like 50 pages in) is not bad at all.

Who Killed My Father by Édouard Louis

Currently reading

David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas.
F.G. Cottam: The Colony.
Short People , Joshua Furst.
Virginia Woolf: The Waves.

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor

The Night Circus and Watchmen among other things.

Going through Barbara Pym's novels, working on Jane and Prudence currently.

A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

The Chaperone, a novel which unexpected to me threw in a gay plotline.

Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, The Age of Reason, and The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

John wrote: "The Chaperone, a novel which unexpected to me threw in a gay plotline."

Quite excited to learn that this book exists ... just added it to my to-read shelf. I adore Louise Brooks.

I just finished Il nome della rosa and I wonder why I read it only now. It is a fantastic book, so good that halfway through it I've bought another book from Umberto Eco: Il Pendolo di Foucault (which I will read in 2021).
Now I've started something totally different: Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Edinburgh by Alexander Chee

Just finished The Poppy War moments ago, and am listening to the audio version of The Future of Another Timeline.

I’m currently tackling And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts. I’m about half way done with the book. It’s very educating on how AIDS was first perceived and handled when it was new. Has anyone else read it ?

Ariana Ancira wrote: "I’m currently tackling And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts. I’m about half way done with the book. It’s very educating on how AIDS was first perceived and handled when it was new. Has anyone els..."

I had to read that for a course in law school.

I read that around 20 years ago, and everyone in the gay community had their own opinion of it. I learned so much reading it. There was a lot of outrage over the person identified as "patient zero". Just a few years ago further research was done which proved that he was not responsible for the outbreak.

Needing some fantasy/sci-fi. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

The Only Problem, my last unread Muriel Spark title (though the others were so long ago that I've actually forgotten the plots and could read them again as basically new books). I appreciate the writing, characters and setting, but am not so thrilled with the philosophical, religious theme.

The book is definitely teaching me a lot. My mom lent it to me, she said she read it around 20 years ago as well. She said to read the book before we watched the movie

Do we have a functioning reading group here?

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Beijing Comrades by Beijing Tongzhi

Just started All My Mother's Lovers by Ilana Masad for a book club read. Very readable so far.

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Finished Brontez Purnell's Since I Laid My Burden Down this month. Highly recommend. Check out my lengthy review if you want to hear more about it.

Bill wrote: "I've just started Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon"

There's another book with the same title, Fellow Travellers, under the imprint of Gay Modern Classics (Remember those?). It was a reissue that came out in the mid-1990's, though the earlier release was from 25 years prior. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Ariana Ancira wrote: "I’m currently tackling And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts. I’m about half way done with the book. It’s very educating on how AIDS was first perceived and handled when it was new. Has anyone els..."

Yes, years ago in the 1990s. It's a commitment, so bully for you! Randy Shilts did wonderful work. The Mayor of Castro Street, Conduct Unbecoming, and the one you mention; all are impressive and the later two caused a bit of a stir, when they came out. Regardless of what you think of his theories, the books are very impressive in their scope and courage.