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January 2021 - What are you reading?
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I'm starting off the year reading The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy; which features a member of the hijra (third gender) community in India as a primary character.
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Re-started Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote, which I had set aside a while ago.
Still working on Thread, A Brothers' Keeper Story by Tristan B. Taylor. I've also started A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor.
I’m starting off the year with The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin!
Yesterday I read "book 2" in the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series, and this morning I started Drum Corps in the 1980s, by Alan Karls. Tonight, after supper, I'll start The Gentleman from Moscow, by Amor Towles. For the last few weeks, I've been making my way through an audiobook called Society and the Internet by Mark Graham et al.
Christopher wrote: "I’m starting off the year with The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin!"I love that book!
So far this month I’ve finished:
Doctor Who: Luna Romana
Crisis on Multiple Earths Vol. 6 &
Doctor Who: The Perpetual Bond
I’m also finishing up Lent and About Time 3: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who.
I have started the year with No Priest but Love: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister 1824-1826, the second volume of extracts from Anne Lister's diaries.
Andrew wrote: "I have started the year with No Priest but Love: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister 1824-1826, the second volume of extracts from Anne Lister's diaries."The lesser known sequel! What a player that woman was :-)
I have started 2021 with a sci fi novel, as I did in 2020 with the beautiful Exhalation by Ted Chiang, unfortunately this year the choice hasn't been that lucky: I am reading Recursion by Blake Crouch and the only good think I can say about it is that it is a very quick read.
Ended Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center and I want to start Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism today
I have finished Recursion which I hated (it is the first time in over a year and a half that I give a book just one star), I should start now Lot
Mauro wrote: "I have finished Recursion which I hated (it is the first time in over a year and a half that I give a book just one star)"I didn't enjoy the repetition. It did drag on rather. But I suppose that was the point! Have you read Dark Matter by the same author? I enjoyed that much more.
Mauro wrote: "I have finished Recursion which I hated (it is the first time in over a year and a half that I give a book just one star)... “We read that for my library’s sci-if fantasy book club last year. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t find it very original. Probably as I’ve read a lot of Michael Moorcock and comic books. Such time travel stuff is cliche in comic books. I liked Dark Matter more as well.
Christopher wrote: "I’m starting off the year with The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin!"I read that last summer and thought it was pretty interesting.
I just read Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara.
Natasha wrote: "I didn't enjoy the repetition. It did drag on rather. But I suppose that was the point! Have you read Dark Matter by the same author? I enjoyed that much more."I don't know. I think some time will pass before I take another book from Blake Crouch in my hands.
Mauro wrote: "I don't know. I think some time will pass before I take another book from Blake Crouch in my hands."I agree.
Just finished An Irish Country Doctor, now picking up Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones...In December I finished reading Babbitt, interesting read given our current political climate...
John wrote: "Re-started Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote, which I had set aside a while ago."Bumping my comment to link my review of this highly recommended work:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I’ve started The Windup Girl for my sci-fi/fantasy book club. We’ve been doing zoom meetings now that it’s gotten colder and we can’t meet outside. I don’t like zoom meetings. 😾
Just finished Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer for a book club read which I really enjoyed and learned a lot.Also reading The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio for class and Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life because I guess I was looking for a challenge to start the year off with...
Read Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart over the weekend and just started a thread on it over in the Plays & Shows section of this group. I found the play startlingly current and would love to hear from others, especially if you had a chance to see a live performance.My Review.
My first book of 2021 was Shuggie Bain which was excellent, if grim. I finished that a few days ago and picked up Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat which I am loving. Short stories. I've only read her memoir Brother, I'm Dying before this and think I need to read all her fiction now. Next up might be the sequel to Call Me By Your Name?
I have just finished a memoir - I Promised Not to Tell: Raising a transgender child and it was so lovely!
Just finished The Tiger Flu which reminded me of a Cronenberg movie - reviewed here. Currently listening to I Have Something to Tell You
Working on Muriel Spark's The Mandelbaum Gate, unfortunately the Catholic angst isn't something that I can get into - here's hoping there's more to the story soon.
Just ordered a copy of the classic The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, which I'm really looking forward to reading. It's coming from Germany (I'm in the UK) so it'll be a few weeks.
Yesterday January 25 was St Dwynwen's Day in Wales. She is regarded as the Welsh St Valentine. So I'm reading Playing Chicken: A short St Dwynwen's Day story by non-binary author A.L. Lester
I've finished Lot by Bryan Washington and it is a great book. Now I should start Paradise Sky by Joe R. Lansdale.
I'm finally reading The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman, the final volume in "The Magicians Trilogy."
Natasha wrote: "Starting the year with a little bit of light reading!: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand."Overall I liked Atlas Shrugged. Some of the dialog was so bad I laughed out loud, but the imagery and characters are so memorable it really sticks with you! If you like it, but want to hear the other side of her arguments I would recommend The Jungle or The Grapes of Wrath...
I thought that the heroes in Atlas Shrugged were almost comic-book superheroes but that the villains were spot-on.I just started The Storm: One Voice from the AIDS Generation by Christopher Zyda. This should be interesting because Zyda and I are close in age and because I volunteered on HIV issues in the eighties and even started the AIDS ministry at the church I was attending at the time.
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