flight paths discussion

Summer Buzz by Raven Howell (2024)

Hot summer, wearing
sun-striped sweaters, worker bees
in eighty-degrees.

(https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/summe...)

It's August already!

Magdelanye, I hope your dances for Peace are successful and a memorable trip for you. We look forward to hearing of your experiences when you return.

What are we reading this month? Does anyone have any reading plans or projects they mean to catch up on? What's happening in your days?

I started August with a new book: The Jesus Mystery: Astonishing Clues to the True Identities of Jesus and Paul.

thanks Petra for welcoming us to this month. And with exactly the header that I was going to use when I got to a place with wifi.
Now Ive been in Vienna for a few days. Not too impressed.

I've heard good things of Vienna (but have never been). Sorry that it's a miss for you, Magdelanye. How much longer are you staying there?
When are you coming home? Do you know yet?

Love your welcome to August Petra!

And sorry Magdelanye about your experience of Vienna

I've been pulled back into John Banville's mystery series, set in 1950s Dublin, starring brooding, alcoholic pathologist/detective Quirke. I'm now reading Holy Orders which I'm enjoying

I just finished Clara Reads Proust which is extremely light and which I also enjoyed (very different atmosphere). Love the fairy tale aspect of happening upon a book and it changing your life

And I was approved from NetGalley for a new book about the tv series Friends and I'm having a good time with that

Ellie, it's so good to hear from you. I love seeing new posts here. It's been a busy summer for us all.

I love the idea of a book changing someone's life. I recall finding wisdom in books just when I needed it. It may not have changed my life (or maybe it did?) but it certainly made me stop & reflect and think about where to go.

I haven't been reading much this past week, so I'm still on the same book.
On my ereader, I started reading The Granny Who Stands on Her Head: Reflections on growing older. So far, it's a light, humorous look at ourselves, our thoughts and our perspectives as we age.

wonderful to be able to come here and see our little group thriving without me: although not really without me for i am often referring people to GR and checking things out when i can.
And only yesterday in Graz I took another picture of a shop featuring Petra. I will have to figure out how to post.

Yes, Vienna was far to big and hot and crowded but I did meet a friend there, which was why i went. I am seeking out smaller places as i make my way to Bordeaux where I have a good friend waiting for me. There I hope to rest up for the next phase when the weather is cooler and the masses of tourists are gone.

Of all things, i have finally got into those kind of books you so love Ellie and that i have disdained. Maybe its only a subgenre but I enjoyed Ellis Peters, not eveeen the first in the series but the 14th, given to me for the trip by the woman i stayed with in Warsaw. I loved it for the atmosphere of the times, written so enticingly.

And I will search out the books Petra is reading if I ever do get back in range of a library.

Back now at the hostel in Triest where i have wifi. Luckily, the above message, written this afternoon n was there to be sent.The ocean is the best and the town is not flooded with tourists. In fact, a nice place to linger but that was what I have done enough of in Poland and now way behind schedule to get to my friend in Bordeaux.

Keep having fun, Magdelanye, but we're not the same without you at the helm. You are missed. Enjoy the visit with your friend.

I read a fun graphic novel, The Field, It has it's dark moments but it's basically a fun look at at nostalgic childhood where one could play outdoors all day long and ride one's bike around town without adult supervision.
The graphics are simple, yet effective. I liked them.

It is wonderful to be able to relax and to be with someone i know and care for. And to have some leisure to read! i am deep into Heartstone and it will be good to pass it on (its over 700 pages and heavy)

I found Suitcase Girl on my ereader. It's been there for a number of years now. Started reading it and was pulled into the story and characters. I really enjoyed it.
It is, though, the first of a trilogy and ends with a cliff hanger. That wasn't a deal breaker for me because the story flowed well and I was ready to keep on reading.

I immediately found the second book, The Curator, and started it. It's as good as the first book and I can't put it down.

Character driven, interesting, mysterious and entertaining.

sounds like just the right book at the right time Petra and how perfect that you could jump right in to the next one, and that its equally gripping.

Finished Heartstone yesterday but although I'd like to carry on with the series, which is extensive, its unlikely I'll be able to do so until Im around a library again.

I finished the trilogy of Suitcase Girl, The Curator and The Hatchery.
Really, they are one long book & story. There's no ending to the first two and the story continues in the next volume.

As a story, this one is quite unique. It's got interesting and real characters, with doubts and fears of their own. The story is mysterious and adventurous. The trilogy has it all for a fun, easy read that will keep one rivetted and in the story.

These are books 7, 8 and 9 of the Abby Kane series but they stand alone for the story. I'm sure there's more about Abby's history and background in books 1-6 but it doesn't make a difference for reading these three books.

I do plan on looking into the first Abby Kane books. She's an interesting character. I like her.

fun and easy arent usually paired with riveting in my vocabulary but thats an appealing concept. Now that I think about it, that does apply to the two books that i read in the last month that i probably never would have if not for travelling. Both of these: the Ellis Peters and and the Sansome, are historical fiction with several mysterious connections and an atypical Detectives.

Petra you seemed to have hit the reading jackpot with this series which has great potential to engage you for a while

It was a pleasant surprise to find that trilogy. Sadly, the library doesn't have any of the author's books! None!

I'm currently reading, and enjoying, The Rules of Half: A Novel.

How frustrating that the library doesnt include this author that has broight you such delight. Perhaps another library might? The libraries i have dealt with on the Sunshine Coast were very good about special lending.

Looked up your new book. Sounds complex and rather heavy. I guess light summer reading time is over.

Certainly the book I have
been plodding my way through over the last week is quite a challenge. Theres some good insights and ideas that have kept me from bailing on it but it is quite ponderous and I can understand why his revolutionary ideas never caught on. Even the title and his vocabulary are a bit off putting- The Law of Peoples by John Rawls. I hope to finish it before I leave here.

Not complex or heavy. A "getting over a bad past & being happy in the future" story, with a touch of "small town bullying & prejudice" thrown in.
Not terribly well written at times, either, but interesting enough to continue. The author has put in every possible situation of trust, distrust, personal complexity, past history, etc. that could be squeezed into the story.

The Law of Peoples with The Idea of Public Reason Revisited sounds complex and heavy. Could be interesting & thought provoking, though.
I hope you get to finish it before you leave, too.