What 📔book are you reading right now?

Deimos · Nov 26, 2023

Starbrow said:
I’m rereading Mansfield Park by Jane Austin.

oooooo... another Austen reader 🙂
But I think you mentioned that already.
But that's OK...and more than OK.. There can never be too many Austen-ites. 😁

Squint-eyed Southerner · Nov 26, 2023

I came across one of my copies of Sense and Sensibility the other day; put it on my "to reread" stack.

Deimos · Nov 26, 2023

Squint-eyed Southerner said:
I came across one of my copies of Sense and Sensibility the other day; put it on my "to reread" stack.

I think it's time for a re-read of Emma....been 'way too long since I last read it, five years at least.

Ent · Nov 26, 2023

Well, I've had Jane Austen's works in my library for quite a long time and never read them...
Sounds like I might have been missing something.

Squint-eyed Southerner · Nov 26, 2023

You have -- though of course there's the matter of "taste". To me, her style is something to savor, as is her perspective on Regency manners. She certainly inspired the 20th century "Regency Romance" genre.

Which reminds me of a comment by some dunderhead critic saying a movie was like a "Jane Austen bodice-ripper". She'd clearly never opened one of her books. 🙄

I'd recommend starting with S&S or P&P.

Ent · Nov 26, 2023

Squint-eyed Southerner said:
I'd recommend starting with S&S or P&P.

yes, these are the two titles I've heard spoken the most frequently, though I've never heard what they're about.
so is she primarily somewhat a 'romance' style writer? Or how would you classify her works.

Squint-eyed Southerner · Nov 26, 2023

She was primarily interested in relationships between men and women, yes, and their effects on families. But also within and among classes, though she concentrated mostly on the upper class.

Notably, I don't think she ever used the word "love" in the context of male-female relations, preferring "affection".

Ent · Nov 26, 2023

Squint-eyed Southerner said:
Notably, I don't think she ever used the word "love" in the context of male-female relations, preferring "affection".

How very interesting. And how 'appropriate' in certain circles at certain times in history, for certain reasons.
I suspect when I'm done with my current re-reads, I may dapple with one of hers just for a taste... generally speaking, I don't think it's going to be the type I usually keep 'in my wheelhouse,' but I suppose I should really have a first-hand look.

Thanks for the input.

Squint-eyed Southerner · Nov 26, 2023

I'm sure Deimos can add anything I've missed. 😄

Deimos · Nov 26, 2023

Ent said:
yes, these are the two titles I've heard spoken the most frequently, though I've never heard what they're about.
so is she primarily somewhat a 'romance' style writer? Or how would you classify her works.

Her stories have been called "Comedies of Manners". (Do not think of "comedy" in the 20th-21st C meaning.)
Read the entries about her works in both Britannica and Wikipedia and you will get a better idea of her stories.
It also wouldn't hurt to read her bio.

Deimos · Nov 26, 2023

Squint-eyed Southerner said:
I'm sure Deimos can add anything I've missed. 😄

HAHAHA... I was already typing my 2 cents worth before I saw your post. 😄

Eljorahir · Nov 28, 2023

Just finished a reread of Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein.

...one of my favorites.

Squint-eyed Southerner · Nov 28, 2023

For a riposte from Harry Harrison, try the original Bill, the Galactic Hero. 😉

Kolbitar · Nov 28, 2023

Greetings fellow TTF wanderers. I'm nearly done with a full "proper" read of Walden for the first time, as I've only ever read long excerpts. Thoreau really is way ahead of his time in being a proto tiny-house-minimalist-vegan-instagram-hipster of sorts, though it seems to me that he's mostly just "cos-playing" the outdoorsmen type. He's got some intensely poignant, eloquent, and worthwhile quotes and observations, but most of the work feels like reading through a bland and (mildly?) narcissistic diary. I both like H.D.T. a bit more than I had before reading his work, and I most certainly dislike him quite a bit more than I had when having only read his "notable" excerpts, which truly are excellent. I will not re-read Walden. I am, currently, rereading The Lord of the Rings for the...well, not quite triple-digits just yet, but certainly halfway there. I think Tolkien is on to something in this work, but I'll have to read it a few more times, to be quite sure.

Glorfindel Goldtress · Nov 28, 2023

Kolbitar said:
I will not re-read Walden.

Fair enough. I remember not getting too much out of his work when I read it in high school (other than take nature not for granted and enjoy simplicity). I myself wouldn't read it again either if only for the fact he uses too many words to state a point, and I just didn't find his writing intriguing enough.

Kolbitar said:
I am, currently, rereading The Lord of the Rings

A splendid choice! You truly can't go wrong there. ☺️

Olorgando · Nov 28, 2023

Re-reading "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.

Radaghast · Dec 1, 2023

Another free B&N download.

Eljorahir · Dec 1, 2023

Rereading "Flashman" by George MacDonald Fraser

Þráinn Þórhallsson · Dec 1, 2023

Squint-eyed Southerner · Dec 1, 2023

Eljorahir said:
Rereading "Flashman" by George MacDonald Fraser

My favorite scoundrel -- beating out even Eddie Haskell! 😄

I wish more movies had been made, in the 70s; Malcolm McDowell was a perfect Harry.

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