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What 📔book are you reading right now?

I’m on the third book of Tanith Lee’s Flat Earth series, also just restarted Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe series (for the third or fourth time), and listening to the Silmarillion read by Richard Shaw.
 
Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson...so far it's just as good as the rest of his Skyward series
 
I'm reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by the other Bronte sister: Anne. It's a study of a marriage break up and benefits from the Bronte use of direct language - not the fuss over semi colons that Jane Austen has. There's a lot of clever biblical and Christian allusions which add to the excellent dialogue. However, the tenant comes over as bit of a prig - and I don't think it was intentional by the author. Definitely worth reading though.
 
I'm reading an english translation Red Star by Alexander Bogdanov, which is an early piece of Russian utopian fiction. I'd just finished Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy and became interested in this one
 
While my phone was dead, and power was out due to the snowstorm, I went through some boxes of old books, pulling out an Ace Double featuring a couple of early stories by my favorite SF author, which I'd somehow never read:
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These Doubles were usually unrelated to one another, but in this case, they shared a common theme: plants getting way out of hand.

Reading by candlelight is an experience everyone should enjoy occasionally.
 
I've recently found an interesting book thanks to Book Crossing. It's name is "How to become a writer in ten hours". The title sounds a bit weird but the book is pretty good.
 
Squint-eyed Southerner said:
There's a movie based -- loosely, as you might expect -- on the novel: "The Eagle", IIRC.
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This was on free TV here recently but I gave up on it as they had made changes to try to make it more adult and brought in more (unnecessary) violence - not realising that what is called children's literature appeals to adults as well. Also the acting was as wooden as the trees (except Donald Sutherland as the uncle).
 
I have a copy on DVD, but confess I made it only partway through. I'll probably get back to it -- one of these days. 😄

BTW, she wrote two sequels.
 
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A © 2021 German translation of Mark Twain's "The Innocents Abroad" - but not of the 1869 version, which was first translated into German way back in 1875.
This unabridged version was apparently published in 1958 by the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, editor Daniel Morley McKeithan, and titled "Traveling with the Innocents Abroad. Mark Twain's Original Reports from Europe and the Holy Land". A bit over 500 pages, 58 chapters plus appendices, a map of the places visited from the Azores Islands to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean inside the front cover, and a more detailed map of Egypt and Palestine (all then part of the Ottoman Empire) inside the back cover. Hardcover in a slipcase. Now what does all of that remind me of? 🤔😁
 
Olorgando said:
A © 2021 German translation of Mark Twain's "The Innocents Abroad" - but not of the 1869 version, which was first translated into German way back in 1875.
This unabridged version was apparently published in 1958 by the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, editor Daniel Morley McKeithan, and titled "Traveling with the Innocents Abroad. Mark Twain's Original Reports from Europe and the Holy Land". A bit over 500 pages, 58 chapters plus appendices, a map of the places visited from the Azores Islands to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean inside the front cover, and a more detailed map of Egypt and Palestine (all then part of the Ottoman Empire) inside the back cover. Hardcover in a slipcase. Now what does all of that remind me of? 🤔😁
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I loved reading The Innocents Abroad (the 1869 edition, mind you). It was delightful; I think my favorite bit was his story about the oysters in a layer of earth :)

Lately I've been reading a bunch of things, most of which is non-fiction, but after I finished a re-read of the Dune novels, I decided to pick up the Lord of the Rings again. I've gotten Pippin to Minas Tirith, and it's felt very nice to re-read the story after such a long time away from them (I can't even recall the last time I read any Tolkien, aside from Children of Húrin).
 
'Murder Machine' by Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci. It is about mafia thug, Roy DeMeo of the Gambino crime family and his prolific killings that he and his crew did for the mob, anyone who would pay and for their own sadistic benefit and pleasure They reckon DeMeo and his crew were responsible for over 200 killings. They moved from being 'gangster hitmen' to 'serial killers'. I've always been a mob buff!
 
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I'm on book two of the Southern Reach trilogy, Authority. So far it's been a good but weird series of books but I'm enjoying them.
 
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