What 📔book are you reading right now?

[frodolives7601]

I'm reading a chapter a day, too. I agree it's a really nice pace, although it's difficult not to hurry ahead to favourite bits.
Tonight is Tom Bombadil - not a favourite chapter of mine - but tomorrow is the Barrow Downs, which I'm really looking forward to.

Last year I tried to read it day by day with the events of the story, but it was too uneven: some days get a couple of lines in the book, others get 2 chapters, and the 2 months they spend in Rivendell is too long to wait.

Matching the pace of reading with the events of the story is a neat concept, but I see what you mean; it wouldn't always work out in a satisfying way.

 

[grendel]

"The Silent Speaker" by Rex Stout. Love me some Nero Wolfe.

 

[Lestatomir]

I'm reading Closing Time just now, well, obviously not right now, but you know what I mean It's the sequel to Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

And I recently finished The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell. It's a novel of Arthur, incredibly good, I have the second part, Enemy Of God lined up for when I finish Closing Time. Then I have the 5th part of The Mallorean to read. So many books, so little time

FoolOfATook: Did you enjoy Red Dragon? I got about half way through a while ago, but I wasn't enjoying it. I think it's Harris' style. I got bored of Black Sunday as well. But I saw the old Red Dragon film, and it was very good.

I'm reading Closing Time just now, well, obviously not right now, but you know what I mean It's the sequel to Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

And I recently finished The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell. It's a novel of Arthur, incredibly good, I have the second part, Enemy Of God lined up for when I finish Closing Time. Then I have the 5th part of The Mallorean to read. So many books, so little time

FoolOfATook: Did you enjoy Red Dragon? I got about half way through a while ago, but I wasn't enjoying it. I think it's Harris' style. I got bored of Black Sunday as well. But I saw the old Red Dragon film, and it was very good.

Bernard's Arthur series is wonderful! It's on my list of repeat reads, though I'll wait a few years as I just finished a couple of years ago.

Just finished a run of Classics, ending with Anna Karenina, and I felt the need for a return to Middle Earth, so at this particular moment, I'm in the house of Tom Bombadil 😊

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Just finished the entire Chronicles of Narnia. We're moving into a new house and all my books are in boxes so not sure what I'll read next. But here's a few of the boxes and a look into the real-world life of EA 😬

 

[Rivendell_librarian]

I hadn't read any English Victorian novels for a while so I'm reading Anthony Trollope's Doctor Thorne. Rather like a Jane Austen novel but the style is more conversational, more friendly to the reader.

Also a couple of art books on Constable's skies

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

So I'm not the only Trollope fan on the forum!

I went on a Dickens tear a couple of years ago, and then Wilkie Collins, who seems to have had a reassessment and revival, in the past few years.

Heh. I don't know if you're familiar with that rogue, Harry Flashman, but in one of his memoirs, he relates that, having been out of Britain for a couple of years, he was stunned when, after evening mess with brother officers, the presiding general (was it 'Gravedigger' Havelock?) announced that he thought he'd "finish his evening with a little trollop".

 

[Starbrow]

I'm working my way through the Deverry Cycle of books by Katherine Kerr. Currently reading book 5 out of 15.

 

[Rivendell_librarian]

So I'm not the only Trollope fan on the forum!

I went on a Dickens tear a couple of years ago, and then Wilkie Collins, who seems to have had a reassessment and revival, in the past few years.

Heh. I don't know if you're familiar with that rogue, Harry Flashman, but in one of his memoirs, he relates that, having been out of Britain for a couple of years, he was stunned when, after evening mess with brother officers, the presiding general (was it 'Gravedigger' Havelock?) announced that he thought he'd "finish his evening with a little trollop".

The name didn't hold him back writing so many novels and holding down an important job in the Post Office which required quite a lot of travel.

It's all so English and polite and yet underneath the surface civility, there are plenty of serious goings on. Before Doctor Thorne the novel gets going, the good doctor's unworthy brother has raped a woman and produced a child: the brother is murdered by the raped woman's brother and Doctor Thorne steps in to bring up the child as his niece (which she is). Quality of birth is a theme but the supposedly conservative Trollope makes Mary Thorne an attractive character amongst the snobs. I think this will be a more serious novel compared to The Warden and Barchester Towers which the BBC so memorably portrayed in a series including Donald Pleasance, Alan Rickman, Geraldine McEwan, Susan Hampshire, Nigel Hawthorne, Clive Swift and Barbara Flynn. They don't make 'em like that any more!

 

[Hisoka Morrow]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS：WEAPONS AND WARFARE ?XDD

 

[Angelimir]

I am reading the complete Malazan Book of the Fallen.

 

[Phuc Do]

I am reading the complete Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Ive read that series twice. Re0ally good

 

[Deleted member 31872]

I'm currently reading LotR (again ) and The Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer. What about you guys?

The Deed of Paksenarrion Omnibus which has Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Divided Allegiance and Oath of Gold in it. It has over 1200 pages, I am on page 890

 

[Culaeron]

Rereading the Locke Lamorra novels, just finished Cornwall’s Sharpe series for the 3rd time, and listening to the audiobook of the Silmarillion.

 

[Ynjustice]

Currently, back into the Fellowship. Looking for a good map of Buckland and the Old Forest. I get more enjoyment reading with a visual of the lay of the land to refer to as the characters journey.

 

[Olorgando]

Currently, back into the Fellowship. Looking for a good map of Buckland and the Old Forest. I get more enjoyment reading with a visual of the lay of the land to refer to as the characters journey.

The best for that would be in Barbara Strachey's 1981 book "The Journeys of Frodo". There are Wikipedia articles on both Strachey and the book. I'm not sure if the contents can be accessed anywhere, I own a 1989 reprint of the book.

 

[Ynjustice]

The best for that would be in Barbara Strachey's 1981 book "The Journeys of Frodo". There are Wikipedia articles on both Strachey and the book. I'm not sure if the contents can be accessed anywhere, I own a 1989 reprint of the book.

The best for that would be in Barbara Strachey's 1981 book "The Journeys of Frodo". There are Wikipedia articles on both Strachey and the book. I'm not sure if the contents can be accessed anywhere, I own a 1989 reprint of the book.

Thanks! This is the best I have of Buckland. From "The Atlas of Middle-Earth" by Karen Wynn Fonstad ©️1991

 

[Halasían]

Rereading the Locke Lamorra novels, just finished Cornwall’s Sharpe series for the 3rd time, and listening to the audiobook of the Silmarillion.

I enjoyed Lies of Locke Lamora, but Red Skies lost me and I haven't been inclined to go any further with the series.

This is the best I have of Buckland. From "The Atlas of Middle-Earth" by Karen Wynn Fonstad ©️1991

I was going to recommend The Atlas of Middle Earth though it has some errors in geography. Not sure how much it has on The Old Forest and Buckland. I had a bookmark for a website called 'Buckland' which was set entirely in teh East Farthing, but it appears it has fallen into the internet ether.

I'm reading 'Deadhouse Gates' by Stephen Erikson. I seem to have a 'start-stop-start' relationship with the Malazan book series. Some parts are really interesting and some parts are really dry.

 

[Rilien]

Currently, Sodom and Gomorrah by Proust. Before that, Tallis, by Kerry McCarthy (very good!). I recently read The Fall of Gondolin, and before that, more Proust, Hardy (Tess of the d'Urbervilles), Eliot (Middlemarch, Adam Bede), The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Brusatte, Shippy's the Road to Middle Earth, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Reading Proust is different...I don't think I've ever been more inside a narrator's head. Tess of the d'Urbervilles was heart-wrenchingly sad.

I keep meaning to re-read the LOTR at some point, to kind of "reset" my brain after having seen the movies multiple times.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I got stuck in "The Captive" years ago, and never got back to it. Now I guess I need to start all over.

I uncovered an unread Alan Furst novel the other day, so naturally dove into that.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

This thread seems to have gone dormant. What happened -- did everyone quit reading? 😀

I was working my way through a book on the Egyptian art of mummification, but as I'm not feeling so well, switched to something lighter: The Daughter of Fu Manchu. 😂