What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Ashley]

All quiet on the western front

 

[Deimos]

All quiet on the western front

Are you reading this on your own "time" or is it a selection from a required lit assignment at school?
If it was assigned (chosen from a list) what oher choices have you made? and think you might make for future reading?
It was assigned when I read it ...we had choices of course, from a long list.
Still I do not know if I would have read it freely on on my own, not back then anyway.
For other picks I chose Lord of the Flies because I actually wanted to read that.
I totally steered clear of any Steinbeck. Also avoided Moby Dick, but I think I might read that now.
I wish they had offered the "other" Hawthorne novels: House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance; I would have preferred either of those to The Scarlet Letter. I didn't read SL until last year (tho' I knew the entire plot). I still think it is inferior to his other two novels I mentioned (both of which I have read twice... and "House..." maybe even a third time.)
I didn't care for either A Separate Peace or Catcher in the Rye.
Chose The Fountainhead and I liked it. But don't know if I'd like it now. "Time changes us."
I did very much like The Great Gatsby tho' .
Also 1984. And later on my own I read Brave New World .I think 1984 is the better story, but BNW predicted the future (our current times) more accurately.
Also chose The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451. (But I had read them previously when I was 13, so...that was easy reading)

 

[Ashley]

Are you reading this on your own "time" or is it a selection from a required lit assignment at school?
If it was assigned (chosen from a list) what oher choices have you made? and think you might make for future reading?
It was assigned when I read it ...we had choices of course, from a long list.
Still I do not know if I would have read it freely on on my own, not back then anyway.
For other picks I chose Lord of the Flies because I actually wanted to read that.
I totally steered clear of any Steinbeck. Also avoided Moby Dick, but I think I might read that now.
I wish they had offered the "other" Hawthorne novels: House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance; I would have preferred either of those to The Scarlet Letter. I didn't read SL until last year (tho' I knew the entire plot). I still think it is inferior to his other two novels I mentioned (both of which I have read twice... and "House..." maybe even a third time.)
I didn't care for either A Separate Peace or Catcher in the Rye.
Chose The Fountainhead and I liked it. But don't know if I'd like it now. "Time changes us."
I did very much like The Great Gatsby tho' .
Also 1984. And later on my own I read Brave New World .I think 1984 is the better story, but BNW predicted the future (our current times) more accurately.
Also chose The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451. (But I had read them previously when I was 13, so...that was easy reading)

I’m doing it on my own time. I’ve always been interested in WWI and my brother has recently been trying to get us to watch the movie, but of course the book must come first. Of the others you mentioned, I’ve read Lord of the Flies and Brave New World by myself, and read Scarlet Letter, Gatsby, and Fahrenheit 451 in school. I may have read The Martian Chronicles, but can’t quite remember if it was that or another Bradbury collection.

 

[Deimos]

I’m doing it on my own time. I’ve always been interested in WWI and my brother has recently been trying to get us to watch the movie, but of course the book must come first. ...

The 1930 Movie is superior to any versions made after that.

 

[Starbrow]

The Children of Hurin

 

[Erurávennë]

Patrick Henry by Moses Coit Tyler (1898)
(I am reading this on archive.org - absolutely one of the best websites ever. So many cool old books and all for free!)
Patrick Henry is quickly becoming a favorite founding father/ historical figure of mine! And this book is incredible. Everything is on point; Tyler refutes misconceptions about Henry, often from a previous writer on Henry named Wirt. Learning more about the founding fathers/founding era; it's good to know beyond 'Give me Liberty or Give me death' (Henry would not mind being known for this though, I don't doubt). Highly recommend this book if it is in your interests.

 

[WhitneyBrat]

His Children's Children by Arthur Train, which is practically family history around here. It's about a family with its roots in colonial New England and Gilded Age fortunes, and the ensuing generations who lose their position and wealth.

 

[Starbrow]

Daughter of Sun, Bride of Ice by H. L. Burke, aka Elgee. I recommend it.

 

[Idril Celebrindal]

Recently re-read the Odyssey, while also taking the Hillsdale online course on it. I'd say it was better the second time over, if that's possible. I'm about to start The Illiad while also doing the Hillsdale course on that.

Also reading The Great American Story: A Land of Hope and taking (you guessed it) the Hillsdale online course.

@Erurávennë , I'm still only halfway through Seven Pillars of Wisdom 😅. I'll take a break from it and finish some other things on my list first. Might also start it from the beginning again, and make notes and stuff to keep better track of what's going on. Right now I'm having trouble remembering who's fighting who and where everyone is going... It's like reading The Silmarillion again for the first time.

My loan on Grapes of Wrath expired, but I want to read that again once it's free.

Oh, and I'm also reading the Little House series with my younger sister. It's nice to return to it, I used to read it a lot when I was little.