what are you reading?

[Jaebius]

For school right now I'm reading, "Allah: A Christian Response" by M. Volf. The author argues reasonably well that Muslims and Christians worship the same God.

 

[Luce NDs]

Several books on the domain that is called mined ... an imaginary realm? Some people say such a thoughtful aria is beyond eM!

 

[Delightful Life]

This year's edge.org question

The final book in the hard-romance classic series, "Ringworld", called "Fate of Worlds". Will the poor fisher man finally get the hand of the Dutch Diplomat? I quiver in anticipation.

Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination" -- I've always heard and read aboot it, but never read it. Imagine a society where everyone can teleport by will...what would that society be like?

Charles de Lint's "The Riddle of the Wren". Picked it up at a used book store. Charles de Lint writes 'magic realism' or 'urban fantasy', oftentimes taking place in his own created reality that he revisits time and time again, his version of a famous Canadian city. I first came upon him as reference material for a faerie game I was running. His characters grow on me as I become familiar with them and as he writes more and more with a lot of the same characters. They change and grow.

Blasts from my youther youth: Steve Jackson's "Starship Traveller", "Scorpion Swamp" & "Midnight Rogue", fighting fantasy for the win -- take a choose-your-own-adventure book and add dice rolling with a smidgen of character creation in it

A hardcover edition of Deepak Chopra's "Book of Secrets" -- I think I've used some of his ideas before in real life

i picked this up for the cover. an advanced reading edition of Lauren Groff's "Arcadia". Lots of reader blurbs on the cover: "gifted writer", "beautifully understated", "revelatory, magical", "arcadia feels true"...no pressure for the author, eh?

 

[Hilary]

Thanks for reviving this thread, Inanna.

I'm reading "Frog Music" by Emma Donoghue for my book club. Other than it being a bit heavy on the eroticism, I like the story and look forward to our conversation on Saturday.

 

[Jaebius]

Thanks for reviving this thread, Inanna.

I'm reading "Frog Music" by Emma Donoghue for my book club. Other than it being a bit heavy on the eroticism, I like the story and look forward to our conversation on Saturday.

Is this a book club at the local public library, or something that you and some friends organized yourselves?

 

[Delightful Life]

Thanks for reviving this thread, Inanna.

I'm reading "Frog Music" by Emma Donoghue for my book club. Other than it being a bit heavy on the eroticism, I like the story and look forward to our conversation on Saturday.

Jesus is Risen! Hallelewjah!
(Jesus prolly would rise after reading that book?)

 

[Mendalla]

I'm reading a collection of short stories by fantasy/sf writer China Mieville. Great writer and a smart cookie, too. Has a doctorate from the London School of Economics. Also a very active, hardcore socialist and it often colours his writing. Not to say his writing is polemical but, like sf great H. G. Wells before him, Mieville's socialism influences his settings and sometimes even his plots.

Oops. Forgot the title. It's Three Moments of an Explosion : Stories by China Mieville.

 

[Delightful Life]

I'm reading a collection of short stories by fantasy/sf writer China Mieville. Great writer and a smart cookie, too. Has a doctorate from the London School of Economics. Also a socialist and it often colours his writing. Not to say his writing is polemical but, like sf great H. G. Wells before him, Mieville's socialism influences his settings and sometimes even his plots.

what a baroque writer i find him to be
super super dense ideas and descriptions
he reminds me of Tim Powers & Frank Herbert

 

[Mendalla]

what a baroque writer i find him to be
super super dense ideas and descriptions
he reminds me of Tim Powers & Frank Herbert

More Powers than Herbert, I'd say, but you've got it right otherwise.

 

[Luce NDs]

Frogue eroticism ... horny toadies? There must be toadstools for cov erupt ... covs being created by the carpenter with a proper blade for the router ... augre 'n?

 

[Pinga]

Picked up a couple of mystery novels by Henning Mankell -- the Wallander Series. decently written and translated.

 

[Carolla]

Presently reading "Nature of the the Beast" by Louise Penny (Canadian author). Light reading - about what I can handle at the moment.

 

[Pinga]

Have one of hers in the wings

 

[Luce NDs]

Presently reading "Nature of the the Beast" by Louise Penny (Canadian author). Light reading - about what I can handle at the moment.

Read some of her earlier books at out potluck group that reads alien myths described in dark form 'vestory ...

 

[Mendalla]

Picked up a couple of mystery novels by Henning Mankell -- the Wallander Series. decently written and translated.

Have you seen Kenneth Branagh's Wallander TV series? I've heard good things about both it and the novels.

 

[Delightful Life]

Just finished a book that has a lot of ideas packed into a tiny package

David Brin
Existence

A tale of First Contact

And oh, what a contact

(books like these make me marvel @ how some authors are able to write many different characters...)

 

[Jaebius]

For the course I was in last week we read...

• City of God City of Satan by Robert C. Linthicum
• The Space Between by Eric O. Jacobsen
• The Multicultural Leader by Dan Sheffield

Next up...

• Arrival City by Doug Saunders

 

[Carolla]

I'm about half way through "All the Light We Cannot See" - fascinating book about life just before and during WW2 from the perspective of two very different characters - a young blind French teenager, and a young orphaned German whiz-kid who is being swallowed into the young Nazi education movement & of course from there into the war. I know they're going to meet - but I'm not quite there yet!!

I just saw some ads for "The Light Between Oceans" movie which is soon being released - read that book a while ago - it was also excellent with some interesting moral dilemmas posed. I will definitely go see the movie.

 

[Mendalla]

On my journey, read Odd and the Frost Giants, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. All are nominally for "young readers" but Neil's YA novels smoke most writers' adult tomes. Coraline in particular is one of the scariest and most powerful fantasy stories I have read in a while.

 

[Luce NDs]

I'm about half way through "All the Light We Cannot See" - fascinating book about life just before and during WW2 from the perspective of two very different characters - a young blind French teenager, and a young orphaned German whiz-kid who is being swallowed into the young Nazi education movement & of course from there into the war. I know they're going to meet - but I'm not quite there yet!!

I just saw some ads for "The Light Between Oceans" movie which is soon being released - read that book a while ago - it was also excellent with some interesting moral dilemmas posed. I will definitely go see the movie.

Read that ... now into John Ralston Saul's: Voltaire's Bastards ... curious presentation about pure logic without care and concerns about the by product ... people, yep, eM (the paradigm) that we don't really give a chit about when self-concerned due to application of fear and anger by autocrats!

Gives some support to golden balance and fool's gaol'd the eternal objective of spatial balance in the soul thingy? Real men don't believe in balance and would sooner kill themselves one way or the other ... no dualities accepted as too devious for one way persons to understand ... thus the scaly person took off with the concept of balance ... and the scales too ...