what are you reading?

[Carolla]

Current book study group read is - "Entangled Life - How Fungi Make our Worlds" by Merlin Sheldrake. Fascinating! Try to find the 2023 edition - has extraordinary colour photos.

Saw a review the other day of "The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly" - looks excellent. I think a trip to my local library is in order. Weirdly, the library has only TWO audio versions (with 21 holds presently!) and about 5 hard copies. I don't get that.

 

[Delightful Life]

cool, another member of Rupert Sheldrake's family

 

[BetteTheRed]

Kay, that happened to my mother after she had a stroke. Went from an avid reader to enjoying to listen to me read to her.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Some find audio books helpful. I experienced Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy through a radio play on CBC as a kid in the 80’s. My mom and I listened to it every morning.

I think it’s a combination adhd, internet brain, and menopause for me. Stress, too much. It should be relaxing but it’s not, it’s added pressure. So many distractions. It used to be easier to focus, if the book was interesting. Now it’s more difficult, even if I am interested. Yet, I can read tons of articles and news stories (prefer to read them than watch video) and even academic papers that I seek out… ???

 

[Mendalla]

Some find audio books helpful. I experienced Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy through a radio play on CBC as a kid in the 80’s. My mom and I listened to it every morning.

LOL, that's how I first heard the radio play version of Hitchhiker's, too. It was on in the summer and I listened at the cottage. CBC Toronto had a repeater up there somewhere so it was one of the few stations we could get. I think I had already encountered either the first novel or the 1981 TV series, though I had known it was originally a radio show. Sad that we lost Douglas Adams so young (49). Brilliant writer in all the various projects he took on (besides his own works, he was showrunner on Dr. Who for a season or two and did some writing for it). Crap, looking that up, I see today is actually the 25th anniversary of his passing.

Hitchhiker trivia: There's an asteroid named after Arthur Dent, the series protagonist, and another named for Adams himself.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

I’ll let you know when I get through this latest one. I like the concepts so far.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

LOL, that's how I first heard the radio play version of Hitchhiker's, too. It was on in the summer and I listened at the cottage. CBC Toronto had a repeater up there somewhere so it was one of the few stations we could get. I think I had already encountered either the first novel or the 1981 TV series, though I had known it was originally a radio show. Sad that we lost Adams so young (49). Crap, looking that up, I see today is actually the 25th anniversary of his passing.

Wow. Serendipity!

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

If there are any other good books that are radio plays, anyone knows about, I could get into that.

 

[BetteTheRed]

Neil Gaiman reads his own book, The Anansi Boys, and it's really magical. Great story.

 

[KayTheCurler]

If there are any other good books that are radio plays, anyone knows about, I could get into that.

BBC did The Man Born To Be King back in my youth. I was given a copy of the book as a prize at school in 1960.

 

[Luce NDs]

What I read is complex ... few would suffer interest to go that far ... they might learn something dark and of myth (because the pagan item was that it isn't so)! Profound ...

 

[Delightful Life]

there are books that i want to read but that i will never read, thereby unintentionally cutting myself off from possibilities. instead relying on others interpretations of them

some of them

Pretty much all the intro books to Rudolph Steiner. The man desperately needed an editor who could translate his words into a more public form

Das Kapital

Capital in the 21 Century

War and Peace. I look at this and think of the Universe's alleged heat death. Or the perfect door stop

The Upanishads
Mhabarata

a whole VC Andrews book

the entire of Stephen King's Dark Tower series

The entire Perelandra series

In Search of Lost time by Proust

 

[Luce NDs]

there are books that i want to read but that i will never read, thereby unintentionally cutting myself off from possibilities. instead relying on others interpretations of them

some of them

Pretty much all the intro books to Rudolph Steiner. The man desperately needed an editor who could translate his words into a more public form

Das Kapital

Capital in the 21 Century

War and Peace. I look at this and think of the Universe's alleged heat death. Or the perfect door stop

The Upanishads
Mhabarata

a whole VC Andrews book

the entire of Stephen King's Dark Tower series

Shadows are cast as inky blotches ... a mark in time! Are the marks appearing lightly ...

 

[Mendalla]

The Upanishads

Read them for a course on Hinduism and Indian religion in university. Quite interesting and not that long each.

Mhabarata

Like most Westerners, I have only read the Bhagavad Gita, which is a small chapter from this massive epic. Doubt I will ever read it in its entirety.

the entire of Stephen King's Dark Tower series

I got about halfway through and have had good intentions about finishing it for years. Loved the first couple books for sure. Never seem to get there, though.

The entire Perelandra series

I read the last book (That Hideous Strength) for an English course in university but have never got around to the rest.

I have long had good intentions about reading the great Chinese novels (Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Outlaws of the Water Margins, Dream of the Red Chamber) but finding a good English translation that isn't heavily abridged hasn't been easy so I backburnered and now I am unsure if and when I will get around to them. Journey to the West is the priority, being basically a fantasy novel (hero is a magically powerful monkey who has some really wild, weird adventures).

 

[ninj]

Most of Dickens
...sometimes the window just closes.
Probably a lot. I have the experience of going into the library and finding nothing these days. Either signed out with 31 holds, or unavailable.
The One non-classic I would take into my next incarnation is "Art and Lies" by Jeanette Winterson

 

[Mendalla]

I have the experience of going into the library and finding nothing these days. Either signed out with 31 holds, or unavailable.

My local has the bad habit of buying later volumes of series that it no longer has the early volumes of (due to loss, damage, deaccession, etc.), making it hard to read through a series using just borrowed books. I mean, if you're going to buy volumes 2 and 3 of a trilogy, shouldn't you replace volume 1 while you're at it?

 

[ninj]

I binge Read CS Lewis in the mid eighties. Everything. Wish I could recall any of it. Peralandra was like WW1 in a canister hurled into space.

 

[Mendalla]

I binge Read CS Lewis in the mid eighties.

I read the first Narnia (in publication order), The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and then later some of his essays and, as mentioned, That Hideous Strength. He's a bit of a man of another time, though. The attitude to women I saw in one of the essays when I revisited his apologetics a few years ago would not fly in a modern church unless it was one of the conservative ones that still clings to things like women not being in positions of leadership other than maybe Sunday School.

 

[BetteTheRed]

Yet, A Grief Observed displays a total connection to a female human, and a total acceptance of her as a full and equal soul to his. An intensely moving book.

I love CS Lewis, but have never read the Narnia series.