What’s Everyone Reading Right Now?

[Friendly_Lurker]

I'm looking for a good Sherlock Holmes movie to watch with my family. The specifics are in the movie thread. Any ideas?

 

[kikiruru]

my library holds (from before quarantine) were available yesterday for curbside pick-up

2 Humphry books

 

[corriemartin]

Just finished Overstory by Richard Powers. It won a Pulitzer Prize for literature. I found it flawed but enormously thought provoking.

In Overstory a group of individuals are introduced in analogies between their early lives and trees that were meaningful as they were growing up. In time their individual stories converge in a radical ecological movement to save forrests from over forrestation and development.

Once it gets going it's really more interesting than I made that sound. I had a bit of trouble getting into it but in the end I was very glad I read it. I think it will stay with me for a long time.

I've just started Paper Wife by Laila Irbahim. Can't tell you much about that except that it's about a Chinese woman who's delivered to a husband in California who is not what he was purported to be. It takes place in the turmoil during the time that China switched from Imperial rule to a republic.

I'm only 2 chapters in.

I read about 1/3 of this book and absolutely loved it--beautifully written and thought-provoking. But the problem for me was that I could put it down, so I did, and ultimately never picked it up again. I read a ton, but I'm lazy.

 

[Friendly_Lurker]

Anybody read Half Moon Investigations?

 

[FortCluck]

I cannot wait until the library opens again because I just want to hang out there and read. I doubt that will be anytime soon because I am staying away from the public most likely until January.

I am really into buying thrift books so maybe I will start doing that and buy a ton.

 

[IamRainey]

I read about 1/3 of this book and absolutely loved it--beautifully written and thought-provoking. But the problem for me was that I could put it down, so I did, and ultimately never picked it up again. I read a ton, but I'm lazy.

If you read a ton I don't think there's much reason to bother with something that isn't compelling. You surely know what you like.

It had a slow start but I found it very thought provoking and I learned a lot about trees/forests. Some of the botany and the resonance of it was actually stunning. For me the best part was at the conclusion even though there were some outcomes that I found less than compelling and you had to stay engaged in a lot of threads to get there with him.

Or did you mean Paper Wife? That was well-meaning but pretty forgettable. There just wasn't any conflict. The author threw up half a zillion supposed jeopardies only to resolve them happily in the same chapter. Despite the potential for trauma, chaos and resolution that the premise presented, the story just collapsed in a barrage of "nice".

So what's current or next for you? I just finished Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara and I've just started American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins.

 

[Friendly_Lurker]

I cannot wait until the library opens again because I just want to hang out there and read. I doubt that will be anytime soon because I am staying away from the public most likely until January.

I am really into buying thrift books so maybe I will start doing that and buy a ton.

Yeah, I love going to the library just to be there. My sister doesn't understand, with her it's just in, get the books, and get out.

 

[FortCluck]

Yeah, I love going to the library just to be there. My sister doesn't understand, with her it's just in, get the books, and get out.

The books smell so good I’m a weirdo I guess.

 

[Friendly_Lurker]

The books smell so good I’m a weirdo I guess.

No, I'm the same way. I didn't know other people liked to smell books, too.

 

[FortCluck]

No, I'm the same way. I didn't know other people liked to smell books, too.

I have a bible from 1942 someone was going to throw away and I just love the smell of it.