What are you fuckers reading now?

[Lorilei]

Finally started Fairy Tale, and love it so far. It feels like my favorite kind of Stephen King novel!

 

[curious_slut]

The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore.
Just started it and enjoying it. Baba Yaga in the time of Ivan the Terrible.

 

[FataMorgana]

The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore.
Just started it and enjoying it. Baba Yaga in the time of Ivan the Terrible.

Ooh I love anything about Baba Yaga. Will definitely order this, thanks for the tip!

 

[stickygirl]

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Well that's numerous evenings of my life I won't get back. Complete twaddle from start to finish. Had to read it to the end so's not to jump to my original feeling that it was complete twaddle. It's even got a frickin Bailey's Women's prize for fiction 2017. They must have been tanked up on the stuff when they judged it. Now I'm just pissed off.

 

[ericalauren]

I read Sappho's poetry, as translated by Anne Carson, yesterday.

 

[FataMorgana]

So far this is a good 'un

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[FataMorgana]

The Boyne sequel to Striped Pajamas was excellent.

 

[FataMorgana]

Has anyone read the new Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger? Just read an excerpt that was like pure poetry.

 

[Sean]

There's a series on Sky Arts called Wonderland, it's about children's books. Specifically the 75 years from 1900 to 1975. Tolkien, JM Barrie, Milne, Kenneth Grahame, Arthur Ransome and so on. And it made me think, all the stuff I read when I was a kid was about middle class children. They all went to boarding schools and had cooks and a housekeeper. The first thing I remember reading where they were working class kids was EW Hildick's Jim Starling books.

 

[Rainblow]

Chant and Be Happy The Power of Mantra Meditation
- Based on the teachings of his Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (how's that for a handle, eh?)
Featuring Exclusive Conversations with John Lennon and George Harrison.

It's okay. I'm still a miserable cunt though.

 

[FataMorgana]

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[JohnEBbad]

The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson

 

[FataMorgana]

 

[FataMorgana]

Re-reading Rose Madder.

 

[stickygirl]

South of Forgiveness, co authored by Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger. I found the book through their Ted Talk lecture. It charts the reconciliation between the victim and perpetrator of a rape some years after the event. Victims have to carry on living after rape but often need to forgive themselves for feeling guilt and shame. In her case Thordis could not move forward, haunted by memories and unresolved questions.

Not an easy topic, but for that reason it's one that we choose to ignore in our society. Victims are expected to somehow get through it and not make a fuss. How can you solve a problem if we pretend it doesn't exist?

A gf called for supper last night and saw the book ( we swap books all the time ). She asked if she could read it after me, so there's another woman curious to understand. I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[FataMorgana]

South of Forgiveness, co authored by Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger. I found the book through their Ted Talk lecture. It charts the reconciliation between the victim and perpetrator of a rape some years after the event. Victims have to carry on living after rape but often need to forgive themselves for feeling guilt and shame. In her case Thordis could not move forward, haunted by memories and unresolved questions.

Not an easy topic, but for that reason it's one that we choose to ignore in our society. Victims are expected to somehow get through it and not make a fuss. How can you solve a problem if we pretend it doesn't exist?

A gf called for supper last night and saw the book ( we swap books all the time ). She asked if she could read it after me, so there's another woman curious to understand. I'll let you know how it goes.

I quite fancy this.

 

[stickygirl]

I quite fancy this.

Here's the link to their Ted Talk

 

[FataMorgana]

 

[Scareltt]

I just finished Sissy by Jacob Tobia, it was an interesting read.

 

[Sean]

The Yodel tracking page. Poor cunt of a driver had 131 drops today. I'm number 110.

 

[FataMorgana]

Graham Masterton is not a good writer.

 

[stickygirl]

Graham Masterton is not a good writer.

This South of Forgiveness is really well written. She has a gift of description for the incidental and mundane and beautiful that's the back drop to her journey. Weird. That the book could be beautiful too but I think that's the point.

What's also unsettling are the triangle imprints of its previous reader marking the pages. Maybe they were tired or busy because I flashed past two paper ears and I wonder what they thought too and who they were.

 

[FataMorgana]

This South of Forgiveness is really well written. She has a gift of description for the incidental and mundane and beautiful that's the back drop to her journey. Weird. That the book could be beautiful too but I think that's the point.

What's also unsettling are the triangle imprints of its previous reader marking the pages. Maybe they were tired or busy because I flashed past two paper ears and I wonder what they thought too and who they were.

I've ordered it!

 

[Sean]

This South of Forgiveness is really well written. She has a gift of description for the incidental and mundane and beautiful that's the back drop to her journey. Weird. That the book could be beautiful too but I think that's the point.

What's also unsettling are the triangle imprints of its previous reader marking the pages. Maybe they were tired or busy because I flashed past two paper ears and I wonder what they thought too and who they were.

People that turn down the corners of books should be pilloried in Trafalgar Square.

 

[stickygirl]

People that turn down the corners of books should be pilloried in Trafalgar Square.

Oh no, I love it. I love it that another person has left their moment with me to discover. Even better if there's underlinings or comments. That's the best bit about second hand books... unless they smell of nicotine.

There's a device they used in the film, Portrait of a Young Woman on Fire, where the artists leaves a naked self portrait on page 28. The book later appears... I won't spoil the surprise.