What BOOK are you reading right now?

An odder progression, I didn't like the handling of the ending.

I bought a new book, it was duly delivered, but now I can't find it.

I confess! It happens to me all the time!

A Wolf Called Romeo by nature photographer Nick Jans. Romeo was a beautiful, black wild wolf who became friends with people and their dogs on the edge of Juneau, Alaska. It is hard to put this book down, unless you are like me and displace everything.

Sounds as if I'd like that book. I'll check it out.

Do you know the author Donna Leon?
She writes very good mysteries taking place in Venice, Italy.
She lives there, writes in English and as far as I know this lady is not translated into Italian as she is very critical of Italy.

Laughs, not at you, but because I'm a squirrel with an acorn collection re books about Italy. I've read most of Donna Leon's, though not so much lately. I've read countless police or legal or art thrillers set in Italy, since that is one more way to pick up some of the culture there, besides reading the more serious non fiction books.

My present procedural type favorites are Gianrico Carafiglio and Carlo Lucarella, but I just ordered a Leonardo Sciascia (I've read him before) and a well regarded book by Carlo Emilio Gadda, all of those in translation.

Before this more recent spate of reading these about italian crime, I used to like (still do, but he died) , Michael Dibden. I've read other female authors but their names are not popping up right now as I likely read most of those years earlier.

I've also read scandinavian and british and dutch and german and french, portuguese, and spanish; brazilian and cuban; and japanese and maybe a few south east asian writers, all in translation except for the brits, thus my present signature line. Have a faint memory of a whodoneit set in Guatemala. I read american ones from time to time, but I tend to avoid the best seller stuff; I am tending now to order some of the legal and police procedurals by John Lescroart; these are mostly set in San Francisco. Lescroart was recommended to me by Merry Andrew/Lustig Andrei of A2k. I'm glad I tried them out, have been trying to read them in order of publication.

You might be able to guess that I don't have a TV. Given my low income, I tend to buy from thrift shops, library sales, or more rarely, low end Amazon or Abe books.

I like best Scandinavian, Brittish and American authors.
Germans have a tendency to write far too long sentences without saying a thing.
I ahve Italian and also French books. I have started to reread my old ones and some I keep some i get rid of. I try to get cheap books too as I want less books.
Saturday I was at a book exchange. Took nine with me and came home with four.

A bit heavy on pushing barefoot/minimalist running, but very interesting.

I just ordered the I am a Woman book; they had it at Amazon, couldn't find it at Abe. $5.05 total. Will report.
Also finally ordered Pamuk's Snow, Abe books, $3.25 total.

Finished reading Acceptance, the final book of the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, a couple of days ago. Loved the entire trilogy. But was slow reading as too many questions kept popping into my mind as I tried to figure out what actually happened and what was going to happen.

Speeding through Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm Toibin. Reading it for a book club.

Am reading An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz which won the American Book Award for 2015.

It is quite the book and I recommend everyone read it. Is it revisionist history? Well, it exposes the American myth which makes it just history.

One side of the story is never the whole story. It cant be.

Will be interested - have read about Colm Toibin several times but not read any of his books.

Back in a few minutes re what I've been reading. The one I just started (more on that later) will be a book to remember, a book to keep, I know already.

The book I ordered last (also bought a batch at Goodwill) is the book I'm reading over the others, now. I thought it was suggested by Olivier, but now I can't find the post. It's A Woman in Berlin, by Anonymous. Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945.

I'm stunned, in a good way. Not that it is a happy diary, but that the book is very good. I've just read the Introduction by Antony Beevor, very useful, and am now into the first bunch of pages of the actual diary.
It reminds me slightly of Primo Levi, though his was a very different circumstance. Hard to keep reading, but harder to not read.


Other books -
I finished Michael Connolly's The Gods of Guilt. He, like Lescroart, have two sets of novels, one with the protagonist being in the police force and one being a defense attorney. In this book I turned off to his attorney character. He's a best selling writer, but I'm about done with him unless the book is free. Back in a coffee shop in northern california, people used to leave books they were finished with, which I consider a good tradition. I prefer John Lescroart's characters.

Waiting, in no particular order:
Leonardo Sciascia's Equal Danger
Orhan Pamuk's Snow
Carlo Amelio Gadda's That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana
Isabell Allende's Ripper
James Ellroy's Perfidia
Richard Russo's Nobody's Fool

Why are there no books about the Holocaust written from the guard's point of view? It's all so one sided.

Got turned on to this by a question about Pizarro's Incan translators.

My daughter is into that.