I read The Transformation is a novella by Franz Kafka. It's so strange but I like it
@Greys0n,
Struggling is the wrong word but I'm having a difficult time with the over the top cynicism of Joseph Heller's Catch-22. It's written superbly and the satire is a masterpiece. I love the humor but I'm not in the right mood this week to listen to the onslaught of insanity and broken logic.
@tsarstepan,
It's one of my favorite novels.
@tsarstepan,
I struggled through it too, but you'll never regret reading it.
When I was stationed at Ben Guerir AFB in Morocco in the late fifties, situated in the middle of a desert, we heard a scream one evening. We heard the day after, that a guy went crazy.
I'm reading my ninth Alan Furst book, Blood of Victory. At this point, given the complexity of the books, I'm not remembering off hand which characters were in which book and what situations were in which book..
Ha, I may have to reread them. They're keepers.
found a copy of the 1946 edition of this
(a summer day with the bee people)
on the sidewalk today - leftover from the weekend yard sales
had great fun reading it and looking at the pictures
superfun
I'll be re-reading this a few times
I just finished reading The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks. This is a historical novel based on someone from the old testament. After I read the book, I did some checking around on Google. Then I had only one option. Yes, I pulled out the bible and read the relevant pages. Tres interesting. (An understatement, IMO.)
I also just finished reading The Cases that Haunt Us by John Douglas. Douglas was an early profiler for the FBI. Hi applies profiling principles to old, well-known cases.
I just finished reading my eleventh Alan Furst book, good of course, but he was a tad vague at the end, and that is not my favorite author mode.
I'm off to my second Philip Kerr novel, which I must have not been paying attention to when I ordered it (I order cheap, via ABE books, what is available by whom).
Turns out it is about my home town, Los Angeles, and what I take as (after two pages) a chinese developer thug. Hah, we worked with chinese developers and were mutually business happy - I liked them. So, this is apt to be a book about scary architecture and people the opposite of we knew.
The name of the book seems to be GR D, a little hard to tell from the cover. or the binding. Too cute book design, I say. Also, apparently there is no identification of the person who provides drawings, a matter that annoys me.
Let's say that I am crabby to start with.
I'll report if I make it through.
@ossobuco,
I'm less then half way through Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, as a much needed bit of change of pace.
@littlek,
I'm reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Its about the life in afghanisthan and the destruction Taliban caused in the llives of people like you and me.
Both Flesh and Not
David Foster Wallace
@Lash,
Past the half way point (reread) of Margaret Atwood's
The Handmaids' Tale, via Audible. It's far more scarier then I remember when I first read it, especially given our political climate.
re-reading
still good and interesting but darker than I recalled it being
the tie-in to Tulipmania in 1636/7 is still one of my favourite aspects of the book
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-dutch-tulip-bubble-of-1637/
I finished The Modigliani Scandal by Ken Follett, liked it pretty well (said to be his first novel), except for the last sentence or two, unclear what happened. I looked it up on line afterwords and I wasn't the only irritated person. Still, I will read more Follett in the future.
Started to read a Michael Crichton, Sphere. Not a favorite type of book for me, SciFi ish. I put it down to try another of my GoodWill book buys, but will get back to it eventually.
Thus I am reading Steve Martini's The Jury. So far so good.. I've read him before and remember liking his stories.
No, I finished it, but it was a slog for me. Others might like it.
