What BOOK are you reading right now?

Lying Woman by Jean Giraudoux.

"Only the mediocre are always at their best"

"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."

.... Catch-22

Now there's a great book...I'm gonna go see if I've got it.

Sometimes, I am stuck in academic issues but I am reading The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare and thoroughly enjoying it a teaching tool and a learning tool.

I'm off this week so I will read Othello. I have an idea for adapting it to the stage in a modern but not contemporary setting.

I've been remiss in my book reading, and watching movies before I fall asleep.
I have 3-4 books that's "in progress" that I need to continue with, but I'm now watching a series of Alfred Hitchcock movie classics.

"Women can compromise only with mediocrity"

Lying Woman by Jean Giraudoux.

POM might find that book handy for trying a modern setting of Othello.

"A woman can waste more with a spoon than a man can earn with a shovel."

I'm not sure who told me that, but I believe it was one of my brothers.

But from her point of view it is not waste. That is your deep misogyny surfacing Deb.

Not mine, I don't believe.

Don't know about my ditch-digging brother. My sister-in-law always seems jolly enough.

Naturally. Ladies like a bit of misogyny.

They soon get fed up with uxorious bleating and wimperings. Nothing to nag at you see and it stifles their witty repartee.

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Was reading a book about the Mossad and another; a biography of Einstein. Both interesting subjects but poorly written.

I put them aside and picked up Seabiscuit , a wonderful read chock full of horse racing knowledge

Good book and made a good film, Seabiscuit was a wonderful horse!

I'm dithering between reading 'Vernon God Little' by DBC Pierre - fiction which won The Man Booker prize some years ago, or 'How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog' by Chad Orzel, a physics professor who writes about his subject, and his rescue dog. Just finishing off 'The Exmoor Files' by Liz Jones - a poignant and funny memoir of how she ditched her high-flying journalistic career in London for a derelict farm in Exmoor, surrounded by dozens of rescue animals. Great read!

I think you'll have more choices if you go with the book not being made into a movie option.

Im now about halfway through Burlingame's LINCOLN-a Life. All I can say is to quote Ambrose Bierce who criticized Moby Dick by saying "Its covers are too far apart"

Othello would make a great adaptation using the Civil War as the time

I was thinking of the 1950s.

i'm reading Half the Sky for one of my fall jobs and I do not like it. It reads like a request for donations from the Christian Children's Fund or some charity.

I'm reading Jane Austen and Her Art by Mary Lascelles.

A must for Janeites.