What BOOK are you reading right now?

Returning another finished graphic novel to the library. It's an experimental work.


Here by Richard McGuire

Even to Turkey a couple of times, so I may have interest in the book you're reading. Do you recommend it?

Also, the writer I mentioned just before that, Orhan Pamuk, is from Turkey as well.

Nobel prize winner...

I presently can't get Wiki to "paste";
so I'll try to type it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk

Looks interesting. I might try and get it.

I'm also reading a "comic book": a graphic version of the Iliad called the Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower. Very detailed and faithful to Homer. He's even adding narratives not found in Homer, eg from playright Euripide... so it's a very thick comic book. The author has completed three tomes and 4 more are to come.

The graphic style is okay to me but not particularly original (see below the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia). What's really interesting is the effort to stick to historical sources and knowledge (eg in the arms, the clothes, the architecture etc.).

I'm reading them in Italian. They are the first Italian books I manage to finish... :-) Of course it's much easier to read than a 'real' book.

I've never made it through a book in italian, except in school, slowly slowly, probably just once, though I've read a zillion in translation. I may be mixing that up with latin, of which I'm mildly more sure I read a book or two. But, she says, I subscribed to Bell'Italia magazine for two or three years; that's in italian, or was if it's not published now, and I used to read articles with dictionario at hand (however you spell that). How I loved that magazine; it had a terrific architectural bent, fantastic double paged drafting of various places, so well done. I still have all those magazines, and don't want to toss them in the trash.

Edit to add that I'm about midway through Pamuk's Snow now.

I'm strugling, really, even to read a comic book, but it's the only way for me. I also learnt most of my English by reading.

Uh oh. I just checked and Bell'Italia still exists. This gives me a chance to correct myself - the magazine doesn't just do good plan drawings, but has good writing and good photography, or did.
It also makes me want to subscribe again, but I don't need more magazines.

https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&node=599858&keywords=bell+italia+magazine+subscription&tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=181972859734&hvpos=1t2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15110492970591993677&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9030455&hvtargid=kwd-1969906544&ref=pd_sl_kxc9h7bmj_e_p19

My knowledge of italian has gone poof with the wind. I studied it for a couple of years at UCLA night school (extension) in the early 90's. Never was terrific at it, but had a good time learning, and in my last visit in Italy (2000) I could make it around for a few weeks all by myself, getting along as an idiot american, but people were helpful. Didn't hurt that I wore my Travel store black suit every damned day (it was washable). Once even some italians asked me for directions.

After that, other stuff was going on back in California, and I dropped reviewing italian.

You, on the other hand will catch on in time and continue to use it.

I've only taken a week of Italian when I first came, and it wasn't enough. But French is very close to it so I make do. I just need to practice at a higher level than what I need to do the shopping, hence the reading.

VEIL OF WALLS by Patricia Panahi, is a new book I saw an ad for. I was curious what posters here think about the title.

I'm still wallowing in Orhan Pamuk's Snow and I am getting weary of it, on and on and on and on.

I may not have the fortitude.

Three Men in a Boat is an awesome book!
And I'm currently reading The Bees by Laline Paull - it's like The Handmaid's Tale but about bees

Paddling slowly through the ocean that is It: A (audio) Novel: Stephen King.

Finished "Cartoon County" a biography by Cullen Murphy about his father, who, among a few dozen other cartoonists , lived in a small area of one county in Connecticut. I finished the "American Mirror" autobiography of Norman Rockwell. Interesting reads and , almost, teaching manuals for illustration and cartoon art from the methods of the last century

Finished the "Principled Politician" about Ralph Carr the Governor of Colorado. It's a book about Governor Carr and how he supported the Japanese Americans before, during and after the war. He understood the US Constitution even as war hysteria and other government officials did everything they could to get rid of and intern Japanese Americans during the war ignoring the Constitution. He also welcomed the Japanese to his state after Pearl Harbor. He paid dearly for his position, and lost future elections as governor and his election to become the Senator in Wn DC.
There were many good caucasians after the war started. They took care of farms and property of the Japanese who were sent to internment camps. Unfortunately, many lost their businesses, homes and property, because nobody would take care of them. Many had to sell new cars and businesses on pennies on the dollar, because many had only a few days to get rid of property they could not carry in their suitcase. Many who lived in moderate climate were sent to areas of the country where it snowed, and many were not prepared for the cold. Many of the 10 camps were constructed on deserted desert land. Our government failed to live by the US Constitution. It was racial bigotry, because Germans and Italians were not treated the same way. I now fear for the Muslims and Mexicans because of Donald Trump.

Death On A High Floor
Part one of three. It's a murder/thriller.

"Trace" by Patricia Cornwell.

I used to be a big fan of her stuff. I don't know if she changed, or if I did.

I'm still reading Orhan Pamuk's Snow. I'm just getting mildly interested and I'm almost finished with it. I am interested in the cultures of Turkey and Germany, which is why I ever bought it, but reading it has been like ploughing a field of different sized rocks and boulders: really slow progress.

Obviously finished Stephen King's It.
Followed up by The Android's Dream by John Scalzi and Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Three by Brian K. Vaughan.