What BOOK are you reading right now?

What's a 'reactionary tweet'?

Kind of what it sounds like. Stephen King tweeted his reaction to the status that the newspaper was cutting its own book review policy. The term reactionary tweet ... is kind of unnecessary as most tweets are statements reacting to other things happening in the world.

I was confused because the dictionary definition of reactionary is: opposing political or social progress or reform.

And that's not usually where King's tweets come from

How about religion?

I'm reading two books about personal finances, and "Bullet Journal" by the founder of this method. The last one is awesome, I highly recommend this book!

A Tale of Two Cities

I thought I had read this before - but alas I have not. My daughter has this book for English so I thought I would read along with her and then we could discuss the book. I figure this might help inspire her love of reading or at the least it would help her understand the book a bit more by discussing and talking about what we had read.

So far I find it a good read.

It is a far, far better thing that you do, than you have ever done.

Paraphrased to make sense.

What are the major recommendations that you believe are good advise on personal finance?

I've been doing a lot of rereading recently. I've often been disappointed. Books that I admired in my youth don't do anything for me now. I'm currently rereading Letting Go by Philip Roth. Not at all disappointing. The man could write.

I just finished reading The Last of the Smithfields by Marc Levy. A fun read.

Fascinating.

In the midst of two at the same time.

First up, The Dead Years by Joseph Schupack. A less than always cheerful memoir from Schupack telling of his life from a Polish shtetl and then in several concentration camps. Grim and informative, well written.

The second read is Milkman by Anna Burns. It received the Man Booker Prize (not that that signifies enjoyment of a book) and tells of life in around 1970s Northern Ireland for one young woman. Good so far.

That was required reading in junior high, but I don't remember anything about it. Must've read several hundred books since then. However, Les Miserables have been one of my favorites from that period, and I took my sister and niece to see the show at the Lincoln Center in DC many decades ago. On that same trip to DC, I also had lunch with Congressman Norm Mineta from San Jose in the nation's capitol lunchroom.

The Devils or the Possessed by Dostoevsky

avatar of Fyodor? Love it

c.i., This is from a thread you started in 2016.

"I estimate my book reading to about 50 that includes the reading required to earn a bachelors degree in Business."

I remember the thread because I kept having to re-estimate how many books I had read. And I specifically remembered your comment about how many books you had read.

Have you read more than you first remembered?

What books have disappointed you upon re reading recently?

I've been reading the quirky mysteries by Barbara Vine (nom de plume of Ruth Rendell). Right now, I'm most of the way through Asta's Book. She certainly doesn't write conventional novels.

At 83, my memory is fast fading. I remember a time when I used to stay up into the wee hours of the morning reading while my eyes got blurrier and blurrier. Those books must've been very good. Now days, I read a few chapters, and I'm ready for zzzz's. I started this thread? Don't remember, but thanks for the reminder. That's one positive thing I did on a2k. My son is an avid reader. He has one bedroom in his condo filled with books. He's now the super at the reference library at the University of Texas in Austin.

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky). I now strikes me as overwrought and over the top. In my youth, I was drawn to the powerful emotions.

A book by Walker Percy--The Second Coming. I barely remember the first time through, but I do remember liking his work. Now, I couldn't get ten pages in.

I found the thread again!

https://able2know.org/topic/315949-1