What BOOK are you reading right now?

I've read a bunch of Rankin's stuff. I never worry much about chronological order. Usually an impossibility when working with our public library.

I’ve liked the bit of Rankin I’ve read

Halfway through


It's great!

I’ve read most of book called "Little Women" by Louise May Alcott. The novel is about four sisters, their life, friendship, growing up. In short, for me it’s a one-time book. Of course, today the book will seem very boring for modern young girls. There is not even a storyline here. Description of their boring measured life, their worries, children's desires. Although it would be useful for them to read, because children's selfishness is still relevant today. This book is also suitable for a more adult female audience, there is something to think about child-rearing. The story is not modern at all, and the book is not very exciting, but I do not regret having read it. A recommendation only for lovers of women's classics.

The 2019 film is quite good, but I haven't read the book.

“Shoe Dog” by Phil Knight, entrepreneur and charitable philanthropist evolving from 1962 to present day.

The story of the man who built (from the ground up) Nike shoes and fitness clothing into a billion-dollar industry. More than a story for running geeks, an amazing story about a singleminded individual with vision and passion.

My significant other and I are reading it to one another at bedtime.

I tried that once; trading out reading to one another in bed. Never could get much reading done - after a couple of paragraph we would just stop and; uuuuhhhhhh, stop reading. Never did get that book read!😖😜🙄

You dog, you!

Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard

Not my usual fare, I was intrigued by this review in the New Yorker. It's slow going but the occasionally unconventional use of language is both effective and surprising.

The Woodcutter by Kate Danley

I have been going through my e-book collection and I apparently bought this in a spending spree.
It is about a guardian of an enchanted forest where other fairy tales intersect. Honestly, it is not very good. To me, it is a poorer version of The Witcher, which I did read earlier this year. It doesn't help that the lead character doesn't have much of a personality.

Another thing I don't like about the book is that there are far too many chapter breaks. Some of them are barely a page long. As a result, there are 79 chapters in a 337 page book.

sounds like the author writes like Elmore Leonard did.

Reading "Smart Money Woman".

I’ve read a book called "Little Women" by Louise May Alcott. The novel is about four sisters, their life, friendship, growing up. In short, for me it’s a one-time book. Of course, today the book will seem very boring for modern young girls. There is not even a storyline here. Description of their boring measured life, their worries, children's desires. Although it would be useful for them to read, because children's selfishness is still relevant today. This book is also suitable for a more adult female audience, there is something to think about child-rearing. The story is not modern at all, and the book is not very exciting, but I do not regret having read it. A recommendation only for lovers of women's classics.

I had to read that in high school. Same opinion, and like you, I do not regret it, either.

As a side note, when we think of civil war nursing, the name is always Clara Barton. Alcott was there, too, and that was back when nursing was considered a pretty low class field.

Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope

How about Ernst Hemingway?

I only read one of his, involving the Spanish civil war, and that was long after high school. I didn't quite adapt to the dialog.

I guess I should have been more explicit. Hemingway drove an ambulance as a.volunteer for the American Red Cross in Italy during WWI. It isn't exactly a nurse job, but close. He was also seriously injured selling cigarettes and candy to GIs in 1918 in Austria.

I must say I read most of his books and enjoyed his timing and phraseology.

I just reread The Old Man and the Sea - mainly because I wanted to reacquaint myself with his prose style, but also because I was much too young to appreciate it the first time. Turns out I had almost completely forgotten how it ends.

I always forget endings. It is a strange thing about me; but, I like it. The Old Man and the Sea, that really sounds like a good read for the 3rd or 4th time! But, maybe the movie, that was a good movie - Spencer Tracy if I remember correctly.

The book/movie gave me an idea for a book combined with Hemingway's Spanish Civil War days. A very skilled surgeon someway gets cased away alone at sea with a lot of medical equipment and supplies (he was on a mission or something, backup details can be added for filler). He ends up out there for days without food and is facing dying; so he starts eating himself. He is rescued a few weeks later, barely alive, with both legs and one arm missing.