I can't compete with any of that. I have just read 'The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association' by Caitlin Rozakis (highly recommended) and am just about to start rereading Lord of the Rings for the umpteenth time. I'm also working my way through a book on the siege of York in 1644. Reading about other people surviving horrible situations is surprisingly comforting at the moment...
Might have been me @Boogie, I really liked it a lot.
I’ve just bought The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller on the recommendation of several friends. I need to re/read Persuasion first though for one of my book clubs.
I can't compete with any of that. I have just read 'The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association' by Caitlin Rozakis (highly recommended) and am just about to start rereading Lord of the Rings for the umpteenth time. I'm also working my way through a book on the siege of York in 1644. Reading about other people surviving horrible situations is surprisingly comforting at the moment...
OMG I just googled and she’s the daughter-in-law of DC comics person, Bob Rozakis!!! Awesome!!! (I grew up not only reading some comics that he was involved in, but also his “ask the DC answer man” in the back of the comics back in the 1970s!!)
I can't compete with any of that. I have just read 'The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association' by Caitlin Rozakis (highly recommended) and am just about to start rereading Lord of the Rings for the umpteenth time. I'm also working my way through a book on the siege of York in 1644. Reading about other people surviving horrible situations is surprisingly comforting at the moment...
OMG I just googled and she’s the daughter-in-law of DC comics person, Bob Rozakis!!! Awesome!!! (I grew up not only reading some comics that he was involved in, but also his “ask the DC answer man” in the back of the comics back in the 1970s!!)
(Yes, I’m that much of a comics geek.)
He also created the character Mr. E at DC, presumably not the same person as our new Shipmate @MrE …
I finally finished reading The Suttanipāta : An Ancient Collection of the Buddha’s Discourses Together with Its Commentaries (Bhikkhu Bodhi, translator). I have been slowly making my way through this. The Discourses themselves are pretty short and easy to read, but the associated Ancient Commentaries are a slog to get through. Often they read like a thesaurus. The discourse will use a word like "desire" then you flip to the commentary to read "desire: yearn for; crave; long for; wish for; hunger for; inclined to; thirst for; hanker for..." My favorite example (way near the end of the book): The discourse used the word "twice" to which the commentary, for some reason, felt compelled to inform me helpfully that twice meant two times.
Fortunately, the discourses were short, so that the book was the sort that you could read a couple pages, then put it down for several days or weeks and then pick it up again. Which is why it has taken me a couple years to get all the way through it. To finish it. To complete it. To read to the end....
Am now reading a biography of Dick Allen, a baseball player from the 1960s-70s. At the time the book was written he had not yet been elected to the Hall of Fame, but he was finally (posthumously) inducted last year.
I have just started Kurt Vonnegurt "Breakfast of Champions". I mean, Kurt is a legendary writer and this is - so far - viciously sarcastic. It is also hilarious, if you like a rather dark humour. Well, very dark in some places.
He has quite definitely taken the shackles off and is writing totally unconstrained. I am loving it. I have a few more of his on my kindle, so will enjoy getting into more if his.
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I’ve just bought The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller on the recommendation of several friends. I need to re/read Persuasion first though for one of my book clubs.
Thank you.
I don't think she has written as any other books?
OMG I just googled and she’s the daughter-in-law of DC comics person, Bob Rozakis!!! Awesome!!! (I grew up not only reading some comics that he was involved in, but also his “ask the DC answer man” in the back of the comics back in the 1970s!!)
(Yes, I’m that much of a comics geek.)
He also created the character Mr. E at DC, presumably not the same person as our new Shipmate @MrE …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Rozakis
Book fountain in Budapest 🙂
https://youtu.be/-ijoqHaVpjQ?si=SgMRPEE4wFiajhCE
Love it!
Fortunately, the discourses were short, so that the book was the sort that you could read a couple pages, then put it down for several days or weeks and then pick it up again. Which is why it has taken me a couple years to get all the way through it. To finish it. To complete it. To read to the end....
Am now reading a biography of Dick Allen, a baseball player from the 1960s-70s. At the time the book was written he had not yet been elected to the Hall of Fame, but he was finally (posthumously) inducted last year.
He has quite definitely taken the shackles off and is writing totally unconstrained. I am loving it. I have a few more of his on my kindle, so will enjoy getting into more if his.