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Re: What are you reading?
By: Lady_Lessa Date: August 21, 2021, 12:44 pm
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[quote author=pamelaaos link=topic=68.msg4210#msg4210
date=1629506740]
I'm finally getting around to reading Educated and I'm really
enjoying it so far.
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I enjoyed it, too, when I read it. But, when it came up for a
Zoom bookclub, I chose not to reread it.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: KathySky Date: August 21, 2021, 3:27 pm
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[quote author=Lady_Lessa link=topic=68.msg4538#msg4538
date=1629567889]
[quote author=pamelaaos link=topic=68.msg4210#msg4210
date=1629506740]
I'm finally getting around to reading Educated and I'm really
enjoying it so far.
[/quote]
I enjoyed it, too, when I read it. But, when it came up for a
Zoom bookclub, I chose not to reread it.
[/quote]
I think that's always the sign of a good book. That I would
happily re-read it, and pick up things that I missed the first
time.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: DavidSPumpkins Date: August 21, 2021, 5:46 pm
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Kathy, since you loved Middlemarch - I haven't loved her other
books and some I have found downright irritating. Have you read
Silas Marner?
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Re: What are you reading?
By: KathySky Date: August 21, 2021, 6:32 pm
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DSP,
Yes I've found the same. I read Silas Marner in school when I
was about 14, and really liked it then. But when I re-read it as
an adult, I was disappointed. It's been the same for her other
books - I wanted to like Mill on the Floss but found it tedious.
I read Daniel Deronda after watching the BBC series. I thought
it was good, but don't feel a huge inclination to read it again.
I first read Middlemarch[/I] when I was 19, and have re=read it
once or twice every decade since. Every time I find something
new either in terms of her writing or a deeper appreciation of
the personalities and relationships in the novel.
I finished re-reading it a few weeks ago, and thought that if I
had paid closer attention to [i]all of the text when I was
younger, I would have learned some valuable lessons about people
and life.
#Post#: 4911--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
By: Lurknomore Date: August 22, 2021, 1:03 am
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Just finished The Guest Book by Sarah Blake. Fiction. Long
multigenerational saga about prominent New England family who
basically got rich partly from being in cahoots with Nazis
through investment banking, and the long term effects on
children, etc. Also gets into racism and early attempts at
wokeness I guess. Meh.
I’ve decided after this and The Five Wounds, about a Hispanic
family in NM, family sagas bore me.
Also…Its Raining Frogs and Fishes*****. Nonfiction. Published
1992. Great book about all types of natural phenomena, by the
seasons. Everything from butterflies to birds to fog, snow,
comets, etc. Amazing, great reference, AND pretty easy to read.
Fascinating and it has amazing intricate sketches too.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: Lady_Lessa Date: August 22, 2021, 5:14 am
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One of the books that I am reading is "The Boys in the Boat" by
Daniel James Brown. This is the story of the Washington State
rowers who made it to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Even though I
thought I had read it earlier for another book club(years ago),
it is all new. Some of it is scary with hints of the future,
like what Frau Goebbels did to her children later.
I'm finding it an easy read, and plan to search for more books
by the same autho.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: DavidSPumpkins Date: August 22, 2021, 10:10 am
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[quote author=KathySky link=topic=68.msg4757#msg4757
date=1629588723]
DSP,
Yes I've found the same. I read Silas Marner in school when I
was about 14, and really liked it then. But when I re-read it as
an adult, I was disappointed. It's been the same for her other
books - I wanted to like Mill on the Floss but found it tedious.
I read Daniel Deronda after watching the BBC series. I thought
it was good, but don't feel a huge inclination to read it again.
I first read Middlemarch[/I] when I was 19, and have re=read it
once or twice every decade since. Every time I find something
new either in terms of her writing or a deeper appreciation of
the personalities and relationships in the novel.
I finished re-reading it a few weeks ago, and thought that if I
had paid closer attention to [i]all of the text when I was
younger, I would have learned some valuable lessons about people
and life.
[/quote]
Thanks Kathy - what I suspected. I found the Mill on the Floss
tedious as well, and Adam Bede downright got on my nerves,
though I loved Hettie and think Eliot is so brilliant when she's
describing the challenges women faced in that era. There's a
sort of romanticization that I think Eliot gets into when she's
out of her element, and while I liked Daniel Deronda (again,
Gwedolyn - fascinating character), I didn't care for what was a
sort of ideation of Jews - ideation is caricature, even if it's
well-intended. I recognize she was way ahead of her time in
going there, but it rang false to me. My guess is that because
the Middlemarch milieu was much more her own, she didn't fall
into those same traps.
I read Middlemarch in my mid-20s, and I actually hated it. I
can't remember why, but my mid 20s were a really hard time for
me. And I think I was a harder person then, with much less of an
understanding of what women had to go through. I'm so glad I
reread it. I don't recall what prompted me to - maybe it was
because a friend send me the DVD of the BBC production, and it's
so often described as the greatest novel in English literature.
#Post#: 5110--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
By: Aardtacha Date: August 22, 2021, 12:20 pm
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I'm re-reading the Mrs. Pollifax series, as well as reading
Stephen Fry's Heroes. I really enjoyed Mythos, and am looking
forward to the next one, whose name eludes me ATM.
I'm also in the middle of Thorne Smith's Did She Fall? (again,
an old friend) and some random Wodehouse (Brinkley Manor? I
don't recall the title). As the school year starts, I tend to
return to old favorites and comfortable authors for a little
I-don't-have-to-try-to-follow-a-plot reading.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: Aardtacha Date: August 22, 2021, 12:25 pm
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[quote author=CaviaPorcellus link=topic=68.msg4200#msg4200
date=1629506355]
Currently reading At Home: A Short History of Private Life by
Bill Bryson. It's great! A quick and easy read, definitely
recommend if you like historical nonfiction.
Although I have said "oh, EW" out loud a few times. Did you know
that early latrine benches had multiple holes in them, for "ease
of conversation"?
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Did you happen to see They Shall Not Grow Old by Peter Jackson?
One of the scenes showed a latrine set up -- essentially a long
board with holes in it and no TP. No wonder the trenches were so
rife with disease! Sanitation seems to have been an
afterthought.
#Post#: 8755--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
By: Lurknomore Date: August 29, 2021, 6:35 pm
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I’m now reading Me, My Hair and I…. 27 women untangle an
obsession.
Edited by Elizabeth Benedict
Essays about women and their hair of course, and it’s good. I
lurve the library.
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