What Are You Reading

[Fleur De Guerre]

[QUOTE="Doc" Devereux]I was given a copy of this a couple of months back, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I really must get the first one![/QUOTE]

Do you know Doc, I was thinking as I typed that you might like it if you hadn't read it already. I was meaning to ask you if I saw you on Friday! I would say I'd bring my copy of the first to give you but I lent it to my brother who then got hooked and read it in 48 hours (and he is not a big reader at all!). He bought the second one right away! Mike's a top bloke too, he's a good friend of my boyfriend.

 

[LadyStardust]

I have recently started in upon the first mammoth volume of Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Absolutely fascinating, and heartwarming. I'm also in the middle of re-readin Turn of the Screw, by Henry James.

 

[Harp]

Hmmmm...I like Nietzche...and Wilde

...quite licentious.

 

[Harp]

fftopic: And why not Borders?

Geometric proximity with the added inspiration of Lake Michigan...

 

["Doc" Devereux]

Do you know Doc, I was thinking as I typed that you might like it if you hadn't read it already. I was meaning to ask you if I saw you on Friday! I would say I'd bring my copy of the first to give you but I lent it to my brother who then got hooked and read it in 48 hours (and he is not a big reader at all!). He bought the second one right away! Mike's a top bloke too, he's a good friend of my boyfriend.

I can believe that. He's been kind enough to agree to look at my new one and (hopefully) say something nice about it for the cover; apparently the Castor books are the closest thing to the stuff I'm doing at the moment. I also hear good things about his comic work.

I'll take your brother's reaction to The Devil You Know as a high recommendation! lol

 

[Harp]

I'm finishing up a course on the dialogue between music and literature (and if, in fact, such a dialogue exists). The course readings were primarily theoretical, rather than literary, and we read whole works by Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Rousseau, and Adorno.

And no Wittgenstein?

 

[Dinerman]

I'm reading the salmon of doubt.

 

[Harp]

Ludwig

Wittgenstein in reference to acoustical sounds of spoken language....

 

[Harp]

As for the Wildean mood, you mentioned on another thread The Duchess of Padua, which I have never read. I think I'll put it on my Christmas vacation reading list.

To be read by candlelight? Beneath the gaze of the heavens?

 

[Polka Dot]

Perhaps.

 

[Harp]

A Muslim friend has gifted a copy of the Koran.

 

[Folly]

Royal Flash and The Pyrates boith by George MacDonald Fraser

 

[Grace]

Folly-I LOVE your avatar!!!

Currently reading the Fashion book by the Kyoto Costume Institute. I had to treat myself to an early Christmas present-$20 a B&N!

I highly recommend it-serious, heart pounding eye candy.

 

[Folly]

Folly-I LOVE your avatar!!!

Thank you Grace! I spent ages trying to set the camera at the right level to get that shot

 

[moustache]

Now i have started a new book:A Century of Recorded Music:Listening to musical history by Timothy Day.Might sound dry but is a gold mine to me!!I have a rather extensive collection of cylinder and 78 recordings transferred to cd as well as original cylinders.This book examines not only the process and history of recording,but the myths and legends that went with it.
Such as the Brahms cylinder and other rarities!!

Yes,more an academic book.But it's mine!!lol lol

JD

 

[Hemingway Jones]

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I am finishing up "The Dante Club," and I highly recommend it. It's a mystery novel set in 19th Century Boston with Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and others solving it. Very enjoyable!

I just ordered "Jefferson on Wine" on how Jefferson set the paradigm of American wine appreciation and how the trade was conducted in colonial days. It sounds interesting.

Cheers!

 

[katiemakeup]

My most recent were Myrna Loy, Barbara Stanwyk, Louise Brooks and Curly. Thinking I might veer into the Industrialists.

 

[Novella]

I'm reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and Damned." Very good so far.

 

[Merrill Wayne B]

It is the usual three at a time scenario. All probably out of print. Number 1. “The Dillinger Days” by John Toland. No 2. The Real Jazz by Hugues Panassie (inspired by listening to Ray Smith on WGBH last night). (By the way, if you like early music (real stuff) catch Jazz Decades which has been around since the early 60’s) The other is “Education’s Own Stations” a rare gem for those interested in early radio. This one tells the story of the 1920’s college stations. I managed to pick it up at a book sale for 10 cents after searching for twenty years! Such undeserved luck. I have to be carefull I don't get mixed up and have Melvin Purvis playing a saxophone over the University of Maine station. I never read novels.

 

[Daisy Buchanan]

I just finished reading "The Borgia Bride" by Jeanne Kalogridis. What a great and fun historical novel. Obviously, it's about the horrible Borgia's , who ruled Italy in the 15th century, and the marriage of the youngest son, Jofre, to the young Neapolotin Sancha of Aragon. I don't want to give much more than that away. It's historical fiction. Fact's turned into a grand love story, filled with murder, sex, scandal. I enjoyed this story a lot, and learned a lot about a time in Italy that I really didn't know much about. It might not be interesting to you guys here on the lounge, but I think that you ladies might like it. The author is so descriptive, you can see what the characters look like. There are also some wonderful descriptions of their dresses, that made me wish that I had one or two.

A few days ago I started reading "The Other Boleyn Girl". It's another historical novel, this one by Phillipa Gregory. She had written many such novels, combinations of historical facts, and fiction or speculation. This is about Henry the VIII, his marriage to Katherine of Aragon and his affairs with the Boleyn sisters. Again, I don't want to give too much away, but this has been another fun book to read. I can't put it down. It's well written and very descriptive. I have a grand vision in my head of the great feasts, the beautiful clothes, everything she describes I can clearly envision. This has been a grand book to read. Again, I'm enjoying a rather scandalous story while refreshing my memory of 16th century England and part of the reign of Henry VIII. I highly recommend this book.