What Are You Reading

[Orgetorix]

Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth, by J.R.R. Tolkien (ed. by his son Christopher)

Household Gods, by Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove

 

[Sunny]

Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth, by J.R.R. Tolkien (ed. by his son Christopher)

Ooh, good stuff. My favorite is the part about Tuor.

 

[Haversack]

I've just started _The Huguenot Wars, An Eyewiness Account_ edited by Julien Coudy. It is a collection of letters written by a wide variety of people caught up in the religious/political wars between Catholics and Protestants in 16th C. France. If you remember the movie, _Queen Margot_ from a few years back, it is set in the middle of these events.

Haversack.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I've just started _The Huguenot Wars, An Eyewiness Account_ edited by Julien Coudy.

Funny, I have a Huguenot ancestor who escaped from France at that time and settled in Switzerland's Jura mountains. He kept a journal which is still somewhere in the town he lived in. I went there years ago, but couldn't find the journal.

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[Shamus Dark]

I'm halfway through The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers. It's a gripping tale about the escape of 7 German prisoners from a concentration camp. The story is set just before the second world war and the camps are full of German dissenters and those designated "subversive" etc. It's a very different take on Germany under Hitler and was apparently made into a film starring Spencer Tracey.

The book was never published here in England. I had to get it from Amazon. But I can recommend it to anyone vaguely interested in social conditions in Germany under the Third Reich.

 

[Haversack]

Huguenots had good reason to get out of France. From what I've read so far the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was just the beginning. On the other hand, a lot the countries the Huguenots fled to benefitted due to the high level of education, literacy, and industriousness of the French Protestants. A small city I lived near in Germany was built in the 1680s by the local Margrave specificallly to be a home for Huguenot refugees and their talents. Due in part to this, it now houses an important university and is the world headquarters of Siemens.

Haversack.

 

[SaraBell]

I'm now reading Observatory Mansions...it's rather odd..

 

[Marc Chevalier]

On the other hand, a lot the countries the Huguenots fled to benefitted due to the high level of education, literacy, and industriousness of the French Protestants.

Very true. My ancestor, Antoine Chevalier, fled in 1572 with his family to a little Swiss town (then a village) named Moutier. Antoine became the town's schoolmaster. Most of his descendants ended up as weapons makers, mercenaries, and blacksmiths. Presumably, the village didn't have need for too many schoolmasters.

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[BuddyJ]

Haruki Murakami's Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. I've loved Murakami's writings since first reading Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World in college. It's good stuff. Check it out if you're unfamiliar with his work.

 

[LadyStardust]

Thoroughly enjoying the first volume in Anthony Powell's A Dance To The Music of Time, " A Question of Upbringing".

 

[CanadaDoll]

Re-visiting O'Malley of Shanganagh, by Donn Byrne in my spare time
Sad book, but I love how vivid it is.

 

[Jay]

I'm currently reading Factotum by Bukowski and Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck. This is about the 5th time I've read Flight of Passage but it's just so damned good. I mean come on, two kids flying coast to coast in a Piper Cub in the mid 60s? Count me in.

 

[TailendCharlie]

The three comrades

A novel of post WW1 Germany by the author,Erich Maria Remarque(1898-1970)

 

[Twitch]

Got into Inside the 3rd Reich by Albert Speer recently.

 

[Etienne]

Hard Questions, Real Answers by William Lane Craig, a gifted theologian and philosopher.

 

[Harp]

The Intellectual Life by A.D. Sertillanges.

 

[cooncatbob]

The Maltese Falcon. I just watch the DVD for the 1st time since I've joined the lounge and checked out the clothing and hats. Now I'm reading the book for the 1st time in years, it a pretty short book and Sam Spade in the book is more of a louse then the way Bogart played him and of course there are a lot of details that didn't make the movie. Bob.

 

[Elaina]

Swing Sisters, Amber chronciles book I, The talisman, A history of gypsies in Rom (which is taking time. I can speak it well, but it's not as easy as an English book) and a scientific report on the manipulation of DNA.

 

[Harp]

The dual spring/summer issue of Alaska Quarterly Review,
fresh-on-the-shelf, and featuring new Alaskan poetry.

 

[Jovan]

The Maltese Falcon. I just watch the DVD for the 1st time since I've joined the lounge and checked out the clothing and hats. Now I'm reading the book for the 1st time in years, it a pretty short book and Sam Spade in the book is more of a louse then the way Bogart played him and of course there are a lot of details that didn't make the movie. Bob.

I, for one, didn't really like the DB he wore. The button stance was just wrong and the sleeves too long.