What Are You Reading

[Harp]

A classic revisited, The Stock Market by Richard Teweles.
This 7th edition is most timely.
I read his other market work, The Futures Game during college,
and later in law school landed a graveyard shift job with a commodity
brokerage largely because I mentioned while interviewed
that I had read Teweles.


Also, back to Wm Buckley's God and Man at Yale.
...and Never Put Ketchup on a Hot Dog by Bob Schwartz.
All about dawgs in Chicago. A classic.

 

[randooch]

I'm on a Daphne du Maurier kick. I just read "The Parasites" and "The Scapegoat." Now I'm reading "My Cousin Rachel."

I'm also infatuated with Irene Nemirovsky's work. There's nothing like a first liner that simply sucks you into a world you just know will give you the chills.

Try "The House On The Strand" sometime by Daphne. It's superb.

 

[Marzipan]

Try "The House On The Strand" sometime by Daphne. It's superb.

Ooh, thanks. I have that one on my bookshelf and will read it as soon as I finish all of her previous ones. I'm so in loooove.

 

[Marzipan]

A shared literary state, and I'm equally fascinated with the author herself.

I picked up a book of short stories and was immediately sucked in. Do you find her Jewish characters to be caricatures? It seems she had a lot of internal struggles going on about her Jewishness and her demise was so sad... and ironic if so.

 

[mannySpaghetti]

I just started diving into "Five Families" by Selwyn Raab. I'm always inside some M

B book.

 

[cromcruiach]

I'm almost done with "The Sun Also Rises" by Hemingway. Never got around to it before . . .

 

[randooch]

I am currently reading all of your minds.


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I'm reading more into it than I should.

 

[Feraud]

Carol Reed: A Biography by Nicholas Wapshott
is an excellent read if you are interested in the man who made the classic films Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, and The Third Man.

 

[Undertow]

How about something quite vintage with hints of occidentalism:

Edwardes, Allen. The Jewel in the Lotus. New York: The Julian Press, Inc. 1959

Quite interesting, if not a bit prurient. However, worth a read if you're interested in the "Orient".

 

[Marzipan]

Ugh, I LOVE this book. The last line is my favorite line ever...

I'm almost done with "The Sun Also Rises" by Hemingway. Never got around to it before . . .

 

[just_me]

A Sunday Horse: Inside The Grand Prix Show Jumping Circuit by Vicky Moon.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I just started Baltimore Blues, which is the first in Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan detective series. I liked her writing on What the Dead Know and Every Secret Thing, so decided to try a new woman detective series.

karol

 

[Sunny]

Finished the Mr. Moto books, so I'm restarting on Margery Allingham's Albert Campion series. Currently I'm in Police at the Funeral.

I'll take a break after I finish that (and my tax accounting test is over :eusa_doh: ) and read some James Oliver Curwood. This is old vintage, 1900s-1920s, mostly set in far North America. A bit heavy on the melodrama at times, but vivid and interesting and a good bit of action; stuff happens. I won about 10 on ebay last week, most of which I've read on Gutenberg, but there are a couple ones new to me. I'm looking forward to them.

 

[Harp]

I picked up a book of short stories... Do you find her Jewish characters to be caricatures?...

No more than James Joyce's characters were Celtic caricks;
excepting the Christian Brothers of Ireland and Jesuits
(personal tenure with both orders). Joyce had them pegged.
However, Joyce became something of a carick himself; while
Irene N reads true to herself, and her tragic death bequeathed
an elegiac tone to her work that other more reknowned lit lacks.
Gonna read through her canon this summer.

 

[MEDIUMMYND]

Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen he must be one of the best writers around at the moment.

 

[vonwotan]

I just started re-reading several Evelyn Waugh novels. Unfortunately, I cannot find my copy of Decline and Fall so I am starting with Vile Bodies.

 

[Elizabeth.F]

I'm currently reading "Do Butler Burgle Banks?" by P G Wodehouse and "Abroad With The Jimmies" by Lilian Bell.

 

[Lancealot]

Reading two right now.

Drink: A Social History of America by Andrew Barr it's a rather interesting tale of how alcohol has affected America from Christopher Columbus to present day.

The other is Death Star by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry it's one of the Star Wars expanded novels about the building of the Death Star.

 

[AmateisGal]

Resistance by Anite Shreve.

 

[DeaconKC]

Just reread A Christmas Carol by Dickens, what a treat. I think I'm going to dig out the copy with George C Scott or Patrick Stewart and watch one of 'em tonight.