What are you currently reading?

[Kaesekopf]

I'm re-reading The Hobbit, having last read it before the LOTR movies came out.  The book even had the old Borders bookstore receipt inside...

[TerrorDæmonum]

I'm re-reading The Hobbit, having last read it before the LOTR movies came out.  The book even had the old Borders bookstore receipt inside...

I bought the Hobbit today, twice. One is a nice edition to match my Lord of the Rings. The other is in Latin.

In foramine terrae  habitabat hobbitus.

[Kaesekopf]

I'm re-reading The Hobbit, having last read it before the LOTR movies came out.  The book even had the old Borders bookstore receipt inside...

I bought the Hobbit today, twice. One is a nice edition to match my Lord of the Rings. The other is in Latin.

In foramine terrae  habitabat hobbitus.

:O

[TerrorDæmonum]

It is light reading, for balance.

[Bernadette]

The Wonderful Garden, by E. Nesbit. One of my favorites, other than the Mouldiwarp Adventures.

[Bernadette]

Ben Hur. It's been long enough since I read it that it's like reading it for the first time.

[Prayerful]

Talaat Pasha, Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide by Hans-Lucas Kieser. This man started as a postman in Thessalonica, and only scorn for men of religion in private, but was able to make himself the de-facto leader of what was still a vast theocracy. This was a man who sent onetime Armenian friends to their death. A fascinating angle is how Zionists ignored or even downplayed the genocide of the Armenians, with their eyes of the prize of a Jewish homeland which was expected to be under the suzerainty of the Sublime Porte. It might be noted that the US ambassador, himself Jewish, Henry Morganthau, clearly chronicled the genocide, and wrote in detail about it afterwards in his memoirs (which by modern standards seem a bit racist, with characterisations of the character of the 'Turk' as emotional and prone to sway between laughter and rage. The tyrannicide who shoot Talaat Pasha, by then in exile in Germany in fear of legal measures and worse, was cleared as his act was ruled justified (which was legally dubious). Liberal Germany took the part of the Armenians while conservative Germans were very much on the Turkish or Ottoman side. Kemal Ataturk owed a lot to his fund raising abilities, but was happy enough he remained in exile.

[Bernadette]

A Tale of Two Cities. I don't love this work as much as Dickens's other works.

[TerrorDæmonum]

A Tale of Two Cities. I don't love this work as much as Dickens's other works.

What were the best of his works, what were the worst of his works?

[red solo cup]

The Howling Arctic. The Remarkable People who made Canada Sovereign in the Farthest North by Ray Price. Definitely not a book for the woke crowd. Published in 1970, the author states among other things that eskimos are like children and that blacks are psychologically suited for slavery. Much of the material was drawn from the Oblate Fathers of the Hudson Bay Vicariate.

[Bernadette]

The Little Princesses, by Marion Crawford.

[Kaesekopf]

The Ultimate Pipe Book by Richard Carleton Hacker.

It's pretty good.

[Bernadette]

Lulu's Christmas Story, by Ludmilla Bollow. One of my favorites.

[Bernadette]

The Book Thief. The narrator is excellent.

[Tennessean]

Call of the Crocodile.