What are you currently reading?

[red solo cup]

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horn

[red solo cup]

Death in the Haymarket. A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America by James Green

[Bernadette]

The Wind in The Willows. I was nearly grown when I first read it, and Kenneth Grahame's other works, but I fell in love with them immediately.

[red solo cup]

The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic by Robert O'Connell

[Bernadette]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith. I've loved this book since I first read it at age 16.

[Kaesekopf]

I whipped through Sphere by Michael Crichton.  Now I'm slowly making my way through Christian Perfection and Contemplation by Fr Garrigou-Lagrange, OP. 

[maryslittlegarden]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith. I've loved this book since I first read it at age 16.

I love that book.

[Kaesekopf]

I ran right through "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold" by John LeCarre.  It was pretty good.  I had seen his novels recommended online.  Chewed through it in under two days.  Pretty engaging story.  Kept me going from page to page, chapter to chapter.   

Also, gosh I am so happy about the Overdrive app or whatever you wanna call it.  In my state, at least, it coordinates the lending of ebooks via Amazon and my local public library.  Has saved me so much money and time (from buying fiction books or running to the library). 

[Bernadette]

My library doesn't have Overdrive.

[clau clau]

The Wind in The Willows. I was nearly grown when I first read it, and Kenneth Grahame's other works, but I fell in love with them immediately.

I liked "The Wind in the Willows". Have you read "The Willows in Winter"? I think it is by a different author (William Horwood) but has a similar theme. I think I liked it more that the original.

[Bernadette]

The Wind in The Willows. I was nearly grown when I first read it, and Kenneth Grahame's other works, but I fell in love with them immediately.

I liked "The Wind in the Willows". Have you read "The Willows in Winter"? I think it is by a different author (William Horwood) but has a similar theme. I think I liked it more that the original.

No, I'll look it up.

[LuxVera]

1. Re-reading "Sir Gawain the Green Knight" again, but now in the original Middle English. I'm also reading it out-loud because of the amazing alliteration; which I feel can only be appreciated when you're attempting to pronounce everything.

2. "Deltora Quest: the Shifting Sands" by Emily Rodda.

3. Works of H.P. Lovecraft, I think I'm about to start "The Man outside of time"(?). I'm not too crazy about the whole Cthulu mythos but I love Lovecraft's writing style; descriptions of his characters and landscapes; and his fascination with hills lol. Plus his short stories have interesting conclusions.

[maryslittlegarden]

I ran right through "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold" by John LeCarre.  It was pretty good.  I had seen his novels recommended online.  Chewed through it in under two days.  Pretty engaging story.  Kept me going from page to page, chapter to chapter.   

Also, gosh I am so happy about the Overdrive app or whatever you wanna call it.  In my state, at least, it coordinates the lending of ebooks via Amazon and my local public library.  Has saved me so much money and time (from buying fiction books or running to the library). 

If you like overdrive.... check to see if they have Libby.  I like that one a lot for audio books. My library also has a roku app called Kanopy for streaming movies.

[red solo cup]

The Siege of Mecca. The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda by Yaroslav Trofimov

[Bernadette]

The Bone People, by Keri Hulme. I first read it when I was fifteen; and haven't reread it in at least ten years. It's like reading it for the first time all over again.