What are you currently reading?

[MilesChristi]

Timon of Athens

[Prayerful]

Ilkka Syvanne's Military History of Late Rome having read his interesting biography of Caracalla, which makes a strong case for an emperor was rightly wary, but not wary of the right men, men whom he had raised from nothing, but had suffered some slight, the Moorish Praetorian Prefect Macrinus was mocked for his effeminacy, and while his was a civil not a military official, he could access disgruntled soldiers. The despised senators who managed to cling to military or civil offices, were not the source of the plot, but rather freedmen. The current book is comprehensive, everything from sieging, counter-sieging to supplies and naval affairs.

[Gardener]

Just started: Treason: A Catholic Novel of Elizabethan England by Dena Hunt

https://www.amazon.com/Treason-Catholic-Novel-Elizabethan-England/dp/1933184922

[Philip G.]

I have had a little problem with depression and sleeping lately.  So, I have decided to read fiction novels in order to combat it.  I began reading the lord of the rings, which I had not yet read.  And, it is working.  I am getting flashbacks from the movie an liking it.  But, there is a lot already in the book that is not in the movie, so my imagination is going.  It is almost as if imagination is synonymous with the nature of a child/youth.  Laetificat juventutem meam.

[martin88nyc]

I have had a little problem with depression and sleeping lately.  So, I have decided to read fiction novels in order to combat it.  I began reading the lord of the rings, which I had not yet read.  And, it is working.  I am getting flashbacks from the movie an liking it.  But, there is a lot already in the book that is not in the movie, so my imagination is going.  It is almost as if imagination is synonymous with the nature of a child/youth.  Laetificat juventutem meam.

There is a dramatized audiobook online. I downloaded the files. If you would like to I could post a link where you can download all of the files.

[Optatus]

I have had a little problem with depression and sleeping lately.  So, I have decided to read fiction novels in order to combat it.  I began reading the lord of the rings, which I had not yet read.  And, it is working.  I am getting flashbacks from the movie an liking it.  But, there is a lot already in the book that is not in the movie, so my imagination is going.  It is almost as if imagination is synonymous with the nature of a child/youth.  Laetificat juventutem meam.

Wait until you go all in and start reading the Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales and the mammoth 12-volume History of Middle Earth. I just bought the recently-released The Fall of Gondolin but I haven't had time to sit down and read it yet.

[Philip G.]

Martin88nyc - Sure, post the link. 

[Bernadette]

Flowers for Algernon.

Edit: That has got to be one of the saddest books I've ever read.

[martin88nyc]

Martin88nyc - Sure, post the link.

here
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cjjdiknzeieol,6jmo2c5q9vbll,jdmyib22aeqpm/shared
or here
https://raby.sh/media/lotr/

Here is an old BBC version with full cast
https://archive.org/details/LordOfTheRings_201706

[Bernadette]

Just started The Mirror of Shalott, by Robert Hugh Benson, from archive.org.

[red solo cup]

The first in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses. Outstanding.

[Bernadette]

Winnie the Pooh.

[Bernadette]

A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture, and Boy, by Roald Dahl.

[martin88nyc]

The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer from Angelico Press

[Maximilian]

A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture, and Boy, by Roald Dahl.

That's interesting. I never knew that Roald Dahl wrote "A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture."