What are you currently reading?

[maryslittlegarden]

I first listened to it on librivox.org, in an old translation. Then I got the Robin Buss translation on kindle. I enjoy both, mostly because the Brit reading the audiobook does fantastic accents.

The one thing that I find somewhat annoying, after 700 some pages, is the interchange of titles in French.  "Oh, so the Vicomte is a <so and so>".  Makes it a bit harder keeping track of the three dozen characters

I think there is more than three dozen characters.... .  I love that book though. Gotta check out the librivox version

[Hannelore]

I first listened to it on librivox.org, in an old translation. Then I got the Robin Buss translation on kindle. I enjoy both, mostly because the Brit reading the audiobook does fantastic accents.

The one thing that I find somewhat annoying, after 700 some pages, is the interchange of titles in French.  "Oh, so the Vicomte is a <so and so>".  Makes it a bit harder keeping track of the three dozen characters

I think there is more than three dozen characters.... .  I love that book though. Gotta check out the librivox version

It's read by David Clark.

[red solo cup]

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

[AlNg]

I am reading Marcus Tullius Cicero: De Natura Deorum. He says that: "Ex quo exstitit illud, multa esse probabilia, quae quamquam non perciperentur, tamen, quia visum quendam haberent insignem et inlustrem iis sapientis vita regeretur." Which translates roughly as probability should guide the life of a wise person, because you cannot know some things with certainty, but still, they may possess a certain clarity which indicates that the wise man should support them.

[Kaesekopf]

I first listened to it on librivox.org, in an old translation. Then I got the Robin Buss translation on kindle. I enjoy both, mostly because the Brit reading the audiobook does fantastic accents.

The one thing that I find somewhat annoying, after 700 some pages, is the interchange of titles in French.  "Oh, so the Vicomte is a <so and so>".  Makes it a bit harder keeping track of the three dozen characters

I think there is more than three dozen characters.... .  I love that book though. Gotta check out the librivox version

I finally finished it last week! 

It was good.  Just, a lot.  But, good. 

[Jean Carrier]

I am reading Marcus Tullius Cicero: De Natura Deorum. He says that: "Ex quo exstitit illud, multa esse probabilia, quae quamquam non perciperentur, tamen, quia visum quendam haberent insignem et inlustrem iis sapientis vita regeretur." Which translates roughly as probability should guide the life of a wise person, because you cannot know some things with certainty, but still, they may possess a certain clarity which indicates that the wise man should support them.

You should read De senectute (sometimes called Cato Maior) next. One of my favorites , though De Natura Deorum is quite good too.

[Hannelore]

Bleak House. One of my favorite Dickens novels.

[red solo cup]

Buttertea at Sunrise. A year in the Bhutan Himalaya by Britta Das.

[red solo cup]

Einstein. The Life and Times by Ronald Clark

[Hannelore]

Japanese Myths, Legends, and Folktales, by Yuri Yasuda. I bought the kindle version to read to my niece. My grandma gave me an antique copy, signed by the author, when I was seven. I've loved it ever since. I love being able to read the same fairy tales that she enjoyed when she was little.

[Lynne]

Japanese Myths, Legends, and Folktales, by Yuri Yasuda. I bought the kindle version to read to my niece. My grandma gave me an antique copy, signed by the author, when I was seven. I've loved it ever since. I love being able to read the same fairy tales that she enjoyed when she was little.

That's so sweet.

[truly-a-philosofan]

Soul of the Samurai: Modern Translations of Three Classic Works of Zen & Bushido published in paperback by Tuttle Publishing.

[red solo cup]

The Human Factor by Graham Greene

[Hannelore]

Laddie, by Gene Stratton Porter. One of my favorites. A very wholesome, family type book.

[maryslittlegarden]

Laddie, by Gene Stratton Porter. One of my favorites. A very wholesome, family type book.

A Girl of the Limberlost is one of my favorites