Oh! I started that but did not finish it yet because of readings for university. But it was an interesting read so far. At the part where Achilles gathers some ladies. About half way? Usually, I hate Achilles in Greek myth, he's more tolerable this time. I LOVE PATROCLUS. He is my one of my favorite Greek "heroes". Bradley's portrayal in Firebrand of Patroclus was endearing as well. Though in Song of Achilles he is likable if not a bit of a useless twat.Originally Posted by Miriel
I'm reading White Teeth by Zadie Smith.
It's good, I like it so far. It's not totally mind-blowing but there have been some parts I really enjoyed, and had a couple irl lols reading it
A Game of Thrones.
It's very good, and I'm quite glad to have started reading again.
Apparently, I have been declared banished.
My Kindle broke () so Cryptonomicon is on hold until I can get a Paperwhite. So I've been reading some stuff I picked up in the English literature section of a Chinese bookstore to hold me over.
Just finished Dance, Dance, Dance by Murakami. It was very surreal and very satisfying. The man knows how to create characters who, though empty and distant, are endearing. Still, I didn't like it as much as Kafka on the Shore or Norwegian Wood (though the comparing it to the latter is like apples and oranges, in terms of plot-type things).
About to start Green Hills of Africa by Hemingway. It will be the first of his nonfiction I've read.
I just cannot get into any of Murakami's work. I have his books sitting in my shelves and I'm actually tempted to just donate them to the library. =/
Is there something I'm missing? Is there a frame of mind I need to be in when I read his books to enjoy them more?
I'm not doing that.I just finished The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. It reminded me of how much I love Greek mythology. I wasn't so sure about the book in the beginning. But I fell in love with the middle and shed tears at the end. Isn't that weird? To hope for a different ending, even when you know it won't come?
Go go go! Be patient with The Silmarillion. It's less of a novel and more of a mythology. So you kind of need to prepare yourself for that. And I actually took down notes when I first read it to keep all the names straight.
What is it about them you don't like? I've always found them easy to read, very entertaining, with believable characters placed in reasonably interesting scenarios often with a twist. I think the strengths are his writing style and his characters - the former as the narration is often rather amusing and revealing, and the latter because the characters he use work together well and are never wholly what they seem originally. Maybe it depends on which one you start with - I found Norwegian Wood to be a good starting point.
Yesterday I started reading Thomas Penn's Winter King, which is a history of Henry VII, who I've wanted to know more about for quite a while. It had very good reviews, so hopefully it'll live up to expectations.
Doing what? Exhibiting patience?
The surrealism kinda bores me and puts me to sleep. Maybe I'll have a big shot of caffiene and try again.
I recently finished The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, I'm in the middle of The Hobbit, and I also started Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
This Sex Which Is Not One - Luce Irigaray
Feminist Practice and Post-structuralist Theory -
In The Name of Love - Women, Masochism and the Gothic
All for my project. All interesting. But I'd rather read The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Bump. After 18 months of trying I've finally finished The Similarion.
I finished A Memory of Light (Book 14 of The Wheel of Time series) while home sick with the flu on Friday last week. I just started the first book of Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive, The Way of Kings, last night. I'm only a few chapters in, but so far it's really interesting, particularly from a world-building standpoint. The world in the series features constant hurricanes, and the way flora and fauna have adapted to this is really interesting.
Reading list for one class this spring:
Paradise Lost
The Satanic Verses
Dante's Inferno
The Wasteland
In Search of Duende
The Demon and the Angel
Omeros
The Odyssey
"Sinbad"
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Jazz
Amy Hempel collected stories
Leaves of Grass
Deep Step Come Shining
Frank O'Hara's poems
Luckily just happened to reread Leaves of Grass in December. Finished Paradise Lost last night, and starting on The Satanic Verses now.
Seems like I'm not going to have much time for my own reading list the next few months which includes: The Secret Piano, Kokoro Japanese Inner Life, The Book of Tea, Love (short stories of Chekhov), The Confusion (second of Stephenson's Baroque cycle, I'll finish Quicksilver the next day or two), Thoughts on Art and Life, The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan
finished Stephen King's The Stand, uncut version (finally)
great book! kind of sad it's over.
Been reading HP Lovecrafts complete fiction for some time now, and will be reading it for some months to come
Its fantastic. The stories are far from perfect, but they set an atmosphere like nothing else. I read a bit every night before bed
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