What are you currently reading?

1970 Kelly's (Gore's) Directory of Liverpool & Bootle.

Ha, my latest geek purchase!

 

Just some light summer reading

 

I saw a girl I sort of know reading it.
Then I remembered I heard about islamic finance and banking yeeaaars ago.

Seemed intereseting.

It IS interesting.


It's not summer yet.

 

This !! Brilliant Book I shit you not Guys

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1113720/skintown/
??‘We’re in the back of a car belonging to the men our mothers told us to never get in the back of a car of. I close my eyes and wonder how many girls will come to my funeral.’Vincent Patrick Duffy has already checked out. .

 

this again



a lil Ranciere never hurts

And since I was reminded of the movie a few days ago:



found it in the library

 

I rented (is rent the word? anyway) a few Roald Dahl children's books, just because I wanted to look at a different style to maybe inspire some writing, but I also had Stephen King's The Shining and the sequel to that. I ended up returning all of them except The Witches and Danny the Champion. I was way too preoccupied last month to read, and now it's getting to be nice to want to be outside, but I really want to check these out. Suppose I could read them outside. Wish I had a hammock!

 

I didn't know that there was a new book out about Hillary Clinton's campaign. It's available on audiobook.

Has anyone read it?

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign Author Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes Language English Subject Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign Genre Nonfiction Publisher Crown Publishing Group
Publication date
April 18, 2017 Pages 480 ISBN 0553447084

 

Still on Anna Karenina. Vronsky has been at the horse races for pages and its so boring. Like I know his mare has beautiful muscles already, damn, stop repeating it.

So I keep falling asleep. I really need to make time for reading at other times besides late at night in bed.

 

Nearly finished volume 1 'Swan's Way'. Hard to know what to say. Proust had a unique style, and I can't think of any other writer with whom he can be compared. There are flashes of brilliance, but also very long and convoluted sentences where the original point is often lost before you get to the end of it. It seems to me to be all about style and light on narrative. He observes things and people in minute detail, but the trouble is I find I don't really care much for his characters, and the whole thing appears to relate more to a past phase of culture, rich folks in late 19th c. France. Memory is a big theme, but the childhood memories recounted seem somehow unrealistic, and worked up.

I'm not at all adverse to reading literature of that period in general, but what I'm finding is that like James Joyce, I just don't find much relevance there for my own life. I also find Proust's somewhat aristocratic attitudes to be a bit jarring.

I think to embark on the remaining 6 volumes would be to loose too much of my own time.

 

I read Swan's Way years ago, we had to in high school.
It didn't make me want to read more Proust.
It just made me want to stuff my face with madeleines.

I would be interested in giving it another try though.
I don't remember much. Like I said, it was a long time ago.

 

I read three and a half volumes of Proust, or to give it its French title "A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu". I totally got into it whilst in hospital for several months. But life got in the way and I then was not in the right frame of mind to continue. I will pick it up again one day,I'm sure. It is a unique masterpiece in my opinion, like nothing else ever written. Certainly worth persevering with.

 

so you wouldn't say it was lost time

 

What I'm finding is that it simply doesn't interest me enough to read the rest. There is merit in it no doubt, but it doesn't grab me to the extent it would have to to induce me to read further given the investment of time and concentration involved.

 

At the moment I'm still working on "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins, but I will probably finish it soon. Since that is the case I've borrowed another book from the library to read on my kindle (they have digital books now that you can borrow) which is "Theodore Boone: The Activist" by John Grisham. I hope it turns out to be interesting.

"The Girl on the Train" is more interesting now that I'm used to it. But when I first started reading it I thought that it was too complicated. It kept switching between main characters or something. That was bothering me. Now it's not. I like the book.

 

Thanks for the review! I'm curious enough to read at least volume one, eventually anyways

 

You may really like it - many people do. Just not the kind of stuff that interests me much nowadays.

 

Llewellyn complete book of psychic empowerment.

Love Llewelyn books.. order more from there website should arrive in 2 days.

 

Buttons pain