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i can't concentrate enough to enjoy a book when under pressure
i still have Mrs Obama and Sen John McCain to finish
@missy I love classics too! Out of your list East of Eden is a particular favorite. Right now I am reading To Have and Have Not. @Jimmianne I will have to check out A Moveable Feast.
I'd like to add Lonesome Dove as a wonderful escape from our current situation.
Have to go to bed now, but will try to report back on some more book recommendations tomorrow.
@AGBF I didn't meant to infringe upon the main Book Thread
but I thought a fresh thread re the Covid outbreak might get new eyes on it and new recs vs just bumping up The Book Thread.
I just re-read A Man Called Ove this past weekend (a personal favorite), and am about to start The Hunger Games trilogy (must be my 4th time reading this story) - a prequel (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) is coming out in May 2020 and I want to be ready for it
I just re-read A Man Called Ove this past weekend (a personal favorite), and am about to start The Hunger Games trilogy (must be my 4th time reading this story) - a prequel (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) is coming out in May 2020 and I want to be ready for it
I’m a big book worm. Here are some favs by category:
Nonfiction: The Information
Sci fi series: The Expanse
Sci fi stand alone: The Fall
Fantasy series: The Fifth Season
Fantasy stand alone: Sirens of Titan
Fiction: Elegance of the Hedgehog
Autobiography: Look Me in the Eye (written by a man who grew up with Aspergers before the diagnosis really existed)
Science nonfiction : Predictably Irrational
. This week I have been re-reading my favorite book from childhood - Harriet the Spy.
Another book that I loved that was set in Scandinavia (in Norway) besides A Man Called Ove was Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller. I do not want to spoil it, but it is really unique.
Goodreads says, "Norwegian By Night is the first novel by American-born author, Derek B. Miller. When 82-year-old American widower, Sheldon Horowitz goes to live with his granddaughter, Rhea and her Norwegian husband, Lars, in Olso, the last thing he expects is to find himself on the run from the police with a small boy in tow."
The Plague by Albert Camus
Do the right thing because it is the right thing to do.
"A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times."
We read a long time ago but I am going to search for it in our home library and reread (if I can find it).
I had just been thinking of this thread when I logged on. I was actually going to ask how everyone was doing with his reading. You got here ahead of me, missy!
I am unsure whether I ever read "Th Plague". Is it a play or a novel? I suspect I never read it, because most if the Camus I read, I read in French. I remember L'étranger well because of that.
I am in no mood to read "The Plague"!