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This week I finished four books. Rated out of five.








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(bonus star for being Emily)

The Long Walk by Richard Bachman, aka Stephen King.

Our Father - Reflections on the Lord's Prayer
by Pope Francis

Ruth, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1853)



Mrs Gaskell was Charlotte Brontë's friend and first biographer. I read Ruth in University, but it deserves a reread.

I highly recommend it!

I'm reading "Anything is possible" by Elizabeth Strout.

I Read another one of her books "Olive Kitteridge" and really enjoyed that so I'm giving another one of her books a go. I'm enjoying the novel but still prefer Olive Kitteridge, where nothing much happens but the characters are great.

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I really enjoyed "Olive Kitteridge" too.

Anybody here likes re-reading books? More than once?

I reread my books multiple times, some of them with rituals about where and when.

Cool - I've read a few of my favourite books enough times to almost know them by heart. I do find new things in them every time though, or maybe it's just me changing. I do read very fast though and can't fall asleep without a couple of hours of reading, it calms me down.

I have rituals related to some of them too - usually those that have "sentimental" value to me.

When I cannot read in the original language, I also like to read different translations in other languages to compare, speaking of pedantic

I collect different editions of the same books, and I take notes while I read (even with fiction). When I read literary criticism or biographies, I cross-reference the sources and read biographies of the biographers.

You could call me pedantic as well.

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
by Catherine Nixey

I mostly read non-fiction: botany and other life sciences, history, environmental, nature, evolution, feminism, some philosophy, secular buddhism... Some fiction, mostly scifi, speculative fiction of other kinds, some mysteries

"Living Well on the Autism Spectrum" b/c my grad student therapist's post made her read it and assign it to all her patients, as the boss told us in our support group meeting this week. lol

"Shining a Light on the Autism Spectrum" is also good.

I'm re-reading The Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut) for the umpteenth time, and it still surprises me.

I read that in January for the first time. Poor Martians.

Did the main characters strike you as examples of Poor Us?

I've just finished this:



A damn good read. I learned a heck of a lot about the cultural trends of 40s Russia, as well as about the background of my favourite composer. I was disappointed about his seeming lack of interest in Dostoevsky, over whom he much preferred Chekhov, but have renewed my understanding and appreciation of S's music.