What book are you currently reading?
Watch this postThought this would be a good place to share your taste in literature! What books have you read recently, what are you reading now and how would rate them? Would you recommend anything to a fellow Silverhairs friend?
Do you use a Kindle or similar or do you prefer a real book to hold?
I have just finished reading the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, which my youngest daughter is studying for ‘A’ Level. It is a devastating, masterful and painfully honest story … it tells the gripping account of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and ruthless evil.
The Kite Runner is an astonishing, powerful book that had me riveted from the first to the last page. It is a story of fierce cruelty and yet redeeming love, as well as of an intimate account of family and friendship.
I found it compelling and disturbing and opened my eyes to how evil reigns in the Middle East. Next on my list is A Thousand Splendid Suns written by the same author.
How about you?
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I have tried e.reading but cannot concentrate with that medium. In fact the copy of Chuzzlewit I have is nearly as old as I am, and reminds me of the pleasure I have always got from a well bound and presented book. It is cloth covered, with quality paper that let's the pages turn and lie easily.
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Yes, my copy of Martin Chuzzlewit happens to also be an Everyman edition. I haven't read any Chekhov. My only competent language is English, and am therefore stuck with translations, and always feel my relationship with the author is being filtered.
I am interested to know what else you may be reading. My reading goes from Shakespeare, Milton, and George Chapman through to Ian Fleming, John Banville, Ian McEwan, and John leCarre, with the Brontes and my favourite of all time, George Eliot in between.
My reading is not at all academic, rather for pleasure.
(I haven't seen the 1995 version...but then I prefer old films and this is in black and white).
It was written in 1948 and I am interested how things were then in South Africa. My grandmother was living/working there at this time (having been exiled from Poland)
It is about apartheid, murder, the fathers of the two young men, (the suffering of the one who's son committed the murder and the father who suffers the loss of a son).
I have been saving this read (I do that) and well in my opinion books are by far better than films (I would be inclined to say this, speaking as a former Librarian)
Anyone read this already?
Only part way through it but it's a very interesting read.
I am happiest with my nose in a book. I get most of mine from our local Rowan’s Hospice shop.
I did start reading this book about twenty years ago, but it was always in dribs & drabs
as I was still working full time. During the past month I have gradually worked my way
through it and I now admire her even more than when she was Prime Minister. An extremely
far sighted lady of whom we will probably never see the likes of again.
A few of you may think 'and thank goodness for that' regarding my last sentence. Yes,
she - as most of us have done - made mistakes, but on the whole the country was
left in a better state after her Premiership. She leaves the current crop of political leaders
standing as regards leadership.
I’m enjoying it, but maybe not as much as the Dragonlance books or the Trudii Canavan series.