12-15-2018, 03:33 PM | #27811 |
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Currently still working through The British in India, on track to be my second 5-star read for 2018 at GR. Also reading The Cat Who Turned On and Off as I work through the series, and have just started book 1 in C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner series
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12-15-2018, 05:28 PM | #27812 |
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I just finished Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder and it immediately made it into my top 10 for the year. I have never read a single "Little House" book and this book was *still* fascinating. I enjoyed the hell out of all the literary cameos as well.
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12-15-2018, 08:05 PM | #27813 |
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Back in the early seventies, the college I was attending had a get together for a professor that was visiting from Britain. You should have seen the looks she got, as the get together ended, when she asked one of the American professors if he would knock her up in the morning.
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12-16-2018, 12:04 AM | #27814 |
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Just finished The British in India" and what a great read it was. I learned so much from its collection of individual stories, "personal histories". Even though the author explicitly stated it was "not a book about the Eurasians (in the twentieth century known as Anglo-Indians), people of British-Indian descent who would deserve a book of similar size for themselves", it still filled a lot of gaps in my knowledge and understanding of my Anglo-Indian background. And it was an interesting coincidence to learn that author has also written a biography of Giovanni Tommasi di Lampedusa, whose Il Gattopardo is on my "try to read" list for 2019
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12-16-2018, 09:20 AM | #27815 |
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Back in my teens, I tried the Brother Cadfael series, but it it just didn't click with me at all. I did really enjoy her Felse series, and thought I'd read them all. I'm now 20% through the first in the series, Fallen Into the Pit, and it's not ringing any bells at all. I am very much enjoying it, though, which bodes well for when I do get to the ones I have read.
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12-16-2018, 09:25 AM | #27816 |
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Finished "The Epic of Galgamesh", translated by Andrew George and published by Penguin Classics. I really enjoyed this, and learned a lot about Assyrian literature in the process.
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As many people will know, the Epic of Gilgamesh is the origin of the flood story that made it into the Book of Genesis in the Bible many centuries after its original composition, complete in every detail, a fact which excited Victorian Assyriologists no end when the Epic of Gilgamesh with first discovered in the library of the palace of Ashurbanipal (7th century BC) at Ninevah and the Akkadian language was deciphered. The Penguin Classics edition, after a lengthy (and very interesting) introduction, first gives a translation of the most complete version of the Epic, which is the forementioned Akkadian version. Subsequent chapters then give the surviving fragments of the older Babylonian version of the text (which is a little different), and finally the very old group of separate Sumerian poems which seem to have been woven together into a unified whole to form the epic poem. An extremely interesting read! |
12-16-2018, 12:44 PM | #27817 | |
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I've been ill in bed all day, so I started and finished Postsingular by Rudy Rucker. A freebie I picked up back in 2009. I now realise that I must have read it back then, but I didn't really remember it. For good reason. 2/5. All rather silly, really. And now for something completely different: The Graveyard of the Hesperides by Lindsay Davis, the fourth in her Flavia Albia series, which happens to be on special offer at Amazon UK today. Life as a detective in 1st Century Rome. |
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12-16-2018, 09:58 PM | #27818 |
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Finished a book called Hunt: An Urban Fairy Tale by Leslie Claire Walker. Not horrible, but I'm not interested enough to read any sequels.
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12-17-2018, 12:23 AM | #27819 |
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OK, all other books need to deal with a slight interruption in their planned reading schedules. Nathan Lowell just released By Darkness Forged, and that takes precedence.
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12-17-2018, 10:25 AM | #27820 | |
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12-17-2018, 11:56 AM | #27821 |
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Did you know there's a new Murderbot short story prequel? Me either.
I found it in my newsfeed this morning and read it in a couple minutes so it's very short (barely more than flash fiction at just over 1000 words) but still enjoyable. And MURDERBOT! The Future of Work: Compulsory by Martha Wells |
12-17-2018, 02:23 PM | #27822 | |
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12-18-2018, 12:49 AM | #27823 | |
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My one real complaint on this one is Pip. He's really getting to be annoying. What was cute in a quarter-share is far less so as a 30-something Cargo Master and CEO. |
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12-18-2018, 03:30 AM | #27824 | |
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Next I read Children of the Nameless by Brandon Sanderson. A stand-alone freebie which seems to have been a commission from Wizards of the Coast LLC. Most enjoyable, with a good resolution. There's clearly more going on, but the story is nicely self-contained. Then I read Endless Night by Agatha Christie. Which was a bit of a disappointment, despite being one of her later novels. And now I'm reading Tramp Royale by Robert A. Heinlein. A travelogue of his round-the world trip in the early 1950s. |
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12-18-2018, 03:43 AM | #27825 |
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Getting an early start on my 2019 Reading Challenge by getting back into The Taste of Words: An Introduction to Urdu Poetry, a language as beautiful as its impossible script
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