What Book Are You Currently Reading? (2.0.)

[Wiswylfen]

Bought The Warrior Queen: The Life and Legend of Aethelflaed, Daughter of Alfred the Great. I personally doubt that the average person would recognise her name, as the author believes, but maybe I'm wrong and underestimating the popularity of a show which features a TV character who shares little more than a name with her.

Also got Geordies: Roots of Regionalism and other books of local interest out from the library.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Vanity Fair. Comedy gold.

[Dave from Michigan]

Scorpions, a book about 4 of FDR's supreme court justices. Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Robert Jackson, and William Douglas. I'm about 100 pages in and finding it very interesting, and none of them have even been appointed to the court yet.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Vanity Fair. Comedy gold.

With the extra serendipitous joke added by Serendipity of an unpleasant character called George Osborne being killed at Waterloo.

[retromike22]

"The Story of the Human Body" which is about the evolution of human anatomy

[Aurelius]

"Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico" by Hugh Thomas
"Louis XI: The Universal Spider" by Paul Murray Kendall

[Хahar 🤔]

"Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico" by Hugh Thomas

I'm not familiar with this one, but I did read Hugh Thomas's history of Cuba when I was in high school. It was an exceptionally long book, probably the longest single-volume book in the history section of the Cupertino library, and its length was such that "the Cuba book" remains a running joke among my friends. I learned a great deal about the country.

[Schiff for Senate]

The Steal is honestly quite good, and thoroughly debunks various tenets and conspiracy theories of the Big Lie. Would recommend that Fuzzy, FairBol, et. al., do themselves a favor and read it.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Гарри Поттер и философский камень.

[beaver2.0]

Those Angry Days by Lynne Olson

[Continential]

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.

[Enduro]

Three Miles Below by Harry Turtledove

[PSOL]

I’ve read “This world we must Leave” by Jacques Camatte and other essays—awful. I think it made me finally become a Stalinist. “Domestication” as a concept is something I’ll use though

I read the entire volumes of Öcalan’s communalist canon—his positive antisemitism and just utter failure at appearing deep was awful. Anarchism really is liberalism.

The only solace I have been having is going through a biography and collection of works by Gore Vidal.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I recently read Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis's latest encyclical, if that counts.

I think I will start Ernest Hemingway's Forty-Nine Short Stories soon. I haven't read something as long as that in a while.

A couple days ago I managed to finish Hemingway's book. As you can tell I have trouble finding occasions to read books, I often read slowly (except for when I read really fast), and a collection of stories not in my mother tongue probably exacerbates that. The one set in my hometown is harsh but understandable given it is meant as a critique of the Fascist regime. The Nick Adams cycle is also very fascinating.

I feel at a complete loss as to what I might read next, perhaps because I have so many to choose from.

[retromike22]

Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston

Imagine if the this forum wrote a novel. This would be it. It's about the son of a President who enters into a secret relationship with a British Prince. They whole thing plays out like some Atlas Forum alternate history thread, with snarky but intelligent dialogue and political trivia thrown in. It did feel a bit melodramatic at times, but I suppose that's to be expected. One thing I did not like, was the First Family (the parents and sister). Do normal families cuss at each other this often? Also, usually with gay movies/tv shows, the main characters are uninteresting but the supporting characters are interesting, in this case it was the opposite. I am looking forward to the film adaptation of this though.

[Wiswylfen]

Out around the North East of England today and reading (along with the revised boundary proposals) Max Adams’ The King in the North, a beautiful look at 7th-century Northumbria. Got it back in 2017 when I was first getting interested in the period and last read last year on a trip to Alnmouth.

[Enduro]

Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston

Imagine if the this forum wrote a novel. This would be it. It's about the son of a President who enters into a secret relationship with a British Prince. They whole thing plays out like some Atlas Forum alternate history thread, with snarky but intelligent dialogue and political trivia thrown in. It did feel a bit melodramatic at times, but I suppose that's to be expected. One thing I did not like, was the First Family (the parents and sister). Do normal families cuss at each other this often? Also, usually with gay movies/tv shows, the main characters are uninteresting but the supporting characters are interesting, in this case it was the opposite. I am looking forward to the film adaptation of this though.

My siblings regularly curse at each other; pretty normal in my case.

[beaver2.0]

Sea of Grass

[Enduro]

Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James Garfield by Kenneth Ackerman.

[Middle-aged Europe]

The Man who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

[beaver2.0]

Oath of Fealty by Niven and Pournelle

[Enduro]

Started Shadows In Flight by Orson Scott Card thinking it was the fourth book in the series, but it is the fifth book. Feeling dumb, I went back to start Shadow of the Giant.

[Brother Jonathan]

Demons by Dostoevsky

[Saint Milei]

[Schiff for Senate]

Haven't posted here in a while. I'll keep it brief: In the last few weeks, I concluded both Romeo & Juliet and Jane Eyre, both of which I read for my English 9th grade honours class.