What are you currently reading?

[JoyousLemons]

Almost done with The Stranger by Albert Camus

[Rafa]

Halfway through Don Quijote Book 2, it's been on my backlog for the last 5 years.

[swede]

Currently hlafway trough ayn rand, atlas shrugged. Only 500 pages to go! The weathers been shit and i like to read on the beach. Will see.

[TheLatvianNudist]

Currently hlafway trough ayn rand, atlas shrugged. Only 500 pages to go! The weathers been shit and i like to read on the beach. Will see.

Been planning to read that for a while. Is it any good?

[frehm92]

Decided to go for some English classics, but starting easy with some youth literature like Enid Blyton

[Jess]

Right now I'm reading an Intro to Music Psychology!

as a music lover and aspiring psychologist it's a really cool read for me!

[swede]

Currently hlafway trough ayn rand, atlas shrugged. Only 500 pages to go! The weathers been shit and i like to read on the beach. Will see.

Been planning to read that for a while. Is it any good?

Depeds, currently have like 200 pages left. I like that it's long. The setting and storytelling is quite reminiscent of 1984. Its a bit naive/childish at points and it doesn't really fully explain it's arguments, like it makes assumprions and doesn't provide reasoning for it. Over all i'd recomend it, especially if you're politically interested, both socialist or capitalist. Do ot regret reading it and it being over 1100 pages long and still having me interested speak loads about it.

[blank radar]

just finished tarzan of the apes, for class. we read it to dive deep into how racist and awful it is. surprise surprise, it's racist and awful

[Fishandchips]

Well I finally did it I picked up a book. Currently reading Patrick Stewart, Making it so

[rajnature]

Started reading Corporate Chanakya by Radhakrishnan Pillai

[Fishandchips]

My reading ground to a halt again not even half way through a book 😒

[James]

Currently reading Making it so by Patrick Stewart and Muder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

[Jake15]

I typically am not one who reads books and can't ever seem to find the time for it however, in my English class we are supposed to do some good ol classic silent reading every now and then. There's a small shelf of books we choose from behind the whiteboard. Almost at random I picked one that stood out to me with a cover of this Viking girl wielding an axe. Honestly I just chose it because she looked super cute and is a similar age as me lol.

The book is called A Sky In The Deep by Adrienne Young. The story follows the life of a young Viking worrier Eelyn, who faces constant battles and harsh conditions while fighting to protect her family and people. The conflict of the story, at least where I'm at (about pg 80) is after seeing her brother alive and fighting alongside the enemy after he had been thought to be dead for several years. She begins following after to see if it's really him and eventually ends up being basically kidnapped and taken back to the enemies land by her own brother and his friend and she ends up having to live as a servant to the family that adopted her brother at the same time as making sure the fact of them being related stays pretty hush hush.

Without spoiling too much I'll just say this is one of the most emotionally connecting books I've ever read, at least for me. It focuses a lot on betrayal and internal conflicts as well as the physical ones. The setting of the Viking civilizations and cultures just adds to the extra cool factor and keeps you wanting to learn more about the world.
Like I said I'm definitely not a book person but I would definitely recommend this one 100%.

[maplesyrupcookie]

I recently finished reading Dante's Inferno, all about the poet's guided journey through the Nine Circles of hell in order to escape the dark forest in which he is lost (represent his straying into sin) and come back to salvation. I was initially interested in reading it due to a morbid fascination with dark literature, the occult, and the likes of Phasmophobia, John Constantine, and Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss. As I read, I discovered that it was a political commentary on the medieval Italian politics at the time rather than strictly a commentary on good and evil and suffering and salvation.

I also recently finished reading a short story called The Maker of Moons from a collection of stories by Robert Chambers. The story falls into the category of the weird and supernatural and ends leaving the reader to question whether it was all real, or just a story within a story. Again, this stems from the same fascination that drove me to read Inferno. Before this, I previously read Chambers' King in Yellow collection which generally falls into the same category and was the inspiration for some of Lovecraft's work.

Next, I'd like to read the remainder of Dante's divine comedy, Purgatorio and Paradiso, but I have to get my hands on copies of those first. I also want to read Chambers' The Harbour Master, but I left my copy of that back in Canada. So instead, I'm going to go for The String of Pearls, which is the original collection of Penny Dreadful short stories concerning the Demon barber Sweeney Todd.

[eagleday]

Liu Cixin's "Three Body Problem."