[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

I have four books going right now:

• My hardcover of The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952. I have all 23 volumes of every strip that Schulz ever drew, and its high time I started working my way through them. I am in the middle of 1951 right now. [This is my January SG Challenge book]
• My library loan of Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home: A Biography. I picked this up based on some other SG recommendations. It was pretty easy to get as I suspect most folks are queuing up for Worsley's new biography of Agatha Christie.
• The audio book of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower for my commutes
• My yearly re-read of Tolstoy's War and Peace at a one-chapter-a-day pace.

I finished:

• My hardcover of The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952. I will definitely be interspersing the rest of these volumes throughout my reading. Some of the strips, especially in 1952, were stellar.
• Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home: A Biography. Its not the best biography I've ever read, nor was it the worst. But I will definitely wait for a library loan on her new Agatha Christie bio rather than paying for it.

I'm currently reading:

• The audio book of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower and I think I'll finish it this week.
• Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs. I've never read Jewett before, but I encountered her so much in my best book of the year last year (The Selected Letters of Willa Cather) that I thought it was time to give her a try. I'm reading a lovely version produced by Standard Ebooks.
• Osamu Tezuka's 1953 manga Princess Knight, which is turning out to be quite an interesting critique of gender roles in post-war Japan.
• My yearly re-read of Tolstoy's War and Peace at a one-chapter-a-day pace.