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Tarana · 12-11-2023, 10:08 PM

I am both reading and listening to Moby Dick and it is lasting forever!!! I like the story, but yeah, there are sections that are mind numbing after awhile. About 3/4 through.

Paperbackstash · 12-12-2023, 06:40 PM

I've heard that about Moby Dick :/ One day I may read it but it's never been high on my list

pdurrant · 12-15-2023, 02:38 AM

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Next up: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee.

Which was well written, but I have very little sympathy for the absolute idiot of a main character (i.e. the author), who seems to have no sense and few morals.

Next up: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, ranslated into modern English by Nevill Coghill. I'm actualy only reading two tales at this point: The Prioress's Tale and The Franklin's Tale for a book club.

I haven't got very far into the first, but it's starting out as a very unpleasant anti-semitic tale, and I fear it's going to carry on that way. I'm unsurprised that it's not as popular as The Wife of Bath's Tale.

Uncle Robin · 12-16-2023, 01:22 AM

I've just finished the second annual (D'Oh!) Dean Street December, a fun way to wrap the year.
My 15 DSD books this year

pdurrant · 12-16-2023, 03:04 AM

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Next up: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, ranslated into modern English by Nevill Coghill. I'm actualy only reading two tales at this point: The Prioress's Tale and The Franklin's Tale for a book club.

I haven't got very far into the first, but it's starting out as a very unpleasant anti-semitic tale, and I fear it's going to carry on that way. I'm unsurprised that it's not as popular as The Wife of Bath's Tale.

The Prioress's Tale is indeed a very unpleasant anti-semitic tale, very much of its time.

The Franklin's Tale is a romance with a happy ending for everyone. Unexpected!

Next up: Season of the Raven by Denise Domning. A freebie I picked up in 2016.

pdurrant · 12-18-2023, 03:26 AM

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Next up: Season of the Raven by Denise Domning. A freebie I picked up in 2016.

Oddly, set just a few years before Chaucer, in 1100s England.

Interesting enough that I'm moving straight on to the second book:

Season of the Fox by Denise Domning

guanaco · 12-20-2023, 11:14 PM

Just a sample:

The king's awakening

French agents in Canada, after the defeat of their arms, in 1753, spread among the Indians the information that the king of France had fallen asleep for the last few years, but that he had just awakened and that his first words were: "We must immediately expel the English who have entered the country of my red sons." The news spread throughout the continent and was one of the causes of the famous Pontiac conspiracy.

pdurrant · 12-21-2023, 02:42 AM

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Interesting enough that I'm moving straight on to the second book:

Season of the Fox by Denise Domning

And I liked that one enought to go straight onto the third, Lost Innocents, and then to buy the fourth and fifth, so now starting

The Final Toll by Denise Domning

astrangerhere · 12-21-2023, 09:18 AM

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And I liked that one enought to go straight onto the third, Lost Innocents, and then to buy the fourth and fifth, so now starting

The Final Toll by Denise Domning

Getting those last few purchases in?

pdurrant · 12-21-2023, 09:42 AM

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Getting those last few purchases in?

Well, yes.

astrangerhere · 12-21-2023, 09:49 AM

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Well, yes.

If its not in the book buying addicts thread, it doesn't count, right?

alansplace · 12-21-2023, 01:01 PM

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Getting those last few purchases in?

Yep, sure am! I just ordered, for overnight delivery from amazon, everything still on my wife's Amazon wish list.

Uncle Robin · 12-25-2023, 05:04 AM

Thanks to the Kobo Gift Card deal, I got this from my wishlist today, after more than a year. "Zero Line Par Gulzar", a biography of the poet and lyricist. On the plus side, Kobo's made HUGE improvements to the readability of its Hindi by ditching whatever arcane proprietary font it was using, so that it looks great in Arial Unicode MS, as here. It's one of VERY few books that looks better in Nickel than KOReader for me.

On the downside, seeing a glossary of Urdu words translated into Hindi tells me this book will take me all 2024 to finish

Areeba · 12-25-2023, 07:26 AM

Just finished reading The Archer by Paulo Cohelo. It was a short book, got done with it in one sitting.

pdurrant · 12-25-2023, 03:08 PM

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The Final Toll by Denise Domning

Which was also fun, so I went straight on to Caught Red Handed.

Overall, they were fun. But I was a bit disappointed by one supernatural element in the last volume.

Next I read The Last Sherlock Homes Story by Michael Dibden. Brilliant!

Now I'm reading the Sandman graphic novels by Neil Gaiman.

12-20-2023, 11:14 PM	#31642
guanaco Recovering reader Posts: 226 Karma: 8008008 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: México Device: iPad	Short and extraordinary stories by Bioy & Borges Just a sample: The king's awakening French agents in Canada, after the defeat of their arms, in 1753, spread among the Indians the information that the king of France had fallen asleep for the last few years, but that he had just awakened and that his first words were: "We must immediately expel the English who have entered the country of my red sons." The news spread throughout the continent and was one of the causes of the famous Pontiac conspiracy.

12-25-2023, 05:04 AM	#31648
Uncle Robin Diligent dilettante Posts: 3,662 Karma: 52758936 Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: in my mind Device: Kobo Sage; Kobo Libra Colour	Thanks to the Kobo Gift Card deal, I got this from my wishlist today, after more than a year. "Zero Line Par Gulzar", a biography of the poet and lyricist. On the plus side, Kobo's made HUGE improvements to the readability of its Hindi by ditching whatever arcane proprietary font it was using, so that it looks great in Arial Unicode MS, as here. It's one of VERY few books that looks better in Nickel than KOReader for me. On the downside, seeing a glossary of Urdu words translated into Hindi tells me this book will take me all 2024 to finish Attached Thumbnails Last edited by Uncle Robin; 12-25-2023 at 05:08 AM.

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12-11-2023, 10:08 PM	#31636
Tarana Wizard Posts: 4,061 Karma: 38840460 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Minneapolis Device: PWSE, Voyage, K3, HDX, KBasic 7 & 8, Nook Glo3, Echos, Nanos	I am both reading and listening to Moby Dick and it is lasting forever!!! I like the story, but yeah, there are sections that are mind numbing after awhile. About 3/4 through.

12-12-2023, 06:40 PM	#31637
Paperbackstash Wizard Posts: 1,666 Karma: 20102554 Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: Central Florida Device: Oasis 3, PW 3 & 5, Fire HD 8 & 10	I've heard that about Moby Dick :/ One day I may read it but it's never been high on my list

12-16-2023, 01:22 AM	#31639
Uncle Robin Diligent dilettante Posts: 3,662 Karma: 52758936 Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: in my mind Device: Kobo Sage; Kobo Libra Colour	I've just finished the second annual (D'Oh!) Dean Street December, a fun way to wrap the year. *My 15 DSD books this year*

12-25-2023, 07:26 AM	#31649
Areeba Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2023 Device: None	Just finished reading The Archer by Paulo Cohelo. It was a short book, got done with it in one sitting.