Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[issybird]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

That Tom Sawyer is still a child is very evident in the later chapters.

Or a sociopath.

[Dr. Drib]

Finished Oh, William!, by Elizabeth Strout. What a loving novel, one full of both pain and beauty.
I LOVED IT.

Now starting two novels:

Hunger - Choi Jin-young
Jane Fallon - Welcome to the Neighborhood

I've not read any work from the two authors listed above, but I'm looking forward to starting when I place a period after this sentence.

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by issybird

Or a sociopath.

100%.

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Finished Oh, William!, by Elizabeth Strout. What a loving novel, one full of both pain and beauty.
I LOVED IT.

I've never met a Strout novel that I did not really enjoy.

[nana77]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

100%.

Not sure why Tom Sawyer is listed into the "bad boy" literature genre, while Huckelberry's not ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_a_Bad_Boy ).

Aldrich established the precedent that, generally, bad boy stories do not depict the characters' maturation to adulthood, though there is some evidence that they do grow up. In the case of The Story of a Bad Boy, Aldrich notes early in the book that the characters are now adults and serving as "lawyers, merchants, sea-captains, soldiers, authors, what not."

Btw, I'll have to find an used copy of "The Long Tomorrow", by Leigh Brackett, as a digital translation isn't available (except Amazon's), and the public libraries has one only for reference consultation.

1Q84 is fantastic, yet; I don't get the negative reviews on its Wikipedia page:

A negative review from The A.V. Club had Christian Williams calling the book "stylistically clumsy" with "layers of tone-deaf dialogue, turgid description, and unyielding plot"; he awarded a D rating.[20] Also criticizing the book was Sanjay Sipahimalani of The Indian Express, who felt the writing was too often lazy and clichéd [...]

[astrangerhere]

• Audio - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (390 pages)
• Kobo - The Books of Earthsea, complete illustrated edition, by Ursula K. Le Guin (1008 pages)
• Paper - The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, revised and expanded edition, edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien (720 pages).

I have found the Tolkien best taken in small doses - a year or so at a time in the correspondence is enough to entertain. More than that, and he becomes annoying.