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

[Karellen]

This morning received from the author the Beta release of the new novel The Rippers Son by Richard Phillips.... https://rhoagenda.me/

Ready to start that today or tomorrow.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Micky 7 by Edward Ashton. Recently made into a film, Mickey 17.

Which was rather good. I shall probably go and see the film.

Next up: The Falls by Ian Rankin. The twelfth in his Inspector Rebus series.

[Dr. Drib]

Finished The Lover, by Margurite Duras.

The young girl in The Lover is a catalyst for desire: She understands this at an early age through her affair with an older man. It is this desire that will come to rule her life. Duras layers her short novel with memories (and probably with half-memories). In fact, as a semi-autobiographical work of art, it managed to enlarged my understanding of how memories can transfigure into a fuller understanding of how we are affected by them - especially, as in my case - as I have aged. There is so much that can be said about the greatness of this novel.

I loved re-reading this novel. The qualities that initially attracted me to Duras's writing 40-45 years ago have become strengthened. I'll be re-reading all her work that I own.

I'm now almost finished with another writer I loved in my youth: Anna Kavan. I'm loving Asylum Piece.

[p@perm0nk]

Bit late to the party but just started 1984 by George Orwell.

[Renate]

Finally getting around to "Manhattan Transfer". I'm not usually a fan of multi-character/multi-viewpoint stuff, but this doesn't seem too arduous. Maybe a bit too much influenced by Joyce, but not unbearable.

I think that some authors are more influenced by colors than I am. I have/had a friend with red/green color blindness who always said, "I'm not color blind. There's blue and then the other colors." For me, I have a mental quirk that despite seeing all the colors there is only yellow and the various other colors that are not worthy of my notice.

[Dr. Drib]

Finished my re-read Anna Kavan's novel Asylum Piece, a writer I've enjoyed for many, many years. A classic piece of Literature.

Now reading Letter From an Unknown Woman, a novella by Stefan Zweig. If you love Literature, then you simply must read Zweig!!!

If you can identify the insect below, then you're a better man than me!

[Apache]

Looks like a silverfish to me
Apache

[haertig]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

If you can identify the insect below, then you're a better man than me!

Pointed my cellphone camera at your picture, clicked "Google Lens", and it identified it as a silverfish. Same as @Apache ID'ed it.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Apache

Looks like a silverfish to me
Apache

And you are the WINNER of a virtual hearty handclasp!