joecali 
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creativity for all
Reply #921. Oct 05 11, 9:40 AM
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daver852
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I just finished reading "The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life In Silver Street," by Charles Nicholl. I wondered how a fairly long book could be made out of five short lines of testimony in a civil suit from 1612. Now I know. It can't.
Reply #922. Oct 05 11, 10:24 AM
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| HannahConner88
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Just finished reading To Kill A Mockingbird yesterday. Excellent book!!
Reply #923. Oct 05 11, 12:17 PM
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Zippy826
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The Greater Journey by David McCullough. Interesting story of American writers, artists, inventors and others who went to Paris in the early to mid 1800's.
Reply #924. Oct 05 11, 2:53 PM
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| HannahConner88
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Fahrenheit 451; started it yesterday; almost finished.
Reply #925. Oct 06 11, 9:02 AM
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| HannahConner88
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The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck
Reply #926. Oct 07 11, 11:54 AM
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| trojan11
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A recently obtained volume of Plutarch's Lives (translated). Odd how one's perspective and tastes change over the years. As a youngster I loved reading Plutarch, now I find him rather too effusive. For all that, though, he does bring those ancient characters to life.
Reply #927. Oct 10 11, 6:57 PM
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paulmallon
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"The Affair" by Lee Child ( a Jack Reacher novel)
it's about the 10th in the series and it's as good as the rest, he can seriously spin a yarn. Try him.
Reply #928. Oct 13 11, 3:07 PM
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| Manjari97
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A place called here by Cecelia Ahern.
Reply #930. Oct 15 11, 4:44 AM
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bloodandsand
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paulmallon, Jack Reacher is one of my guilty pleasures!!
Reply #931. Oct 15 11, 3:22 PM
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paulmallon
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feel no guilt...he is one of the best protagonists around and thank you Lee Child for him
I just finished the latest Reacher tome "The Affair" and loved it, and am now reading "Misery Bay" by Steve Hamilton, a third of the way through: very good.
Reply #932. Oct 17 11, 8:38 PM
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AlexxSchneider
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I'm currently reading Virgil's Aeneid.
Reply #933. Oct 19 11, 9:10 AM
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daver852
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"The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection: A New Study of the Authorship Question," by Samuel L. Blumenfeld. Outstanding book.
Reply #934. Oct 19 11, 12:45 PM
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rustic_les
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World War Z
I too, shall be prepared for when the day comes...
Reply #935. Oct 19 11, 2:48 PM
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jolana
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The Warriors of God by Andrzej Sapkowski.
Reply #936. Oct 19 11, 4:22 PM
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| insanity22186
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"The Help", by Katherine Stoddard. It's a great book. I've had it on my bookshelf for awhile, just never got around to reading it before this week. It's very funny and terribly sad. Makes me very sad about a time in the history of my Southern heritage. I wish I could have read it 20 years ago.
Reply #937. Oct 19 11, 6:43 PM
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| insanity22186
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That should have read THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett. Sorry about that.
Reply #938. Oct 20 11, 7:31 AM
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paulmallon
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"Misery Bay" turned out to be a good read.."The Help" was a wonderful read
Reply #939. Oct 20 11, 6:29 PM
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Dagny1
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The Saga of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Swedish citizen to do so and the first woman elected to the Swedish Academy. The Saga of Gösta Berling is the basis for the film which brought Greta Garbo to world attention.
I'm only about a quarter of the way into the book. So far it seems a combination of folk stories and a bit of fantasy with some romance thrown in. Very enjoyable and enough exciting bits (including a wild sleigh ride pursued by wolves) to pull one along. The prose in my translation (Paul Norlen winner of the American Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize) is marvelous evoking. One can feel the cold and sometimes the pain.
Reply #940. Oct 20 11, 7:10 PM
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