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What are you reading? How do you feel about it?

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whatausername · 28/01/2024 18:39

I'm reading Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Surprised by how much I'm enjoying it. I wish Mattie and Ethan were more articulate and better fibbers!

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Bhxquery · 29/01/2024 22:00

I’m reading Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart and it’s making me hate the Conservative Party even more, which I didn’t think was possible.

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whatausername · 29/01/2024 21:59

hazandduck · 29/01/2024 21:50

Frankenstein. Keep nodding off every time I pick it up.

I love classic literature so surprised to find it such a slog, but the constant misery is just tedious.

For the first science fiction novel there is very little science and a lot of lament.

I read that last year - it's awful! Paragraph after paragraph of descriptions of mountains and the characters spend far too much dwelling on how wretched they all feel. Iirc it is mostly written in the passive voice? Was a dull dull read.

By the by, I have heard Margaret Cavendish's 1666 novel, 'The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World' described as an earlier work of science fiction. But I've yet to read it and can't say if it is sci-fi as we would normally use the term.

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Santasbigredbobblehat · 29/01/2024 21:57

I’ve just finished Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry. It was beautifully written, so sad and beautiful at the same time. I’m really pleased I’ve discovered him.

Now reading Insects and Angels by A S Byatt after recently reading The Children’s Book, but I feel it won’t be as wonderful!

hazandduck · 29/01/2024 21:50

Frankenstein. Keep nodding off every time I pick it up.

I love classic literature so surprised to find it such a slog, but the constant misery is just tedious.

For the first science fiction novel there is very little science and a lot of lament.

JaneyGee · 29/01/2024 21:48

Somewhere Becoming Rain, a collection of essays on the poet Philip Larkin by Clive James. Really enjoying it.

I’m also reading a biography of Virginia Woolf, which is even better.

Elzibells · 28/01/2024 18:41

I'm reading Beastings by Benjamin Myers, it's making me feel a bit unsettled so I'm finding it hard to keep picking it up! It's only short so will finish it but not sure if I'm enjoying it yet 😂