What are you reading this weekend?

[InterstellarDrifter]

I'm starting Road of Bones by Christopher Golden.

I'm reading The Measure Of My Days by Florida Scott-Maxwell. I'm finding it thought provoking and beautiful. I have been reading about Stoicism and this book was mentioned as one worth reading at the back of The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday (I have just started that from the beginning too, as I picked it up in the summer and just read the daily page)

I'm rereading We Have Always Lived in the Castle, in the middle of the Rivers of London (!) and reading The Black Swan - the Impact of the Highly Improbable.
I'm also in the middle of Operation Cone of Power, but I've put it down somewhere and can't find it.

April in Spain by John Banville, which I'm really enjoying so far.

Can't wait to get into my Christmas reading pile as I was so sick over the break I didn't get to read much at all. I'm aiming for a book a week this year so need to finish this one today not to fall behind

I am reading Untamed by Glennon Doyle. I am also listening to The Stand by Stephen King on Audible.

Oh thank god @TumbleJots someone else agrees. Absolutely woeful.

I am enjoying The School For Good Mothers so far (75pges in) however I am struggling with her having done such a neglectful thing!

I started (and finished) In Little Stars by Linda Green

Loved it

The first Bridgerton book.

I’m rereading Antonia Fraser’s The Weaker Vessel, (Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth Century England)Women were not only see as physically weaker, but intellectually and morally weaker too.

Its fascinating, but as so many women were uneducated most written records were only by upper class women, so our knowledge is a bit uneven.

I remember her writing that if you could go back in time, you would be surprised at the number of pregnant women. Many women spent much of their lives pregnant right up to the menopause.

Theres lots about rich heiresses being forced into arranged marriages, and I’ve just read about Frances Coke being “tied to the bedposts and whipped”. Sometimes they were just girls (14years). Once married their money and properties became their husbands, so they had to hope that any ‘portion’ that had been promised to them before the wedding was kept to.

It’s a real reminder about how really bad some things were. Still not an equal world yet, still a lot to get done.

The Seven Ages of Death, Dr. Richard Shepherd.

Book #3 this year so far.

The diary of Anne frank. I've read it so many times, but I try and read it every so many years it's such an important part of history.

I'm reading Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy). I'm struggling with it and considering giving up but as I gave up on the last book I read I feel compelled to battle on.

@Scout2016 I’m really enjoying it and am halfway through already. The mental and emotional wrangle is interesting - he wants it to be his boy and yet he also doesn’t.

Just finished Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason and absolutely loved it

Wild by Cheryl Strayed. A memoir of her time hiking the PCT on the west coast of the US. V good.

Just finished Molly Johnson Together Again and it was so so good. It wasn't as fluffy / trad rom/ com as he others and so much more engaging. I really enjoyed it. About three sisters coming together after their mother's death and a complicated relationship with her. Much more about that than the romance this time

@FallonofDynasty that is a great book, and also a very good film with Reese Witherspoon too.

Really Good, Actually - Monica Heisey.

I finished Broken Summer by J M Lee and started Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder.

@Wildernesstips , yes have seen the film a few years back , agree is also v good.

Harold Bloom: Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles. I love Bloom's passion for books. He completed this a few weeks before he died, which makes it all the more moving, since the subtitle is 'the power of the reader's mind over a universe of death' (which has to be the best subtitle ever).

I've also developed an obsession with MR James. Right now, I'm listening to Michael Hordern read him on audiobook. Absolutely brilliant.

A Woman In Berlin by Anon
Non Fiction.

The diary of a Berlin woman who was in the city when it fell to the Soviets in 1945. The details of Air raids and food shortages, of interesting characters encountered in the ruins. All brilliantly described. The behaviour of the Russian troops was every bit as appalling as you have heard.
The diary is vivid and

shocking as well as describing the banality of daily survival.