What are you reading?

[akiza]

My heart is hesitating between whimsical haven of Tiffany E Taylor and some humour of don camillo i loved the movies so the books must be great 🙂

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

I have just started it, and as with other Octavia Butler books, I find it a little hard to get into at the beginning. But I find her writing absorbing, a little while after I get going. Parable of the Sower is a post-apocalyptic novel, which is exactly what I'm in the mood for right now. It's very of-the-moment, as it's supposed to be taking place in 2024. It's about an empath who decides to follow a new religion that is very sci fi, rather than the traditional one her family follows.

The book has also been made into a graphic novel, but I decided to go for the written version with this book rather than the graphic one. I've gone with the graphic novel version for several of the books I've read lately, and I think it's time to get back to some words - and only words - and let my imagination do the visualizing.

[firecat242]

I would just like to take the opportunity to thank all who contributed to this thread. You've given me many hours of reading pleasure with your suggestions.
Thank You!!

[Kätzchen]

The Warmth of Other Suns

--Synopsis--

The Warmth of Other Suns tells the story of the Great Migration, the movement of Black Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast, and West from approximately 1915 to 1970. Throughout the twentieth century, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering cities, America and the American people.

With historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.



~~>>> Personal note: I have read this book a few years ago and because of conversations I encounter on a daily basis, with clients, I find Wilkerson's book a historical significance in educating others whose own private knowledge is lacking in factual evidence.

[Kätzchen]

I’m only a few pages into this book, but I like the story already.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/b...eanne-randall/

[GeorgiaMa'am]

I've only read the first three chapters of A Book of Life by Peter Kingsley. Honestly, I'm only reading it because it was recommended by Mayim Bialik as her favorite book this year. I haven't yet decided if it's deeply insightful or just sophomorically navel gazing. I'm going to give it at least a few more chapters before I decide if it's worth my time.

[Gráinne]

The Brothers Karamazov

Like The Jerry Springer Show set in late Tsarist Russia.

The story follows Fyodor Karazamov, his three (probably four) sons, and the women they get mixed up with.

Oldest son Dmitri is engaged but falls for Grushenka, who is also seeing his father.

Middle son Ivan is brilliant and has several key scenes in the book but starts falling for Dmitri's fiance and slips into madness as a result.

Alyosha, the youngest of the "definite" sons, is in a monastery and has the highest moral compass of the entire bunch. He oversees a scene where some boys are throwing rocks at another boy, an event that throws him into spiritual and moral distress for the rest of the book. So does the death of his beloved mentor fairly early on.

Smerdyakov is a servant but it's pretty much a given that he is Fyodor's son.

This is a Russian novel, so no one comes out right. The key event is a Perry Mason-like murder, where most of the characters had motive. Should you wade into this book, don't get attached to the boy whom the bullies were throwing rocks at.

All that said, I love it. Anna Karenina on deck.