@CharlesGrove: If you enjoy reading Orwell, have you read "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin? If not, it might be worth a look if for no other reason to see how it influenced Orwell's fiction.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61963
@HarleyGirlKate Thanks for the recommendation!
You're welcome. 🙂
What’s fun about that was doing a quick Wiki dive into “We” and finding the “Iron Heel” by Jack London, which I hadn’t heard of before.
The brief starting synopsis is “The main premise of the book is the rise of a socialist mass movement in the United States – strong enough to have a real chance of winning national elections, getting to power, and implementing a radical socialist regime. Conservatives feel alarmed and threatened by this prospect, to the point of seizing power and establishing a brutal dictatorship in order to avert it.”
The Iron Heel was published in 1908.
Rhyming history, indeed.
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Last couple. Have been rereading a few things I found impactful as a teen, to see how they affect me today.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)
@DaveFromSussex looks good! Let me know your thoughts on it
@HarleyGirlKate Is that the one where everyone lives in glass (transparent) houses?
Fire in his Bones, Wilkerson
@TheGypsyCuddler it was fine, far from the best in the series though. Hardly anything actually inside the courtroom
Next read: (Only people local to me would understand)
Encyclopedia by Britannica
Prison of Buried Hopes by C J Archer
Mostly books for school.... But this one is a fantastic book of you ever get the chance ! 📚
@RedFox16 I'm kind of wondering how much his research was guided by his family name…
Please tell me he makes several very awful puns in his book? 😇
Haha! @lovingspoonfull Probably was from his name 🤣 I can't remember now if there are specific puns....but he is a good writer and funny too, so maybe 😜🙌
Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, and Dear William
Not having had much time to read recently, I can finally get back to Killing Patton and finally git-er-done.
The Harbinger 1 & 2 by Jonathan Cahn. Now reading The Babylon Code by Paul Mcguire and Troy Anderson
I am currently reading Our Life With Mr. Gurdjieff. I love it so far.
Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson )
Book 5 of the stormlight archive. Lots of magic and combat and war. He's known for concrete, well-defined magic rules
Have just started this. Seems like a pretty dark mix of environmentalism and utterly ruthless ethical pragmatism.
Pretty different from my normal read. But enjoying it.
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Ecolitan-Complete-Operation-Secession/dp/0312878796
The Lost Apothecary
I just finished reading the 1952 classic, "Witchcraft Today," by Gerald Gardner. I first read the book in the 1970s and found an old paperback copy, and wanted to re-read it. I enjoyed the part anthropological, part explorer, and part (at the time) junior insider perspective that Gardner brought to the work. I think the strongest aspect of the book, for me, was the anthropological side--Gardner was widely traveled and apparently had some pretty amazing adventures back in his day.
I picked up another of his books at the same time, one I have never read before. With used books like this one I have found it is best to grab them while you can.
My next read is the 1926 hardcover "Realms of the Living Dead" by Harriette Augusta Curtiss and F. Homer Curtiss. I have recently gained access to a private, occult lending library and am going to avail myself of the opportunity to read some volumes that I otherwise wouldn't have an opportunity to peruse.
They both die in the end
It isn't that kind of book, lol. No one becomes a zombie either. 😁
Reading the Dune books... On book three. Kid I live with wouldn't fall asleep the other night so I read her Dune and that did the trick