Spoilers What Book Are You Reading?

[Scepticalscribe]

Yep, it's that kind of book and story, isn't it?

Well, I spent all of today reading The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles, and thank you for the recommendation, @Clix Pix; a love of books, a library setting, and a celebration of what books represent: Wonderful.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, a wonderfully warm, beautifully written, intelligent, interesting, simpatico, yet bittersweet work.

And yes, it is exactly that kind of book and story.

I love that sort of reading - where you can lose yourself completely in a book (a real book, one with covers, and pages, and wonderfully made from paper), - something which this book actually celebrates - no computers or noise, or sounds, or TV or other unwanted or unwelcome distractions.

And this book is the sort of book where you just know in advance that you have to carve out the time and prepare to lose yourself in it - it both asks and demands this of the reader. Not a book to dip into, but one in which to immerse yourself.

Just you, and a book, and the world that the book creates for you, one which you are invited to enter by the simple act of opening its covers and beginning to read.

 

[Clix Pix]

So glad you enjoyed it -- I had the hunch that you would!

 

[rhett7660]

A third of the way through Bosch book 16: The Black Box

Really digging it.

Stopped reading the Warhammer 40K book. I am 100 plus pages into it and I can't really get into it. I may pick it up later on. Maybe.

 

[JamesMike]

A third of the way through Bosch book 16: The Black Box

Really digging it.

Stopped reading the Warhammer 40K book. I am 100 plus pages into it and I can't really get into it. I may pick it up later on. Maybe.

I do enjoy his books.

 

[rhett7660]

I do enjoy his books.

I do too! For me they are easy to read and extremely well paced!

 

[AVBeatMan]

At the moment I am reading Time and Time Again by Ben Elton. An absolute must-read, guys

Yes, I really enjoyed that. I love alternative history books.

 

[rhett7660]

Already a third of the way through... I can't get enough of this series...

 

[Clix Pix]

For years Michael Connelly has been one of my favorite authors. I think I've read just about all of his books. I haven't seen the "Bosch" TV series, though. I have a Prime account with Amazon; maybe some day I'll take a look....

 

[JBGoode]

An old favorite I last read 25+ years ago.

 

[rhett7660]

For years Michael Connelly has been one of my favorite authors. I think I've read just about all of his books. I haven't seen the "Bosch" TV series, though. I have a Prime account with Amazon; maybe some day I'll take a look....

I highly recommend it. They combine several story lines in each season, so you will see bits and pieces of the books sprinkled throughout as well as a few different twists and turns. It is very good IMHO.

 

[Gregg2]

I recently read The Vaccine Race (2017) by Meredith Wadman. Its focus is on the development of the Rubella vaccines in the 1930s. It also touches on vaccines for Polio, Rabies and Smallpox. Some of the material is informative for the present controversy over the COVID vaccines. I thought it covered some things that everyone should know.

 

[pendrek]

Janet Evonvich start with One for the Money and work your way through to Eleven on Top- she makes me laugh out loud when I read her books!

 

[Crowbot]

I'm re-reading Arthur C Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama". It's the perfect "hard" sci-fi story. Adventure without the monsters and other things waiting in the dark.

 

[pachyderm]

I'm re-reading Arthur C Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama". It's the perfect "hard" sci-fi story. Adventure without the monsters and other things waiting in the dark.

 

[Crowbot]

That's why Clarke is my favorite SF author. The danger is all about how going out into space is the dangerous part.

 

[yaxomoxay]

A few weeks ago I described my Monastic Diurnal, a book used by Benedictine monks to pray their Divinum Officium everyday, at different hours, even when traveling. As I mentioned in the post, the Diurnal misses the office with the highest amount of readings, which are often the longest, in the so-called office of Matins. Matins is traditionally the first hour of the day, usually prayed at midnight, and it has its own structure which depends on the day (it’s divided in sections called Nocturns). Usually the readings are several psalms, bible readings, and readings from the fathers of the Church. It might take well over an hour just to read it/pray it fast.

So, I decided to buy the book of Matins published by Lancelot Andrews Press. It’s a pocket book, but it’s massive. 2000+ pages of wall of text on thin paper, with a very complex structure that I am still learning (it’s like a puzzle). Other than the cover, the book itself is less beautiful than the Monastic Diurnal.

The golden rule of breviaries and liturgical missals is “red is what you do, black is what you say.” Sadly, the Matins book is all black text so it can get quite complex to spot immediately what is what. However, the book and its contents are just amazing. Obviously, with this book the craziness of the older calendars is felt in full. October’s last Sunday is actually the first Sunday in November, however a Sunday must be replaced in certain conditions (Feasts I Class but not always) and depending on Octaves etc.

One note of trivia: this specific book can’t be used liturgically by ordained Catholics. This book of Matins is Anglican in nature. While it doesn’t really have anything anti-Catholic (it can be used devotionally), it’s not an approved official book. The bad thing is that to actually have the traditional Matins approved by the Church I’d have to buy the actual Roman Breviary, in four volumes, for about $300+ (Which I will buy in the future).

I have been using the book for a week or so, early in the morning when everyone sleeps, and I do love it.

Some pictures:

 

[rhett7660]

Just started the next Harry Bosch book...

The Crossing

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...kin_17&storeType=ebooks&qid=1636130455&sr=8-2

 

[TPadden]

Just started the next Harry Bosch book...

The Crossing

Got me excited and made me look .... No not a new "next" one, or even a recent one, read it at least 5 years ago.

Tom

 

[rhett7660]

Got me excited and made me look .... No not a new "next" one, or even a recent one, read it at least 5 years ago.

Tom

Yeah, I am still reading through the series. I started reading the books after the series and haven't been able to put them down.

He did just release a new one though... The Dark Hours.

The Dark Hours (2021) - Michael Connelly

A brazen and methodical killer strikes on New Year’s Eve and LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch must join forces to find justice for the victim in a city scarred by fear and social unrest, in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. There’s chaos in...

www.michaelconnelly.com

A brazen and methodical killer strikes on New Year’s Eve and LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch must join forces to find justice for the victim in a city scarred by fear and social unrest, in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.

 

[Clix Pix]

Thanks for the tip! Off to reserve a copy at my local public library now! The waiting lists for his books are usually pretty long.....

 

[AVBeatMan]

Enjoying The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex.

 

[SactoGuy18]

I'm thinking about starting to read Tui T. Sutherland's Wings of Fire books--supposedly for younger readers but quite violent, too. Yea or nay?

 

[Bodhitree]

Piranesi by Susannah Clarke. If you liked Gene Wolfe’s writing you will enjoy this.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Terciel & Elinor - by Garth Nix.

 

[Tigger11]

Well, I spent all of today reading The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles, and thank you for the recommendation, @Clix Pix; a love of books, a library setting, and a celebration of what books represent: Wonderful.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, a wonderfully warm, beautifully written, intelligent, interesting, simpatico, yet bittersweet work.

And yes, it is exactly that kind of book and story.

I love that sort of reading - where you can lose yourself completely in a book (a real book, one with covers, and pages, and wonderfully made from paper), - something which this book actually celebrates - no computers or noise, or sounds, or TV or other unwanted or unwelcome distractions.

And this book is the sort of book where you just know in advance that you have to carve out the time and prepare to lose yourself in it - it both asks and demands this of the reader. Not a book to dip into, but one in which to immerse yourself.

Just you, and a book, and the world that the book creates for you, one which you are invited to enter by the simple act of opening its covers and beginning to read.

My wife and I both read it over the Thanksgiving holiday, thanks for talking about the book my friend, otherwise I would not have gone an picked up a copy, and if there is someone who recommended it to you thanks to them as well, it was well written and I enjoyed it immensely as did my much better half.
-Tig