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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2018, 05:46:47 pm »
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Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
How to Win at College by Cal Newport
Moral letters to Lucilius by Seneca

I usually only read two books. A non-fiction for the day (My brain is the most active so I want to give it stuff to think about and analyses) and fiction for night (This is for winding down and not making my brain think when I sleep).
I read Moral Letters to Lucilus on my phone since the whole book is on the internet for free so I use Instapaper to download a one letter for me to read and I ponder it for the rest of the day.

In saying that I currently have 9 unread books on my desk and 2 books that require me to transfer the notes I took in them onto a document.
Suffice to say, I'm never worrying about what to read. The benefits of your parents being big readers (read: having a mass of books on shelves) and your university library (it has unlimited online book borrowing, which is interesting, I don't use it much since the readers are terrible).
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #16 on: May 06, 2018, 09:08:02 pm »
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Well Call me by your name recently became available on my library reserves. While reading fiction is a drag, I think that reading this book will be doable considering I enjoyed the film (I don't necessarily have high expectations but I know I'll be engaged with the story) .
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #17 on: May 06, 2018, 10:51:46 pm »
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Thought I might chime in with one my own:

Given the current political landscape, I found Hillbilly Elegy (suggested by a friend) a really fascinating read. I've been trying to understand the different perspectives of other people, and this book sheds light on the social problems of America's white working class, and after stepping into their shoes, you can see why these people may have voted for Trump in the last election. It explains the context behind how many workers no longer saw anything of value from the Democratic party and were desperate to find an alternative. Would highly recommend.
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #18 on: May 07, 2018, 12:14:00 pm »
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I've been on a Dickens marathon recently.  Just finished David Copperfield and Little Dorrit, on to Hard Times and then Barnaby Rudge.  I don't much like Great Expectations or Bleak House or The Old Curiosity Shop, but Our Mutual Friend and Little Dorrit and Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities and more are fantastic.

His writing is obviously a bit heavy and discursive given his era, but once you get used to that, his writing is pure incredibleness.  I've tried to find the value in Shakespeare and many other classical authors and still find them shallow and unpleasant reads, but Dickens' writing wows me endlessly.  His turn of phrase, his varied and bluntly drawn characters, his intricately woven plots, his unique and masterful usage of language, he has it all.  Pure genius.

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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #19 on: May 07, 2018, 05:06:11 pm »
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Holy Cow! by Sarah McDonald :)
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #20 on: May 07, 2018, 05:50:50 pm »
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator.
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #21 on: May 09, 2018, 10:28:23 pm »
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Just finished reading Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven, and to stop myself crying because it was so adorable, I'm diving into Donna Tartt's A Secret History- which I'm hoping to have enough time to finish by the end of the teaching period! ;D
(At least I can hope, right? 😅)
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #22 on: May 09, 2018, 10:49:16 pm »
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Other than my two Module A texts, I'm reading Kathy Acker's 'Don Quixote' which is such a great feminist read  ;D I love how there isn't a sense of cohesion in it and everything just jumps from one idea to the next. Not to mention, she's very sarcastic and witty and that makes it all the more enjoyable ;D I hope that once HSC ends, I can reread the two 'Dark Artifices' novels before the final instalment for the trilogy releases and start Riordan's 'Trials of Apollo' too  :) :)
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #23 on: May 15, 2018, 09:36:04 am »
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Last night I finished The Party Thieves by Barrie Cassidy. I found it interesting; it focused on the build-up to and duration of the 2010 federal election. Pretty nifty election to cover given its context and eventual closeness.

Would recommend!

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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #24 on: May 15, 2018, 10:05:12 am »
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Last night I finished The Party Thieves by Barrie Cassidy. I found it interesting; it focused on the build-up to and duration of the 2010 federal election. Pretty nifty election to cover given its context and eventual closeness.

Would recommend!

Last night I finished Stop the Train, by Geraldine McCaughrean
It was pretty light.

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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #25 on: May 15, 2018, 10:21:37 am »
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I recently reread Perfume by Patrick Süskind. The story is about an unloved man in France with a superb sense of smell. More than superb -- it's overpowering. Anyway, he becomes a perfumer. He meets a young girl with a smell unlike he's never seen before, which consumes him.

It's a dark story, and smell is obviously a large part of the descriptons. It leaves you feeling a bit unwell at the end.
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #26 on: June 01, 2018, 08:55:15 pm »
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Decided to go out on a limb (even when I said I wouldn't touch a book during swotvac) and pick up Allen Ginsberg's Television was a baby crawling towards that deathchamber. It's in a collection of 50 little Penguin Modern Pockets, and took me 5 Dymocks stores* (across two states!) to find it haha!

(More about the little series here, in case anyone's curious: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/lists/penguin-modern)

*It wasn't worth buying online, so I persevered heh :)
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #27 on: June 01, 2018, 09:31:14 pm »
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I finished "A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara and I have a book hangover. What a read.

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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #28 on: June 05, 2018, 07:25:02 pm »
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Just finished reading Holy Cow by Sarah McDonald. Admittedly, it did lose me for a moment towards the end, which might also be to do with the fact that I'm reading so intermittently at the moment. But, the ending was fantastic.

India is profound and profane, the book says. And I agree. But the extra element of appeal aside from the best look at the sacred and the vulgar of Indian society, is the dabbling in the major religious traditions plus some extra Indian spiritual expressions. It was truly interesting and I recommend it!
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Re: What are you reading at the moment?
« Reply #29 on: June 05, 2018, 07:40:16 pm »
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I'm an avid reader and the genres that I read range from romance to murder mysteries. I have to say I really enjoy reading because it transports me to another world and I love imagining what is happening in the book as I read it.

As to what I am currently reading, I'm rereading my all time favourite mystery murder - Agatha Christie's 'And then there were none'. It's an exciting book that keeps the reader on his or her toes at all times. I never fail to admire this author's way of writing novels such that it keeps the reader wanting more.
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