What are you reading?

[Kong Wen]

I read my first book of the year, actually a re-read of an old favourite of mine, because I'm going to be seeing a production of it later this month. Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan are playing the title roles, so it will be fun to see some Hobbits as well.


01. 2024-01-05 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), Tom Stoppard (English), 126pp

2023 in summary

[Sharecrow]

Finally blogged about the book I finished back in November (?) Anyway, full list for 2023 is below. I'll post about my first read in 2024 soon. Dante's Divine Comedy! I never did laugh out loud, but I did thoroughly enjoy it.

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1. Polgara the Sorceress by David and Leigh Eddings
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brönte
3. The Weekend that Changed the World by Peter Walker
4. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Book of Five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto
6. Friday by Robert Heinlein
7. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
8. Christianizing the Roman Empire: A.D. 100 - 300 by Ramsay MacMullen
9. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
10. Mars by Ben Bova
11. Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts by Matt Bell
12. Thriving in Babylon: Why Hope, Humility, and Wisdom Matter in a Godless Culture by Larry Osborne
13. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
14. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
15. Whirlwind by James Clavell
16. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
17. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
18. Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
19. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
20. Answer to Job by C.G. Jung
21. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
22. King Lear by William Shakespeare
23. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
24. Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein
25. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
26. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
27. The French Revolution: Volume 1 by Thomas Carlyle
28. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger
29. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
30: Seymour: An Introduction by J.D. Salinger
31. Inferno by Dante Alighieri
32. The French Revolution: Volume 2 by Thomas Carlyle
33. Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
34. Emma by Jane Austen
35. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
36. The French Revolution: Volume 3 by Thomas Carlyle
37. Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

[Sharecrow]

I recently finished my first book of the year. I'm currently reading a short novel by Robert Heinlein...I've got some ideas for what comes after that but we shall see.

Harlan Ellison's awfully titled: "Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories from the Hung-Up Generation." Simply amazing.

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1. Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories from the Hung-Up Generation by Harlan Ellison

[Sharecrow]

Finished a second book this year in 'Revolt in 2100'. Heinlein was so imaginative and prescient at the same time...stunning book I had previously not heard of. Does he write bad books? I bet he did, but I have yet to encounter one.

Next up is probably going to be Taiko or The Witchwood Crown...both epic tomes...

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1. Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories from the Hung-Up Generation by Harlan Ellison
2. Revolt in 2100 by Robert Heinlein