Discussion
Topic: Books
Hey Classics Corner! It’s time for a reading check in. Of course one of my favorite parts of being a host is checking out what everyone is reading. So.. what have you been reading? Love it? Or is it inducing a book slump?
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I am going to reread Murder on the Orient express this weekend in preparation for our upcoming live discussion event in Mystery Mob. I am also reading Bright Young Women about a serial killer that spans a couple of decades.
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I need to hop on that. I can usually knock out a Poirot in a couple days.
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I’ll have to put it on my TBR!
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Started Ruthless Vows and it’s just not hitting the same as Divine Rivals. The story is still good it’s just something feels different about it and it’s taking me longer to finish.
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I've been in a major slump. The only book I've read recently was The Grapes of Wrath, and I'm only just realizing I missed the discussion on that 😅
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@MarlinBrando Ha! Guess what? Sandy and I have had the worse technical luck with the events that we had to reschedule again. 🫨 So we decided to try and end the “curse” by taking a few weeks off. So The Grapes of Wrath discussion will be coming up either the end of May or beginning of June.
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We had some major technical difficulties lately! We will have the event soon. Hopefully you can join us!
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I'm currently reading The Screwtape Letters. It's insanely thought provoking, I love it and it's my first religious text. I'd say the concept bests every other classic I've read!
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@blayre_oden Bravo! The Screwtape Letters is C.S. Lewis at his best. One really cannot go wrong reading any of his work. ❤️
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The Screwtape Letters is a favorite of mine, too. There's also a stage production that's phenomenal, if you ever get a chance to see it. It's a pseudo-one-man-show (another demon does a lot of and pantomiming and incoherent vocalizing).
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I'm currently reading Forty Words For Sorrow by Giles Blunt. He's a Canadian writer and I watched the television series Cardinal that used the books as the plot.
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I have been reading some really good books in the past couple of weeks. I just finished James by Percival Everett and Violeta by Isabel Allende. I am currently reading It would be night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo.
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - it's a very interesting look inside Malawian culture.
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I'm just finishing Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead. It's a good story and cleverly plotted. Lots of info about aviation, weather, war, families and more!
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@candice_356 That sounds good I am going to have to check that one out.
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I recently got on KU and have been making my way through my kindle tbr. April was my Birthday month so I splurged on a bunch of books and one of them I'm working on is Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis.
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Currently reading Crime and Punishment but it feels like punishment. Waiting for something to happen...
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