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What book are you reading?

Sprinkles

I took a look at the first few pages in miscellaneous but couldn't see a reading one so thought I would make my own. Blush 

I like books. I love the smell, like you get in a library. I do struggle with reading, my brain can't always process everything I read which makes it challenging but I still enjoy a good book.

I'm a big Disney fan. Possibly the biggest in the world! I've got a book on Frozen, written by one of the women who worked on it. The cover and pictures inside are beautifully done. It's one of my favourites. I've read it so many times.

  • The John Nathan-Turner Production Diary 1979-1990: the day to day graft of getting Doctor Who made in a changing BBC over a decade.

    I also keep meaning to start a book called 'Technic and Magic' after hearing it outlined on a podcast. It's a philosophical book, and I have borrowed it from the library in which I work. 

    I have a few other things queued up that I somehow keep putting off (burnout, rumination filling up the hours), including a revisit to a book I read when I was 11 years old and off sick with the flu: Devil on the Road by Robert Westall. It's what these days you'd call YA fiction I suppose, but was written in  1978. I just remember being engrossed in it but I'd love to know if its fever dream feel came from me being unwell, its own potency as a piece of writing, or a fusion of both. 

    I have a book on Hauntology and Folk Horror that I've yet to properly go through, and  also one called  The Old Weird Albion: "a dark love song to the English South; a poetic essay interrogating the high, haunted landscape of the South Downs Way; the memories, myths and forgotten histories from Winchester to Beachy Head." It's a kind of side-project to this mesmerising album: 

    www.youtube.com/watch

  • I'm always reading a lot of stuff.

    I started Children of Dune as my current novel last week, but I haven't got far with it yet, as I've been too busy and exhausted from organising my wedding to read much.

    Reading various religious books including, but not limited to, The Hidden Order of Intimacy: Reflections on the Book of Leviticus by Aviva Gottleib Zornberg, which I just started, and The Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides. I haven't picked the latter up for a couple of weeks, though, because of the wedding (time, and also I don't have the head for Medieval rationalist theology right now).

    Also re-reading a couple of Doctor Who books: Timelink: The Unoffiical and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who Continuity, by Jon Preddle which I'm on the verge of giving up on, as it's strangely joyless, and the graphic novel Doctor Who: The Tides of Time, which is excellent even on the third or fourth read, or whatever I'm up to.

  • I'm really enjoying the Chinese danmei (boys love) series Heaven Official's Blessing and Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. They're all set in kind of fantasy world full of Chinese mythology and daoist themes. I'm currently waiting for the release of the next volumes in the series but they're not due for release until May.

  • in reply to Sprinkles

    Hello, I'm...Steven, surprisingly.  Smiley

    Welcome to the community.  Slight smile

  • in reply to Steven

    Hi. Nice to meet you, I'm Phoebe. Blush 

    It sounds great I'll be buying it when I can. I bet he's really cool in real life.

  • in reply to Sprinkles

    Hi. Slight smile

    It's both very funny and also elegiac. The writing is superb.

  • in reply to Steven

    I bet that's good. Blush His films are really good as well.

  • Rupert Everett's memoir Vanished Years. It's wonderful.

  • Hi, I've loved reading and libraries since I was very young. Right now, I'm reading a book "Odd Girl Out" a memoir by Laura James, who got diagnosed with Autism as an adult. That's me basically!

    I rarely read fiction in the past, but now I find it relaxes me to go somewhere else in my head. I'm currently into "The Razor's Edge" by W. Somerset Maugham, a clever social satire from many years ago. I also feel better reading Bible-based self-help books that reassure me.

    My other usual book genres are biographies, fashion, true crime. I buy my books from Amazon/Kindle and online used book stores. As a Prime member, I get 1 or 2 free Kindle books for free each month. They have a variety to choose from, which I enjoy. I'm late to Kindle because I love real books. I purchase both types now but my favourites are real books, especially if there are pictures or photos in them.

  • in reply to Daniel

    I've read Good Omens. Really good. I've not read any of his other books yet though... Must get round to doing that.

  • I'm currently reading The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes and it's a lot of fun so far Smile 

  • Love a good book, and almost always my first port of call when trying to learn anything.

    On the more boring side, I’ve been reading “Self-compassion” by Kristen Neff after someone on here recommended it. Quite interesting so far. Hoping it will help me deal with some of my more negative emotions more healthily.

    On the more fun side, reading a lot of Neil Gaiman, most recently finished American Gods, which was in incredibly good. Also can’t recommend “Good Omens” enough.

    And finally, for the more risqué, I’ve been doing reading on dominance and submission, most recently finished reading “the new topping book” by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy.