Literature Club

thanks guys for the invite :)

Harry Porter and The Sorcerer's Stone was my last book

Right now I'm working my way through The Ember War Saga by Richard Fox. It's pretty good if you're looking for simple, pulpy space opera. Basically humanity get 99% wiped out and the remaining humans have to try to find a way to rebuild and rearm before the aliens that wiped us out notice they missed a few. Plus the series is 9 books long, so if you like it there's plenty of material to sink your teeth into.

Hello, I'm mostly reading psychology books, I'm currently reading a book by Dr. Elie Hantouche. It's about light bipolarity (cyclothimia) it's way less documented than bipolarity mostly because patients are misdiagnosed as depressed people (so we forget about the manic phase) or borderline personalities. Cyclothimia is a temperament and can evolve into a trouble/disease, spotting the difference is hard, some patients think it's part of who they are but they are suffering from it (it's the thing to be taken in consideration, do you suffer from it enough to prevent you from living a "normal" life).
I know it may not be seen as literature but it's mostly what I read "to relax" right now, because psychology, self-developpement and understanding the world around me is my passion.

Oh I really love books and love to read, since I was a child. When my mother called "Dinner is ready", I never heard it, because I was so into my book that I don't here or see anything else.

Well, at the moment I read "Pillars of the earth" from Ken Follett. And I'm so glad, there's already a game out, which plays in that world.

And I would love to join your group! 🌞

I'm rereading Metro 2034. Well, kind of, I'm only interested in reading how some parts of it were written.

Collapse by Ian Kearns
It's about the possible breakup and fall in the EU
Key pointers that the book talked about is that the EU needs to reform the Euro, and faces challenges with immigration, a banking crisis and a sovereign debt crisis due to its fiscal union which it cannot cope with the current mechanisms in place.
Been reading a lot of politics related books recently with the global mess haha

I'm in the last Third of Metro 2033 and the dense atmosphare really adds up as the travel of the protagonist progresses. The weird narrow feeling in the world down there and the description of the insights and the feelings of the main character creates a constant feeling of tension. The story explains what needs to be explained but never more. You'll find yourself in the constant search and curiosity for answers. I love it.

100 Años de soledad by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I read Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes made by Scott Cawthon
The books are very cool it tells you about the past of animatronics how he made the game. Did you know Scott Cawthon make fnaf with a 2d program named Clickteam fusion 2.5 that's why you don't see two animatronics in the same room

My last book was "The Complete Idiot's guide to Visual Basic.Net" by Clayton Walnum and I'm partially ashamed to come out with it in the open just like this, becasue of the first part of the title.

I've just finished reading (for at least the 3rd time in the last 30+ years) "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell - a personal account of his 6 month long voluntary service in Spanish republican militia during the Spanish Civil War.

It's not only one of the best books about that war (IMO, far superior to "artsy" Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls"), but also a very interesting and rare description of a working anarchist society, with all it's glory and faults (ideologically the unit in which he has served has been closer to Trotskyism, than to Anarchism, but has been organized very much along Anarchist principles).

After 80 years it's still an excellent read for those interested in war stories, and a must read for those interested in history of Anarchism, Communism and Spanish Civil War.

I am currently reading "El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera" from Gabriel García Márquez, It's really good. It's about a love story bewtween two characters that affects their entire lives. It is set in a small town from Colombia. I think that what really makes it great is the way García Marquéz writes. He can make the most mundane things seem really interesting just from the way he narrates them.

I started reading this book after finishing "Cien Años de Soledad", also from García Marquez., which I think may be my favorite book I've ever read.

Coffee: A Global History - with all the coffee i drink everyday, i had to buy and read this book!

Last book i read was The trilogy of Atlantis Gene.
The story is seen by 2 people : one soldier and one scientist woman.
The soldier lost there based from terrorist attack and he try to find the scientist woman that has something to do with the group that attacked them.
One scientist woman found a cure for autism and the children are kidnapped and she is trying to find them.
After that the story begin to explain more about genetic manipulation, the origin of humans and ancient technology in Antarctica found by Nazi, one mysterious bell that can radiate and kill people that don't have the special gene required for them to survive. The gene that scientist woman created but we found out that she also have this gene inside her because of her origin.
The book was interesting for some parts but I got bored of it fast, wanted to finish it cause i can't abandon them once I started.

I am currently reading : ABC for psychopath vol I

The last book I read was "the mysteries of the underworld".

The book describes the experienced moments of people who have experienced clinical death. During the reading and even after, there remains a lot to think about in your life.

currently reading Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, in german tho, cuz I am austrian so it's "Zeiten des Aufruhrs". And I think the english titel suits the story so much better than the german one (as always haha). The story is about a married couple and their always somehow dramatic relationship and it's really good, I really like it so far (2/3 way through)

and the last book I read was a graphic novel: fight club 2 by chuck palahniuk! really liked it but it was a biiiit 2 meta. still really liked it (tho i like every book from palahniuk - my favorite one is choke - really really REALLY loved it!). I think everyone who liked fight club will enjoy this graphic novel (although i also think the people who read the book fight club will enjoy it a bit more - dunno why i think that, it's just a feeling i have)

Animal farm by George Orwelll.

Fairly well know book, but in case someone doesn't know, Orwell does a fantastic job telling the origin of the Russian revolution by using farm animals, in what it ends up being a clear critic of Stalin.

1984 by George Orwell

One of the best piece of literature. A story about a dystopian society which we have a lot of similarity with certain countries today. This book was given to me by my Uncle. As such this is state of the book.

Hello,
Circe Book by Madeline Miller
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316556343.01._SX142_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

This was my third attempt at this book. The first two times I didn't make it much more than 50 pages in before acknowledging I don't enjoy mythology. I didn't like it when the tales were written by Homer and don't when it is Madeleine Miller at the keyboard. In other words, "Circe, its not you, its me." I love the idea of a feminist(ish) retelling of the great myths, but I don't actually want to read that (or any) retelling.

This book sat on my shelf staring me down for months. Then the online book group I moderate chose it as the August read. I took it off the shelf, and it sat beside my bed staring me down. Deciding that life was too short, I asked my co mod to lead the August discussion, and resigned myself to not reading a book club book for the first time since we started the club in 2014. That was until a friend from the book club said I should try the audio. One last try, and WOOHOO I finished the book. The reader was excellent, and there were times I was truly engaged, but there were also many more times I was listening and realized I had no clue what had been said for the last 10 or 20 or 30 minutes because I my mind had left the building. (Nearly everything with Hermes left me thinking about what I was going to make for dinner or when I had time for a pedicure, or some other such completely unimportant thing.)

It is a simple matter of bad match of book and reader. The writing was quite good as a matter of craft, and the book is jam packed with good stuff like sex and violence and family drama. As a matter of fact, I kept thinking it would make a kick-ass telenovela, and the ending absolutely confirmed that. [ The cuckolded wife of Circe's long-term lover attends at the birth of Circe's daughters conceived with the son of said wife and said ex-lover. If that is not a telenovela storyline I don't know what is. Everyone else loved this book, and I can understand why, it just was not for me.

would like to join if possible:)

Recently finished Elephant Company by Vicki Croke and overall really enjoyed it. I learned so much about the elephants and their way of life, cannot imagine eating x hundred pounds of foliage a day and the climax of the book was very impressive (it has to do with stairs, you know if you've read the book.).

Bandoola was such a magnificently-described animal. Also, the notes at the back were nice. Some parts of the book were incredibly sad.

The book revolves around the life of one "elephant whisperer" and is a biography of him focusing on his life in the Burmese jungle working with elephants, and his close relationship to Bandoola, one of the biggest elephants this man had ever met.

Hi! May I join? Last books I read are 4 parts of The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski, and Im gonna continue reading other parts

Right now im reading Heavy than Mountain from Destiny Crucible Saga by Olan Thorensen, the books arent so great but the humour is good enough to enjoy the reading.
May i join again? xD