What did you just finish reading?

[bignewt]

Finished Wellness by Nathan Hill. Pretty standard book club fare. You get used to dense, eccentric stories and a conventional one tends to bore.

Started The Winter of my Discontent by Steinbeck. Realized after I started it Ive already read it but hey, its Steinbeck so let's dance again.

 

[franklinpence]

I revisit Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row fairly regularly. Travels with Charlie is a good read too.

Just finished Shogun p.1 and p.2.

Reading Sinopticon now. It’s a collection of sci-fi short stories from Chinese authors. Really enjoying it so far.

 

[kiddiedoc]

Just finished The Devil's Hand, book #4 in the Jack Carr series. That one hit a little close to home after the CV19 pandemic and ensuing craziness.

 

[franklinpence]

Reading The Great When: a Long London Novel by Alan Moore. Just started it, but I liked this snippet:

Brass: a river now of shouts and punches, Cable Street smells like a circus in stampede. Bristle of fist, flag, bottle, poker, shovel, people like pushed paint across the flagstones and why, David Gascoyne thinks, is there not poetry that will contain the passion and intensity of this, its snarl, its cauliflower-eared jazz? Suspended in a sea of shoulders, forced against gabardine backs in angry intimacy, he relinquishes volition to the furious animal in which he has become a component.