What are you reading?

Just finished "the Whispering Room" by Dean Knootz

Just started "Baltimore Blues" by Laura Lippman

"Piranesi" by Susannah Clarke

@ponderable said
"Piranesi" by Susannah Clarke

How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard

"The truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the book's place in our culture. Using examples from authors and movies, Bayard examines the many kinds of "non-reading" and urges us to consider what reading means and how we absorb books as a part of ourselves."

@fmf said
How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard

"The truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the book's place in our culture. Using examples from authors and movies, Bayard examines the many kinds of "non-reading" and urges us to consider what reading means and how we absorb books as a part of ourselves."

@ponderable said
I like that book very much. It is much better than the one with which she got famous.

Now reading Dave Eggers: Der Circle

Now reading:

Julie Zeh: Zwischen den Welten

As always with her it is a precise view on an aspect of current German society.

I have finished two recently and have one on the go [all audiobooks]:

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis

Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918–40 by Richard Dannatt & Robert Lyman

Currently: The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk

Next up, I think: How They Broke Britain by James O'Brien

Had a little listen to Omid Scobie's "Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival". He's clearly a propagandist trying to shore up a couple of the most tawdry of the peripheral royals. I was curious but not enough to get all the way through it.

David Eggers: Every

The continuation of "The Cricle". And still a lot of good observations.

New audiobooks just in...

Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without the Booze

Depraved New World: Please Hold, the Government Will Be with You Shortly

The Hidden Tools of Comedy: The Serious Business of Being Funny

The Science of Memory

"Non-reading is not just the absence of reading. It is a genuine activity. One that consists of a stance in relation to the immense tide of books that prevents you from drowning." ~ Pierre Bayard

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. This beautifully illustrated book is a tribute to innocence and friendliness.

Sebastian Knecht: Die Vison des Papstes

A rather obscure book published in one edition in 1975.