Tumblr book clubs etc.

[kate_nepveu]

My Whale Weekly posting has been all over on Tumblr; I am temporarily paused on Les Mis Letters until I have time to read all the rest of Part One in one fell swoop, because parceling it out day-by-day was making me too sad, but I did post a little bit about it previously.

My #whale weekly tag is full of reblogs, unfortunately if that's not your thing; less so for #les mis letters. I do tag stuff that's got sufficiently significant content of my own, however; I've gone back and forth on what I want that tag to be, so if that link ever fails to work, just go to katenepveu and check the pinned post.

(I am also reading Frankenstein but my head is too full of whales to be talking about it yet.)

What are you reading these days, communally or otherwise?

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[skygiants]

Much of what I've been reading this year so far has been friends' novel drafts, which are a delight but not something I can talk about very much, but I've also accidentally tripped and fallen into rereading Middlemarch for the first time since college along with a friend and having a great time ... George Eliot is simultaneously so mean and so kind about the bad human decisions that people make.

[kate_nepveu]

Oh gosh, maybe that'll be my next giant 19th c. novel!

[calliopes_pen]

I'm currently following The Beetle Weekly, though that's more to follow along with others as they view the horror of that terrible novel as it's gradually posted. I just subscribed to The Woman In White Weekly.

Edit: And now I'm adding Frankenstein, for another go at that. Haven't read it since 1999, for senior year of high school.

Dracula Daily was lovely to follow when it was going on, and I'll likely do that one again.

[rydra_wong]

Reread of the Whale Book along with Tumblr book club, otherwise finishing Heather Corinna's book on perimenopause/menopause.

[flemmings]

Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last finished novel. My memory from 40 odd years ago is that it's better than anything else of his I'd read, and so it is. I'm devouring it at the expense of the Pratchett biography, which says something. Then again, I know OMF has a happy ending and the biography does not.

[julian]

Eleanor Arnason's A Woman Of The Iron People, which is, if you don't know of it, anthropological SF. Fairly nifty, in a weird sort of way, in that it's simultaneously sort of flatly written, and yet also manages to be suspenseful at times. Anyway. About 3/4 done.

[qian]

I have less reading time than I'd like at the moment, but I'm (slowly) reading Wang Gungwu's Home Is Not Here, which I picked up while I was in Malaysia. I'm really enjoying his "elder academic educated in English in Southeast Asia" style and the story of his early life, which includes living through the Japanese occupation of Malaya, as well as his reflections on Chineseness based on his experiences of the diverse communities in Ipoh in the early 20th century.