So, What Are You Reading?

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  1. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

    Thanks! I've read Midwife's Tale, but I might have to check out your other suggestion. Thanks :)
     
    cookderosa, Oct 26, 2014
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  2. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Finished reading Audrey Eccles' Obstetrics and Gynecology in Tudor and Stuart England.
     
    Ted Heiks, Oct 29, 2014
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  3. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Theodore K. Rabb's Renaissance Lives.
     
    Ted Heiks, Oct 29, 2014
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  4. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Currently reading Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Great Books edition).
     
    Ted Heiks, Oct 29, 2014
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  5. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Happy birthday, Tireman!
     
    Ted Heiks, Oct 29, 2014
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  6. krishna mehra

    krishna mehra member

    I like History Book and English ....
     
    krishna mehra, Oct 30, 2014
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  7. japhy4529

    japhy4529 House Bassist

    In general, or are there specific titles that are of interest to you?
     
    japhy4529, Oct 30, 2014
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  8. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    Today, I finally read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I was surprised to find out that it isn't so much a ghost story, but a story about ghost stories. [spoiler alert] One way to interpret the events, which the writer heavily suggests, is that there is no headless horseman at all, rather, he is the figment of the collective paranoia of a superstitious and poorly educated community exacerbated by a prank from an unscrupulous bully. This would mean that (just about?) every single film and TV adaptation are only remotely related to the source material- kind of like how Disney's versions of fairy tales and fables are often only superficially similar to the source material.
     
    Maniac Craniac, Nov 3, 2014
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  9. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    Short Stories

    The thought entered my mind the other week that I haven't read very many short stories. I'd like to read some that are considered classic and historically important, but I don't know where to start other than to ask Mr.Google what he thinks.

    I've recently read The Lottery, The Telltale Heart and, as mentioned in my previous post above, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Next on my list are The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle.

    I don't know of very many short stories and I can't remember if I might know of others but just can't think of them at the moment. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
     
    Maniac Craniac, Nov 7, 2014
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  10. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    Consider the short stories of Mark Twain and Nicolai Gogol.
     
    Kizmet, Nov 7, 2014
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  11. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    Good call. Mark Twain is awesome. I might like to read the whole collection of his short stories, now that you've suggested him. I've never heard of Gogol, but I'll certainly give him a shot.
     
    Maniac Craniac, Nov 7, 2014
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  12. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    I finished Wuthering Heights last week. My current library haul consists of The Bourne Identity and Don Quixote. Yes, the original Don Quixote. I'll let you know if I can survive 1,000+ pages of 400-year-old Spanish.
     
    Maniac Craniac, Nov 10, 2014
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  13. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    In my opinion, such books are worth the effort.
     
    Kizmet, Nov 11, 2014
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  14. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    That's what I'm thinking, too. I want to read the book due to its place in literary history, and there was, of course, no way I was going to read a translation when I am competent in the original language. I think the age of the book will be a challenge though. Most of everything I've ever read in my whole life has been English, but I still sometimes have trouble with books that are several centuries old (let's be honest here- absolutely NOBODY actually understands Paradise Lost. You're lying if you say otherwise. LIAR!!!), so I can only assume, having yet to open the book, that I will have even MORE trouble with old Spanish since I have never even read a single novel in the language before.
     
    Maniac Craniac, Nov 11, 2014
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  15. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Finished reading Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
     
    Ted Heiks, Dec 13, 2014
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  16. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    I decided to save Don Quixote for my summer vacation.

    I'm currently reading Nutrition For Dummies.
     
    Maniac Craniac, Dec 14, 2014
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  17. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Philosophy of History.
     
    Ted Heiks, Dec 20, 2014
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  18. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Well, it is getting to be the end of the year and I just finished the reading project of the Great Historians of the Western World, so now it is time to select some reading projects for the upcoming new year.

    Reading Project #1: Civil War and Reconstruction in Mississippi
    Reading Project #2: Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
    Reading Project #3: Great Political Theorists of the Western World
     
    Ted Heiks, Dec 20, 2014
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  19. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Reading Project #1: Civil War and Reconstruction in Mississippi:

    Steven Cresswell, Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi After Reconstruction, 1877-1917
    Kathleen Diffley, Witness to Reconstruction: Constance Fernimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894
    Noralee Frankel, Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi
    James Wilford Garner, Reconstruction in Mississippi
    W. C. Harris, Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi
    W. C. Harris, Presidential Reconstruction in Mississippi
    Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer, The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded From the Confederacy
    Rudy H. Leverett, Legend of the Free State of Jones
    John Roy Lynch, The Facts of Reconstruction
    Milton Meltzer, Freedom Comes to Mississippi: The Story of Reconstruction
    Michael Wayne, The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860-1880
    Vernon Lane Wharton, The Negro in Mississippi, 1865-1890
     
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    Ted Heiks, Dec 20, 2014
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  20. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Reading Project #2: Civil War and Reconstruction Alabama:

    Richard Bailey, Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama, 1867-1878
    Horace Mann Bond, Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel
    Arthur W. Bergeron, Confederate Mobile
    John Witherspoon DuBose, Alabama's Tragic Decade
    Michael W. Fitzgerald, Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860-1890
    Walter Lynwood Fleming, Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
    Peter Kolchin, First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction
    William Warren Rogers, Confederate Home Front: Montgomery During the Civil War
    Jonathan M. Wiener, Social Origins of the New South: Alabama 1860-1885
    Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865-1881
     
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    Ted Heiks, Dec 20, 2014
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