What are you reading?

[Swatopluk]

Just started to read a biography of Frederick III, the emperor of merely 99 days
Title: Our Fritz

[Opsa]

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. I read her Interpreter of Maladies last year and thought it was wonderfully written.

[Swatopluk]

I try to get through a paper of about 40 pages about the last Norwegian witch trial in Finnmark armed only with an outdated dictionary. It's in Norwegian (the paper and 50% of the dictionary )

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

About to start Mockingjay as I just finished Catching Fire.

[Roland Deschain]

About to start Mockingjay as I just finished Catching Fire.

I hope the Mockingjay has a bucket of water.

I've been wondering what to read next, and have been consulting my to-read list. At the top of said list is Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche. Time for a philosophy binge, I think.

[Swatopluk]

I just read through Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue in one go

[Aggie]

Sum: forty tales from the afterlife by David Eagleman

A very delightful and quirky little book (each tale is only 2 or 3 pages) with lots to muse on. Recommended.

[Swatopluk]

I have started several books in the last few days. Among them
Drift (Rachel Maddow)
A biography of Snorri Sturluson
Mythos U-Boot

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

A backlog of Scientific American issues.

Oh and trying to read the Count of Montecristo in the original French.

[Roland Deschain]

Oh and trying to read the Count of Montecristo in the original French.

Good luck with that. I've read the English translation, and loved it to bits, but i'm curious to know how it compares to the original.

I decided against the Nietzsche for now, and gone onto Alice in Wonderland. I'll continue with Alice Through the Looking Glass, and then go on as originally intended. Not read them in years, and I wanted something frivolous.

[Sibling DavidH]

The Life of Katherine Swinfield by Alison Weir.  Katherine herself is not specially interesting because there are so few firm facts, but the background of life in the C14 is fascinating.
Got it free from TUEBL.

[Sibling Qwertyuiopasd]

Just started reading the prologue and introduction to The Death of Josselyn, which is about illegal migrants crossing the Arizona border, specifically around the story of a young girl who died in 2008 while traveling through the desert. Written by a journalist, and I believe it does most sides justice, and if biased to anything, biased towards human rights/compassion.

But really I should be reading school materials for a trip to Spain. >.> And finishing up Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong, which I only got about halfway through in fall semester...

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

and if biased to anything, biased towards human rights/compassion.

If it's compassionate is liberal and by definition biased, haven't you heard that empathy is a gateway for communism?   
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The complete illustrated history of the Aztec & Maya. Bits and pieces and info in (too) easy to digest portions but here and there with the occasional interesting bit.

[Aggie]

I decided against the Nietzsche for now, and gone onto Alice in Wonderland. I'll continue with Alice Through the Looking Glass, and then go on as originally intended. Not read them in years, and I wanted something frivolous.

Alice?  Hardly frivolous.  I consider the books to be scripture, and they're less internally contradictive and illogical than most, at that.   I read them every couple of years.

Currently reading Lawrence Krauss's A Universe From Nothing.

[Swatopluk]

Currently a book about the army under Friedrich II of Prussia.