While She Knits: What Have You Been Meaning to Read?

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I'm part of an online book club and each month we read a different book of our choice. It's been fun; it's very low key and a way to find out about lots of different books I would have never heard of otherwise.

In March, we're supposed to choose a book we've "been meaning to read."

So, what would you choose? What have you been meaning to read?

(I'm considering Middlemarch. Or, maybe Go Set a Watchman.)

Comments

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Girl with a Pearl Earring, a speculative novel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring_%28novel%29) about the girl portrayed in Vermeer's famous painting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring) of that name.

(And looking up its correct title led me into about four hours of editing Wikipedia articles on van Leeuwenhoek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek), the father of microbiology, who was an exact contemporary of Vermeer's, almost certainly knew him, and may have had some connection with him.)

[semisilence.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to start the Discworld series but I never have :(

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Oh, do start it! Read books 1 and 2 and then you can skip around as you like.

[ejmam.livejournal.com]

The Captive Prince, which I believe is as far from Middlemarch as you can get. Or The Boys in the Boat.

[mikkaybear.livejournal.com]

I JUST read the entire Captive Prince series--it contains some super touchy stuff, but man oh man I can bypass the whole "pleasure slave" culture for THOSE CHARACTERS. Laurent is like Attolia and Eugenides in one. It's so excellent.

one of these days...

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

Don Quixote.

And I've been trying for years to read the Summa Theologica, but it requires such sustained effort that I haven't been able to get very far.

I won't read Go Set a Watchman. I've decided that if an author decides to ruin a character retroactively, I don't have to cooperate.

Re: one of these days...

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of feeling as you do about Go Set a Watchman. That's probably why I haven't picked it up yet.

I read Don Quixote in college and loved it.

Re: one of these days...

[an-english-girl.livejournal.com]

I quite agree with you about Go Set a Watchman, but I hadn't managed to phrase it so succinctly.
For Don Quixote, do make sure you get a Translation, not a re-telling. Words cannot describe the version I ended up with...
I'm meaning to try a Georgette Heyer novel; equally, I'm trying to finish Dodie Smith's Look Back With Love so I can start Eric Sloane's Seasons of America Past...
Too many books, too little time...

[mikkaybear.livejournal.com]

I've got about seven trilogies of which I've read the first two books, but have never gotten around to the last one. (But I did just read The Winner's Kiss! Oh my gosh! I loved it so much. I am so pleased with the ending.) So I'll get around to those... eventually...

Right now, the books on my radar are The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Winter, Unwind, Sorrow's Knot, and Six of Crows.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Unwind traumatized me. Excellent book but intense stuff. Six of Crows is wonderful!

And I've only read Winner's Curse and must get the others.

[live-momma.livejournal.com]

I just finished my first Scalzi novel, Redshirts, which had been on my TBR pile for a long time.

I've been meaning to read A Discovery of Witches since a friend loaned it to me, um, last year? I had an Audible credit that was about to expire, so I bought the audio version this week, and I'll start it as soon as I finish the audio version of Uprooted (which I read when it was first released).

Oh, and I also just snagged The Queen's Poisoner as my free Kindle First* book for March based on one reviewer's comment that "It reminds me of how I feel reading Megan Whalen Turner's, Queen of Attolia series..."

*Amazon Prime members can choose one featured book for free every month. There are 6 books to choose from, each from a different genre. http://smile.amazon.com/gp/digital/kindle/first

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Well, damn. I read about The Queen's Poisoner and, though it sounded good, I didn't get it because I have so many other things to read just now.

But after seeing that comment that compares it to the QT books I just went and got it. So much to read!

[smills47.livejournal.com]

In a Dark Wood Wandering by Hella Haasse, an historical novel whose time-frame is the life of Charles d'Orléans (1394-1465). I took it out from the library years ago when I was still working, and started to get wrapped up in it; but back then my free time came in 15-minute increments, and it is a very long book. Now that it's floated back up into consciousness, I'm going to look for it again.

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

I got a pile of books from the library that I've been meaning to read ;-). Life is just crazy sometimes.

I've been meaning to read more Graphic Novels/Comics but just never do. *sigh*

To be honest, most of my reading lately has been non fiction stuff about pregnancy and childbirth and breastfeeding and such. Because that is what is going on in my life right now. Nothing like a huge life change to get you to give up your usual fiction and go for the factual stuff, eh?

Lately my husband and I have been reading the Alloy of Law sequels out loud to each other and I've really been enjoying them. I don't love everything Brandon Sanderson does, but these have been really great.