What's Everyone Reading At The Moment?

No One Would Listen: by Harry Markopolos..........a book about the Madoff scandal.
 
The Collected Stories - Katherine Mansfield.
It's one of my son's english literature books. I've borrowed it because he's got about twelve he has to read so he doesn't
need it at the moment.
 
The last couple of days I have been reading Die Schlafwandler (The Sleepwalkers), a trilogy of novels written between 1928-1932, by the austrian author Hermann Broch. So far I'm almost finished wth the first novel, Pasenow, or the Romanticism, and I like it a lot. I look forward to the following two parts.
 
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& I only paid $2(used, of course) for it :)
 
I finished Tuesday's With Morrie and it was pretty good - I'm now reading Atonement as it was first on the stack of books next to my bed.
 
Finished "Good-bye To All That" the autobiography of Robert Graves. Follows up on my World War One reading. Now I'm quickly getting through "The Secret of Chanel No.5. The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume", by Tilar J.Mazzeo. It's alright. The one I love wears No.5. Tis a lovely scent.
 
I'm halfway through "Seeing Green: Politics of Ecology Explained" by Jonathon Porritt. Someone lent it to me, I think it's out of print which is shocking especially given how relevent all the ideas still are e.g. danger of nuclear power. The author remains publicly active, with BBC broadcasts and a blog - http://www.jonathonporritt.com/pages/
 
At the moment I'm re-reading Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I really, really like this novel.
 
At the moment I'm re-reading Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I really, really like this novel.

That book had supernatural powers. Goethe based it on his own experience of a love triangle that ended on a major depressive note for himself, which he got over. The book, though, was blamed for causing a wave of suicides across Europe by those infatuated with the romantic despair he did so well. I must say that I've read more about it, than the text itself. I must take a look soon.:)
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graveyard_Book - sounds really fascinating. I hadn't heard of it.

I took a few people for tea to the 5* hotel in Killarney where Morrissey stayed, the Aghadoe Heights, when I was down there recently. It's actually opposite a big graveyard set around the ruins of an old monastery founded by one St. Finan The Leper in the 7th century, and it overlooks lakes and mountains as per attached photos.
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While there, this song came on - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt7SPm7N6D8&feature=related - which made me happy. Can you place it?
 
That book had supernatural powers. Goethe based it on his own experience of a love triangle that ended on a major depressive note for himself, which he got over. The book, though, was blamed for causing a wave of suicides across Europe by those infatuated with the romantic despair he did so well. I must say that I've read more about it, than the text itself. I must take a look soon.:)

I actually saw a film, it was simply called Goethe!, depicting that last fall but I suppose it was quite fictionalized. It was basically Goethe in the role of Werther with the difference that he didn't kill himself at the end. And the so-called Werther-fever is something really interesting. Young men dressing themselves like Werther in blue coats and yellow vests and shooting themselves just because Werther did. Reality imitates art indeed. And I really recommend you to read the book. It's fantastic.
 
I actually saw a film, it was simply called Goethe!, depicting that last fall but I suppose it was quite fictionalized. It was basically Goethe in the role of Werther with the difference that he didn't kill himself at the end. And the so-called Werther-fever is something really interesting. Young men dressing themselves like Werther in blue coats and yellow vests and shooting themselves just because Werther did. Reality imitates art indeed. And I really recommend you to read the book. It's fantastic.

I will, thanks. Got it book-marked here online - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2527 - for viewing shortly. ;)
 
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