We are well into the month of June, and I was wondering what everyone was reading. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life, one in which I constantly indulge.
The spring semester is over, but the summer sessions of classes have already begun at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, and I am excited that I am teaching a course called Science Fiction & Fantasy. In that course, we have already covered Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling, and we are now doing American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
In addition to rereading those books, I am also reading Next To last Stand by Craig Johnson, While The Bombs Fell by Robbie Cheadle & Elsie Hancy Eaton, and Celtic Myth and Religion by Sharon Paice MacLeod.
So, I ask everyone out there: what are you reading now?

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Left Bank by Agnès Poirier. Montmartre and Pigalle 1940-1950.
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Wonderful!
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It is a fascinating. Paris 1940-1950 with all the artists, writers… A hard book to put down.
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I’m reading The Hunger and Mrs. Dalloway. Good luck with the new course.
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Thank you so much! And great choices!
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Thank you Charles, The Hunger is a bit strange but I understand it is based in the real life experience of Knut Hamsun. Of Course Virginia Wolfe’s day in the life of Clarissa is fascinating.
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You are very welcome.
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I agree. Reading is a great pleasure. I’ve been increasingy reading and putting regular slots in daily for just reading. I’m close to the end of Embers of War by Gareth L. Powell. Great read. Doesn’t seem to be a wasted word. After this, I’m going to finish re-reading Lord of the Rings.
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Excellent choices!
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I’m reading David Copperfield and enjoying it quite a lot. Somehow I missed this classic while growing up as a bookworm/bookdragon. Am glad to have the time now to get into this 956-page tome.
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Yes, that is a magnificent book!
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Just started Nelson DeMille’s Plum Island. Just 35 pages in, but it’s a rip-roaring start.
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Excellent!
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I have read Neil Gaiman some years ago, of the ones you mention, but my taste in reading it’s all over the place, do not read many novels now, like old classics, but currently reading Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow Of The Wind, Goethe’ Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, my taste it’s more Historical, and like to read about Mysticism, right now I am reading The Mathnawi of Jalalu’Ddin Rumi translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, The Voyage and The messenger by Henri Corbin, and always reading Ibn Arabi, God only knows if I ever will finish reading him, reading the Chin P’ing Mei translated by David Tod Roy, Pio Baroja’s Trilogy, The Landmark Julius Caesar, The Landmark Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander, R.M. Rilke’s Poems, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time Of Gifts, a biography of Rabindranath Tagore, and many other books, some I abandon for good, others I come back until I finish them, some I may re-read them, it depends on many factors, like if they really grip me, or find tedious, or not to my liking.
Something I totally agree with you, when you say:
“Reading is one of the great pleasures in life, one in which I constantly indulge.”
I have been reading nonstop since I was 5 years of age, and I am an old man now.
Best wishes Charles.
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Thank you so much, and that is an impressive list! I have to tell you that I love The Shadow Of The Wind!
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Yes, Zafon he iss good I will read him further, thank you Charles.
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You are welcome!
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I’m reading Queen of the Burglars: The Scandalous Life of Sophie Lyons by Shayne Davidson.
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I don’t know that book, but what a great title!
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The book is relatively recent. Here is a link to the author’s blog if you want to check it out: https://capturedandexposed.com/.
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Liz, thank you!
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You’re welcome, Chuck!
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I’m reading “The Lost Language of Plants” by Stephen Harrod Buhner and re-reading “The Transition Handbook” by Rob Hopkins and waiting for order to arrive to read, “The Power of Just Doing Stuff: How Local Action Can Change the World” by Rob Hopkins
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Thank you!–a wide range of reading!
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I’m reading The City of Zirdai by Maria V. Snyder. It’s book to of Archives of the Invisible Sword. Great books.
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This will go on my TBR list! Thank you!
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I’m reading Land, by Simon Winchester –I loved both his Atlantic and Pacific books. Also I’m listening on Audible to Hillerman’s The Fallen Man and other Hillermans that George Guidall, who is one of my favorite narrators, performs. Good
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Great choices!
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…..Summer listening!
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I’m reading L’uomo che guardava passare i treni (The Man Who Whatched Trains Go By) by Georges Simenon
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Wonderful!
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I’m currently reading Grandma is Off Again by K. A. Croft.
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What an interesting title!
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The Clockmaker’s Daughter!
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Thank you!
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I’m reading “The Last Flight” by Julie Clark and enjoying every minute of it!
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Wonderful!
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I’m reading The Gift by Lewis Hyde, The Pancatantra by Visnu Sarma and Death of a Chimney Sweep by M. C. Beaton
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Sue, excellent choices!
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I am reading Matilda Windsor is Coming Home by Anne Goodwin, I have almost finished reading The Black Friend by Frederick Joseph, and am listening to Tell Me Why by Archie Roach. All highly recommended reads. Recommended by me. 🙂
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Thank you!
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I’m doing a reread of The Lord of the Rings. Really loving it.
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It is wonderful, and I am due for a reread of The Lord of the Rings also!
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Rereading The Stand by Stephen King and I have a large stack of other books that I’m slowly and pleasurably working my way through, including some horror, some mystery and some general fiction.
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Wonderful! I am due for a reread of The Stand also!
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I’m making an attempt at reading all the paperbacks I’ve been hoarding for years. Once I bought a Kindle, I rather stopped reading them and I have shelves and shelves of pristine, untouched books.
I’ve started with Laurell K Hamilton’s ANITA BLAKE, VAMPIRE HUNTER series.
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Hi! The Anita Blake series is a great choice!
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I’ve been on a bit of a reading blitz of late…nothing too testing, just for entertainment. The last 3 books I absolutely ripped through in a little under a week….all covered on my blog. Philip K Dick’s Minority Report (SciFi short stories), The Return Man, by V.M. Zito (a zombie story with a different angle) and Jonathan Maberry’s Patient Zero (a horror/thriller and the first of the books in his Joe Ledger series).
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Excellent choices!
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Just began Local Girls, by Alice Hoffman. So far it’s good.
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Wonderful!
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Your summer course sounds fascinating!
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Hi Jennie, thank you! It is a course I love teaching.
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Just finished reading an ARC for a colleague who’s releasing a new paranormal thriller in October called Blood Mark. An excellent read! Starting to read X by Sue Grafton tonight.
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Wonderful!
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Hi Charles, thanks for the shout out for While the Bombs Fell. I am a little behind with blogs but trying to catch up. I am late for this party but I am listening to Gone with the Wind, have just finished Matilda Windsor goes home and am now doing two Beta Reads.
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Hi Robbie, and welcome to the party!
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I’m reading a couple books by Octavia Butler, as I’ve heard her name many times in reference to sci-fi authors, and I’ve wanted to check out her work. I’m really enjoying “Blood Child and Other Stories.”
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She is a brilliant writer!
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