What book(s) are you currently reading?

[Edible crust]

Pasos 1 a first course in Spanish.

I'm trying to grasp the basics.. The reason being that I struggled on holiday in Spain in a couple of situations and also my son is taking Spanish at A level so we may be able to practice together.

[Szuchow]

Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes.

[Szuchow]

Lviv: End of Illusion. Story of the November 1918 Pogrom by Grzegorz Gauden. It's a depressing book showing how deeply entrenched antisemitism was in Poles.

[SYZ]

[TheGentlemanBastard]

Just added that to my short list. Please, do let us know if it's any good.

I'm currently getting caught up on several series by Seanan McGuire that I've fallen behind on. Incryptid, which is all caught up, October Daye, which I am reading now, and the Wayward Children stories, which is up next. She has yet to publish a book I haven't liked.

[OakTree500]

Currently on "Night Shift" - a short story collection from Stephen King.

Features the story that would spawn the movie for Children of the Corn, and an alternate version of Salems Lot from when it was in its "idea" phase.

[SYZ]

Just added that to my short list. Please, do let us know if it's any good...

It's a difficult book to quantify.  It's drawn both
top reviews and damning reviews.

It's also a book that'd normally be outside my
choices of style, plot, and characterisations, but
after previewing it, it somehow sucked me in!

The US publishing industry is a major driving
"character" in the story, with its inevitable bitchy
toing and froing and ego wars.

Simply put, it's also about white, US, Asian racism
and alleged race appropriation and possible plagiarism
by the story's first-person protagonist.

I normally wouldn't recommend it for someone like
me LOL, but it has a peculiar, unidentifiable attraction
overall.

[TheGentlemanBastard]

Currently on "Night Shift" - a short story collection from Stephen King.

Features the story that would spawn the movie for Children of the Corn, and an alternate version of Salems Lot from when it was in its "idea" phase.

"Night Surf" joins "Jerusalem's Lot" as short stories that were later fleshed out into novels, "The Stand" and "Salam's Lot" respectively. The majority of the stories from that collection were later pilfered for other media, not always under their original titles. "Graveyard Shift," "The Mangler," "The Boogeyman," "Battleground, " "Trucks," "Sometimes They Come Back," "The Ledge" and "Quitters, Inc" (adapted together in "Cat's Eye") "The Lawnmower Man," (though Stephen King made them remove his name from the finished film because it had nothing more than a couple character names in common with the original story) "Children Of The Corn," and "The Woman In The Room." Not all were made into feature films, with a couple being made into mini-series and one, "The Woman In The Room" being made into an episode of (I believe) Tales from the Dark Side.

Stephen King has more film adaptations of his work than any author after Shakespeare. It's too bad that so many of the adaptations are so poor. He's a great story teller and a master world builder (despite also being the Prince of Purple Prose), yet his video legacy belies that, with only a few adaptations being both true to his vision, and actually good films.

[Szuchow]

Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley.

[Jarsa]

I'm rereading Dare to Know by James Kennedy

It's about a corporation in the future that can predict the date of your death with 100% accuracy. The main character is a salesman who, against the rules, looks up the date of his own death, and finds out that he should have died 20 minutes ago.

It's a really good book with a lot of philosophy and cool anecdotes from the early days of this corporation. (There's a really cool scene where a guy looks up his date, and it says he will die in a minute, and everyone freaks out.)

The biggest drawback of this book is that I'm the type of person who REALLY hates vague endings where a central question is left unanswered and sadly, this is one of those books.

[Szuchow]

Does Capitalism Have A Future? by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian and Craig Calhoun.