What are you reading now?

[Peter]

Just finished 'Hide and seek' by Stephen Walker - the remarkable true story of the Irish priest Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty who helped save allied soldiers and Jews whilst based at the vatican in WWII. The film 'Scarlet and the Black' (with Gregory Peck) also tells this story.

[Enrique]

The Blue Nile, by Alan Moorehead. It is in part a geographic description of the Nile, in the style of a tour guide. And it also narrates the great adventures and events that took part in the past. Napoleon expedition to Egypt, for instance. He first wrote The White Nile.

[Rocco]

The book of Psalms. I think I'm around Psalm 68 or so.

[AeolianHarp]

I've quite a few books on the Maestro to finish reading, but am a bit of an internet junkie these days. Reading about black olives! They are super good for you, full of iron, vitamin E and A. That jar in the cupboard may well be opened tomorrow. Mmmmmm...

[Peter]

Thomas Merton -'The seven storey Mountain.'

[Megan]

How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization.
by Professor Thomas E. Woods.

[Sorrano]

I've quite a few books on the Maestro to finish reading, but am a bit of an internet junkie these days. Reading about black olives! They are super good for you, full of iron, vitamin E and A. That jar in the cupboard may well be opened tomorrow. Mmmmmm...

Good to know! And funny, I've been craving olives today.

[AeolianHarp]

Good to know! And funny, I've been craving olives today.

LOL...I am craving them almost every day! Had some of those black olives earlier- the rest are being tapanaded tommorrow! Been a bit squiffy with IBS this weekend, so not ate that much, feeling better now though.

[Hollywood]

You all know how I am on finding books about my ancestors. So now I am reading two books on two of my ancestors who were also canonized as saints by the Vatican. One book is "The Life and Wisdom of Margaret of Scotland" which is about Queen (and Saint) Margaret of Scotland (my 29 times great grandmother). The other book is "The Babenburgs" which includes Margrave (and Saint) Leopold III Babenburg of Austria, my 26 times great grandfather).

[AeolianHarp]

You all know how I am on finding books about my ancestors. So now I am reading two books on two of my ancestors who were also canonized as saints by the Vatican. One book is "The Life and Wisdom of Margaret of Scotland" which is about Queen (and Saint) Margaret of Scotland (my 29 times great grandmother). The other book is "The Babenburgs" which includes Margrave (and Saint) Leopold III Babenburg of Austria, my 26 times great grandfather).

Nothing that exciting for me- I come from peasant stock!

[Hollywood]

Nothing that exciting for me- I come from peasant stock!

Just a few years ago I too thought the same about myself. It wasn't until I started to research my maternal grandmother's family that I discovered that one key ancestor who opened the European royal castle door to me, and that is my 10 times great grandfather Sir Oliver Cromwell (not the Lord Protector, but his uncle and name sake). Who knew?

[Peter]

Just started Eliot Gardiner's Bach biography - "Music in the Castle of heaven"

[Harvey]

A fascinating and very informative book:

[Peter]

Great cover Harvey - love the design!

[Megan]

Michael and I were discussing elsewhere what the best edition of War & Peace would be.
I have finally decided on the fairly recent translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky . It is a very sympathetic and natural translation.
Pevear is very good at cultural equivanlences, that is at understanding what say a Russian expression really means and then not literally translating it which in English would probaby be gobbeldygook, but find the cultural equivalence of the expression in English. This is translation of a very high order. There are very good notes also.

1,260 odd pages. That should keep me quiet for quite sometime.