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The Book of Questions: Business, Politics and Ethics | Gregory Stock

Happy December, everyone! And happy Friday. This week‘s #bookishquestion is: do you have a go-to book, author, or genre to get you out of a lousy mood or a reading slump? #BookTalk

CSeydel Wait, did I already ask this one? 🤔 I think what I mean is: Do the holidays slow down your reading? Do you have any go-to books or authors that help you keep reading when you‘re too busy or preoccupied to dig into something challenging? 13mo

CSeydel I myself am feeling quite busy and preoccupied lately!! 13mo

Blueberry Yes, many. Dorothy Gilman, John Grisham, Catherine Ryan Hyde 13mo

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CSeydel @Blueberry nice choices! 13mo

AnnR Alexander McCall Smith, or maybe reading short stories instead of full length books. 13mo

Ruthiella Yes! I was just commenting on @Bookwomble ‘s recent post that Christie, Wodehouse, and Pratchett are my go-to authors for any reading related crisis. 13mo

SaunteringVaguelyDownwards I return to my childhood favorites, which usually means Tamora Pierce or Mercedes Lackey. 13mo

dabbe Sherlock, always Sherlock. Or my Peanuts/Mutts comics. 😍 13mo

CSeydel @AnnR I love a good Ladies Detective Agency installment! 13mo

CSeydel @Ruthiella Oh yes, those always hit the spot! 13mo

CSeydel @SaunteringVaguelyDownwards nice! 13mo

CSeydel @dabbe One can always count on Sherlock! 🧐 13mo

Bookwomble @Ruthiella @dabbe Sherlock was my go-to during my present book lassitude. I have other favourites, but The Master never palls. I'm still unable to turn to anything else at the moment, but perhaps I'll break out of it over this weekend 😊🤞 13mo

dabbe @Bookwomble 🩵❄️🩵 13mo

dabbe @CSeydel #amensista! 🩵❄️🩵 13mo

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The Book of Questions: Business, Politics and Ethics | Gregory Stock

Happy Friday everyone! Time for the #bookishquestion of the week! This week‘s question is: do you ever read books translated from their original language? What‘s your favorite? #BookTalk

CSeydel I don‘t know if I have a favorite, but I definitely enjoy reading books from around the world. ‘Nordic noir‘ is really in right now, and I recently enjoyed The Snowman by Jo Nesbø. Another notable one is Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin, who is from Argentina and living in Berlin. (edited) 13mo

Ruthiella Not as often as I could/should. Off the top of my head, I will go with Elena Ferrante‘s Neapolitan quartet, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. I got Ferrante fever, for sure. Also, Pippi Longstocking for probably my earliest translated read! 😆 13mo

TheBookHippie I read a ton of French and Russian classic literature so it‘s part of normal reading 🤷🏻‍♀️ Les Miserables is my favorite, Anna Karenina too… 13mo

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TheBookHippie @Ruthiella I love PIPPI!!! 13mo

Ruthiella @TheBookHippie Pippi is the OG girl power! 😂 13mo

Tamra Oh yes! Two recent standouts are Fresh Water for Flowers and Elena Knows. 👏🏾 13mo

vonnie862 I do read books translated from their original language. Books that I've liked: Les Miserables, Diary of a Young Girl, the Count of Monte Cristo, the Phantom of the Opera...However, if a book is originally written in Spanish, I try to read it in Spanish, like Water for Chocolate. 13mo

Larkken There have been a number translated from Japanese that I‘ve really enjoyed lately, especially Kawakami‘s books

Breasts and Eggs

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Deblovestoread Yes! I‘ve loved all 3 Valerie Perrin books and have been enjoying Japanese literature like this one

The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel

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TrishB I‘ve read 2 Argentinian authors in the last couple of weeks- in translation. French author Valerie Perrin and a few of the popular Japanese authors. The current translations available open up while new worlds! 13mo

Amiable Have loved everything Fredrik Backman has written in Swedish/translated into English. I too am particularly fond of the Nordic works. Henning Mankel is another favorite. (edited) 13mo

jlhammar Oh yes, love translated literature! Many of my favorites have already been mentioned, but I'll add a few more recs--anything by Tove Jansson, anything by Svetlana Alexievich, The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili, The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, Baba Dunja's Last Love & Barbara Isn't Dying by Alina Bronsky, the mysteries of Keigo Higashino, A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli and

Forbidden Notebook

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dabbe Yes indeedy. Love Robert Fagles's translations of THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY. Currently reading WAR AND PEACE (since January! 😳), translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (thanks to @Cuilin). If you want to read books from other countries, you have to find good translations, right? 🧡🖤💜 13mo

lauraisntwilder Yes! I love reading translated books, mostly Japanese and Scandinavian, but not always. Some of my favorites are Fredrik Backman, Dorthe Nors, Natalia Ginzburg, Tove Jansson, Mieko Kawakami, and Hiromi Kawakami. My absolute favorite is Per Petterson. 13mo

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The Book of Questions: Business, Politics and Ethics | Gregory Stock

Happy Friday! Time for the #bookishquestion of the week! This week‘s question is: what book has been on your TBR the longest? Do you think you‘ll ever get to it? #BookTalk

Megabooks I didn‘t read many physical books (as opposed to ebooks) until recently, and I bought this in 2016 and finally got to it last month. And liked it!!

Still Life with Bread Crumbs: A Novel

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Megabooks I think I bought this one at the same time as Still Life, but haven‘t read it yet.

California: A Novel

13mo

AmyG I had this, then lost it, then recieved it last year for Jolabokaflod.

Shantaram: A Novel

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wanderinglynn Of the TBRs I actually own, I added this book to GR in 2008. Not sure how long I‘ve actually owned a physical copy, but a good while now.

The Birthday Of The World and Other Stories

13mo

Deblovestoread I have several unread hardback Michener's on my shelves that could vie for the longest owned title 13mo

Amiable I added this one in 2011 when I first set up my Goodreads account. But there are books in my stacks that I‘ve had for even longer. Like, years longer. 😬

The Known World

13mo

TheBookgeekFrau Damnnnnn, I've got a few that have languished for decades. But the oldest one is from college (sophomore year, I think). To give you some perspective, I graduated Jan 1992. I'll probably never read it, but damn it's part of the family so I can't get rid of it 😂

Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

13mo

dabbe The tagged one. I've read McCullough's JOHN ADAMS (loved), 1776 (okay), and BRAVE COMPANIONS (loved). I just can't seem to want to pick up this one, and it won the Pulitzer Prize!

Truman

13mo

Tamra Wow - who knows??? I do a cull of my TBR shelves just about every year, so it‘s hard to say. Maybe the tagged, though I periodically read bits & pieces.

Inferno: From the Divine Comedy (The Divine Comedy, #1)

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Tamra @dabbe I loved Adams and Truman is actually quite good. 13mo

TieDyeDude I've actually started going back through the oldest of my Goodreads TBR, and since we've moved, I am finding some of them in our new library system! One I haven't gotten to yet is Charlie, Algernon, and I: A Writer's Journey by Daniel Keyes. 13mo

Karkar Has been on my list for over 10 years

Catcher in the Rye

13mo

Ruthiella I don‘t actually know. For sure there are books I‘ve had for decades here and there. But on my “get to soon” pile is a book I was so excited to find at a library sale over 10 years ago

The Quincunx

13mo

dabbe @Tamra Thank you. You give me hope! 💜🖤🧡 13mo

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The Book of Questions: Business, Politics and Ethics | Gregory Stock

It‘s Friday once more! Time for the #bookishquestion of the week! November means that NaNoWriMo is upon us. My question is: do you write or aspire to write? What kind of writing do you do? Have you ever published anything? #BookTalk

dabbe Well, I had to look this up. What a wonderful idea! However, having spent my entire career reading and grading essays, writing for me now is pure pleasure and pretty much just for me. I have zero aspirations to publish the great American novel or anything remotely like it. 🤗 14mo

kspenmoll I I have been keeping a journal since I was about 12. It‘s a way for me to get my thoughts and emotions on pay on the page and reflect upon them and let them go. I do not see myself writing to publish. 14mo

julesG I write on and off. Fiction. Small vignettes to full length stories. I haven't published anything yet. 14mo

JamieArc I am participating but in a very low-key way. I‘m just committing to write every day, but not a specific word count or even continued subject. Just to get into the practice of putting pen to paper every day. 14mo

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The Book of Questions: Business, Politics and Ethics | Gregory Stock

Happy Halloweekend everyone! Time for the #bookishquestion of the week! This week‘s question is: what is a book that actually scared you while reading? #BookTalk

CSeydel First book I remember feeling really truly frightened while reading it was

Misery

14mo

Bookwormjillk I stayed up all night in a rickety old cottage on Cape Cod when it was storming because I was so freaked out by

Bird Box: A Novel

14mo

CSeydel @Bookwormjillk oh I‘m just about to read that one 🙈 14mo

dabbe The Shining by good ol‘ scare-the-pants-off-you Stephen King. 😅 14mo

thegirlwiththelibrarybag The inevitability of what happens in The Birds… I‘m not a bird fan so why I watched the movie 🫣 and then decided to see how different it was to the book does baffle me a little bit 🤣 I once got out of my car via the passenger door because I didn‘t like how a seagull was looking at me

The Birds and Other Stories

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The Book of Questions: Business, Politics and Ethics | Gregory Stock

Who‘s ready for the weekend? Let‘s kick things off with the #bookishquestion of the week. Time to spread the word about some lesser known titles: what is a book that you rated 4 or 5 stars that has the fewest reviews on GR (or whatever platform you use)? #booktalk

CSeydel A recent one that I gave 4 stars and has only 296 reviews on Goodreads is

Cloudmaker

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Susanita The Rosie Project with a cat:

Love in Lowercase

Bookwormjillk I‘m not sure how many reviews it has but I always thought this one was underrated

Cataloochee: A Novel

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CSeydel @Bookwormjillk oh, that sounds right up my alley—stacked! 1y

CSeydel @Susanita I haven‘t read Rosie Project, but this looks cute! Stacked 1y

Itchyfeetreader This is a chunkster that I adored that has only 200 other ratings! I also have a children‘s story that set me off on a life of loving historical fiction called the kind ghosts that has only 11 other reviews !

Children's War

Billypar Great question. I think mine has to be this one - I rated it 5 stars, it has 23 ratings on Goodreads, and the only posts on Litsy are my own. It's a short, strange, challenging read - I've never read anything else like it.

They Have Fired Her Again

CSeydel @Billypar Sounds intriguing! 1y

CSeydel @Itchyfeetreader I‘m always fascinated by alternative history! That sounds so interesting! 1y

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The Book of Questions: Business, Politics and Ethics | Gregory Stock

Happy Friday the 13th everyone 🔪
It‘s time again for the #bookishquestion of the week. Ok, don‘t judge me, but lately I‘ve been listening to celebrity memoir audiobooks. They are easy listening, often fun and perfect for the car. What celebrity memoirs (or any memoir, really) have you loved, which ones have you hated? #BookTalk

Susanita I really enjoyed this, especially the cameo appearances of Patrick Stewart reading haiku.

Yes Please

Bookwormjillk I really loved the Minnie Driver one

Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

5feet.of.fury @Susanita love Amy Poehler! That‘s a good one. 1y

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5feet.of.fury Surprisingly excellent

Paris: The Memoir

CSeydel @Susanita That does sound tempting! 1y

CSeydel @Bookwormjillk oh I really like her as an actress! Stacking 📚 1y

CSeydel @5feet.of.fury I have heard good things about Paris! 1y

LiteraryinPA I‘ve enjoyed ones by Alan Cummings, but they‘re not a light read. Also

Born a Crime

wanderinglynn I really enjoyed

CSeydel @wanderinglynn Oh that‘s tempting! Stacking 📚 1y

CSeydel @LiteraryinLawrence I really enjoyed Not My Father‘s Son! But I read it a few years ago before this current audio jag. I‘ve heard lots of praise for Born a Crime too 1y

GondorGirl I adored this one (Especially on audiobook)

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride

CSeydel @GondorGirl Yessssss! 1y

wanderinglynn I second @GondorGirl — As You Wish is fabulous. 1y

CarolynM I loved

Did I Ever Tell You This?

CSeydel @CarolynM Yes! That one is on my list 1y

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The Book of Questions: Business, Politics and Ethics | Gregory Stock

Another Friday night is upon us! Finally getting around to posting this week‘s #bookishquestion. Who is an author that automatically gets on your to-read list when they have a new book out? #BookTalk

Ruthiella Kate Atkinson and Sarah Waters 💯 1y

OrangeMooseReads Kate Quinn and Anne Rice (I know it is unlikely another of her books will be released) 1y

TheBookHippie Simone St James, Stacey Lee … 1y

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TheBookgeekFrau Stephen King, Chris Bohjalian, Elin Hilderbrand, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Christopher Moore 1y

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Natasha Pulley, Patrick deWitt & Garth Nix (I buy them immediately and read them… eventually 😅) 1y

AllDebooks Margaret Atwood, Naomi Klein, Robert Macfarlane, Nigel Slater, 1y

jlhammar Oh my gosh, so many! Kazuo Ishiguro, Claire Keegan, Miriam Toews, Alice McDermott, Anne Tyler, Elizabeth Strout, Louise Erdrich, David Grann and Patrick Radden Keefe to name a few... 1y

Tamra Carys Davies! 1y

Ruthiella @jlhammar Oh yes, I‘d add Ishiguro to my list too. 1y

CSeydel @Ruthiella @OrangeMooseReads @TheBookHippie @TheBookgeekFrau @thegirlwiththelibrarybag @AllDebooks @jlhammar @Tamra Such good choices! 1y

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The Book of Questions: Business, Politics and Ethics | Gregory Stock

Happy Friday all! Time for the #bookishquestion of the week! Today‘s question is: if you‘re in a bad mood, do you read to lift your spirits, or do you avoid reading - in case your bad mood poisons your view of the book?
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Andrew65 I try to read as it can improve my mood, but depending how dark my mood is it can affect my ability to read. Sometimes an audiobook can help. (edited) 1y

CSeydel I have definitely noticed myself taking out my peevishness on a poor unsuspecting author. Sometimes I just have to be in the right mood to roll with, say, quirkiness or certain tropes that don‘t necessarily make the book objectively bad, but that I have no patience for if I‘m grumpy. 1y

dabbe I have to go to my PEANUTS' collection of comics and/or MUTTS. Usually I'll get lifted out of the doom then. 1y

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Tamra I do try to read anyway, but whether it‘s effective therapy depends on why I‘m grumpy! 😅 1y

TheKidUpstairs Like @Tamra said, it depends on why I'm in a bad mood. Sometimes a book is just the right distraction/ comfort I need. But if it's a thought spiral type of bad mood or can be really difficult to concentrate. So I'll either blast music or put something funny on to watch instead. 1y

AmyG Sometimes I can read my bad mood away. But if I am in a bad mood due to stress of a family member (illness etc)…th en I just can‘t read. (edited) 1y

Bookwormjillk Like everyone else it depends on what‘s causing the mood. Often reading is a nice distraction though. 1y

Ruthiella I can read Terry Pratchett or P.G. Wodehouse and they cheer me up. Agatha Christie soothes. 1y

SaunteringVaguelyDownwards I go for a familiar comfort read when I'm in a bad mood, unless I'm particularly driven to find out what happens next in the book I'm currently reading. 1y

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The Book of Questions: Business, Politics and Ethics | Gregory Stock

Happy Friday! Although I left it so late that it‘s already Saturday for most of you. Who‘s up for a #bookishquestion of the week? This week‘s question is: what‘s a a book you read based on Litsy posts? #BookTalk #blameitonlitsy

Ruthiella So many! The first one that comes to mind is

Notes on an Execution: A Novel

CSeydel @Ruthiella ooh, how was it? 1y

Ruthiella @CSeydel It was very good! 👍 1y

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TheBookgeekFrau Quite a few 😁 The two most recent: The Book of Lost Things; and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. 1y

julesG Lots! One of the most recent was

Cassandra in Reverse: A Novel

TrishB Sooooo many! 1y

Amiable I‘ve gotten several from posts by @CBee ! Most recently

Notes on an Execution: A Novel

Amiable And also

Fresh Water for Flowers

mabell So many! One in particular -

Sorcery and Cecelia: An Epistolary Fantasy

CBee @Amiable I read Midwives partly because you mentioned you loved it 😊 (edited) 1y

CBee #Camplitsy introduced me to some good ones over the summer! 😊 1y

Tamra Most! 😅😅 1y

Amiable @CBee Litsy is one big mosh pit of book love! 🙂 1y

CBee @Amiable true, except not quite as sweaty and crowded 😂😂😂 1y

CBee @TrishB I‘m reading The Ferryman right now partly because of your review 😊 1y

Amiable @CBee 🤣🤣 1y

CSeydel @Tamra haha true! How did I ever know what to read before Litsy? 1y

CSeydel @Amiable @CBee Yes, a quiet and comfortable mosh pit of book recommendations! 1y

CSeydel @Ruthiella @TheBookgeekFrau @julesG @TrishB @Amiable @mabell @CBee Some great suggestions! 1y

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