What are you currently reading?

Ancient or modern. Either in the original language or translated

I’m five books into Herodotus. Translation unfortunately, seeing as I’ve only studied Greek for 2 weeks :slight_smile:

Ancient: The Letters of the Younger Pliny Penguin Classics Edition (English translation)

Modern: The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands (its great so far, I’m about 1/3 into it)

Modern Design in C++
Civil War Vol I.
History of the U.S. Constitution
Miracle at Philadelphia
John Adams, bio
Jackson, bio

Letters of Cicero, (translation, arghh!)
Pronunciation and Reading of Classical Latin
New Latin Grammar
Latin for Beginner’s
Latin for Beginner’s
Latin for Beginner’s
Latin for Beginner’s
Latin for Beginner’s…

Ancient: Apollodorus’ The Library trans. by J.G. Frazer
Modern: The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

Although I haven’t picked it up in a while,

The Universe in a Nutshell

In Grk. A.Ag., S.El, E.El, Ar.V and AP6
In Lat. Lucr.3, Hor.C.1, Sen.Thy and Juv.3
In Eng. The Classical Text (Kenney), Scribes and Scholars (Reynolds & Wilson), English Classical Scholarship (Brink) and The Living Word: WHD Rouse and the Crisis of Classics in Edwardian England (Stray).

~D

only modern at the moment:

Haddon: The curious incident with a dog in the nighttime; (upstairs while waiting for my youngest to get to sleep)
McCullough: The October Horse; (downstairs)
Pratchett, Stewart, Cohen: The science of Discworld II: The globe (in the bus, train, tram etc.)

Ingrid

In Latin, Aeneid Book 1. I am preparing a running vocabulary which I hope to post to jeff in the next couple of weeks or so to match Book 2 which can be found in the ‘Study Guides and Handouts’ section. I hope it will be useful to someone.

In English, the collected short stories of Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie.

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All modern:

Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
A History of Pi by Petr Beckmann

Another very good book I just read recently:

Schrödinger’s Kittens and the Search for Reality : Solving the Quantum Mysteries, by John Gribbin

The book has a cheesy title but it’s an uncommonly good pop science book. Highly recommended.

I think, perhaps, you’ve been hanging out with dictionary writers too long. AP6?

As for me, I just finished Candide and am about to jump into Iron Council by China Miéville.

My bedtime reading is (I’m not kidding) West’s Greek Metre. I’m trying to cram as much into my brain as possible before I have to return it to the library.

For Gk, Book 12 of the Odyssey for the reading group. Random lyric poets, mostly Ibycus and Sappho these days.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Emperor’s New Mind
Anne of Green Gables
WS_A_First_Greek_Course (on Adobe)
How Intelligent Are You?

…and I have a HUGE list of books I want to read. Including (but not limited to) the Redwall Series, LOTR, ‘Eats, Shoots, and Leaves,’ Greek: An Intensive Course, and the rest of the Anne of Green Gables Series. :stuck_out_tongue:

On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

I’m also working on Wheelock’s Latin and an Introduction to Attic Greek by Mastronarde.

AP6 = book six of the Anthologia Planudea (collated in Vol.2 of the Anthologia Graeca). They’re all in elegiacs, so it’s good for ideas for composition.

~D

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
plus valiant half-futile attempts at Catullus. I got this great out-of-print dualtext edition translated by Carl Sesar at the used bookstore. The translations are FREE, catullus 85: “I hate her and I love her. Don’t ask me why. / It’s the way I feel, that’s all, and it hurts” so I dissect the latin to find the literal meaning

& if textbooks count as reading, Jenney’s First Year Latin and Campbell’s Biology 6e

I’ve been reading crap lately.

Just finished: Jane Austen’s “Mansfield Park”. I saw one of the movies which doesn’t do it justice.

Just started: Robert Ludlum’s “Bourne Supremacy”; this is my commuting book. I saw the movie. As I’m reading the book I find that the movie is VERY loosely based on the book.

Other books I’m reading include: Sears’ “The Pregnancy Book”; Curtis’ “Your Pregnancy week by week”; “Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy”; “Mayo Clinic Complete Book of Pregnancy & Baby’s First Year”.

I love Gribbin’s books. I have “Unveiling the Edge of Time” (the more recently revised version of this book is called “In Search of the Edge of Time”) and “In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat”. Both were fascinating and well done.

Marie, are you pregnant?!?!?!? I didn’t know!

ok, my current reads are minimal, since I have little time or energy for reading these days, but:

english: “Messiah Revealed in the Passover” by Hannah Nesher. She is a local lady, a Messianic Jew. The book was lent to me by my accountant, of all people. It’s interesting but not well written at all. And I recently finished a book called The Sumerians, which was fascinating.

latin: my latin is sorely neglected these days :frowning: but I am sort of working through Ursus Nomine Paddington

greek: still working through the GNT. I did 14 chapters this week while at work. :slight_smile:

Really, Marie? I didn’t notice the last half of the book list.
Congratulations! What are you going to name your baby?

Greek: Homer Iliad 2, Odyssey 12; S. Trachiniae

Other: Sihler, New Comparative Grammar; Friedrich, Aspect Theory and Homeric Aspect.

Cordially,

Paul

Uhmm… please don’t laugh:

Pompeii The Last Day, Paul Wilkinson (I finally got it… but it was disappointing- not much new information)

¡Exacto! (Spanish grammar textbook)

Teach Yourself Latin, Gavin Betts (bedtime reading)

Teach Yourself Cantonese (few characters; mostly transliteration)

I am currently reading Latin, Spanish (good dictionary), and Mandarin (small) dictionaries at bedtime, along with the libretto to Bach’s St. John Passion (a recording by the New College Oxford and Collegium Novum; very little information about the passion; but I hear it was a candidate for best recording in the Classical Brit Awards).