What book are you reading, ιf' - Iff you read books

[JollyRoger]

Read my junior year in high school and now rereading. Title of the books is also what I called the red icons that moderators used to use to honor my best posts

@JollyRoger Edited by Birdjaguar:

 

[Columbkille]

IIRC GRRM included that in GOT. Daenerys' brother longed for gold....

Yes! Quite a memorable scene.

According to Google, a Roman governor had gold poured down his throat during the Mithridatic Wars (while still alive). I've had a book about Mithridates on my reading list for a while; might have to read that one next...

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

On hold until next week. Used up my checkouts on Hoopla for the month.

 

[bene_legionary]

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin. I liked how she described the world of Earthsea, it has me intrigued... being a children's novel it's not very deep but it was still fun.

 

[Josu]

Ended Unwind by Neil Shusterman, enjoyed
Started The Road by Cormac McCarthy

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Finished a sci-fi short story Death Rides By Night by Leroy Yerxa. Nothing more to it besides classic misogyny

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Reading Veiled Women, a novel by Marmaduke Pickthall. Started out reading like an amateur and cartoonist mix of Orientalism and Islamic apologia. Still I persevered. It's not good, but it's definitely interesting, and I do like the descriptions of Egypt before modernisation (actually mid-modernisation, the novel takes place during the Khedivate period, when the elites were more or less Westernised and adopting the latest technology). The whole book though smacks heavily of Orientalism.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

It's little gems like these that make me feel glad I stuck on:

It was that years ago a European officer in the Egyptian service had wooed Amînah Khânum secretly; and she had been entirely captivated by his charms. But endeavouring to sound his character, she found him shallow. She made him islam, but his carelessness informed her that conversion meant no more for him than access to her. In the same way she perceived that what he felt for her was nothing more profound than the desire to add a Muslim lady to his list of conquests. The blow was dire, for she was then extremely lovely, and a great examiner of men, having divorced or killed ten husbands. She would not have him tell a tale among his kind, yet could not conquer her intense desire of him. What could she do? She satisfied her heart, and the next morning gave him death in easy form, being well versed in poisons.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

It's little gems like these that make me feel glad I stuck on:

“His face is dirty, the poor little one! Our Lord preserve him!” the visitor remarked in Arabic as she returned the baby to his nurse; at which there was an outburst of applause from the onlookers. They called down blessings on the lady’s head, desiring she might have herself a thousand children, not like this one, puny and unpleasant, but most beautiful.