What books are you reading right now?

I'm now halfway through Vanity Fair, and I'm about to start The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

 

I can now say, honestly, that I have read Vanity Fair all the way through, although I did slim read some of the blah blah blah passages.

Of course that might lead to the question:

"Why?"

 

/\ I might add that to my list.

Just picked up this Swedish bestseller


The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules: A Novel (League of Pensioners): Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg: 9780062447975: Amazon.com: Books

 

I read these as a teen and just started the 6 book series again.

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I tried a light read, just for giggles, but gave up at page 30:

My Friend Flicka.

 

I read that when I was a kid.
It didn't make much of a dent but I do remember The Black Stallion, Misty of Chincoteague, Black Beauty, King of the Wind, and dozens of other horse books that were in my mothers library from when she was a little girl.
What is it about girls and loving horses?

 

I love this series. I have them all.

Edit: I just looked again and laughed because every single paperback has the spine all broken to shit from being read so many times since high school.

 

I've also read all of those. The whole Misty series and 80% of what Walter Farley wrote. Horses, when you're a young girl, are all about freedom, the power of nature, connection with a beast, and the largest, friendly animal you can be in contact with without fearing for your life. After you've ridden one as a small child, nothing compares. It's been at least a dozen years, but I can still smell and feel live horse flesh against my cheek.

 

I read the series a couple of years ago. It took some time, but I managed to collect all six books in hardback for around $8.00.

 

Finished up The Things We Wish Were True, by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen. Pretty good. Small-town life, near-tragedy that brings neighbors together, some drama with said neighbors. Different point-of-view each chapter, which I like.

Immediately started Rise of the Rocket Girls, by Nathalia Holt. Already has me daydreaming about where I could've gone if I'd been serious about college, and realized much earlier in my life how much I liked math.

 

I read this several months ago and was enlightened and entertained to learn about those little known women "computers" and the significant role they played at JPL before and during the early days of NASA.

There is a good article and author interview in Smithsonian Magazine.

 

Is the new NASA movie--sorry, the name escapes me--based on ROTRG?

 

Same time frame, different women.

The movie, Hidden Figures, is about the Black women "computers" at the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia.