EPBOT Readers discussion

Hello Everyone,
Have a great holiday weekend if you're in the US. Here in New England there is a hint of fall in the air and almost all the schools are back in session. The nights have been wonderful for opening windows.

I have one finish this week, for neighborhood book club, The Secret Life of Bees. Although I had read it about 15 years ago, it was like new since I didn't really remember any of the details. There is a "recipe" for "manna" in the book that I'm going to attempt to make for the book club meeting. Sadly online resources don't give quantities and ratios but I'll work something out.

I'm re-reading Project Hail Mary by listening to the audiobook this time instead of reading the physical book. I very much enjoy this book and the new format makes it fresh.

I've paused Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations to read a library book that came in The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts. I'm post-menopause and lucky enough to have a female doctor who went through it a year or two before I did so she is both knowledgeable and sympathetic.

QOTW:
Do you prefer old books or modern ones?

I definitely prefer modern books. I find old books so culturally outdated, often for the place and treatment of women, that they are harder for me to enjoy than modern ones. I have reread early Nora Roberts, who usually does a good job of writing strong women, and NR from the early 1980s is so different, bordering on harassment.

We managed to open a window, too!

A Clutch of Constables - Still working my way through Ngaio Marsh. This one was... fine. I like the detective's wife, who is basically the protagonist in this one, but the mystery was not very clever. It also has a bit of South Pacific syndrome (anti-racist message delivered through hindsightedly racist content).

QOTW: I wouldn't say I have a preference, but I do like old books. Yeah, some stuff didn't age well, but the flipside of that is getting a better idea of what the world was like at the time. Also there have been clever, artistic people throughout history, and they created some good works.