GA Russell Posted July 2 Report Share Posted July 2 Not too much here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted July 3 Report Share Posted July 3 8 hours ago, GA Russell said: Not too much here. The "Pat Ewing Fix", is the JFK Assignation Conspiracy of the NBA, it's true, the creased edge is the magic bullet of the NBA> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted July 5 Author Report Share Posted July 5 Several underway, all of a historical nature: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Duckworth Posted July 5 Report Share Posted July 5 Re-reading this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted July 6 Report Share Posted July 6 I'm confident everyone here would enjoy this. The detective is a jazz LP collector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Referentzhunter Posted July 8 Report Share Posted July 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted July 8 Report Share Posted July 8 Louisa Luna: Tell Me Who You Are Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted July 12 Report Share Posted July 12 Very powerful. Highly recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jlhoots Posted July 22 Report Share Posted July 22 Chris Chester: Providence Of A Sparrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ejp626 Posted July 23 Report Share Posted July 23 Over the weekend, I got through John Fante's West of Rome. Not too crazy about this, particularly when the narrator goes off on how terrible it will be if his son marries a Black woman and then, gasp, has children... In my view, Fante's work hasn't aged all that well. I also got about halfway through The Heptaméron by Marguerite de Navarre. This was directly inspired by The Decameron, and indeed aspires to be the French Decameron. Some of the stories are interesting, but there is a cruelty to many of the stories, which is largely, though not entirely, absent in The Decameron. I definitely prefer Boccaccio. Also dipping into Koestler's Darkness at Noon. This is translated from the recently recovered German manuscript, which was assumed to have been lost during the War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, which I quite enjoyed in part because of the list of bands who play at one of the character's dance hall: Chick Webb, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Jay McShan, Mario Bauza, Louis Jordan and Mickey Katz. Not sure this is chronologically plausible since most of it takes place 1925-36. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 8 hours ago, medjuck said: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, which I quite enjoyed in part because of the list of bands who play at one of the character's dance hall: Chick Webb, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Jay McShan, Mario Bauza, Louis Jordan and Mickey Katz. Not sure this is chronologically plausible since most of it takes place 1925-36. Excellent novel!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted July 26 Report Share Posted July 26 Very informative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted July 27 Report Share Posted July 27 Percival Everett: James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted July 27 Report Share Posted July 27 15 hours ago, jlhoots said: Percival Everett: James Great book. You will never see Huckleberry Finn in the same way again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted July 27 Report Share Posted July 27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JSngry Posted July 31 Report Share Posted July 31 Ex Libris John C. Calhoun, whose copious marginalia remains quite legible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted July 31 Report Share Posted July 31 On 7/18/2024 at 4:10 AM, ghost of miles said: Excellent and entertaining read .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted August 2 Report Share Posted August 2 It's James Baldwin's centenary today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted August 2 Report Share Posted August 2 40 minutes ago, rostasi said: It's James Baldwin's centenary today. What a writer he was! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted August 3 Report Share Posted August 3 Great speaker too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted August 3 Report Share Posted August 3 I'll have to look into that. . . . On 7/23/2024 at 4:46 PM, GA Russell said: I love the A.A. Fair books. . . Be Cool and Lam. . . I've been slowly re-reading them, and like that Hard Case Crime has put some out. I'm reading one of Ms Pagel's. . . love reading her work. And also bouncing around in this: Lord Running Clam "PINK BEAM: A Philip K. Dick Literary Chronology" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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