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[GA Russell]

Not too much here.

[Matthew]

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>

[ghost of miles]

Several underway, all of a historical nature:

 

[Jim Duckworth]

Re-reading this.

[GA Russell]

I'm confident everyone here would enjoy this.  The detective is a jazz LP collector.

[Referentzhunter]

[jlhoots]

Louisa Luna: Tell Me Who You Are

[GA Russell]

Very powerful.  Highly recommended.

[ghost of miles]

[jlhoots]

Chris Chester: Providence Of A Sparrow

[GA Russell]

[ejp626]

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.

 

 

[medjuck]

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.

[jlhoots]

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!!

[GA Russell]

Very informative.

[jlhoots]

Percival Everett: James

[Brad]

15 hours ago, jlhoots said:

Percival Everett: James

Great book. You will never see Huckleberry Finn in the same way again. 

[Ken Dryden]

[GA Russell]

[JSngry]

Ex Libris John C. Calhoun, whose copious marginalia remains quite legible. 

[soulpope]

On 7/18/2024 at 4:10 AM, ghost of miles said:

Excellent and entertaining read ....

[rostasi]

It's James Baldwin's centenary today.

[jazzbo]

40 minutes ago, rostasi said:

It's James Baldwin's centenary today.

What a writer he was!

[medjuck]

Great speaker too. 

[jazzbo]

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"

 

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