BillF Posted July 6, 2013 Report Share Posted July 6, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Man Posted July 6, 2013 Report Share Posted July 6, 2013 Ross Macdonald: Sleeping Beauty I love his novels, read them all in the 1970s and re-read them often. Apparently he died quite young of Alzheimer's... a great shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted July 9, 2013 Report Share Posted July 9, 2013 An excellent account of the Russians in Afghanistan. I'd suspected we only knew part of the story, I was right. Recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricia Posted July 10, 2013 Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 Just finished David Rakoff's "Fraud" and am now partway into his "Half Empty."For those of you not familiar with Rakoff's work, his first book was a collection of essays, "Don't Get Too Comfortable." His style of satire and general observance is similar, but not the same as that of David Sedaris. Rakoff is a little darker.I was saddened to learn that not long after I had seen him on "The Daily Show", he died of, I believe cancer. Gone way too soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted July 10, 2013 Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 Finally gotten to Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy. It's a little bulky so I'll actually check out the individual volumes for train reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted July 10, 2013 Report Share Posted July 10, 2013 Kate Atkinson: Started Early, Took My Dog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 Walter Mosley: Little Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 (edited) For the last thirty years, I've toted two books of a trilogy everywhere I moved knowing that SOME DAY I'd find the third book and be able to read the whole thing. Last year I finally scored a copy of Mark Adlard's Multiface, so I started the first book Interface last night. Should have read it years ago; it's good stuff. Edited July 11, 2013 by Jazzmoose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Man Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 (edited) Kate Atkinson: Started Early, Took My Dog She's a terrific storyteller. Recently several of her books featuring the private detective Jackson Brodie appeared as an excellent series on TV. http://www.kateatkinson.co.uk/jacksonbrodie/tv.asp Edited July 11, 2013 by Head Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BillF Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Excellent novel by Richard Ford. Very different from his Sportswriter trilogy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Goren. Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_L Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 (edited) The Good Earth is a classic worth re-reading. Pearl S. Buck was a famous Sinophile who lived in my part of Pennsylvania for a good part of her later life, at an 1825 built farmhouse in Perkasie that is now an official National Historic Landmark. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973), also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (Chinese: 賽珍珠; pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū), was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932 and won thePulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." [1] After her return to the United States in 1935, she continued her prolific writing career, and became a prominent advocate of the rights of women and minority groups, and wrote widely on Asian cultures, becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed race adoption. This is what I'm currently reading: Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine [Paperback] Bruce J. Bourque (Author) Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, valleys, and mountains of a region now known as Maine. Arriving first to this area were Paleo-Indian peoples, followed by maritime hunters, more immigrants, then a revival of maritime cultures. Beginning in the sixteenth century, Native peoples in northern New England became tangled in the far-reaching affairs of European explorers and colonists.Twelve Thousand Years reveals how Penobscots, Abenakis, Passamaquoddies, Maliseets, Micmacs, and other Native communities both strategically accommodated and overtly resisted European and American encroachments. Since that time, Native communities in Maine have endured, adapted when necessary, and experienced a political and cultural revitalization in recent decades. Edited July 16, 2013 by Jerry_L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 Am quickly wrapping up Palace Walk (book 1 of The Cairo Trilogy). I should be able to start Book 2 tomorrow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 Cristina Garcia: Dreaming in Cuban Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Goren. Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted July 17, 2013 Report Share Posted July 17, 2013 Cristina Garcia: Dreaming in Cuban I like that book as well as some of her others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 I finished the Adlard trilogy, and there's nothing like following depressing English SF with more of the same, so I went with Brian Aldiss for a follow up: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinger Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 (edited) I finished the Adlard trilogy, and there's nothing like following depressing English SF with more of the same, so I went with Brian Aldiss for a follow up: Excellent choice! Brian Aldiss is one of my favorite SF writers Edited July 21, 2013 by Swinger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted July 23, 2013 Report Share Posted July 23, 2013 Gillian Flynn: Dark Places Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted July 23, 2013 Report Share Posted July 23, 2013 Rereading my way through Ross Macdonald's novels - an enjoyable journey: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Train Posted July 23, 2013 Report Share Posted July 23, 2013 Man Booker Prize's Longlist was announced. http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/longlist-2013-announced Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted July 24, 2013 Report Share Posted July 24, 2013 (edited) Excellent choice! Brian Aldiss is one of my favorite SF writers It wasn't what I expected; it was better. That's always nice. I don't know why I never went on a serious Aldiss bender. I read Hothouse in my early twenties and loved it. When I decided to revisit SF a few years ago, I read Greybeard and was astounded. Maybe it was the memory of trying to read Barefoot in the Head. Edited July 24, 2013 by Jazzmoose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ejp626 Posted July 26, 2013 Report Share Posted July 26, 2013 Read through (quickly) Constance Urdang's book of poetry Only the World. I enjoyed it, particularly the first section which was mostly about travel and tourism. I'll probably post a poem from the collection in the Poetry Cosmos thread.I've just started Sugar Street, the final book in Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy. Yea!After this, I will read The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman [a novel about a struggling newspaper in Rome]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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