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[kinuta]

[paul secor]

[soulpope]

[ejp626]

About halfway into Rabbit is Rich.  I do like this one a bit better than the first two (esp. Rabbit Redux), but I can't imagine going through this series a second time.

I've been slowly making my way through McCarthy's Birds of America.  My goal is to wrap this up by Boxing Day.

Next non-Updike book will be Krzhizhanovsky's The Letter Killers Club.

[soulpope]

[kinuta]

[soulpope]

[jlhoots]

Jesmyn Ward: Sing Unburied Sing

[kinuta]

[soulpope]

[jlhoots]

Lisa Halliday: Asymmetry

[kinuta]

[sidewinder]

[kinuta]

2 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Read it a few months ago. A good comprehensive account.

Visited Hue last year and managed to see most of the places described in the book. Unfortunately driving rain and flooded streets curtailed our enjoyment.

 

 

[sidewinder]

1 hour ago, kinuta said:

Read it a few months ago. A good comprehensive account.

Visited Hue last year and managed to see most of the places described in the book. Unfortunately driving rain and flooded streets curtailed our enjoyment.

 

 

An Xmas present read, so far so good.

Some of the events I recall either seeing or hearing about on the Beeb. Also vividly recall the early BBC2 evening news bulletin rebroadcasting the main US CBS Vietnam war news of the day before. A ‘WTF’ moment was what I later realised was Walter Cronkite introducing film of B-52 bomber formations over jungle, taken from above (probably from an accompanying F-4 I guess). Those sort of things as a youngster tend to stick in the memory like limpets. Reading the book, this is likely to have been one of the ‘Linebacker’ raids, possibly over the Central Highlands.

Edited December 31, 2018 by sidewinder

[Brad]

4 hours ago, sidewinder said:

I have yet to pick this up but I can recommend several other books if you wish.  I’d also recommend reading the following series in the New York Times, if you’re interested.  It’s terrific.

Vietnam 67

 

[soulpope]

[sgcim]

The Traveler, Perry Robinson's autobiography. It's really out...

[Matthew]

Silence: A User's Guide: Volume 1 -- Process by Maggie Ross.  Interesting how "mindfulness" and silence are hot topics in philosophy & spirituality now, it seems a ton of books are being released -- kind of a resistance movement against modern media, and the psychic toll they cause, that is taking place.

[JSngry]

8 minutes ago, Matthew said:

Silence: A User's Guide: Volume 1 -- Process by Maggie Ross.  Interesting how "mindfulness" and silence are hot topics in philosophy & spirituality now, it seems a ton of books are being released -- kind of a resistance movement against modern media, and the psychic toll they cause, that is taking place.

You gotta have some place that's nobody's but yours. Got to.

[sidewinder]

18 hours ago, Brad said:

I have yet to pick this up but I can recommend several other books if you wish.  I’d also recommend reading the following series in the New York Times, if you’re interested.  It’s terrific.

Vietnam 67

 

Thanks for that.

[JohnS]

[Brad]

On 11/28/2018 at 10:45 PM, Brad said:

I finally gave up for now on Berlin Alexanderplatz; I couldn’t get comfortable with Döblin’s style of writing. 

I purchased Sense and Sensibility some time ago and have picked it up again. The introduction is a bit turgid. I often think that these introductions are better as after words. 

After a couple of distractions, I finished S & S. Interesting how she portrays some of the female characters.  I read some literary criticism taking Austen to task for her anti feminist depictions of some of the characters. 

[ghost of miles]

[Brad]

This is probably next on the list.