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[Matthew]

The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham

[ghost of miles]

Physical books still outsell e-books, and here's why

[Matthew]

17 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

Physical books still outsell e-books, and here's why

I hadn't heard that the JD Salinger estate had okayed his books going digital. I like to read novels and mysteries on my iPad, but other topics, I prefer the physical.

Edited September 20, 2019 by Matthew

[jlhoots]

19 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

 for Nate Chinen's Playing Changes.

Beginning this on the heels of her amazing concert Monday night in Detroit:

Just Kids is very good too.

[ghost of miles]

6 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

Just Kids is very good too.

Agreed!  Read it several years ago, but just now getting around to M Train.

[felser]

[Matthew]

The Long-Legged House by Wendall Berry. Part of the LOA edition of his essays, a long meditation on his house in the woods.

Edited September 22, 2019 by Matthew

[T.D.]

This is extremely interesting, but unfortunately it's rather sloppy and slipshod in many respects.

[ejp626]

About 1/3 through Dawn Powell's A Time to Be Born.  Still quite entertaining, though I think Turn, Magic Wheel is a bit tighter overall.

Should wrap up Morrison's Sula fairly soon as well.

I'm reading Eiseley's books in a somewhat random order.  Finished The Immense Journey yesterday and will launch into The Night Country probably in a week or so.  Also, put a few Wendell Berry essay collections on hold at the library.

[Brad]

Working on this. I know it’s a classic but I’m finding slow going so far. 

I picked this up last week, a history of Latin America told via a few lives about the economy (silver), violence (sword) and religion (stone). 

[Bluesnik]

Today I've finally finished this. It's a fat read (716 pages) wich marks the end of the misadventures of DEA special agent Art Keller in his fight against drugs and finally against the War on Drugs. So as Winslow himself admits, this is a trilogy together with The Power of the Dog and The Cartel, which I've both read. His last novel, The Force, is the one I liked least, perhaps because it changed his familiar terrain of the fight against drugs and cartels to the police force of NYC.

Continued straight away with this:

Jazz in Barcelona 1920-1965. Jordi Pujol is the head of Fresh Sound, so he knows what he's talking about.

[Larry Kart]

My second Jack Parlabane novel from Christopher Brookmyre. A bit too much Scots dialect in the first one, "Country of the Blind," for my taste -- the setting is Glasgow -- but otherwise quite good, excellent political hugger mugger. The second I've tried/am trying is "Dead Girl Walking," which initially has a rock world setting. Parlabane is a semi-scrupulous investigative journalist whose career and life have gone all to hell after a frame up but who still possesses his old skills. Brookmyre, himself a former journalist, has a shrewd sense of what can be gathered from responses in the course of a seemingly normal interview.

[jlhoots]

3 hours ago, Bluesnik said:

Today I've finally finished this. It's a fat read (716 pages) wich marks the end of the misadventures of DEA special agent Art Keller in his fight against drugs and finally against the War on Drugs. So as Winslow himself admits, this is a trilogy together with The Power of the Dog and The Cartel, which I've both read. His last novel, The Force, is the one I liked least, perhaps because it changed his familiar terrain of the fight against drugs and cartels to the police force of NYC.

Continued straight away with this:

Jazz in Barcelona 1920-1965. Jordi Pujol is the head of Fresh Sound, so he knows what he's talking about.

The Border was great.

I don't know about Jazz En Barcelona.

[Bluesnik]

18 hours ago, jlhoots said:

The Border was great.

I have always, since The Power of the Dog, liked Winslow very much. The Power of the Dog was the first of his novels I read.

[Bluesnik]

On 17/07/2019 at 5:04 PM, Brad said:

I need to read his Underground Railroad.

I have it but still haven't read it.

[jlhoots]

28 minutes ago, Bluesnik said:

I have always, since The Power of the Dog, liked Winslow very much. The Power of the Dog was the first of his novels I read.

Power Of The Dog is a great book!!

[kinuta]

[Matthew]

Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville by David S. Reynolds

[Brad]

12 minutes ago, Matthew said:

Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville by David S. Reynolds

He’s written some interesting books. 

[Matthew]

2 hours ago, Brad said:

He’s written some interesting books. 

I really like his Walt Whitman's America, and I want to read soon his book on John Brown, as that is a figure I've always been fascinated with, I have even toyed with the idea of reading Russell Banks novel Cloudsplitter, despite divergent reviews of the book I've read.

[Brad]

24 minutes ago, Matthew said:

I really like his Walt Whitman's America, and I want to read soon his book on John Brown, as that is a figure I've always been fascinated with, I have even toyed with the idea of reading Russell Banks novel Cloudsplitter, despite divergent reviews of the book I've read.

His one on Harriet Beecher Stowe was pretty good as was his one on early American history. 

[BillF]

Scholarly - and pricey! 

[EKE BBB]

Bob Stanley

Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop

[Adam]

Stamped from the Beginning: the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram Kendi.

Really liking it.

[sidewinder]

An excellent read !

1 hour ago, BillF said:

Scholarly - and pricey! 

Looks interesting - probably a very good accompaniment to the Mosaic set.