HutchFan Posted September 15, 2019 Report Share Posted September 15, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted September 17, 2019 Report Share Posted September 17, 2019 Colson Whitehead: Nickel Boys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted September 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2019 for Nate Chinen's Playing Changes. Beginning this on the heels of her amazing concert Monday night in Detroit: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted September 20, 2019 Report Share Posted September 20, 2019 The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted September 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2019 Physical books still outsell e-books, and here's why Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted September 20, 2019 Report Share Posted September 20, 2019 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted September 20, 2019 Report Share Posted September 20, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted September 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Matthew Posted September 22, 2019 Report Share Posted September 22, 2019 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted September 23, 2019 Report Share Posted September 23, 2019 This is extremely interesting, but unfortunately it's rather sloppy and slipshod in many respects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted September 23, 2019 Report Share Posted September 23, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted September 23, 2019 Report Share Posted September 23, 2019 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesnik Posted September 26, 2019 Report Share Posted September 26, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted September 26, 2019 Report Share Posted September 26, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted September 26, 2019 Report Share Posted September 26, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesnik Posted September 27, 2019 Report Share Posted September 27, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesnik Posted September 27, 2019 Report Share Posted September 27, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted September 27, 2019 Report Share Posted September 27, 2019 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!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Matthew Posted September 27, 2019 Report Share Posted September 27, 2019 Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville by David S. Reynolds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted September 27, 2019 Report Share Posted September 27, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted September 28, 2019 Report Share Posted September 28, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted September 28, 2019 Report Share Posted September 28, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 29, 2019 Report Share Posted September 29, 2019 Scholarly - and pricey! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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