EKE BBB Posted September 29, 2019 Report Share Posted September 29, 2019 Bob Stanley Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted September 29, 2019 Report Share Posted September 29, 2019 Stamped from the Beginning: the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram Kendi. Really liking it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted September 29, 2019 Report Share Posted September 29, 2019 An excellent read ! 1 hour ago, BillF said: Scholarly - and pricey! Looks interesting - probably a very good accompaniment to the Mosaic set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesnik Posted September 29, 2019 Report Share Posted September 29, 2019 On 20/09/2019 at 6:10 PM, ghost of miles said: On 20/09/2019 at 6:04 PM, jlhoots said: Just Kids is very good too. Agreed! Me too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted September 30, 2019 Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 In yet another example of how tastes change, I am somewhat more interested in Toni Morrison's Sula (than I remember being as a callow youth), but I am not enjoying Tar Baby at all. She introduces a lot of minor characters, who clutter up the main plot, and the main incident that allows the plot to continue strikes me as so outlandishly improbable that it has put a huge damper on the book. I'm very doubtful I'll actually manage to finish this. It would be one thing if this was supposed to be read as a fable (or even fairy tale, like much of Angela Carter's work), but Tar Baby is predominantly in the realist mode. I'm skipping around in Wendell Berry's The World-Ending Fire (a compilation of selected essays). While there is much that is interesting and admirable, I am more in tune with Loren Eiseley's world view and preoccupations. Also reading through Teju Cole's Known and Strange Things, which is interesting so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 30, 2019 Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 10 hours ago, sidewinder said: An excellent read ! Looks interesting - probably a very good accompaniment to the Mosaic set. There are many references to the Mosaic set - but £42.80! (groan) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted September 30, 2019 Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 (edited) 25 minutes ago, BillF said: There are many references to the Mosaic set - but £42.80! (groan) There seems to be an extra tax put on jazz books. Twas ever thus ! Been trying to find the Dameron bio at reasonable price but £26 for a paperback is also too much. Edited September 30, 2019 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coda Posted October 1, 2019 Report Share Posted October 1, 2019 This keeps me out of trouble. 2nd edition came out a month or two ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted October 1, 2019 Report Share Posted October 1, 2019 37 minutes ago, Coda said: This keeps me out of trouble. 2nd edition came out a month or two ago. But will it keep you awake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted October 1, 2019 Report Share Posted October 1, 2019 Lara Prescott: The Secrets We Kept Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted October 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2019 Starting this one when I get home from work tonight: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted October 1, 2019 Report Share Posted October 1, 2019 Second book in this very enjoyable series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted October 2, 2019 Report Share Posted October 2, 2019 (edited) When Prophecy Still Had A Voice: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Robert Lax. Merton and Lax (an influential poet) had an almost life long friendship, and the book is off to a rollicking start, with the letters starting in early 1938. Merton and Lax, at this point, are callow young men (Merton even dropping F bombs and bragging about his sex life) but the intelligence is plain to see in both of them. They must have been interesting people to know -- I have come to the conclusion that Merton missed his true calling of being a writer for The New Yorker. Edited October 2, 2019 by Matthew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwbol Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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erwbol Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 34 minutes ago, kinuta said: Isn't this just America getting a taste of its own medicine? Fake news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted October 6, 2019 Report Share Posted October 6, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jlhoots Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 2 hours ago, kinuta said: You probably have, but if you haven't, read A Visit From The Goon Squad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 (edited) On 10/4/2019 at 8:34 AM, erwbol said: A TERRIFIC book, as is Swafford's biography of Charles Ives.  Just started this today: Edited October 10, 2019 by HutchFan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 10 hours ago, jlhoots said: You probably have, but if you haven't, read A Visit From The Goon Squad. Thanks for the suggestion. I've already read it and Manhattan Beach. I was about to read Look At Me but thought I'd better read this one first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwbol Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 21 hours ago, HutchFan said: A TERRIFIC book, as is Swafford's biography of Charles Ives. A long time ago I read a short biography of Beethoven and it pales in comparison to Swafford's, though at over a 1000 pages it's going to take me a while to finish.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Read this during the day, before the PG&E rendered darkness fell, Thanks PG&E! (three days of darkness where I live). I don't know why, but I have a deep love for this book. I've read it many times and there is a certain feel to this book that means a lot to me. It seem as if finally American spirituality broke free from Jonathan Edwards' baleful influence, and here, with this book, a new way of looking at the world entered the American scene.  Just the first paragraph itself is bursting with creativity: Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us, by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to‑day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 Attica Locke: Blue Bird, Blue Bird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted October 12, 2019 Report Share Posted October 12, 2019 5 hours ago, jlhoots said: Attica Locke: Blue Bird, Blue Bird That's on my reading list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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