Brad Posted July 3, 2020 Report Share Posted July 3, 2020 (edited) 11 hours ago, T.D. said: Just finished this. Did you ever read this? Great little book. Edited July 3, 2020 by Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted July 8, 2020 Report Share Posted July 8, 2020 Sarah Broom: The Yellow House Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted July 11, 2020 Report Share Posted July 11, 2020 Just started my Dad's latest book "Father Taylor: Boston's Sailor Preacher, as seen and heard by his Contemporaries." Fascinating book that my father worked on researching and compiling for years, and finally has printed via amazon publishing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted July 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2020 Al Hibbler makes an appearance on pg 126! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 An article by Joan Didion about Hemingway (from the New Yorker archives, October 26, 1998). Last Words: Those Hemingway wrote, and those he didn’t. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 On 6/23/2020 at 11:56 AM, ejp626 said: In queue at the library. Let us know what you think. Thanks. Finally buckling down and finishing Camus's The Plague. Probably will wrap up tonight. Finished A Burning. Excellent IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 2 hours ago, jlhoots said: Finished A Burning. Excellent IMHO. Good to know. Should be able to borrow it soon. Reading Kundera's Life is Elsewhere. Also have an e-book version of Kevin Brockmeier's The Brief History of the Dead, which incidentally features a man-made virus that wipes out humanity. Good times... Not sure what will be after this. Maybe Joyce Cary's first trilogy or Don Quixote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 1 hour ago, ejp626 said: Good to know. Should be able to borrow it soon. Reading Kundera's Life is Elsewhere. Also have an e-book version of Kevin Brockmeier's The Brief History of the Dead, which incidentally features a man-made virus that wipes out humanity. Good times... Not sure what will be after this. Maybe Joyce Cary's first trilogy or Don Quixote. I’m taking an open course on Don Quijote through Yale. I’m waiting for the other required books to be delivered. If you’re interested, here’s the link, https://oyc.yale.edu/spanish-and-portuguese They have lots of other courses in a variety of disciplines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 6 minutes ago, Brad said: I’m taking an open course on Don Quijote through Yale. I’m waiting for the other required books to be delivered. If you’re interested, here’s the link, https://oyc.yale.edu/spanish-and-portuguese They have lots of other courses in a variety of disciplines. Thanks. I'll check it out. Way, way back when I took a course that centered on Rabelais and artists of his time. That was neat, though I don't remember all that much from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted July 20, 2020 Report Share Posted July 20, 2020 Needed a police procedural so reading a Bosch book - The Last Coyote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 How a young Ernest Hemingway dealt with his first taste of fame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted July 25, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2020 (edited) Baldwin’s No Name In The Street from this collection: And rereading this entry in the 33 1/3 series: Edited July 25, 2020 by ghost of miles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 Elizabeth Wetmore: Valentine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 Jayber Crow: A Novel. Starting on Wendell Berry's Port William novels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 (edited) On 7/25/2020 at 0:39 PM, ghost of miles said: Baldwin’s No Name In The Street from this collection: Eddie Glaude has a book out about Baldwin that may interest you. Edited July 26, 2020 by Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 Mary Golia - Ornette Coleman, The Territory And The Adventure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ghost of miles Posted July 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 3 hours ago, Brad said: Eddie Glaude has a book out about Baldwin that may interest you. I actually ordered it last night! Darryl Pinckney had recommended it during the online talk he gave recently about No Name In The Street for the Library of America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted August 2, 2020 Report Share Posted August 2, 2020 Interesting article in the Washington Post: Readers have many opinions on how to cull your book collection — and also why you never should Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted August 2, 2020 Report Share Posted August 2, 2020 Here’s the original article, which I should have posted first, In turbulent times, culling my book collection gave me the illusion of control. Then the dilemmas began multiplying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 2, 2020 Report Share Posted August 2, 2020 10 minutes ago, Brad said: Here’s the original article, which I should have posted first, In turbulent times, culling my book collection gave me the illusion of control. Then the dilemmas began multiplying Culling books is important. I was asked recently to go through the books in a monastic library, and in a couple of days, over 3,000 useless books were gone (I found a good home for them, and not the dumpster!). No reason to keep something that's not going to be read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted August 3, 2020 Report Share Posted August 3, 2020 Apparently there is a high-profile anti-library op-ed piece in the Globe and Mail from a publisher (behind a paywall, so I won't link), and somewhat discouragingly, the Globe and Mail didn't let the Toronto Public Library respond. Publisher's Weekly posted the response instead: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/83996-canadian-libraries-respond-to-globe-and-mail-essay-attacking-public-libraries.html To some extent, the publisher seems to be a bit of professional contrarian. One of his pieces mentioned that crises are good for journalists and publishers alike (so I don't know why he is complaining about TPL at the moment): https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/new-gold-rush/ I think he's a bit of a knob, and I am certainly less likely to order any books from Sutherland House in the future, but hey, it's a free country and he can say what he likes... I have several of Melville House's Art of the Novella coming in at the library, and I'm most interested in Pushkin's Tales of Belkin and Benoît Duteurtre's The Little Girl and the Cigarette. I'm about halfway through Kundera's Life is Elsewhere (also a library loan...). It has its moments where Kundera is parodying romantic poets, though it also drags in places. I'm definitely not as entranced by this as the novel's ardent admirers, but I'll go ahead and finish it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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danasgoodstuff Posted August 6, 2020 Report Share Posted August 6, 2020 (edited) On 8/3/2020 at 1:31 PM, ejp626 said: Apparently there is a high-profile anti-library op-ed piece in the Globe and Mail from a publisher (behind a paywall, so I won't link), and somewhat discouragingly, the Globe and Mail didn't let the Toronto Public Library respond. Publisher's Weekly posted the response instead: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/83996-canadian-libraries-respond-to-globe-and-mail-essay-attacking-public-libraries.html To some extent, the publisher seems to be a bit of professional contrarian. One of his pieces mentioned that crises are good for journalists and publishers alike (so I don't know why he is complaining about TPL at the moment): https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/new-gold-rush/ I think he's a bit of a knob, and I am certainly less likely to order any books from Sutherland House in the future, but hey, it's a free country and he can say what he likes... I have several of Melville House's Art of the Novella coming in at the library, and I'm most interested in Pushkin's Tales of Belkin and Benoît Duteurtre's The Little Girl and the Cigarette. I'm about halfway through Kundera's Life is Elsewhere (also a library loan...). It has its moments where Kundera is parodying romantic poets, though it also drags in places. I'm definitely not as entranced by this as the novel's ardent admirers, but I'll go ahead and finish it. I'm recently retired from library work and currently pissed at management at my former employer, But the writer of that G&M piece is more than a bit of a knob, he's a 'net loss' to literature and life. The library response was more than reasonable. Edited August 6, 2020 by danasgoodstuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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