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I finished the Guerney translation of Dead Souls and am about halfway through the Reavey translation, which has a reconstruction of Book II.  I'm also about 2/3 through Reuss's Horace Afoot.

I'm still waiting for Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur to show up in the mail (starting to get a bit concerned...), which will probably be the next significant novel I tackle. 

I might read Kingsley Amis's Girl, 20 in the meantime.  

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On 2/6/2023 at 3:33 AM, ejp626 said:

 

I might read Kingsley Amis's Girl, 20 in the meantime.  

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1 hour ago, ghost of miles said:

About 50 pages into Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift, which is based on his friendship with the poet Delmore Schwartz and is part of this Library of America volume that arrived yesterday:

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Now reading:

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About 1/3 through Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur.  I was lucky enough to score a Folio Society edition, which has some great illustrations. 

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I will say I probably should have waited until the summer to read it (not late winter) as almost every chapter has some comment on the brutal heat and how people are nearly fainting.  I do find Troubles was a bit more amusing starting out, but this has many droll passages.  I've just hit the siege part, and the action is picking up.  

Will most likely tackle Baker's A Fine Madness and Percy Walker's The Moviegoer next, and then back to Farrell with The Singapore Grip rounding out his Empire Trilogy.

 

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6 hours ago, ejp626 said:

About 1/3 through Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur.  I was lucky enough to score a Folio Society edition, which has some great illustrations. 

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I will say I probably should have waited until the summer to read it (not late winter) as almost every chapter has some comment on the brutal heat and how people are nearly fainting.  I do find Troubles was a bit more amusing starting out, but this has many droll passages.  I've just hit the siege part, and the action is picking up.  

Will most likely tackle Baker's A Fine Madness and Percy Walker's The Moviegoer next, and then back to Farrell with The Singapore Grip rounding out his Empire Trilogy.

 

Folio publishes some beautiful books. I have their David Copperfield which I’m making my way through. 

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1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Just finished this:

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Just started this:

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I really enjoyed that one.  I'll pretty much read anything O'Brien writes.

 

Yes, it was a terrific book. 

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On 2/28/2023 at 11:19 AM, Brad said:

I read his All for Nothing a few years ago. They both touch on the subject of East Prussia, now part of Poland. 

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I finished this earlier this week. Really goes well with his All for Nothing, which touches on German refugees attempting to flee the Russians in the dying days of WW II whereas Bone and Marrow looks at East Prussia before the Wall fell from a West German perspective.

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I finally finished Richard Koloda's bio of Albert Ayler. It was slow going til the final third. And ultimately, it's not Koloda's fault, it's unsatisfying how little is known of Ayler's final months and how much speculation without clear facts there is about his passing.

Next . . . I think I might re-read a B. Cool and Lam novel by A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner). They're fun. I need fun.

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