GA Russell Posted July 6 Report Posted July 6 I'm confident everyone here would enjoy this. The detective is a jazz LP collector. Quote
ejp626 Posted July 23 Report Posted July 23 Over the weekend, I got through John Fante's West of Rome. Not too crazy about this, particularly when the narrator goes off on how terrible it will be if his son marries a Black woman and then, gasp, has children... In my view, Fante's work hasn't aged all that well. I also got about halfway through The Heptaméron by Marguerite de Navarre. This was directly inspired by The Decameron, and indeed aspires to be the French Decameron. Some of the stories are interesting, but there is a cruelty to many of the stories, which is largely, though not entirely, absent in The Decameron. I definitely prefer Boccaccio. Also dipping into Koestler's Darkness at Noon. This is translated from the recently recovered German manuscript, which was assumed to have been lost during the War. Quote
medjuck Posted July 24 Report Posted July 24 The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, which I quite enjoyed in part because of the list of bands who play at one of the character's dance hall: Chick Webb, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Jay McShan, Mario Bauza, Louis Jordan and Mickey Katz. Not sure this is chronologically plausible since most of it takes place 1925-36. Quote
jlhoots Posted July 24 Report Posted July 24 8 hours ago, medjuck said: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, which I quite enjoyed in part because of the list of bands who play at one of the character's dance hall: Chick Webb, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Jay McShan, Mario Bauza, Louis Jordan and Mickey Katz. Not sure this is chronologically plausible since most of it takes place 1925-36. Excellent novel!! Quote
Brad Posted July 27 Report Posted July 27 15 hours ago, jlhoots said: Percival Everett: James Great book. You will never see Huckleberry Finn in the same way again. Quote
JSngry Posted July 31 Report Posted July 31 Ex Libris John C. Calhoun, whose copious marginalia remains quite legible. Quote
soulpope Posted July 31 Report Posted July 31 On 7/18/2024 at 4:10 AM, ghost of miles said: Excellent and entertaining read .... Quote
jazzbo Posted August 2 Report Posted August 2 40 minutes ago, rostasi said: It's James Baldwin's centenary today. What a writer he was! Quote
jazzbo Posted August 3 Report Posted August 3 I'll have to look into that. . . . On 7/23/2024 at 4:46 PM, GA Russell said: I love the A.A. Fair books. . . Be Cool and Lam. . . I've been slowly re-reading them, and like that Hard Case Crime has put some out. I'm reading one of Ms Pagel's. . . love reading her work. And also bouncing around in this: Lord Running Clam "PINK BEAM: A Philip K. Dick Literary Chronology" Quote
JSngry Posted August 3 Report Posted August 3 A fan's labor of love, and it's none too bad, you're mighty well told. Quote
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