Books

Bagley wrote:

Bagley wrote:
A well deserved Man Booker winner

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/business/media/paul-beatty-wins-man-booker-prize-with-the-sellout.html

I should be read side-by-side with Ta Nehisi Coates'  Between the World and Me

See, I disliked that a lot. The satire Beatty uses makes it a lot more palletable, imho.

Wow!  I'd describe it as a beautifully wrought prose poem along the lines of a James Baldwin.

reading The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

Patti Smith talked about him in her book

did anybody here go that thing?

one of my friends came up with an interesting idea on face,book

"Wanted - Participants for a book-loving social experiment. Comment if you want to participate and I?ll send you details. What do you have to do? Buy your favorite book and send it to a stranger (I?ll send you a name and address.) You will only be sending one book to one person. The number of books you will receive depends on how many participants there are. The books that will show up on your door are the other people?s much loved stories.  Who wants in?"

I thought it was a cool, idea.

I'm reading William Boyd's latest.. Sweet Caress…


I find Boyd to be an absolutely masterful novelist…. love him but the entire time I read his books I'm dreading finishing them.. there are only so many Boyd novels…

Reading The Underground Railroad. Very good so far. Not very cheerful, as the depictions of slavery are difficult, but I'm glad it doesn't hold back too.

Just finished Big Little Lies, which was more just a fun easy to figure out mystery than something really stirring.

I'm struggling through Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings.

Its a good book but each chapter comes from a different 1st person perspective narrator and the Jamaican patois/lack of proper punctuation makes it a very slow read.

Wanting to get into Mahajan's The Association of Small Bombs next.

Julian, wrote:
I'm struggling through Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings.

Its a good book but each chapter comes from a different 1st person perspective narrator and the Jamaican patois/lack of proper punctuation makes it a very slow read.

Wanting to get into Mahajan's The Association of Small Bombs next.

I quit it…just way too confusing

hutch wrote:
I quit it…just way too confusing

Its gotten easier once I got past the first of the five days. Once you know who the characters are and don't have to flip back to the character list every paragraph it speeds up slightly.

It all makes complete sense if you're totally blazed when you read it.

ggw wrote:
It all makes complete sense if you're totally blazed when you read it.

Hush, Bam Bam.

I am reading this incredible book, that has to do with this spiritual medium woman who speaks to the dead to get life advice to allow people to become the most important person they can for themselves. It's like self motivation, times 1000, powered by the energy advise of the Dead.

It's somewhere in one of my bags or something so I can't remember the name of it, at the moment, so you'll have to give me a bit and then I'll tell you what it is.

Its called,

Rebecca Rosen,    Awaken the Spirit Within

Kudos to the Fairfax County Public Library for having this one. 44 pages in and I'm liking it a lot.

Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements by Bob Mehr



I started that one and put this one on hiatus. It's also very good, I'll return to it later.

Are You Ready for the Country: Elvis, Dylan, Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock by Peter Doggett



And of course I'm reading and enjoying the two homebrewing books that Sweetcell recommended in the beer thread.

I'm reading Hitchens' last book of essays… I just read an interesting one about Jefferson and the Barbary pirates

I'm enjoying it..


He should almost be glad he died shortly after its publication as had he stuck around he would have been horrified to see just how badly things in the Middle East turned out and how wrong he was…although I doubt he would have acknowledged such..

Hitchens' essay on Gore Vidal is pretty scathing…I find it rather uncharitable to focus on a man's last few writings when he is obviously way up there in age and has lost his partner for life to illness… I guess it was payback but still.. a nasty business..

man its a really fun and easy read….I could finish this very quickly…

I bought this First Edition hardcover (the only way to go for me when possible) used on Amazon..I think I ordered it yesterday for $10 (including shipping) and here it was early today… Amazon can be so great it can be disconcerting.. I note it used to belong to the Denver Public Library….I peeled off the usual bunch of stickers and they came off rather nicely..it still sports two red "Denver Public Library" stamps inside but that is ok… Next time I see Peter Hook he is going to sign this puppy.. and I will not lend it to sidehatch cause he still owes me the two books I lent him years ago.. I think he thinks I have forgotten but I do not forget..

anyways I had planned to go to a holiday party but my youngest one has an ear infection and had the worst cough going yesterday..we got him on antibiotics and my partner took the older one to the party… so the kid falls asleep immediately after they leave and I'm having a blast reading my book listening to some Isaac Hayes records I picked up this morning..sometimes the finer pleasures are the simplest ones…

If you liked that, you should check out Hook's book on the Hacienda. I read it earlier this year and was totally enthralled with it.

hutch wrote:
.. Next time I see Peter Hook he is going to sign this puppy.. and I will not lend it to sidehatch cause he still owes me the two books I lent him years ago.. I think he thinks I have forgotten but I do not forget..

have not forgotten…but they just look so nice in my book case

but hopefully your oldest isn't sick today after going to that party
mine was puking all through the night…so I hope that wasn't spread around all the kids at the party who were playing pile-on (I think yours avoided most of the bedlam)

Was good seeing Ms Hutch and 1/2 your clan