A Lark Ascending Posted May 17, 2011 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 Rereading a favorite, which for some reason always seems like a good choice: I like the look of that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted May 18, 2011 Report Share Posted May 18, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdavenport Posted May 18, 2011 Report Share Posted May 18, 2011 Just finished "Glue" by Irvine Welsh, which I enjoyed very much. Welsh novels require some effort - I find myself thinking in a Scottish accent! Anyone else read any Welsh? Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aparxa Posted May 19, 2011 Report Share Posted May 19, 2011 Hervé Bazin - Un feu dévore un autre feu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted May 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 A certain gent of literary repute interviews novelist Jonathan Lethem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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porcy62 Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 Lately: Good stuff The greatest literature I read in the last years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ejp626 Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 (edited) Combination of Board software and my computer conspired to eat my last message, which is really annoying. I'll try to repeat the gist of it. Agree Grossman's Life and Fate is a keeper. Unfortunately, I only got 100 pages in when I had to return the library copy. Ordered my own and may read it this fall when I am on my own for a few months in Vancouver (probably Proust as well). Just read John Rechy's The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez. Rechy is best known for City of Night, but this is an interesting read. In general, this is very much a book in the "the city is hell" vein. I particularly like this passage: "She worried because she had overheard some women on the bus say that the governor was going to shut down many of those clincas. Where would the women go? Thank God she and her children were healthy. Perhaps the Blessed Mother would ask for a clinic instead of a chapel. Rosario might have said that, but she had gone too far in thinking it. She might have to confess it. The Blessed Mother always asked for a chapel. Who was she to question eternal mysteries? Next up is Moth Smoke by Moshin Hamid. Edited May 28, 2011 by ejp626 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 I'm finding this book fascinating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 Max Evans: The Hi Lo Country Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdavenport Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 Charles Perry - Portrait Of A Young Man Drowning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alankin Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 (edited) Janwillem Van De Wetering - Outsider in Amsterdam (the first in the Grijpstra & de Gier "Amsterdam Cops" series) Edited May 30, 2011 by alankin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 Just started two totally contrasting reads: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 Daniel Silva: The Defector Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdavenport Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 Duncan Hamilton's biography of Harold Larwood (unlikely to mean anything to anyone but the English and Australian posters!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 Statue of Larwood from the centre of Kirkby-in-Ashfield where I work. Bill Voce also came from here. When I first moved here in 1978 one of the houses at the School was named after Larwood (it vanished in an 80s reorganisation). I'm no cricket buff but am aware of the controversy of the Bodyline Tour of Australia in the early 1930s. There's even a pub in Nottingham itself called the Larwood and Voce: http://www.molefacepubcompany.co.uk/the-larwood-and-voce1.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 Amazing how he's balancing that lamp standard on his left elbow! (Should have taken the photo yourself, Bev!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 (edited) Statue of Larwood from the centre of Kirkby-in-Ashfield where I work. Bill Voce also came from here. When I first moved here in 1978 one of the houses at the School was named after Larwood (it vanished in an 80s reorganisation). I'm no cricket buff but am aware of the controversy of the Bodyline Tour of Australia in the early 1930s. There's even a pub in Nottingham itself called the Larwood and Voce: http://www.molefacepubcompany.co.uk/the-larwood-and-voce1.html Somewhere I've still got, I think, the autograph of his old front line fast bowling partner from Yorkshire, Bill Bowes. He was a pretty old chap when that autograph was done (umpiring I think). Edited May 31, 2011 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 Amazing how he's balancing that lamp standard on his left elbow! (Should have taken the photo yourself, Bev!) Ha! Actually, the photo is very flattering of the pedestrianised precinct. In reality it's mainly boarded up shops and kids on skateboards. Mixture of the death of the mines and hosiery and the migration of trade to the supermarkets and retail parks. Larwood and Voce wouldn't recognise it - they lived in a vibrant mining community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 "My Life in E-Flat". Chan Parker's autobiography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave James Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 While the body counts mount in Afghanistan and Iraq, another military tally, less wrenching and tragic but poignant nonetheless, quietly proceeds. Every day more than 700 veterans of World War II die, and with each one goes a story, or dozens of them. Laura Hillenbrand reached Louis Zamperini just in the nick of time — he was in his mid-80s when she found him, and 93 now— and it’s an excellent thing, for his is surely one of the most extraordinary war stories of all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdavenport Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 Amazing how he's balancing that lamp standard on his left elbow! (Should have taken the photo yourself, Bev!) Ha! Actually, the photo is very flattering of the pedestrianised precinct. In reality it's mainly boarded up shops and kids on skateboards. Mixture of the death of the mines and hosiery and the migration of trade to the supermarkets and retail parks. Larwood and Voce wouldn't recognise it - they lived in a vibrant mining community. Funny you should use the word "vibrant" - the chapters in the book detailing Larwood's early life in mining make it sound utterly grim. Nice pic btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 Funny you should use the word "vibrant" - the chapters in the book detailing Larwood's early life in mining make it sound utterly grim. Nice pic btw. Yeah, I'm probably romanticising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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