Brad

13/15. The only challenging one was the pluperfect.

No, I wouldn't bother to visit it again. I have other ways to waste my time.

I know. I am halfway through their edition of Platonov's Soul. I even have a short post (http://erics-hangout.blogspot.ca/2014/08/publishers-of-note.html) going into some of the books that I find particularly worthy. I just visited your blog. An impressive list. I joined their book club and received as one of the bonus books My Face for the World to See. A very impressive book by Alfred Hayes, with an economic style of writing. The prose is taut and he explores some ideas that ring true for many of us. I became initially interested in reading NYRB Classics by reading Zweig's Beware of Pity, his only full length novel. That was soon followed by his Chess Story, Post Office Girl and Confusion, all highly recommended.

Really enjoying that Horace Silver disc.

That pretty is pretty much a defining characteristic of any entertainer. I don't know what "we need", but what I like is an entertainer who actually entertains me. On that count, winning, her is! I'm not sure I completely agree. Yes, you have to be outgoing and all that but she's going beyond the line where every entertainer has confidence in him/herself to just showing off. I didn't find her blog particularly appealing.

That's a lot of honey-dos!

An exhibitionist, in love with herself. Just what we need.

The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 by Bela Zombory-Moldovan. Zombory Moldov was a Hungarian artist who like many of his generation found himself thrust into war. He was seriously wounded and tried to return to normal life, which he now found strange. He had witnessed the end of a way of life, the end of the world as it existed. This is another great book from New York Review of Books Classics. They have an incredible catalogue.

I like the idea of this thread. My son is home after being away for a year and a half or so. He was at a wilderness program for troubled young adults and then what they call a stepdown program. It's been a bit trying to say the least, especially because my wife and I had gotten used to being on our own for that time. Onwards and upwards.

Received my CDs today. Thanks David.

Plumbing the New York Review of Books Classics catalogue: Reading Alfred Hayes' My Face For the World to See.

Sold! Thanks for all the help.

I received the set today but will give it to my wife to give to me at Christmas

Never heard that Lasorda one. Classic!

With the rep that Mosaic has, I don't think they would give us a less than full explanation.

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis.

Booty call to the ex, hoping (at some level) for some make up sex, but willing to settle for just getting to touch that ass one more time and doing it in front of your current girlfriend makes it that much more obvious to all concerned. You think I'm kidding, and yeah, ok, but...when you bond with a player or a group and it breaks up because one partner just can't go on with you like that, still the love, always the love, but not gonna be the partnership ever again, no, not gonna be the partnership, it runs deep sometimes. This shit is personal. Makes a lot of sense. One can underestimate these feelings.

Thanks. Might be a good Xmas present That may be true for me too but there do appear to be a few in that category on people's lists though.

I saw from the LA Times this morning that there's a flood watch in west LA County.

Price reduction to $85! Brad

Pm sent on Horace Silver Reentry Max Roach Jazz in 3/4 Time Bill Evans Trio 64 Phineas Newborn Solo Piano Thanks.

I'm sure, as with most things or recordings, some will like and some will not.

What's the view on the Powell set mentioned in the New Yorker article.

Thank goodness we have but I never considered both together. Different styles, different playing.

A Few Miles From Memphis is worth checking out.