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[alankin]

Ruth Rendell - The Veiled One

[ejp626]

Reading two books that are loosely linked through the hotel/motel theme: the epic I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita and Rick Moody's Hotels of North America.  The latter is much shorter and is quite interesting in how the book is built up of reviews of hotels (or motels) where the reviewer stayed.  The reviewer is an over-sharer, which is putting it mildly.

[jlhoots]

Ian McGuire: The North Water

[rostasi]

Someone, elsewhere, was looking for an interview that Art Lange did with John Cage
in Lange's periodical Brilliant Corners, so I decided to take some time to send it on to
this person as well as re-read this and some other issues of this nice bit of '70s history.

Edited April 9, 2017 by rostasi

[ghost of miles]

Re-reading Carson McCullers' The Member Of The Wedding, as well as the third volume of Simon Callow's Orson Welles biography.

[paul secor]

Rafi Zabor: The Bear Comes Home

[danasgoodstuff]

5 hours ago, paul secor said:

Rafi Zabor: The Bear Comes Home

Interested in your reaction.  I loved it when I read it (when it was new) but even then I didn't think it was as good as the excerpts in Musician some years earlier had promised.

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, danasgoodstuff said:

Interested in your reaction.  I loved it when I read it (when it was new) but even then I didn't think it was as good as the excerpts in Musician some years earlier had promised.

It sat on my shelf for years, unread. No good reason why. I found it ok, but in need of a lot of editing. Way overwritten - at least for my tastes.

[BillF]

On 3/23/2017 at 8:11 AM, BillF said:

A lesser Le Carré, but he's always worth reading IMHO.

Another of the same ilk.

 

Edited April 13, 2017 by BillF

[jlhoots]

Layli Long Soldier: Whereas

[johnblitweiler]

On 3/25/2017 at 11:14 AM, BillF said:

Had mixed fortunes with the movie. Loved it when I saw it on release c.1960 - thought it hip and amusing, but found it tedious when I had a second look at it a few years ago. Perhaps I'm old and jaded, or perhaps it just belonged to its time and place.

I too saw the movie a second time and didn't even smile at all. But I loved Queneau's novel Zazie. 

[alankin]

Julian Barnes – Keeping An Eye Open: Essays on Art (Alfred A. Knopf)

Interesting essays on Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenberg, L. Freud, and Hodgkin; many of them previously published in the magazine Modern Painters] and elsewhere.

[JSngry]

[jlhoots]

Leslie Marmon Silko: Ceremony

[ejp626]

Apuleius's The Golden Ass

After that, Murakami's 1Q84

[BillF]

 

A best seller of considerable literary merit.

[paul secor]

Ann Beattie: Picturing Will

[rostasi]

Robert Pirsig (1928-2017)

[paul secor]

Denis Theriault: The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

[alankin]

Philip Kerr – March Violets [first volume in the Bernie Gunther Berlin Noir trilogy] 

Edited April 25, 2017 by alankin

[paul secor]

Nat Hentoff: Boston Boy

[rostasi]

[paul secor]

The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries

[ghost of miles]

Getting ready to start this: 

[sonnyhill]

On 3/24/2017 at 3:05 PM, erwbol said:

Daniel C. Dennett From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

How was this one?