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[ejp626]

9 hours ago, jlhoots said:

Jonathan Lethem: The Feral Detective

Hadn't even heard about this coming out.  Looks intriguing.

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, ejp626 said:

Hadn't even heard about this coming out.  Looks intriguing.

Motherless Brooklyn & Fortress Of Solitude are 2 of my favorites.

[ejp626]

13 hours ago, jlhoots said:

Motherless Brooklyn & Fortress Of Solitude are 2 of my favorites.

Agreed on Motherless Brooklyn - really different in a good way.

Haven't read Fortress of Solitude, but it's on my list.  I did enjoy Chronic City a fair bit.

[ghost of miles]

[Brad]

On 11/9/2018 at 11:35 AM, Brad said:

I'm only 40 pages into this but finding it a tough slog so far. 

[jlhoots]

Michael McGarrity: Residue

[HutchFan]

On 11/17/2018 at 9:30 AM, ghost of miles said:

I've just started reading this too. 

[ejp626]

Skipping around a bit in Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, which seems to be the best way to experience it.

About halfway through T.C. Boyle's The Road to Wellville.

After this, I'll start in on White Noise.

 

[ejp626]

On 11/20/2018 at 9:48 PM, ejp626 said:

After this, I'll start in on White Noise.

 

I've found that quite a few novels don't interest me as much on second reading, but, so far, DeLillo's White Noise is just as interesting/amusing on the second read.  (A bit of a relief, actually...)

[ghost of miles]

[ejp626]

Updike's Rabbit, Run.  I expect to get through the whole Rabbit series over the next few weeks.  First time really exploring Updike's fiction. 

[Brad]

I finally gave up for now on Berlin Alexanderplatz; I couldn’t get comfortable with Döblin’s style of writing. 

I purchased Sense and Sensibility some time ago and have picked it up again. The introduction is a bit turgid. I often think that these introductions are better as after words. 

[ghost of miles]

On 9/15/2015 at 5:54 PM, king ubu said:

just finished:

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me: most impressive, and rather shocking, though much of it isn't really all that new ... it's been quite a while that a book has so deeply moved me.

I need to finally get around to reading both this and We Were Eight Years In Power. Did you see the interviews he did with Obama near the end of Obama’s presidency? Great conversations (the Atlantic published unedited transcripts).

[jlhoots]

Tommy Orange: There There

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[king ubu]

On 2.12.2018 at 4:34 PM, ghost of miles said:

I need to finally get around to reading both this and We Were Eight Years In Power. Did you see the interviews he did with Obama near the end of Obama’s presidency? Great conversations (the Atlantic published unedited transcripts).

Alas no.

I have "Eight Years" on the frighteningly high reading pile, too (have read some of it online though - not sure how different the book versions will be, or if at all).

[ghost of miles]

Just got this and am starting it immediately—as in, as soon as I finish this post and put my cellphone down:

[mjazzg]

Really enjoying the early chapters of this and hoping it stays such a good read. 

Inevitably revisiting the early albums that meant so much to me so long ago now and enjoying them again for the first time in a long time

[jlhoots]

Timothy Hallinan: Night Town

[HutchFan]

9 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Inevitably revisiting the early albums that meant so much to me so long ago now and enjoying them again for the first time in a long time

That's so much fun -- like revisiting old friends.

[mjazzg]

7 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

That's so much fun -- like revisiting old friends.

It is. So many memories with these songs

[Matthew]

The Sparrow: Mary Doria Russell

[ejp626]

Nearly done with Adam Langer's Crossing California, which tells the story of 3 families in West Rogers Park, Chicago from 1979-Jan 81 (somewhat portentously/pretentiously the same period US hostages were held in Iran).  It's pretty interesting stuff, particularly for someone who lived through the 70s as a child (though I'm a few years younger than these characters).

Probably will leave it at that, but maybe some day I will read The Washington Story, which picks up and continues the stories of the various characters as they (or some of them) move out of Chicago.

[Brad]

Finished this earlier a few days ago. It's a remarkable book  Ellis looks at the founders (Jefferson, Adams, Madison and Washington) on a particular issue and then discusses that issue from today's perspective.

Edited December 9, 2018 by Brad

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