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[jazzbo]

[medjuck]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Is that a Nero Wolfe book?!

[jazzbo]

1 hour ago, medjuck said:

Is that a Nero Wolfe book?!

No, written years before the Nero Wolfe, Tecumsah Fox or Dol Bonner series.

[Referentzhunter]

not a fan ...

Edited December 22, 2023 by Referentzhunter

[GA Russell]

When I was ten, my favorite comic book was The Flash.  This is a collection of his earliest issues.

Much of this I didn't remember.  There is a science lesson in a number of stories.  He can defy gravity and run up the sides of buildings.  He can vibrate and travel through walls.

Another comic hero I liked was Martian Manhunter J'onn J'onzz.  Anybody remember him?

[jazzbo]

46 minutes ago, GA Russell said:

When I was ten, my favorite comic book was The Flash.  This is a collection of his earliest issues.

Much of this I didn't remember.  There is a science lesson in a number of stories.  He can defy gravity and run up the sides of buildings.  He can vibrate and travel through walls.

Another comic hero I liked was Martian Manhunter J'onn J'onzz.  Anybody remember him?

Yes, I remember him. Both the Flash and Martian Manhunter appear in the TV series "The Flash."

[soulpope]

William McIlvanney "Strange Loyalities" ....

[Matthew]

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention And How To Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari. Very interesting book.

[ghost of miles]

[GA Russell]

18 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Yes, I remember him. Both the Flash and Martian Manhunter appear in the TV series "The Flash."

I had no idea he is now a TV character!  I thought he was lost to the ages.

[ejp626]

Just wrapping up Conrad's Under Western Eyes.  I'm finding the ending very disappointing for various reasons.  I also don't like how the sections flip between third-person omniscient narrator and then a first person narrator observing the action.  I don't think this works at all.

It looks like the next book up after that is William Maxwell's The Chateau.

[BillF]

[Referentzhunter]

[Referentzhunter]

The hospita

[Ken Dryden]

[jlhoots]

Paul Lynch: Prophet Song

[BillF]

[OliverM]

Just started this today. Seen quite a few Fassbinder movies, interested in the social and political context and enjoyed Penman's style in his last collection of essays which was on musicians.

[Stompin at the Savoy]

[jlhoots]

Bonnie Jo Campbell: American Salvage

[Referentzhunter]

William and Mary

[BillF]

[GA Russell]

[Jim Duckworth]

[ejp626]

Had to stay up past my bedtime, but I finished Percival Everett's Erasure just before we went to see American Fiction, which is based upon it.

Edited January 1, 2024 by ejp626