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[jazzbo]

40 minutes ago, rostasi said:

It's James Baldwin's centenary today.

What a writer he was!

[medjuck]

Great speaker too. 

[jazzbo]

I'll have to look into that. . . .

On 7/23/2024 at 4:46 PM, GA Russell said:

I love the A.A. Fair books. . . Be Cool and Lam. . . I've been slowly re-reading them, and like that Hard Case Crime has put some out.

I'm reading one of Ms Pagel's. . . love reading her work.

 

And also bouncing around in this:

Lord Running Clam "PINK BEAM: A Philip K. Dick Literary Chronology"

 

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[JSngry]

A fan's labor of love, and it's none too bad, you're mighty well told.

[ghost of miles]

[jlhoots]

Ye Chun: Straw Dogs Of The Universe

[rostasi]

[GA Russell]

[medjuck]

1 hour ago, GA Russell said:

If you're really into MacDonald you might want to join this Facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1734000126825677/?multi_permalinks=4541292272763101&notif_id=1723831618276982&notif_t=group_activity&ref=notif

[GA Russell]

3 hours ago, medjuck said:

If you're really into MacDonald you might want to join this Facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1734000126825677/?multi_permalinks=4541292272763101&notif_id=1723831618276982&notif_t=group_activity&ref=notif

Thanks, Joe!  I'll take a look.  He's a favorite of mine.

This is not a Lew Archer story.  The "detective" is a happily married attorney.  I prefer my hard-boiled detectives to be broke and single!

By the way, I really enjoyed this one.

[Brad]

 

This one has been slow going but determined to stick it out!

[ejp626]

I'm almost done with James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, his first novel.  I should finish it tonight.

 

After this, I'll alternate Cela's The Hive (NYRB), in a relatively new translation, and

Ashby's Glass Houses, which is some sort of suspense-SF novel involving AI and a remote island.  It sounds like it might have ripped off some plot points from Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.  If I'm enjoying it, I'll stick it out, but I'm getting more quick to drop books these days, so we shall see.

[Chuck Nessa]

Purchased this a couple of years ago and never really "dug in". Time to correct that.

[jlhoots]

Lena Valencia: Mystery Lights

[soulpope]

Vol. 5 still very entertaining ....

[GA Russell]

[rostasi]

[rostasi]

[jlhoots]

Walter Mosley: Farewell, Amethystine

[soulpope]

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/what-gillian-welch-and-david-rawlings-took-from-the-tornado

Interesting ....

[Matthew]

On 8/3/2024 at 7:54 PM, ghost of miles said:

Late to the game here, but how was this book? It looks interesting.

[GA Russell]

Anybody remember Boysie Oakes?  I enjoyed The Liquidator and the next two, but then the series went downhill pretty quickly.

[Brad]

[Chuck Nessa]

To go with tomorrow's listening

[jlhoots]

Barbara Kingsolver: Demon Copperhead