mjazzg Posted November 20, 2024 Report Posted November 20, 2024 On 11/14/2024 at 7:05 PM, rostasi said: Sounds promising Quote
ejp626 Posted December 10, 2024 Report Posted December 10, 2024 A lot of short stories this Dec.: Lucia Berlin - A Manual for Cleaning Women Joy Williams - Taking Care Alice Munro - Runaway Quote
Brad Posted December 15, 2024 Report Posted December 15, 2024 about 2/3 way through. I’d say it’s on a level with his James, which was one of the best books I read this year. Quote
ghost of miles Posted December 21, 2024 Author Report Posted December 21, 2024 Black Boy (American Hunger) from this Library of America volume. About 100 pages in—harrowing and written in a riveting manner. His rendering of his childhood experiences is vivid and makes the weight of racism upon him and those around him disturbingly visceral. Quote
ejp626 Posted January 5 Report Posted January 5 Just wrapping up the 3rd (of 7) novellas that make up Mutis's Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (NYRB). I had read these first three not long after the English translations came out, but then never got around to the rest. But NYRB published all of them in one volume, which I have finally gotten around to reading. The remaining stories will all be new to me. I'm also wrapping up Alice Munro's Runaway. I wanted to make sure I had read the first half of the collection before watching Almodovar's Julieta, as the film is based on 3 of her stories. Quote
JSngry Posted January 6 Report Posted January 6 6 hours ago, GA Russell said: Cannot recommend. Chick lit. ? Quote
ghost of miles Posted January 11 Author Report Posted January 11 Finally getting around to reading this after seeing A Complete Unknown. Quote
Royal Oak Posted January 17 Report Posted January 17 (edited) I have been re-reading my stash of Kurt Vonnegut novels which I last read as a young man. I've found that I've preferred his 1980s output (Deadeye Dick, Galapagos, Bluebeard and Hocus Pocus) to his earlier work. I can't really explain why, except to say the later novels just seem a bit more substantial maybe. Edited January 17 by Royal Oak Quote
Ken Dryden Posted January 17 Report Posted January 17 I remember reading a book review of one of Kurt Vonnegut's volumes, titled "Vonnegut Turn Deserves Another." Quote
Pim Posted January 18 Report Posted January 18 I read a lot of books but never checked into this thread up till now. I always read two books simultaneously: one brainteaser and one more accesible. Now reading: and The Bergson is melting my brain where the Jaspers is a little easier to fathom. Quote
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