Now reading...

[Brad]

 

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. 

[ghost of miles]

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. 
 

 

[jlhoots]

Ramona Emerson: Exposure

[jlhoots]

Kaveh Akbar: Martyr!

[jazzbo]

Re-reading

[Brad]

[ejp626]

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.

[GA Russell]

Cannot recommend.  Chick lit.

[JSngry]

6 hours ago, GA Russell said:

Cannot recommend.  Chick lit.

?

[ghost of miles]

Finally getting around to reading this after seeing A Complete Unknown.

[Referentzhunter]

The Two Towers

[Referentzhunter]

[jlhoots]

Dolly Alderton: Good Material

[Royal Oak]

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

[Ken Dryden]

I remember reading a book review of one of Kurt Vonnegut's volumes, titled "Vonnegut Turn Deserves Another."

[Pim]

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.

[GA Russell]

Not as many interesting stories as I thought there would be.

*****

The last Lew Archer story.  I enjoyed it.

[HutchFan]

Just finished:

 

And just started the sequel:

[Referentzhunter]

On 1/17/2025 at 2:04 PM, Referentzhunter said:

not my cup of tea .. pretentious and overrated.

Edited January 24 by Referentzhunter

[Pim]

[Niko]

Marcuse as the easy one and Nietzsche as the brain-melter this time? (I haven't read either author, but one of my ancestors went to high school with Nietzsche and even visited the family at home... and many years ago I helped one of Marcuse's former assistants set up their computer system... so I have a distant connection with both)

[jlhoots]

Claire Messud: This Strange Eventful History

[Pim]

3 hours ago, Niko said:

Marcuse as the easy one and Nietzsche as the brain-melter this time? (I haven't read either author, but one of my ancestors went to high school with Nietzsche and even visited the family at home... and many years ago I helped one of Marcuse's former assistants set up their computer system... so I have a distant connection with both)

Great story Niko  

I think it’s probably the other way around though I must say it’s the first time I read something by Marcuse. I am told it’s a difficult read but we’ll see. The Bergson I just finished was very interesting but tough to get trough. 
 

I did read quite a lot of Nietzsches works and must say he’s one of the more accessible philosophers. His style is one of the most beautiful ones in the genre, well I might dare to say it’s the most beautiful that I know off. I always write down the most interesting or catchy aphorisms and quotes from my books and Nietzsche is the one Ive quoted the most

It must be even more beautiful in German  

[Chuck Nessa]

[Brad]

Just finished this terrific book.