Now reading...

[Brad]

 

and just starting

[medjuck]

2 hours ago, Brad said:

The great Gerda Taro. 

I first heard of her when I bought biographical novel called "Waiting For Robert Capa". I'd bought it because I liked he title and the cover photo.  It's pretty good. (I've also read a pretty bad "Young Adult" book called  "One Last Shot" which is sort of a poem. ) 

Gerda died in the arms of Ted Allen a man I've met but before I'd ever heard of Gerda so I never asked  him about her.  A friend of mine who'd made a film about Ted  told me she was the love of his life. 

[Brad]

3 hours ago, medjuck said:

I first heard of her when I bought biographical novel called "Waiting For Robert Capa". I'd bought it because I liked he title and the cover photo.  It's pretty good. (I've also read a pretty bad "Young Adult" book called  "One Last Shot" which is sort of a poem. ) 

Gerda died in the arms of Ted Allen a man I've met but before I'd ever heard of Gerda so I never asked  him about her.  A friend of mine who'd made a film about Ted  told me she was the love of his life. 

She was unfortunately run over by a tank. 

[medjuck]

54 minutes ago, Brad said:

She was unfortunately run over by a tank. 

Yes but Ted was with her.  It was a tank from her side too. 

[jlhoots]

Henry Wise: Holy City

[medjuck]

"Three Shades of Blue".   I'd promised myself that I wasn't going to buy any more books about Miles Davis (or Bob Dylan) but a friend was reading this and wanted to talk about it.   

It's pretty good.  He seems to have read everything ever published about Miles, Trane and Bill Evans and done some important new interviews.  (He does point out how all the sources contradict each other.) 

However, at one point he writes of the AABA song form: "two choruses followed by a bridge (aka channel, release, or middle eight) followed by an out-chorus."

I've never heard of the A  eight bars being called a "chorus" nor of the final 8 being called the "out-chorus".  I always thought a chorus was all 32 bars.  Is his terminology at all common? 

 

 

[Pim]

 

Schopenhauer to relax. Kant to make the brains work 

[JSngry]

17 hours ago, medjuck said:

I've never heard of the A  eight bars being called a "chorus" nor of the final 8 being called the "out-chorus".  I always thought a chorus was all 32 bars.  Is his terminology at all common? 

Not in my world.

[jazzbo]

[Pim]

[jlhoots]

Stephen King: Never Flinch

[Referentzhunter]

[Referentzhunter]

[GA Russell]

I suppose every baseball fan here has already read this at least once.

[ejp626]

Halfway through Denis Johnson's Angels.  Compelling but so very, very bleak.

About a quarter of the way through Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, which is about two college friends who team up and become master (computer) game developers.  Very good so far.

[jazzbo]

[GA Russell]

[jlhoots]

Jordan Harper: She Rides Shotgun

[Brad]

On 8/24/2025 at 10:23 PM, GA Russell said:

I suppose every baseball fan here has already read this at least once.

My copy must be at least thirty years old. 

[GA Russell]

Lew Archer #5, from 1954

[GA Russell]

From 1953.  Not bad.

[jlhoots]

John Grisham: The Judge's List

[GA Russell]

Not good enough to recommend.

[GA Russell]

From 2013.  Highly recommended.

[ejp626]

I finished Kundera's Ignorance, which I didn't really care for.

I'm in the middle of a few books: Russo's Empire Falls (quite entertaining), Canetti's Auto-da-Fé (a bit pretentious but overall ok) and Buzzati's The Singularity (NYRB), which seems promising though I haven't gotten to the SF core of the novel yet.

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