Now reading...

[GA Russell]

Issue #1.  Surprisingly violent, with hangings and a stabbing.

[jlhoots]

Vanessa Lillie: The Bone Thief

[gvopedz]

The BBC talks to James Marriott about the post-literate age or the death of reading...

https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct71cy

 

 

[jazzbo]

I have begun reading this timely-published book and find it excellent in many ways: accurate in its factual presentation (I know more than a bit about the subject matter) and entertaining as it educates and explains.

 

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[ejp626]

I just finished Austen's Persuasion. 

I'm just starting Dawn Powell's Angels on Toast. Almost the entire thing seems to be about businessmen cheating on their wives and trying to get away with it.  Definitely not my favorite Powell...

[GA Russell]

The comic strips from March 3, 2014, to September 6, 2015.

[jlhoots]

Adam Johnson: The Wayfinder

[ejp626]

Almost finished with Powell's Angels on Toast.  It's curious this is set nearly as much in Chicago as New York.  Definitely not as good as The Locusts Have No King, which I'll have to reread one of these days.

I'm just starting Susanna Kaysen's Asa, As I Knew Him, which is good so far.

[jazzbo]

I started re-reading (for may be the second or third time) Raymond Chandler’s “The Lady in the Lake.” I just get into a particular enchanted zone reading Chandler. His writing has enthralled me since I was a young man.

Picked up this edition at Half Price Books:

[Brad]

On 8/9/2025 at 11:20 AM, Brad said:

 

and just starting

Well, it’s been a long haul but I’m finally in the home stretch. It’s not a page turner and can’t be treated as such.