What book are you reading?

dankind

Just started this one. 

She’s my new favorite author, so I figure I should buy and read her books. 

F Me In The Brain

.  Let us know if you admire her writing as much as her ballsy approach to life 

Malroth

Not very far into,but good so far.

If there is one thing the main character knows is that a women's sexuality is directly related to the size of her areola.

brianlux

OffSheGoes35 said:

That looks interesting!  Gotta check that one out.

brianlux

This autobiography is going to rank up there with one of the best music bios I've come across.  Really, really good!

F Me In The Brain

brianlux said:

This autobiography is going to rank up there with one of the best music bios I've come across.  Really, really good!

@Wobbie      Did you read?  I know old Mould is one of your boners.

Pap

Finished this one last night:

And started this one right after:

Yarden

books i've read/ listened to recently:

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood                                       Philip Pullma - The Golden Compass                 

Homer - The Iliad: a new translation by Caroline Alexander       Quentin Tarantino - Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
                  


Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Waterloo

dankind

Just finished this one, which was beyond brilliant!



I’ll start this one tomorrow. 

Her voice really resonates with me. 

dankind

Rereading an old favorite. 

Wobbie

F Me In The Brain said:

brianlux said:

This autobiography is going to rank up there with one of the best music bios I've come across.  Really, really good!

@Wobbie      Did you read?  I know old Mould is one of your boners.

I did read. the gay sex was a little graphic.

a5pj

Just finished Welcome to the Monkey House, going to start God Bless you Mr. Rosewater soon.

F Me In The Brain

F Me In The Brain said:

On book 4, Age of Legend.
Michael Sullivan.
Very good series - the first three were page turners.
2 more after this one....I like when the series is already done and you can binge read it 
Waiting a year or two between books and forgetting so many plot points kinda sucks.
This series would make a killer show.

Age of Death

and then the last one....

Age of Empyre

The back half was not quite as good as the first, although it might make for better television adaptation.  Good series, glad I read.

static111

The Age of American Unreason In a Culture of Lies : Susan Jacoby
Women, Race & Class : Angela Davis
The Lightning Thief: Rick Riordan (with my daughter)

Hobbes

Folks over on Twitter are giving NYT Books the business for this inaccurate story. Many creative responses giving the proper credit to Mary Shelley, but I think this was one of my favorites...

https://twitter.com/leiahuttslayer/status/1462253239097778177?s=20

OffSheGoes35

Hobbes said:

Folks over on Twitter are giving NYT Books the business for this inaccurate story. Many creative responses giving the proper credit to Mary Shelley, but I think this was one of my favorites...

https://twitter.com/leiahuttslayer/status/1462253239097778177?s=20

This is a fine example of how awesome you are, Hobbes. I bow in gratitude.

F Me In The Brain

Awesome!

brianlux

Just started this one, one of those books that somehow got lost in the shelves among other music books and forgotten about.  How could it be?!  I met Bill Minor in the summer of '85 at a writing workshop.  He's an amazing jazz/poet soul well deserving of the description "cool".  Looking forward to this long-overdue read!

Unzipped Souls: A Jazz Journey Through the Soviet Union, William Minor 

RiotZact

First read Dune about a year ago in anticipation of the Denis Villeneuve film. He is my favorite working director. Really loved the book, and seeing the film made me really want to read it again, as well as the other 5 Frank Herbert sequels. Which I hear get progressively weirder as they go on. 

Anyone have any experience past the first novel?

a5pj

RiotZact said:

First read Dune about a year ago in anticipation of the Denis Villeneuve film. He is my favorite working director. Really loved the book, and seeing the film made me really want to read it again, as well as the other 5 Frank Herbert sequels. Which I hear get progressively weirder as they go on. 

Anyone have any experience past the first novel?

5 Sequels?!?! I have not read, or even knew that there were, any of em. If you plan on taking the dive let me know how they are. Dune was great.

F Me In The Brain

I read some way back when, can't remember where I left off.  I liked them but must have tailed off or I would likely have finished.

RiotZact

There’s actually a ton of sequels, but only the first 6 books are by Frank Herbert. His son and some other guy took over after that and milk the franchise for everything it’s worth. Most fans of the Frank Herbert books hate anything beyond the first 6.

dankind

Looking a little ragged these days.

GlowGirl

dankind said:

Just finished this one, which was beyond brilliant!



I’ll start this one tomorrow. 

Her voice really resonates with me. 

I just bought Normal People today. I am looking forward to starting it.

Malroth

only a few pages in on a very short book,

but haunting, to put it mildly.

oftenreading

I’m about to start this one. I am a big fan of Stephenson’s work but it isn’t always easy reading. I’m looking forward to diving in!

brianlux

Last night, I started reading Malcolm Margolin's The Ohlone Way.  The writing is beautiful and, having grown up in the Bay Area, this is an overdue read for me and one I'm certain to appreciate.  The first chapter, which describes the land, animal life, and climate of this area as it was 200 years ago, was very disturbing to me to read.  The vast abundance of wildlife that existed then ("To the Ohlone, the grizzly bear must have been omnipresent, yet today there is not a single wild grizzly bear left in all of California") which is now gone,  the behavior of animals so totally changed ("Foxes, which are now very secretive, were virtually underfoot"), the climate that was moist, now turned semi-arid... all of this changed in a mere 200 years.  This is hugely unsettling.

But I will look forward to settling into this one and perhaps, as Margolin suggests in the Introduction:

"If we look long enough, if we dwell on their joy, fear, and reverence, we may in the end catch glimpses of almost forgotten aspects of our own selves."

dankind

xavier mcdaniel

the book on the history of Big East conference basketball

Pap

Finished this one last night