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F Me In The Brain

Jason P said:

Started Book #5 in The Wheel of Time series. 

I started the first book over ten years ago and stopped reading halfway thru because it seemed like a "teenager series" book.   Glad I gave it another chance last year.   Things really pick up after the first half and get deeper and darker as the series goes on.  Usually takes me a few months to get thru a book in this series as it is like reading 3-4 regular books.

I need to go back and read the Sanderson ones to finish.
Enjoy!

Pap

Read it in one go!

riotgrl

West Coast Dreamgirl said:

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I read this in December - excellent book!

riotgrl

Highly recommend

eddiec

brianlux said:

Just started reading Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast.  I've read a lot of Hemingway but hadn't read any in quite some time so having not read this one, I picked up a copy of the restored edition:

I've tended to read mostly non-fiction these last several years and when I read the first short chapter in this book, I was immediately re-infected with the love of great literature.  Right away, I was thrown into the smells and sights and the damp cold winter of 1920s Paris and marveled as the author scrawled on his notebook in the cafe he sought out to warm up and dry off.  This will be a great read. Literary bliss!

Such a great book. There was a bit of controversy over that restored edition regarding the grandson reworking some of the chapters to paint his grandmother in a better light.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/opinion/20hotchner.html

His passage on F. Scott is some of his best writing:

“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”

static111

Jason P said:

Started Book #5 in The Wheel of Time series. 

I started the first book over ten years ago and stopped reading halfway thru because it seemed like a "teenager series" book.   Glad I gave it another chance last year.   Things really pick up after the first half and get deeper and darker as the series goes on.  Usually takes me a few months to get thru a book in this series as it is like reading 3-4 regular books.

I'm on book 6 this is my second read through.  I read it 10 years ago.  So So good. I forgot how good.  It's a shame what Amazon did in their interpretation.  Totally messed up the story and just seemed to suck the life out of the characters and kind if teen drama'd the whole thing.

brianlux

Just started last night- Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness. I have very much enjoyed Hawke's other books and this one is great right from the get-go. I get the sense that Ethan's writing has jumped to another level. Very engaging!

myoung321

 

Became a fan of Amsterdam Ajax football club after going to a few matches while visiting Amsterdam. They have a fascinating history.. especially during WW2.. 

Malroth

writing is good, not sure about the story thus far.

23scidoo

Pap

PJ1973

F Me In The Brain

Awesome book!

sponder22

Published in 2018 - reading this at the moment. Author also has a playlist to go with it. Very enjoyable.

DarthMaeglin

This is an interesting alternate perspective to the version put out by most media and the government and clarifies some of the misreporting that occurred as the event unfolded.

That said, I think the subtitle (“The Inside Story Of Three Weeks That Shook The World”) is more than a bit of an oversell, lol.

Jearlpam0925

Rereading for the third time...

Pap

Pap said:

^ Done with that!

Started this:

23scidoo

sponder22

Jearlpam0925 said:

Rereading for the third time...

Gonna read this next….It has been in my Amazon basket for a couple of years. Must be good!

Wobbie

I’ve gotten hooked on a British author, Mark Bellingham. He writes about a London detective named Tom Thorne. Billingham’s books are similar to Scottish author Ian Rankin’s. Thorne is similar to Rankin’s guy, John Rebus. Both have problems with authority, women and alcohol. I’ve probably read 7 Billingham books and they’ve all been excellent.