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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,380
    I'm reading Circe by Madeline Miller.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841

    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841

    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    Just finished On the Come Up by Angie Thomas.  Loved both it and The Hate U Give.  Her work is beautiful written.



    Now on to reading the graphic novel Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman.


    "What the CANUCK happened?!? - Esquimalt Barber Shop
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,835
    Book 3 / Kingsbridge
    Not as good as the others, but still good


    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • ConorKavanagh
    ConorKavanagh Ireland Posts: 1,148
    edited March 2019
    Everybody Loves Our Town by Mark Yarm
    I spent a few hours hanging out with him in Ireland some years back, and he signed my copy. I figured I had better read the whole thing, since he urged me to read it properly in his inscription.
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    Dublin 2006
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,975
    ConorKavanagh said: Everybody Loves Our Town by Mark Yarm
    Great book!
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,380
    First book of the Guido Brunetti series by Donna Leon - Death at La Fenice 
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Malroth
    Malroth broken down chevrolet Posts: 2,557
    In 1944, there was a pow camp in michigan. (several more were scattered through the states, but this book is in michigan)
    The worst of times..they don't phase me,
    even if I look and act really crazy.
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Two great books.  
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    One chapter into this one and already just blown away.  A great book about our U.S. National Parks written by a woman who is a national treasure.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,380
    Harry Potter #7! Almost done with the series, yay! Great series.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Ms. Haiku said:
    Harry Potter #7! Almost done with the series, yay! Great series.
    A friend of mine keep pushing HP books on me.  I politely said I would try to get to them but to myself thought, "I never read that kind on nonsense."  I also thought about Henry Rollins' bit about meeting and dating a woman.  They were driving to a coffee shop when she mentioned that she like to read and, being a book fan himself, said, "Great!  What are your reading?"  She replied, "Harry Potter".  He said, "WHAT? You read children's literature? GET OUT OF THE CAR!"  LOL

    Well, finally I gave in anyway and read the first one.  OK, that was easy and quick so I went on to number two.  And three.  And all the way to the end.  Love them! 

    Sorry Henry!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • DarthMaeglin
    DarthMaeglin Toronto Posts: 3,024
    Just finished the Frank Miller Dark Knight series:  The Last Crusade, The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Strikes Again and The Master Race.  The rest are enjoyable, but the original (Returns) is still a classic. For comics, lol.
    "The world is full of idiots and I am but one of them."

    10-30-1991 Toronto, Toronto 1 & 2 2016, Toronto 2022
  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,960
    edited April 2019
    brianlux said:
    Ms. Haiku said:
    Harry Potter #7! Almost done with the series, yay! Great series.
    A friend of mine keep pushing HP books on me.  I politely said I would try to get to them but to myself thought, "I never read that kind on nonsense."  I also thought about Henry Rollins' bit about meeting and dating a woman.  They were driving to a coffee shop when she mentioned that she like to read and, being a book fan himself, said, "Great!  What are your reading?"  She replied, "Harry Potter".  He said, "WHAT? You read children's literature? GET OUT OF THE CAR!"  LOL

    Well, finally I gave in anyway and read the first one.  OK, that was easy and quick so I went on to number two.  And three.  And all the way to the end.  Love them! 

    Sorry Henry!
    I was living in Madrid in 2004, and I had an English roommate who had a copy of 'The Philosopher's Stone'. I think they named it 'Sorcerer's Stone' in America. He kept telling me how great it was. Like you, Brian, I was like, I'm not reading children's lit.
    He eventually moved out and left it for me. So one night I picked it up and stayed awake reading the whole thing. I ran to the English bookshop in the morning and picked up the second book. 
    J.K. Rowling is an amazing storyteller. It's unbelievable she was rejected twelve times before somebody picked her up.
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  • riotgrl
    riotgrl LOUISVILLE Posts: 1,895

    Are we getting something out of this all-encompassing trip?

    Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...

    I AM MINE
  • vogonpoetbythelake
    vogonpoetbythelake Posts: 2,146
    edited April 2019
    Antigone Undone and the Art of Resistance
     by Will Aitken

    Not for people who can resist being shattered...Laurie Anderson

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    eddiec said:
    brianlux said:
    Ms. Haiku said:
    Harry Potter #7! Almost done with the series, yay! Great series.
    A friend of mine keep pushing HP books on me.  I politely said I would try to get to them but to myself thought, "I never read that kind on nonsense."  I also thought about Henry Rollins' bit about meeting and dating a woman.  They were driving to a coffee shop when she mentioned that she like to read and, being a book fan himself, said, "Great!  What are your reading?"  She replied, "Harry Potter".  He said, "WHAT? You read children's literature? GET OUT OF THE CAR!"  LOL

    Well, finally I gave in anyway and read the first one.  OK, that was easy and quick so I went on to number two.  And three.  And all the way to the end.  Love them! 

    Sorry Henry!
    I was living in Madrid in 2004, and I had an English roommate who had a copy of 'The Philosopher's Stone'. I think they named it 'Sorcerer's Stone' in America. He kept telling me how great it was. Like you, Brian, I was like, I'm not reading children's lit.
    He eventually moved out and left it for me. So one night I picked it up and stayed awake reading the whole thing. I ran to the English bookshop in the morning and picked up the second book. 
    J.K. Rowling is an amazing storyteller. It's unbelievable she was rejected twelve times before somebody picked her up.
    Definitely!  Very imaginative and a big draw is her characters- great character development and they are interesting!


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited April 2019
    Having been born here in the U.S. west, as a kid I was a typical Cowboys and Indians fan.  But as I grew up I distanced myself from all that to the point of really not caring about or being interested in western American history which I still think is basically about a bunch of restless white people- mostly men- who would run over, push away, assimilate, or if need be kill, anything and anyone that got in the way of their greedy expansion. 

    But, being a fan of adventure, I started reading Ethan Rarick's Desperate Passage; The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West. The true-story telling in this is great and I'm even finding myself interested in the history and maybe even able to feel a little bit why people  might have that urge to seek out something new.  I've started my life over a number of times, so there you go.  Great reading so far.


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    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,835
    Read this on the plane yesterday.  Tried a few previous times to start buy finally got into it.
    Overrated based on reviews but not bad absent those expectations.

    The love he receives is the love that is saved

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