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  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    edited September 2020
    GlowGirl said:
    West Coast Dreamgirl said:
    Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
    I read that a few months ago. Pretty interesting.


     I'm really enjoying it. 

    Just finished the book @GlowGirl - I havent enjoyed reading a novel so much in ages. Apparently Reese Witherspoon bought the rights to the film, so I'll be looking forward to that if things ever return to normal again.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    What did I do?  Not necessarily for me, but as far as the world around me goes, this is the worst year of my life.  A year of disease, tyranny, massive fires, hatred, racism, death, ennui, depression.  I read to learn and I read to be entertained.  So what did I do?  I read Albert Camus' The Stranger.  It's a "classic".  Classics are occasionally humorous, frequently tragic.  Of course it was going to be tragic.  Of course it would pull me down deeper into depression.  What kind of fool am I? 

    Don't be a fool like me.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,569
    brianlux said:
    What did I do?  Not necessarily for me, but as far as the world around me goes, this is the worst year of my life.  A year of disease, tyranny, massive fires, hatred, racism, death, ennui, depression.  I read to learn and I read to be entertained.  So what did I do?  I read Albert Camus' The Stranger.  It's a "classic".  Classics are occasionally humorous, frequently tragic.  Of course it was going to be tragic.  Of course it would pull me down deeper into depression.  What kind of fool am I? 

    Don't be a fool like me.
    it's getting harder and harder to find something that takes our minds away from the collective doom we're all feeling. 
    By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.




  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    brianlux said:
    What did I do?  Not necessarily for me, but as far as the world around me goes, this is the worst year of my life.  A year of disease, tyranny, massive fires, hatred, racism, death, ennui, depression.  I read to learn and I read to be entertained.  So what did I do?  I read Albert Camus' The Stranger.  It's a "classic".  Classics are occasionally humorous, frequently tragic.  Of course it was going to be tragic.  Of course it would pull me down deeper into depression.  What kind of fool am I? 

    Don't be a fool like me.
    it's getting harder and harder to find something that takes our minds away from the collective doom we're all feeling. 

    Yes, my friend, absofuckinlutely.  

    Starting this evening, my next read is going to be much friendlier to the mind:
    The Garner Files A Memoir by James Garner

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

  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    brianlux said:
    What did I do?  Not necessarily for me, but as far as the world around me goes, this is the worst year of my life.  A year of disease, tyranny, massive fires, hatred, racism, death, ennui, depression.  I read to learn and I read to be entertained.  So what did I do?  I read Albert Camus' The Stranger.  It's a "classic".  Classics are occasionally humorous, frequently tragic.  Of course it was going to be tragic.  Of course it would pull me down deeper into depression.  What kind of fool am I? 

    Don't be a fool like me.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited September 2020
    dankind said:
    brianlux said:
    What did I do?  Not necessarily for me, but as far as the world around me goes, this is the worst year of my life.  A year of disease, tyranny, massive fires, hatred, racism, death, ennui, depression.  I read to learn and I read to be entertained.  So what did I do?  I read Albert Camus' The Stranger.  It's a "classic".  Classics are occasionally humorous, frequently tragic.  Of course it was going to be tragic.  Of course it would pull me down deeper into depression.  What kind of fool am I? 

    Don't be a fool like me.

    Eric Anderson Shadow and Light of Albert Camus

    Shadow And Light Of Albert Camus album cover



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

  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    I am interrupting book 3 of the Harry Potter series to read aloud My Name is Seepeetza, by Shirley Sterling to my daughter, which her Indigenous Advocate at school lent her.

    It has a similar diary format like Anne Frank's book, written at an Indian Residential School. My daughter asked me how these First Nation, Inuit, and Metis children died. I can hardly answer.
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,442
    I'm about halfway through Windy City Blues:  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534992/windy-city-blues-by-renee-rosen/
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  • DarthMaeglin
    DarthMaeglin Toronto Posts: 3,019
    The last couple weeks I’ve been on a bit of an Elmore Leonard kick, I love his writing! I’m sad to admit I only came to him through a tv show (Justified), but now I’ll adding him to my list of authors to work through their catalog. Started with The Hot Kid, then the Raylan Givens stories, on the last book now, lol.


    "The world is full of idiots and I am but one of them."

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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,835
    So many good Elmore stories, enjoy!
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,975
    3 at once! :smiley:


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  • Spiritual_Chaos
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  • Yarden
    Yarden Posts: 820
    Bernard Cornwell - War Lord (13th and final book in The Last Kingdom series)


  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,835
    Ack!  Didn't order that one yet, wasn't aware it was out.
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,835
    Yarden said:
    Bernard Cornwell - War Lord (13th and final book in The Last Kingdom series)


    Went to order and not out for another 5-6 weeks.
    Did you get digital version or some other version?
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • Yarden
    Yarden Posts: 820
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Yarden said:
    Bernard Cornwell - War Lord (13th and final book in The Last Kingdom series)


    Went to order and not out for another 5-6 weeks.
    Did you get digital version or some other version?
    it's an audiobook. i got the audible uk version.
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,835
    Yarden said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Yarden said:
    Bernard Cornwell - War Lord (13th and final book in The Last Kingdom series)


    Went to order and not out for another 5-6 weeks.
    Did you get digital version or some other version?
    it's an audiobook. i got the audible uk version.

    Excellent, thanks.  Enjoy it, I look forward to reading in late Nov!
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • Yarden
    Yarden Posts: 820
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Yarden said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Yarden said:
    Bernard Cornwell - War Lord (13th and final book in The Last Kingdom series)


    Went to order and not out for another 5-6 weeks.
    Did you get digital version or some other version?
    it's an audiobook. i got the audible uk version.

    Excellent, thanks.  Enjoy it, I look forward to reading in late Nov!
    thanks! same to you.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Back into the mountains I go!  This is the last one by Ed Viesturs that I haven't read.  They're all very good to great.  Liking it already as he is not at all hesitant to talk about the abuse of the mountain and the over-crowding.  I'm a bit burned out on Everest Stories (there are so many other great climbs to read about!) but because it's Viesturs, I must read it and I'll enjoy it, no doubt.

    The Mountain My Time on Everest

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

  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,003
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    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..

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