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  • HenriettaLowell
    HenriettaLowell Cologne, Germany Posts: 140
    edited July 2024


    A City On Mars (Kelly And Zach Weinersmith)

    Witty and informative, essential space-nerd- and mars-colonizing-sceptic reading


  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,996
    involutionary said:
    neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. I’ve always loved his work. I used to collect sandman comics in the early 90’s. It’s been wonderful to watch him flourish. 

    Does anyone have any other Neil gaiman books they would recommend?
    Good Omens and American Gods..
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,122

    After watching the docuseries “Six Schizophrenic Brothers” - which I found both tragic and riveting - I decided to read the book it was based on. So far it is really interesting. 
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,970

    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    edited September 2024
    Pap said:

    I've ordered the prequel through Vinted!  
    I'm currently reading a book about Justin Trudeau.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Last night, I started Charles Bowden's Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America.  I had read a couple of other Bowden's creative non-fiction earlier this year (The Red Caddy and Down By the River), and had heard that Blood Orchid was his masterpiece.  So I knew I was in for something great and powerfully absorbing.    The book uses the blood orchid as "a metaphor for our obsessive love affair with violence" and is "a plea for peace and hope on the land".  But I highly suspect Bowben's literary quest for peace will take me down some very dark places, and some places of "courage and terrible beauty".  

    Just ten pages in last night, and I was floored.  Most of page nine and the top of page ten begins with, "The bloom is more fearsome."  We very quickly see that Bowden was both in top form here and unsparing.  This should not have come to a surprise as the quote that opens the chapter with a quote from Meeuse and Morris's The Sex Life of Flowers:

    "They will do anything to reproduce.  And they will use the needs of others, the deep appetites they see in all our faces, they will exploit these things to further their own ends.  They will take over our ways of loving, they will seize upon our sense of property.  They will ruthlessly read our diaries, our secret thoughts, and then make us slaves to our own obsessions.
           Perhaps no clearer example exists than the tactics of the hammer orchid. (Drakaea fitzgeraldii) and its scheme to seduce one particular type of wasp (of the family Thynnidae).  Thynnids fall into the trap once they gaze upon the labellum of the hammer orchid."

    Though not a long book (298 pages) this will (intentionally) be a slow read.  I read page 9 alone about four times last night.  Amazing work!


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

  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,970
    edited August 2024
    West Coast Dreamgirl said:
    Pap said:

    I've ordered the prequel through Vinted!  
    I'm currently reading a book about Justin Trudeau and alternating it with the Delta of Venus by Anais Nin.
    It (the sequel to Days at the Morisaki Bookshop) was on the "Buy One Get One Half Price" table at my local Waterstones :wink: So, I bought the Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop (I really enjoyed it!), and got the More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop at half price. I'll probably buy the prequel too :smile:
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    edited August 2024
    When I bought Days at the Morisaki Bookshop from Vinted, I also purchased Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop at the same time, which I haven't started yet.  Im really enjoying DATMB and will definitely get the follow up!   
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,996
    Chiliad A Meditation by Clive Barker Goodreads
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
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  • HenriettaLowell
    HenriettaLowell Cologne, Germany Posts: 140


    Beautiful. Did not realize it‘s a sequel to „Brooklyn“ until just now though, despite having seen that one‘s film adaptation. Might go back and read the book now
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,970

    Signed by Lisette when I met her at the Barrett Martin's gig in London, UK last May :smile:
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited August 2024
    Loujoe said:


    Looks very interesting, L!  I read up a little on the author and noticed she is an "adjunct professor of punk and reggae at NYU".  How cool it would be to take her class!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759
    Turning me on to some different music and opening my eyes to how punk was born to different people in different countries. Japan, Russia, England, US.
    So far checked out 'The Slits' and 'X-Ray Specs'.
    Plus I always think of punk as more of a bad boy thing and breaking stuff.  So I really like the perspective.
    Each chapter starts with a track list.

    Been keeping me busy

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Loujoe said:
    Turning me on to some different music and opening my eyes to how punk was born to different people in different countries. Japan, Russia, England, US.
    So far checked out 'The Slits' and 'X-Ray Specs'.
    Plus I always think of punk as more of a bad boy thing and breaking stuff.  So I really like the perspective.
    Each chapter starts with a track list.

    Been keeping me busy


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

  • HenriettaLowell
    HenriettaLowell Cologne, Germany Posts: 140
    Loujoe said:

    Nice, goes on my list! I love Goldman, both as an interesting voice on pop culture and as a musician herself (check out „Private Army“ and „Launderette“, if you haven‘t yet)
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759
     B)  ^^ a whole new world has opened for my earballs. Only about 40 years late to the party. Really dig new to me music
     Will check them out.
  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    Pap said:

    Just started this 😀
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Having worked through and been blown away by the enormously heavy, intense, and excellent Charles Bowden book, Blood Orchid, I've now moved on to the brain and soul candy of an excellent music biography, Steve Wynn's, I Wouldn't Say It if It Wasn't True. 

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

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