Just started The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Don't know why this one has eluded me all these years, but I've finally gotten around to reading it and I'm really liking it so far. The classics are classic for a reason!
What Are You Reading?
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I enjoyed The Secret History quite a bit! Not read Life after Life, but I like her Jackson Brodie books. I'd like to be able to see the TV movies/shows with Jason Isaacs they've made of those.
I'm about 2/3 through Swan Song and hoping to finish soon
I think all three of Donna Tartts books are good even if the Secret History wins the prize. The Little Friend and The Gold Finch i enjoyed too.I enjoyed The Secret History quite a bit! Not read Life after Life, but I like her Jackson Brodie books. I'd like to be able to see the TV movies/shows with Jason Isaacs they've made of those.
I'm about 2/3 through Swan Song and hoping to finish soon
Just re-read an old, long article by John Clellon Holmes, Gone In October, all about Kerouac's funeral; how John, Shirley, and Allen/Peter/Gregory (Corso) all piled in his car and drove up to Lowell for Jack's wake. Quite possibly the best funeral story I ever read, so bittersweet, fulla autumn leaves and nostalgia.
Collected some more books from my mum to incorporate in my collection. Solsjenytzins Gulag-Archipelago. Seven books with many characters from real life dealing with the camps during Lenin and Stalin. Just read the foreword so far where he says that he has not published it so far because of the people still living but since they now are banned there is no longer any option but to publish. He had some experience from sitting in the camps himself. Also some books by a rather weird but amusing science ficton writer, Philip Jose Farmer. Written several interesting series ; Riverworld, Dayworld and The World of Tiers series. Not always good but mostly interesting. Also decided to keep Marion Zimmer Bradleys The Mists of Avalon. Sentimentality. Does not think it is the best arthurian novel but is also amusing.
Gulag are very interesting books! I read them years ago, and still remember sections of them quite vividly.
To me it didn't and I really felt that he didn't write all of it . . .it didn't feel like him.
It's been a while, folks. How are you people?
Haven't read much in the last month. I need a good book to rekindle my reading habits.
Haven't read much in the last month. I need a good book to rekindle my reading habits.
Being Mortal. Eye-opening book about medicine, aging and illness, and how much care is too much. Pretty absorbing so far.
Interesting... and cheap too for a non-fiction. Will check it out.
It's for my book club tomorrow night, so I hope I get it finished in time--lol. Makes me think a lot about what exactly I want spelled out for old age and end of life decisions.
A friend gave me a novel by Jeffrey Archer, "Kane and Abel", to read when I loaned him "The Abominable". I was okay with the first part of the story, but the further I got, the less I thought of it. The plot was much too contrived for me, nor did I think the characters were all that realistic. I need to stick with reading picks from this thread when it comes to recommendations. I just started "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt, which I brought home from the library last week. So far, so good.
Boy's life, the magazine of the boy scouts of America.
I'm still plodding along with CELL.
It just hasn't gripped me at all, at any point.
I will persevere though, see it through!!
I am already doing the odd bookshelf stare to decide what to read next
It just hasn't gripped me at all, at any point.
I will persevere though, see it through!!
I am already doing the odd bookshelf stare to decide what to read next
White Plague by Jack Abel. Arctic circle, US nuclear submarine, special forces, virulent strain of some horrible virus on board the submarine, Chinese sub trying to get there first to salvage the sub, and a Government conspiracy to boot. Other than maybe trying to make the plot a little too intricate, this book is pretty good so far.
I've been reserving my downtime from reading books to essays posted online.
The Los Angeles Review of Books is a very good source for exquisitely written journalistic prose. I highly recommend checking some of those texts.
The Los Angeles Review of Books is a very good source for exquisitely written journalistic prose. I highly recommend checking some of those texts.
After I read this post, I purchased this on Amazon. I started it a few days ago and I'm almost done with it. I have enjoyed it and will be looking for the next in the series. The infected in this book remind me a little of the "28 Days Later" type of infected creatures.
Because of this thread, I've read a few books I never would have known about. I like picking one from this thread every now and then.
I finished the second installment the other day, "Extinction Edge". I think this guy is on to a pretty good plot. The second book was good also. I like the zombies in this series.
I'm still reading the Cuckoo Calling by Robert Galbraith *wink-wink
It's very good . . .I really love the main character, Cormoran.
It's very good . . .I really love the main character, Cormoran.
I just started Revival. I have that in hardcover. Read UR and Mile 81 last weekend on my Kindle. Loved both of those. 
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