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Post by munkivelli on Jul 28, 2019 10:37:08 GMT -6
I'm reading Mr. Bridge right now (read Mrs. Bridge last year). Also picked up Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney over the weekend. I'm reading Normal People right now, and it's pretty good...may have to dive back and read Conversations with Friends at some point. Recently saw that Normal People is being turned into a tv series for BBC/Hulu, so I'm excited for that. |
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Post by neader on Jul 28, 2019 10:43:35 GMT -6
Read things fall apart this week. Haven't read it since high school, a lot more time dedicated to life pre missionaries than I remembered, but that wasn't a bad thing at all. Still a fantastic read.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jul 29, 2019 8:42:52 GMT -6
like 3 people recommended "the art of fielding" to me this weekend so i guess i gotta read it
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jul 29, 2019 9:03:14 GMT -6
Just finished Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn - a beautiful (and breezy) meditation on loss. Going to start The Bluest Eye next - then prolly the baseball book about the evolution of different pitches that Emma’s dad lent me? Getting back into reading is the best thing that I’ve done post-undergrad.
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Post by Tweet on Jul 29, 2019 9:04:12 GMT -6
The Lone Ranger and tonto fist fight in heaven for me
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Post by goodson on Jul 29, 2019 9:05:51 GMT -6
gonna need the title on that baseball pitch book
just finished the goldfinch and really liked it! i know a lot of people aren't fans and it definitely is worse than secret history and little friend but i still had a good time
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Post by thebosma on Jul 29, 2019 9:08:03 GMT -6
I finally feel into the idea of reading for pleasure. My last year of undergrad absolutely killed that for me. Gonna get a library card this week 😎😎😎
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jul 29, 2019 9:12:38 GMT -6
gonna need the title on that baseball pitch bookjust finished the goldfinch and really liked it! i know a lot of people aren't fans and it definitely is worse than secret history and little friend but i still had a good time this please and also because it just reminded me, has anyone read this book?  On September 8, 2017, the Oakland A’s faced off against the Houston Astros in a game that would signal the passing of the Moneyball mantle. Though this was only one regular season game, the match-up of these two teams demonstrated how Major League Baseball has changed since the early days of Athletics general manager Billy Beane and the publication of Michael Lewis’ classic book.
As he chronicles each inning and the unfolding drama as these two teams continually trade the lead—culminating in a 9-8 Oakland victory in the bottom of the ninth—Neyer considers the players and managers, the front office machinations, the role of sabermetrics, and the current thinking about what it takes to build a great team, to answer the most pressing questions fans have about the sport today.
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Post by Xamnam on Jul 29, 2019 9:22:17 GMT -6
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jul 29, 2019 9:29:32 GMT -6
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jul 29, 2019 9:30:24 GMT -6
That Neyer book sounds awesome too - gonna add that to my reading list for sure
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Post by sick2b on Jul 29, 2019 19:29:37 GMT -6
So many independant bookstores are closing tthese days in Canada (or shall I say, are continuing to close) Call me a dinosaur if you want, but this makes me sad  |
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Post by thebosma on Jul 29, 2019 20:19:21 GMT -6
Gonna go out on a limb and say no one in the book thread is gonna call you a dinosaur for liking books.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2019 16:39:02 GMT -6
i listened to the audiobook of Jaws before i was supposed to go to a book club meeting for it -- then realized it's the same night that we fly out for vegas. i forgot how vastly different (and really terrible) all the characters in the book are. also how insanely sexual the whole book is and how basically all of it is an allegory for erectile dysfunction. weird vibes.
entirely unrelated but i finally resorted to reaching out for agents because finding editors/publishers on my own has been less than fruitful. it was kinda endearing to hear back from some agents really quickly about wanting to do follow-ups so maybe something will come of that or maybe they're all money grubbing slimeballs and im wasting my time. oh well. |
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Post by dij22 on Sept 4, 2019 14:44:26 GMT -6
I had no idea Atwood was publishing a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. Comes out next week!!
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Post by Tweet on Sept 4, 2019 15:23:13 GMT -6
Is it called "America in 2019" or something?
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Post by dij22 on Sept 4, 2019 17:05:36 GMT -6
One of the best new short stories I've read in years: "The Stone" by Louise Erdrich
She might now be the best writer alive now that Toni Morrison beefed it |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Sept 4, 2019 17:41:15 GMT -6
This was fabulous btw - highly recommend for the resident baseball nerds of the board |
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Post by ten15 on Sept 6, 2019 12:43:10 GMT -6
Have any of you read The Boys in the Boat? It's about the 1936 US Men's Olympic rowing team. I am about a quarter of the way in and really digging it.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Sept 6, 2019 12:52:19 GMT -6
Have any of you read The Boys in the Boat? It's about the 1936 US Men's Olympic rowing team. I am about a quarter of the way in and really digging it. Not yet, but there was a small cult around this book when I did crew for a year in college |
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Post by alady on Sept 7, 2019 14:03:51 GMT -6
My boss just recommended this.
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Post by isyourbedmade on Sept 13, 2019 9:14:29 GMT -6
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Post by sleeping on Oct 1, 2019 11:18:03 GMT -6
 So this was a wild ride. It's supposedly a true account but I can't find any info online about the case. Susan posts a message on a genealogy forum seeking information about her dad's family. Knows her paternal grandfather had children from a previous marriage (half-sisters to her dad) and she doesn't know anything about them. A few weeks later, gets an email from a woman who says that she and her sister and brother are the children of one of those half-sisters. Excited about her newly-revealed cousins, Susan tries to correspond, but soon gets an irate email from the other sister, who is skeptical of her and thinks she wants something. Emailing back and forth with both sisters (one increasingly unhinged, the other trying to calm the situation down) Susan learns that both sisters are trying to protect their brother Leonard, who is mentally ill and has a checkered past involving some criminals that he fell in with who later went to prison, while Leonard went to a hospital.
Susan tells her best friend, a guy named Bobby, all about these crazy people she has discovered. Then she starts getting sexual emails and weird porn emailed to her, apparently from Leonard. When it gets worse, she complains to the ISP and to the normal-seeming sister; the emails stop for a while and Susan gets word that some family drama happened, ending with Leonard going back to the hospital, which only further enraged the other sister. Meanwhile, Bobby helps Susan research the guys Leonard got busted with -- they find arrest reports, mugshots, and news articles indicating that they are convicted rapists as well as suspects in a girl's disappearance. They put together enough information to suspect that Susan's cousin Leonard may have raped or even killed someone, and his sisters helped him cover it up.
Another email from the sister warns Susan that Leonard is about to be released from the hospital, and that, oops, she accidentally let him know where Susan lives. Then the other sister emails to let Susan know she tracked her down as well, and describes her home, her work, even the clothes Susan had been wearing. More and more people start getting involved, until Susan and her boyfriend are getting emails, phone calls, and threats not just from the crazy family, but from Leonard's "fetish community" friends, prison-gang buddies of the two convicts, and, finally, the convicts themselves. Apparently Susan's involvement has gotten Leonard all riled up and he wants to give them up for some violent shit they all got away with. Someone tips her off that they've got a plan to kidnap her and secretly lock her up on a compound upstate owned by a religious cult.
Eventually Susan goes to the FBI. The agent assigned to her case gets all the information and asks to contact Bobby as well, to get a summary of the story as Susan had relayed it to him. Once the FBI agent is involved, everything seems to go quiet for a while. The agent comes back with something weird: those two convicts are still in prison, and have been there since 1991. Susan realizes that there was no way they could even have emailed her, let alone set up a plan to have her killed, and that without them the whole story falls apart: if they're fake, it must all be fake. She and FBI guy shift from protecting herself to unraveling who has been terrorizing her with this hoax for what was then over a year.
And then they figure it out: It's fucking Bobby. Her supposed "best friend" has been playing all of the characters, making up the story as he went along based on the reactions the she reported to him along the way. For absolutely no goddamn reason, except that it was a game for him and he was apparently having fun doing it. What the fuck, right? |
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Post by Xamnam on Oct 1, 2019 11:40:48 GMT -6
So this was a wild ride. It's supposedly a true account but I can't find any info online about the case. Susan posts a message on a genealogy forum seeking information about her dad's family. Knows her paternal grandfather had children from a previous marriage (half-sisters to her dad) and she doesn't know anything about them. A few weeks later, gets an email from a woman who says that she and her sister and brother are the children of one of those half-sisters. Excited about her newly-revealed cousins, Susan tries to correspond, but soon gets an irate email from the other sister, who is skeptical of her and thinks she wants something. Emailing back and forth with both sisters (one increasingly unhinged, the other trying to calm the situation down) Susan learns that both sisters are trying to protect their brother Leonard, who is mentally ill and has a checkered past involving some criminals that he fell in with who later went to prison, while Leonard went to a hospital.
Susan tells her best friend, a guy named Bobby, all about these crazy people she has discovered. Then she starts getting sexual emails and weird porn emailed to her, apparently from Leonard. When it gets worse, she complains to the ISP and to the normal-seeming sister; the emails stop for a while and Susan gets word that some family drama happened, ending with Leonard going back to the hospital, which only further enraged the other sister. Meanwhile, Bobby helps Susan research the guys Leonard got busted with -- they find arrest reports, mugshots, and news articles indicating that they are convicted rapists as well as suspects in a girl's disappearance. They put together enough information to suspect that Susan's cousin Leonard may have raped or even killed someone, and his sisters helped him cover it up.
Another email from the sister warns Susan that Leonard is about to be released from the hospital, and that, oops, she accidentally let him know where Susan lives. Then the other sister emails to let Susan know she tracked her down as well, and describes her home, her work, even the clothes Susan had been wearing. More and more people start getting involved, until Susan and her boyfriend are getting emails, phone calls, and threats not just from the crazy family, but from Leonard's "fetish community" friends, prison-gang buddies of the two convicts, and, finally, the convicts themselves. Apparently Susan's involvement has gotten Leonard all riled up and he wants to give them up for some violent shit they all got away with. Someone tips her off that they've got a plan to kidnap her and secretly lock her up on a compound upstate owned by a religious cult.
Eventually Susan goes to the FBI. The agent assigned to her case gets all the information and asks to contact Bobby as well, to get a summary of the story as Susan had relayed it to him. Once the FBI agent is involved, everything seems to go quiet for a while. The agent comes back with something weird: those two convicts are still in prison, and have been there since 1991. Susan realizes that there was no way they could even have emailed her, let alone set up a plan to have her killed, and that without them the whole story falls apart: if they're fake, it must all be fake. She and FBI guy shift from protecting herself to unraveling who has been terrorizing her with this hoax for what was then over a year.
And then they figure it out: It's fucking Bobby. Her supposed "best friend" has been playing all of the characters, making up the story as he went along based on the reactions the she reported to him along the way. For absolutely no goddamn reason, except that it was a game for him and he was apparently having fun doing it. What the fuck, right? Holy shit. |
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Post by alady on Oct 14, 2019 20:53:19 GMT -6
Things I read this summer/fall/recently-ish:
Night Moves - Jessica Hopper - eh
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward - excruciating, but in a good way
The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher - *single tear*
She Wants It - Jill Soloway - love her but this was super navel gazey
The Mother of Black Hollywood - Jenifer Lewis - total romp with a more appealingly self-obsessed subject
Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
China Rich Girlfriend - Kevin Kwan
Rich People Problems - Kevin Kwan - lowkey obsessed with this series, it's very well written fluff - clever, snarky, society gossipy in the best Jane Austen-y way
Daisy Jones & the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid - *shrug*
I Might Regret This - Abbi Jacobsen - if you didn't already hate Carrie Brownstein
Burn the Place - Iliana Regan - cokeheads scare me
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng - kept waiting for this to get good. still waiting
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Post by zircona1 on Oct 15, 2019 9:08:54 GMT -6
Still trying to read some classics. I'm on Faulkner's Light In August now. It's gotten more interesting, 100 pages in.
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Post by teekoh on Oct 15, 2019 9:10:42 GMT -6
Things I read this summer/fall/recently-ish: Night Moves - Jessica Hopper - eh Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward - excruciating, but in a good way The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher - *single tear* She Wants It - Jill Soloway - love her but this was super navel gazey The Mother of Black Hollywood - Jenifer Lewis - total romp with a more appealingly self-obsessed subject Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan China Rich Girlfriend - Kevin Kwan Rich People Problems - Kevin Kwan - lowkey obsessed with this series, it's very well written fluff - clever, snarky, society gossipy in the best Jane Austen-y way Daisy Jones & the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid - *shrug* I Might Regret This - Abbi Jacobsen - if you didn't already hate Carrie Brownstein Burn the Place - Iliana Regan - cokeheads scare me Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng - kept waiting for this to get good. still waiting Not really making a case for reading a bunch of books here. |
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Post by alady on Oct 15, 2019 9:24:28 GMT -6
No? I'd say I enjoyed over half.
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Post by teekoh on Oct 15, 2019 9:29:06 GMT -6
That's good! Ashley got the Iliana Regan book for her birthday, but hasn't read it yet.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2019 9:31:56 GMT -6
My wife just picked this up for me. My running motivation ebbs and flows, but I'm trying to write down some goals and hold myself more accountable. I tend to get more psyched when I have access to this type of reading.  |
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