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Post by alady on Oct 15, 2019 9:38:54 GMT -6
That's good! Ashley got the Iliana Regan book for her birthday, but hasn't read it yet. I will be curious to discuss with her! That was one I was disappointed to put on the "didn't like" pile, considering how much I like Chef and her food. |
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Post by teekoh on Oct 15, 2019 9:50:07 GMT -6
Yeah, same. That is a bummer. She's read a ton of food non-fiction in the last few years, so I'm interested to see what she thinks, too.
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Post by alady on Oct 15, 2019 10:02:43 GMT -6
I've really, really enjoyed other pieces she's written, but this just seemed clunky and disjointed. I was legit shocked when I saw it was on the long list for the National Book Awards considering how many passages my friends and I had laughingly texted each other.
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Post by sick2b on Oct 16, 2019 5:17:08 GMT -6
Yet another year when the Nobel Jury snobs Atwood...
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Post by sthubbins on Oct 17, 2019 7:38:47 GMT -6
I'm reading House of the Spirits. I haven't read any Allende before.
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Post by alady on Oct 17, 2019 7:46:54 GMT -6
Love Allende.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Oct 17, 2019 8:18:44 GMT -6
lmao i was reading the "recent posts" section and thought this was irt the mexican place on lincoln, which i thoroughly love |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2019 16:41:48 GMT -6
I just received my certified, autographed Nathan W. Pyle Strange Planet book.    Oh, and in the last four months or so, I read all of A Song of Ice and Fire (first time), Dune (also first time) and now I'm trying to read Neuromancer for like the third time and I think this time it managed to grab me (probably cause I just semi-struggled through Dune's odd-ish prose). |
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Post by claypoolfan on Nov 21, 2019 16:55:26 GMT -6
I'm definitely ordering that Strange Planet book for a few people for xmas.
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Post by alady on Nov 23, 2019 18:00:41 GMT -6
V excited about my "to be read" pile:
Lindy West: The Witches Are Coming
Prince w/some dude: The Beautiful Ones
Patti Smith: Year of the Monkey
Margaret Atwood: The Testaments
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Dec 7, 2019 8:58:09 GMT -6
somewhat pointless post b/c it doesn't come out until May, but I'm excited to read Chris Frantz's memoir next year  |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Dec 7, 2019 10:08:19 GMT -6
Took me waaay longer than it should have b/c grad school started but I recently made my way through Zadie Smith's White Teeth.
Working on the Springsteen autobiography now and already 3/4 through it - have David Berman's Actual Air on hold from the library for whenever I finish with Bruce. <3
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2019 17:03:15 GMT -6
my buddy who's helping me edit all my work highly recommended Roger Zelazny to me. if anyone else has an idea of where to start i'm definitely gonna look for some of his stuff this week.
also, one of the youtube channels i follow posted about how they just finally got their first book published today after 10 years of begging agents/publishers and i feel both relieved and ridiculously frustrated lol
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Post by sthubbins on Dec 11, 2019 10:08:17 GMT -6
did anybody else get the audible settlement? i had ignored the first two emails but just realized I get two free audiobooks
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Dec 23, 2019 12:16:44 GMT -6
What books did y'all read in 2019? I compiled a list this morning and am curious to see yours. Asterix denote books that I particularly liked - double stars are for my faves in each category.
Non-Fiction:
Anthony DeCurtis - Lou Reed: A Life
Steven Hyden - Twilight of the Gods**
Peter Golenbock - Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Dave Van Ronk - The Mayor of MacDougal Street*
Simon Reynolds - Rip It Up And Start Again*
Hanif Abdurraqib - They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us*
Patti Smith - Just Kids*
Todd Snider - I Never Met A Story I Didn’t Like
Ryan Walsh - Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
Wendy Leigh - Bowie: The Biography
Gregg Allman - My Cross To Bear
Crystal Zevon - I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
Greg Kot: I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, The Staples Singers…
Tyler Kepner - K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches*
Jeff Chang - Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation*
Out of Bounds: The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker
Peter Genovese - Pizza City: The Ultimate Guide to New York’s Favorite Food
Amanda Petrusich - It Still Moves
Fiction:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Of Love and Other Demons
Julie Schumacher - Dear Committee Members
Willa Cather - My Antonia*
JG Ballard - High-Rise
Jennifer Egan - Manhattan Beach
Virginia Woolf - Orlando*
Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome
Jacqueline Woodson - Another Brooklyn
Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye*
Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God*
Colum McCann - Let The Great World Spin
Zadie Smith - White Teeth
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities**
Poetry (something I'd never really read in earnest before this summer):
Arthur Rimbaud - Illuminations
Ranier Maria Rilke - Sonnets to Orpheus**
Etel Adnan - Night
Frank O’Hara - The Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara*
David Berman - Actual Air
Gwendolyn Brooks - The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks*
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Post by alady on Jan 14, 2020 13:22:39 GMT -6
read these two over the holidays:
The New Me - Halle Butler
The jacket blurbs hailed this as "bouncy, profane...about work and female friendship" "absurd, hilarious, fizzy with humor" but I found it a pretty harrowing tale of someone living with crushing depression and alcoholism while failing miserably to get by in a temp role. There was nothing funny about it. There were no "female friendships" to speak of as the only other characters were the protagonist's drinking buddy who barely tolerated her as such and an overachiever receptionist who was held up for ridicule. It wasn't a bad book, but definitely not as described.
Horror Stories - Liz Phair
I was not a huge fan going in and unfortunately she did not make me a fan with this memoir. Her obliviousness to her privilege was really striking as the most mundane events were described as extraordinary achievements. (One time she took a train! In a big snowstorm! And got turned around but used her phone GPS and almost didn't have any bars left and had to walk .25 miles to her hotel!) There is a very bad anecdote about her confronting another student about repairs to some rented artworks in her college apartment, in which she insists that she is not rich even though she attends a college that RENTS REAL PICASSOS TO ITS STUDENTS and recently finished an internship in NYC with Nancy Spero and Leon Golub and as we have learned her dad is a doctor and she grew up in Winnetka. surejan.gif
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Post by kb on Jan 14, 2020 16:16:32 GMT -6
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Post by thebosma on Jan 14, 2020 16:36:57 GMT -6
Have you read his poetry collection Prelude to Bruise? It's excellent and I'm super picky re:poetry. |
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Post by kb on Jan 14, 2020 16:53:33 GMT -6
no i am too uncultured for poetry
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Post by thebosma on Jan 14, 2020 16:59:24 GMT -6
I typically am as well, but a friend lent it to me a couple years ago and I really enjoyed it.
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Post by nanatod on Jan 14, 2020 17:09:19 GMT -6
and as we have learned her dad is a doctor and she grew up in Winnetka. I learned this when the guyville record first came out. |
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Post by facts on Jan 14, 2020 17:30:17 GMT -6
Yeah Liz was an OG Mean Girl from New Trier and if we are honest she also has had a pretty thin output of actual quality work. But I always find her charming onstage so I'm the type of enabler that this book is probably targeted to.
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Post by sick2b on Jan 14, 2020 20:07:16 GMT -6
What books did y'all read in 2019? I compiled a list this morning and am curious to see yours. Asterix denote books that I particularly liked - double stars are for my faves in each category. Non-Fiction:Anthony DeCurtis - Lou Reed: A Life Steven Hyden - Twilight of the Gods** Peter Golenbock - Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers Dave Van Ronk - The Mayor of MacDougal Street* Simon Reynolds - Rip It Up And Start Again* Hanif Abdurraqib - They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us* Patti Smith - Just Kids* Todd Snider - I Never Met A Story I Didn’t Like Ryan Walsh - Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 Wendy Leigh - Bowie: The Biography Gregg Allman - My Cross To Bear Crystal Zevon - I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon Greg Kot: I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, The Staples Singers… Tyler Kepner - K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches* Jeff Chang - Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation* Out of Bounds: The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker Peter Genovese - Pizza City: The Ultimate Guide to New York’s Favorite Food Amanda Petrusich - It Still Moves Fiction:Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Of Love and Other Demons Julie Schumacher - Dear Committee Members Willa Cather - My Antonia* JG Ballard - High-RiseJennifer Egan - Manhattan Beach Virginia Woolf - Orlando* Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome Jacqueline Woodson - Another Brooklyn Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye* Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God* Colum McCann - Let The Great World Spin Zadie Smith - White Teeth Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities** Poetry (something I'd never really read in earnest before this summer):Arthur Rimbaud - Illuminations Ranier Maria Rilke - Sonnets to Orpheus** Etel Adnan - Night Frank O’Hara - The Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara* David Berman - Actual Air Gwendolyn Brooks - The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks* Incidentally, I am currently in the midst of a JG Ballard blitz |
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Post by sthubbins on Feb 17, 2020 7:47:39 GMT -6
Listened to the audiobook of Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood. It was very funny
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Post by dij22 on Apr 1, 2020 12:35:56 GMT -6
Just read The Island of Dr. Moreau. Super weird and good. I only ever saw that completely ridiculous movie version with Brando and Val Kilmer
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Post by sthubbins on Apr 8, 2020 11:43:01 GMT -6
Reading this  |
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Post by thebosma on Apr 8, 2020 11:45:24 GMT -6
Jesus man. Bumping the politics thread, bumping the books thread, might as well pop into the celebrity death thread while you’re at it!
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Post by krentist on Apr 8, 2020 11:47:35 GMT -6
At what point can this thread just be shut down completely
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Post by teekoh on Apr 8, 2020 11:53:40 GMT -6
I am currently trying to finish Bleak House for who knows what number of attempts. It's so good, but so dense.
During this quarantine I have finished a couple of books by Ash's request, namely, a hate read of The Magicians and Holes, which I somehow missed as a child. The former is one of the worst things I have ever read and the latter was delightful.
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Post by thebosma on Apr 8, 2020 11:56:37 GMT -6
Holes is so good. That was my favorite book as a kid. My sister in law found this out and now does a bit where every time someone talks about a piece of media around me she tries to relate it back to Holes. For my birthday she mailed me a DVD of Holes.
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