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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2020 7:53:42 GMT -6
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Sept 4, 2020 15:36:04 GMT -6
Read Jane Eyre a few weeks ago and loved it - was totally engrossed by the story and especially Jane's character and inner monologue. Also read Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous which was hands-down one of the most moving novels I've read in a minute. Had me crying on the train by the end of it.
Now an aside: At the beginning of the year I set a goal to read 6 "big" books, aka books that I'd always put off because of their length/reputation as challenging. So far I've got 4 under my belt (Daniel Deronda, Moby Dick, Ulysses, and Jane Eyre). I want to read Proust's Swann's Way for sure, but I'm thinking I'll tackle a Dostoyevsky next, since I've never read him. Anybody have any particular feelings about The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, or Crime and Punishment?
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Post by andrewvb on Sept 4, 2020 16:12:36 GMT -6
crime and punishment for sure. classic incel book.
i loved that proust when i read it years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2020 16:49:31 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2020 7:12:04 GMT -6
Just finished this yesterday - best book I've read in a long time. Highly recommended to any baseball fans on the board. Buck was a terrific storyteller and lived a hell of a life. I was alternating between laughing out loud and tearing up while reading this - just absolutely terrific. |
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Post by cosmo on Sept 16, 2020 11:00:44 GMT -6
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Post by c1916 on Sept 16, 2020 18:01:13 GMT -6
I finished Peter Sagan's book "My World" today...the Palahniuk is sitting in a pile so I may as well join you and pick that one up next.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2020 10:50:21 GMT -6
almost done with Axiom's End (had to take a break to focus on my own shit) and it's getting really good here at the end. definitely recommend for sci-fi nerds. next on the docket is David Cronenberg's horror novel about a food critic lol
also a friend and i are committing to the NaNoWriMo thingy this month! it's stressful but p fun so far
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2020 16:14:12 GMT -6
 About 120 pages in - very very good so far. |
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Post by neader on Dec 28, 2020 22:42:43 GMT -6
My friend got me the Once Upon a Time in Shaolin book and it's truly amazing what a great story it is that is so difficult the read because the writer is awful. Just full of cliches it reads like it was written by a 13 year old fanboy.
"It wasn't even a play or a heist on the art world - Once Upon a Time in Shaolin belonged there by right as a representative of every rapper, every poet, and every DJ who ever rocked the block. It was a work of art. Period."
Ugh.
Then I googled the guy and it all made sense.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2020 8:20:30 GMT -6
Best of the books I read this year:
Between the World & Me
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The Soul of Baseball
Man in the High Castle
Unbroken
All Quiet on the Western Front
A Farewell to Arms
To Kill a Mockingbird
Read a few more that ended up being kind of "meh"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2020 8:22:56 GMT -6
Reading through these right now:   |
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Post by nanatod on Dec 29, 2020 12:46:35 GMT -6
as a holiday gift, the better half got me a copy of johnny cash's second autobiography. in it, it seems that the man in black took more amphetamines than any human being, but still managed to create an amazing catalogue of country music.
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Post by Tweet on Dec 30, 2020 10:53:03 GMT -6
Y’all might have an answer for this: is there a tool for ordering from independent book stores online? There’s a new book on Robert Johnson written by his sister I want to pick up and I don’t wanna give money to the Amazon machine if I can help it. The only bookstore by me appears to be permanently closed
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Post by neader on Dec 30, 2020 10:57:39 GMT -6
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Post by Tweet on Dec 30, 2020 11:02:59 GMT -6
Gracias
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Post by neader on Dec 30, 2020 11:05:09 GMT -6
I actually used that Monday to order Charlie Chaplin's Autobiography, Devil in the White City, and People's History of Chicago from Open Books. Though I don't think delivery was an option, still need to go pick them up, but not in this weather if I can help it.
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Post by teekoh on Dec 30, 2020 11:08:20 GMT -6
Bookshop is a good way to go about it and you can make sure your local store gets a cut. I've gone through Semicolon's link to Bookshop to buy my stuff this year.
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Post by alady on Dec 30, 2020 12:12:03 GMT -6
^^^ was going to suggest Semicolon as well.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jan 1, 2021 10:55:31 GMT -6
What books did y'all read last year? I tried to stick to a rotation between fiction and nonfiction throughout the year. One star are books that really stuck with me and two stars were my absolute favorites
Fiction
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
Willa Cather - O Pioneers!
George Eliot - Daniel Deronda
**Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
Jorge Luis Borges - The Aleph and Other Stories
*James Joyce - Ulysses
*Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon
Frank Herbert - Dune
*Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
*Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
*Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day
Breece D'J Pancake - Complete Stories
James Joyce - Dubliners
Nonfiction
*Philip Glass - Words Without Music
Rick Massimo - I Got A Song: A History of the Newport Folk Festival
*David Wojnarowicz - Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
David France - How to Survive a Plague
Jorge Luis Borges - The Book of Imaginary Beings
*Dennis McNally - A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
**Hanif Abdurraqib - Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Andrew O'Neill - A History of Heavy Metal
Jeff Tweedy - Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)
Carrie Brownstein - Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl
Johnny Cash - Forever Words
Richard Rabinowitz - Curating America
Nina Simon - The Participatory Museum
Kim Gordon - Girl in a Band
Thomas Brothers - Help! The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration
James Acaster - Perfect Sound Whatever
Terry Jennings - Waylon: Tales of My Outlaw Dad
*Steven Hyden - This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's Kid A
*Griel Marcus - Mystery Train
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Post by goodson on Jan 1, 2021 11:31:34 GMT -6
nell zinn - doxology
phillip k dick - a scanner darkly
flea - acid for the children
kate zambreno - drifts
daisy johnson - sisters
my top 5
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Post by goodson on Jan 1, 2021 11:35:02 GMT -6
nell zinn - doxology phillip k dick - a scanner darkly flea - acid for the children kate zambreno - drifts daisy johnson - sisters my top 5 oh wait in the dream house should be there too |
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Post by kb on Jan 5, 2021 15:25:45 GMT -6
a friend ordered our babby some books as a gift but either they were stolen or shipped to the wrong address. either way, feels like a dick move to call out the store, so we just let it go. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2021 22:10:57 GMT -6
Initially bought this after looking up the best music memoirs and only read it sparingly at first. Picked it back up again recently and holy hell this is a fantastic read. First half is devoted to her being in a band with Sid Vicious, dating Mick Jones and engineering the sound behind The Slits. Second half is absolutely heartbreaking - multiple miscarriages, cancer and a failed marriage. All in chapters designed to be 3-4 minute pop songs and written in a very raw fashion. Highly recommended. |
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Post by sthubbins on Feb 23, 2021 10:44:46 GMT -6
2021 so far
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Oranges by John McPhee
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
just started My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akerman
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2021 12:54:12 GMT -6
I just finished Deacon King Kong last week. Really terrific.
Also tried starting Ulysses and boy do I feel dumb reading this.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Feb 23, 2021 16:35:13 GMT -6
Also tried starting Ulysses and boy do I feel dumb reading this. This was one of my favorite books I read last year, but fwiw, I didn't really start to enjoy it until Leopold Bloom's chapters started. Was not really a fan of the opening Daedalus chapters. It's really great tho! Not sure I've ever oscillated so wildly between hating and loving a book before. So far this year I've read: -- Bill Kreutzmann - Deal -- Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway -- Ted Gioia - The History of Jazz -- Ovid - Metamorphases -- Neal Karlen - This Thing Called Life: Prince's Odyssey On and Off the Record -- Toni Morrison - Jazz |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2021 18:26:40 GMT -6
I’m still in the opening portion so that’s good to know. I’ll stick with it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2021 17:06:24 GMT -6
Finished Plainsong the other day. Started briefly back in October and the first 40-50 pages were kind of a slog. Picked it back up this week and it was actually pretty fantastic. Loved how it all came together.
Also decided to re-read Just Kids. I rarely re-read books for whatever reason, so it's notable.
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Post by Tweet on Mar 3, 2021 17:42:24 GMT -6
Thumbs up for Plainsong
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