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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jan 31, 2023 9:55:04 GMT -6
2023 so far: The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan Midnight's Children by Salman Rushie Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse Now: 10 Days That Shook the World by John Reed Taking Care by Joy Williams Is Salman Rushdie any good? I picked up a copy of Satanic Verses from someone's stoop a while back but haven't felt like getting into it yet. |
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Post by sthubbins on Jan 31, 2023 14:19:18 GMT -6
This was the first of his I've read. It's exhausting at times -- the protagonist/narrator is explicitly crafting an allegory linking his family history to India's modern history, so there's a ton of foreshadowing, back-tracking, recapping, jumping around timelines. But a lot of the sections were total knockouts, and I appreciated it as a whole more as I went on. Definitely worth reading.
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Post by zircona1 on Jan 31, 2023 14:34:49 GMT -6
I've tried multiple times to read The Satanic Verses and I just get confused as to who's who and what's happening. FWIW.
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Post by dij22 on Jan 31, 2023 20:08:26 GMT -6
Joining the Lollaboard Monthly Update club:
January
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
The Making of Chicana/o Studies: In the Trenches of Academe by Rodolfo Acuña
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Who Would Have Thought It? by Maria Ruiz de Burton
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Post by irvred on Feb 1, 2023 11:00:16 GMT -6
I made the mistake of starting the year with Anna Karenina and I still have 100 pages left in Anna Karenina.
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Post by Tweet on Feb 1, 2023 11:02:50 GMT -6
January was me finally finishing Malcolm X, as well as the Communist Manifesto and a reread of Fahrenheit 451. Currently reading the Young Bucks autobiography and the William Macaskill book "What We Owe the Future"
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Post by goodson on Feb 5, 2023 11:51:05 GMT -6
Joining the Lollaboard Monthly Update club: JanuaryThis Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi The Making of Chicana/o Studies: In the Trenches of Academe by Rodolfo Acuña Ghostwritten by David Mitchell Who Would Have Thought It? by Maria Ruiz de Burton i adore ghostwritten |
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Post by goodson on Feb 5, 2023 11:52:38 GMT -6
oh january -
the cipher - kathe koja
sexual personae - paglia
and i'm about halfway thru the doloriad by missouri williams
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Post by goodson on Feb 5, 2023 11:53:02 GMT -6
my fucking 1000 page copy of the books of jacob is just staring at me everyday
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Post by dij22 on Feb 5, 2023 12:48:59 GMT -6
Joining the Lollaboard Monthly Update club: JanuaryThis Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi The Making of Chicana/o Studies: In the Trenches of Academe by Rodolfo Acuña Ghostwritten by David Mitchell Who Would Have Thought It? by Maria Ruiz de Burton i adore ghostwritten Legit one of the best novels I've ever read. Insane that it was his debut |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Feb 6, 2023 8:54:39 GMT -6
Legit one of the best novels I've ever read. Insane that it was his debut Added this to my wishlist now |
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Post by sthubbins on Feb 6, 2023 9:34:32 GMT -6
favorite reads of 2022 elementary particles, houellebecq submission, houellebecq d oh january - sexual personae - paglia r u in a Red Scare book club? |
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Post by thebosma on Feb 6, 2023 9:48:23 GMT -6
Lmfao got his ass
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Post by goodson on Feb 6, 2023 9:50:02 GMT -6
those girls know literature
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Mar 3, 2023 10:41:16 GMT -6
February Book Club! What did y'all read last month?
My list:
-- Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
-- Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
-- Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead*
-- The Beastie Boys Book
-- Rabih Alameddine - An Unnecessary Woman
*This was my favorite novel I've read in ages - absolutely devoured it in like 2 days
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Post by sthubbins on Mar 3, 2023 11:35:33 GMT -6
2023 so far: The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan Midnight's Children by Salman Rushie Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse In Feb: Taking Care by Joy Williams (good) Actual Air by David Berman (good) Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey (not good) I started reading Minima Moralia by Adorno Still making gradual progress in the audio book of 10 Days That Shook the World by John Reed. Might need a long road trip to knock that one out. About to start a slow reread of Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson with a group |
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Post by Tweet on Mar 3, 2023 12:29:16 GMT -6
This was kinda whatever.This I have 70 pages left on and has maybe been my favorite biography I've read in a long long time. Maybe ever since I can't read.
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Post by dij22 on Mar 5, 2023 19:33:10 GMT -6
February
1.) George Washington Gomez by Américo Paredes
2.) We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
3.) Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child by Mary Pat Brady
4.) The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
5.) Zoot Suit and Other Plays by Luis Valdez
6.) Assimilation: An Alternate History by Catherine S. Ramirez
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Post by scoots on Mar 7, 2023 9:09:20 GMT -6
February:
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Really disliked this book. I loved Never Let Me Go and saw this at the local library - high expectations that probably could not have been fully met, but this was just really terribly written. Also makes me question my initial love for Never Let Me Go lol
Sidecountry by John Branch: Some of these stories were incredibly moving and well-written - there were others that were pretty clear misses that I'm not sure why they decided to include other than as filler. Worth picking up just to skip through.
Solitary by Albert Woodfox: Holy shit. Also cannot believe that Angola is still a functioning prison.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Mar 7, 2023 9:18:20 GMT -6
February: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Really disliked this book. I loved Never Let Me Go and saw this at the local library - high expectations that probably could not have been fully met, but this was just really terribly written. Also makes me question my initial love for Never Let Me Go lol Sidecountry by John Branch: Some of these stories were incredibly moving and well-written - there were others that were pretty clear misses that I'm not sure why they decided to include other than as filler. Worth picking up just to skip through. Solitary by Albert Woodfox: Holy shit. Also cannot believe that Angola is still a functioning prison. Never read this one, but I really enjoyed both Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day, so it's possible he just has some clunkers scattered in |
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Post by sthubbins on Mar 7, 2023 10:57:11 GMT -6
Remains of the Day rips.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Apr 10, 2023 8:43:01 GMT -6
March Book Club Updates - let's see em!
I had a slower month:
-- Stealing all Transmissions: A Secret History of the Clash by Randal Doane -- This was okay, much more a history of NYC free-form radio / zine culture than the Clash. It got me to listen to Sandanista a bunch tho so it was worth the $3 it cost at my local used store.
-- The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami -- my first Murakami and I deeply enjoyed it. Very dream-like, as this one is known for, but also an extended meditation on the small, imperceptible mysteries that bind us to / shroud us from each other. Excited to finally read more of his work.
Finishing up Renata Adler's Speedboat rn and it's way more of a slog than a 170 page book should be.
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Post by dij22 on Apr 10, 2023 8:45:04 GMT -6
Stacked month for me
March
And the Earth Did Not Devour Him by Tomás Rivera
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
American War by Omar El Akkad
Through the Arc of the Rainforest by Karen Tei Yamashita
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Post by alady on Apr 10, 2023 9:42:53 GMT -6
I don't think I finished anything in March but I started Crying in H Mart (my work is doing a book club on it) and The Candy House by Jennifer Egan. I think I want to reread A Visit from the Goon Squad and then finish this one because the characters overlap and I think it'll be more impactful if I actually remember some details about them.
Also a friend introduced me to the Libby app yesterday and I'm very stoked to listen to some audiobooks while I work.
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Post by teekoh on Apr 10, 2023 9:49:15 GMT -6
Libby rules
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Post by zircona1 on Apr 10, 2023 9:55:12 GMT -6
I'm almost done with The History of Bones, John Lurie's autobiography. It's pretty entertaining, it was recommended by Matt Korvette of Pissed Jeans.
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Post by scoots on Apr 10, 2023 13:12:05 GMT -6
Only managed a couple of books in March.
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm
Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland by David McKittrick
I've got some fiction on deck for this month, so that'll be a good break from the heavy dose of non-fiction I've been reading so far this year.
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Post by borracho on Apr 10, 2023 13:17:39 GMT -6
libby is great, hoopla is too. we get both through our library system and seems like they've got different titles from each other so it covers a lot. |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on May 1, 2023 14:54:50 GMT -6
Another month were I trudged my way through a few books, but I think they were all worth the effort.
-- Speedboat by Renata Adler
-- The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
-- After All Is Said And Done: Taping the Grateful Dead by Mark Rodriguez
Speedboat was a trip, one of the more unorthodox "novels" I've ever read, but it didn't really connect with me emotionally. Algren's opus is a bleeaakk one, and hard to work through in the first half. Found myself drawn into his seedy underworld by the conclusion, a worthwhile read. And Rodriguez's book is a giant coffeetable-esque book diving into the taper culture / archival world of the Dead. A very wonderful read if you can get your hands on it.
How about y'all?
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Post by zircona1 on May 1, 2023 15:09:10 GMT -6
I read The Man With The Golden Arm a long time ago, I don't remember anything about it.
Right now, I'm reading Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad. I've never read any of his work before, my wife has a few of his books and I just pulled that one off the shelf. I'm really enjoying it so far.
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