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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jul 12, 2024 13:29:10 GMT -6
Woah nice! Any particular faves? |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jul 12, 2024 13:33:38 GMT -6
Tbh I really loved nearly all the ones I read from here (Austerlitz, Never Let Me Go, The Sellout, Fun Home, Goon Squad, Persepolis, Tenth of December, Exit West, Pastoralia, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis)
Only ones that I liked-not-loved were: The Road, The Overstory, The Goldfinch
Only one that I didn’t particularly like was White Teeth too lol
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Post by goodson on Jul 12, 2024 13:38:07 GMT -6
no knausgaard is crazy
i'd bump the human stain and last samurai up to the top 10 but it's a good list
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Post by alady on Jul 12, 2024 13:43:07 GMT -6
I feel like I read Never Let Me Go but can't remember it for the life of me so I didn't count it.
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Post by Tweet on Jul 12, 2024 13:43:52 GMT -6
I think I read 4. I also didn’t learn to read until like 7 years ago so….
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Post by sthubbins on Jul 12, 2024 14:28:09 GMT -6
Woah nice! Any particular faves? The Known World, Gilead and Trains Dreams would probably be my top 3. Like you I've liked most of what I've read from the list. I just found out my wife has read 49! |
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Post by nanatod on Jul 12, 2024 16:20:19 GMT -6
I've read none of them, but I'm friends on Facebook w/ one of the authors, and a different author's book may be at our place because the better half once borrowed it from a pal of hers.
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Post by scoots on Sept 20, 2024 8:12:23 GMT -6
I finished The Candy House earlier this week. Enjoyed it for the most part, but it was wildly inconsistent. The last chapter was perfect and moving and I really wish the rest of the book had been more along those lines.
Also about to finish the second book of The Dark Tower series, which has been pretty damn entertaining for the most part.
Now I'm starting to dig into the NYT 21st century list - first up:
Atonement
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Other books are not surprisingly pretty popular at the local library - I'm pretty consistently 25-30 back in the queue.
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Post by scoots on Oct 24, 2024 8:34:29 GMT -6
I finished Evicted. Just me shouting to no one in particular while some landlord is heading to Jamacia after refusing to fix plumbing issues or low-key celebrating a place burning down (with a child dead) so she can rebuild and possibly get more money. Ugh.
Officially finished The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower Book 2). First experience with an audio book. Kind of weird! The idea of one person voicing every character is kind of wild. The guy reading it did a good job overall, but his voice for Odetta/Detta Walker was cringeworthy at best. I'm about halfway through the audio version of The Wastelands. I don't think I could get through this series if I was actually reading it, but it's been good to have on when I go on a long run.
Also just about finished with Atonement. Enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. I knew nothing going in other than it was a movie from about 15 years ago that got some Oscar buzz. I looked up the movie this morning and can't imagine a more perfectly cast version of this story. I'll probably check that out at some point, too.
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Post by venom on Oct 24, 2024 9:27:59 GMT -6
i finished Team of Rivals a couple nights ago. my bookmark was a boarding pass from 2016, but i misplaced it after a couple hundred pages and started over when i found it again a few months ago. obviously, the book had a plethora of accolades but it really is tremendous work.
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Post by alady on Oct 24, 2024 10:27:04 GMT -6
I finally read Demon Copperhead, and thought it was just stunning. It's really stayed with me. I feel like I would probably have enjoyed it even more if I had read David Copperfield, maybe I will do that this winter.
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Post by ten15 on Oct 24, 2024 14:53:42 GMT -6
I finally read Demon Copperhead, and thought it was just stunning. It's really stayed with me. I feel like I would probably have enjoyed it even more if I had read David Copperfield, maybe I will do that this winter. Yeah - one of my favorite recent reads. David Copperfield is optional, imo.  |
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Post by sthubbins on Nov 4, 2024 8:31:18 GMT -6
Light year. Baby to blame.
Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
Simple Passion - Annie Ernaux
A Girl's Story - Annie Ernaux
Eileen - Otessa Moshfegh
Underworld - Don Delillo
The Rolling Thunder Logbook - Sam Shepard
Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick
So Much Blue - Percival Everett
The Friend - Sigrid Nunez
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino
Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi
Age of Grief - Jane Smiley
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Nov 4, 2024 9:14:50 GMT -6
Light year. Baby to blame. Three Lives - Gertrude Stein Simple Passion - Annie Ernaux A Girl's Story - Annie Ernaux Eileen - Otessa Moshfegh Underworld - Don Delillo The Rolling Thunder Logbook - Sam Shepard Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick So Much Blue - Percival Everett The Friend - Sigrid Nunez The Road - Cormac McCarthy If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi Age of Grief - Jane Smiley Thoughts on the Ernaux books? I finally got around to The Years this year and really enjoyed it but didn't love it. Would be interested in reading more of her stuff tho. |
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Post by sthubbins on Nov 5, 2024 10:54:58 GMT -6
I liked both but I think I appreciated her "project" more having read them one right after the other. Around the same time I also read one of her stories that ran in the New Yorker. Feel like it all adds up to more than the sum of its parts.
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