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Post by sthubbins on Sept 28, 2018 8:26:53 GMT -6
I haven't! Worthwhile?
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Post by alady on Sept 28, 2018 9:55:00 GMT -6
Very. One of my favorites.
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Post by sthubbins on Oct 8, 2018 11:37:17 GMT -6
I'm reading "Mrs. Bridge" now, it's very funny
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 27, 2018 9:24:30 GMT -6
 Megan got me this for our anniversary and I'm enjoying the learning experience, but man is it....loosely compiled. Its extremely difficult to try to keep some of the history in any frame of reference because on one page its 1985, and then you turn the page and its 1981, and they throw in a little aside about the License to Ill tour (which hasn't occurred yet)...it's just so scattered.  Bought this at the airport the other day and read the entire thing on the flight - perfect book to read in one sitting like that, but not much else. Great twists and turns but almost entirely worthless characters and some goofy exposition. If you don't need to think about it for longer than a couple hours, it's a fun page turner.  Started this last night. Alright so far. |
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Post by alady on Nov 27, 2018 9:53:12 GMT -6
I just finished She Wants It by Jill Soloway. They don't come off well, pretty self centered and egomaniacal. Hard to get past that, but it's also a fascinating behind-the-scenes about showrunning and how TV gets made.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 9:14:17 GMT -6
 im not a huge comic or graphic novel guy but this was fantastic (muslim women living in a haunted apartment complex where the ghosts/demons/thingies feed off of xenophobia) i went to bucket of blood for their book club last night just cause this was the focus and i had been looking forward to this comic for a couple months now. real fun to have a drink and hash it out with folks for a few hours. highly recommend for anyone into thrillers or horror style stories but also want something substantive socially (the intro talks a lot about comparing it to Get Out in recent years but there's some other quality references in there) |
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Post by sthubbins on Nov 28, 2018 9:59:55 GMT -6
I'm reading the Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Nov 28, 2018 10:07:14 GMT -6
Been doing a lot of reading post-graduation and moving to a city with no cell service in their subway system. So far the plan has been alternating between fiction and non-fiction. Here's what I've knocked out so far - everything has been good to great.
Fiction:
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - Betty Smith
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
Non-Fiction:
Meet Me In The Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 - Lizzy Goodman
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk - Legs McNeil
A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt - Robert Early Hardy
Living As Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 - Nato Thompson
Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology - Will Miller
Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records - John Cook
Picked up memoirs by Philip Glass and Dave Van Ronk for my birthday - excited to carry this reading momentum into 2019!
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Post by alady on Nov 28, 2018 10:18:42 GMT -6
That Dave Van Ronk memoir is fantastic. Somewhat the basis for Inside Llewyn Davis, I think.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Nov 28, 2018 10:33:28 GMT -6
That's awesome to hear! Will probably check that one out first then - that movie turned me on to Dave's music and kicked off a major folk-revival listening phase in general.
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Post by sthubbins on Nov 28, 2018 16:10:53 GMT -6
Love love love To the Lighthouse.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Nov 28, 2018 16:32:31 GMT -6
Love love love To the Lighthouse. Same! Her writing style - particularly when going down the rabbit-hole of inner thought - was amazing. My gf has recommended I try Mrs. Dalloway next, pretty excited for that one |
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Post by zircona1 on Nov 28, 2018 16:49:08 GMT -6
I could never get into Virginia Woolf, I had to read To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway in college.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 29, 2018 8:03:26 GMT -6
Any of ya'll use Goodreads?
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Post by Javo on Nov 29, 2018 9:21:53 GMT -6
I do
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Post by thebosma on Nov 29, 2018 9:23:05 GMT -6
I use it but mostly for looking at what other people read. Feel free to find me on there
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Post by goodson on Nov 29, 2018 9:26:39 GMT -6
Love love love To the Lighthouse. Same! Her writing style - particularly when going down the rabbit-hole of inner thought - was amazing. My gf has recommended I try Mrs. Dalloway next, pretty excited for that one mrs dalloway is so sick |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 29, 2018 9:56:02 GMT -6
I use it but mostly for looking at what other people read. Feel free to find me on there i just need an app to reference at the bookstore when im looking for stuff to pick up, so i signed up for one. keeping it all on amazon is sorta clunky. im not sure how to add friends? whateva |
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Post by thebosma on Nov 29, 2018 9:57:47 GMT -6
I also do not know how it works haha
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2018 9:23:52 GMT -6
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Dec 13, 2018 11:24:35 GMT -6
I finished The Woman in the Window last night!
Did anyone else read it that would like to talk about it?
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Post by thebosma on Dec 20, 2018 18:42:14 GMT -6
 Really enjoying this, though I'm already getting a lot of questions from my family |
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Post by zircona1 on Dec 20, 2018 20:55:49 GMT -6
I'm rereading Wolf in White Van. I honestly haven't discovered any books I've been wanting to read recently, so I've reread a few I have at home.
I did hear about one this week that sounded interesting: The Professor and the Madman, about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Post by facts on Dec 26, 2018 15:33:33 GMT -6
Wasn't in a rush to get the Beastie Boys book but someone gave it to me as a present and its really great.
The stories are so good that you kind of wish it was a straight forward biography where they don't just skip over huge time periods but the nonlinear nature of it is very on brand.
Worth reading
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Post by teekoh on Dec 26, 2018 16:44:27 GMT -6
I got that, too, and am very excited. It was the one gift I got at our party with extended family over the weekend and my opening with it went something like this:
Me: Oh great! This was at the top of my list! Thanks a lot, little cousin!
Grandma: What is it? Hold it up!
Me: *holds up book*
Grandma: Very nice! The Pizza Boys!
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Post by thebosma on Dec 26, 2018 17:02:19 GMT -6
Teekoh we should start a Beastie Boys cover band called The Pizza Boys a la Pizza Underground
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Post by teekoh on Dec 26, 2018 18:10:17 GMT -6
I can think of nothing the world needs more.
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Post by munkivelli on Dec 26, 2018 18:58:43 GMT -6
Wasn't in a rush to get the Beastie Boys book but someone gave it to me as a present and its really great. The stories are so good that you kind of wish it was a straight forward biography where they don't just skip over huge time periods but the nonlinear nature of it is very on brand. Worth reading I got this as a Christmas present as well, along with Destroy all Monsters |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Dec 26, 2018 19:18:02 GMT -6
Mike D and Adrock talk about a LOT of music in that book and someone painstakingly went through and made playlists of every tune & artist they name-drop. They are amazing playlists.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2018 20:18:47 GMT -6
Man I forgot that book was out. Really wish I had asked for it for Christmas.
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