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I know. I read a really great book about health & exercise recently & was going to post about it, but stopped and asked WWKD? (What would Konakat do?) So, I didn't post!
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Oy.... I was 5 pages into Alice Hoffman's The Museum of Extraordinary Things, but, Walter Kirn's Blood Will Out, won out! Having previously read The Man in the Rockefeller Suit and couldn't BELIEVE THAT STORY, I just had to read Kirn's account of his relationship with "Clark Rockefeller. " Opened the book yesterday and just could not put it down. Tore through it! This story has octapus legs, I tell you! I can't read enough about this character and the people in his orbit...
And Elizabeth? What a wonderful legacy she's left us...
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I've been in Florida for a couple of weeks just in time to return to some nice Chicago weather. Anyway, I finished Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow. I did guess the surprise at the end. Now, I'm reading Sycamore Row. The only Grisham I've read was Skipping Christmas and this is very different. So far, I haven't made any guesses about the ending.
I'm so thrilled that this thread has lasted 4 years. I've received so many good ideas about books. Thank you all.
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reading The Timekeeper by Mitch Albom..amazing book!
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OK, I just finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Despite what I felt was a promising start, it became very bogged down and I found myself just slogging through it. If I hadn't been reading it as an 'assignment' (Book Club), I definitely would have quit about 3/4 of the way through and I am relieved to be done with it! I started out with a lot of empathy for the main character, but by the end I just wanted to knock him upside the head. Two thumbs down!
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Ruth, I kind of felt the same way, and the only reason I did finish it was because I wanted to find out how it ended. I think I mentioned this in another post, but I thought that the author's commentary was too long and unnecessary especially at the beginning and end of the book. I watched a YouTube video of the author. Apparently, she takes as much as 10 years to write a book, and they are all lengthly, which I can see makes for the "extra words" if you will. IMHO
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I believe it, as it seemed like it took me 10 years to read it!!!
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Love it Sandra
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yes yes..reading is my fav therapy!
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Thanks for the comments on The Goldfinch. Makes me feel better about taking my name off the reserve list last week. I requested it way back in January and was fifth on the list but it was taking for freaking ever, way longer than usual. Now I know why. Instead of reading right through it, as one would do with a really good book, people put it aside so the copies didn't circulate very fast.
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I feel bad for the lady in my Book Club who chose Goldfinch for this month's read. We hated her last pick too....she is going to start to get a complex!
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Reading Michael Gross's, House of Outrageous Fortune. Although it is billed as the back story about Manhattan's most expensive building, it's about that and so much more. I've read all of his books, and just like Erik Larson, boy oh boy, can he weave a story! I've written to him on a few occasions,and just like Larson, he is more than happy to hear from fans. I regularly refer to his book about The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I'm surprised they even let him in the building. And for Jackie Kennedy buffs, her grandfather was responsible for building 740 Park Ave...the now SECOND most important residence in Manhattan. Gross wrote a bang up job about that building too...where Jackie spent her childhood.
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Sounds interesting!
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reading ' the emperor of maladies'. Very informative and interesting.
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Valsa, I love The Emperor of All Maladies. It gave me an education on cancer in general, not just breast cancer although many of the examples he gave concerned breast cancer. Finding out that as a people, we aren't all that far ahead in this battle against cancer than we were 200 years ago, was shocking! It was mind boggling to find out that it takes so many gene abnormalities for the body to even entertain the possibility of cancer and that they have to occur at precisely the right time and in the right order for there to be a chance of cancer developing. Talk about a crap shoot! I've recommended it to many women, particularly those who are afraid they did something wrong and got cancer. Afterwards they know it wasn't anything they did.
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I loved The Emperor of Maladies. Sandra, I couldn't have said it any better.
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My husband and I are flying to Chicago for a week on Wednesday. Anyone nearby who wants to meet for coffee?
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Goldfinch just won Pulitzer Prize....
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Not surprising.
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Seriously? Well, that shows what kind of taste I have in books......which is either not a compliment to me or else not to the Pulitzer Prize pickers!
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It's only the opinion(s) of the Pulitzer Prize pickers
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reporting in after reading Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage - Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence for a book about procrastinating instead of writing a book about Lawrence, I feel I learned a lot about Lawrence and Dyer, the crafts of literary criticism and biography and extended travel. Thank YOU VR!!!!
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Jelson....So happy to hear that you enjoyed Dyer's book! Now you probably understand why my family and I adore him! If you have the time to watch some youtube posted lectures of his, you will see how extraordinary his perceptions are. My favorite lecture of his is his discussion of war books. He believes most war books, once read are anti-war books. No matter how pro war they might be, once you finish reading them, one comes away with the feeling against war. His thoughts, IMHO are mind bending and captivating and make me think really, really hard. And when he talks about his perceptions of himself, as VR's mother would say, "If he is on drugs, he needs to come off them... And... If isn't on drugs, he most definitely and desperately needs them!"
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will check out the youtube videos. with regards to your mother's opinion - uh oh, in Out of Sheer Rage - his excuses for not doing what he thinks he should be doing, his angry internal monologues, his explanation of depression - resonated very personally with me. If only I could be so articulate.
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Yes, Jelson. Dyer has the uncanny ability to articulate his feelings in minutiae detail...and yet, after reading his words, one realizes there is a grander meaning to the details....This scale is appreciated in everything that he writes about. Whether he is talking about his feelings, a photograph, a person or even a culture or cemetery, somehow, after you finish reading or listening to his descriptions, you can never look at something, that you thought was so familiar, whether it was your feelings about something or someone else in the same way again. I can safely say that he warps my mind...in a good way! His words DO resonate! We should all be so blessed to be such wordsmiths!
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