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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited March 2018

    lilac....heads up.....This month, Geoff Dyer is coming out with a NEW book on Gary Winogrand....

  • lilacblue
    lilacblue Member Posts: 1,426
    edited March 2018

    Ooooohhhh, thank you for the heads up voraciousreader!!

    I'm embarking on a yoga teacher training and reading 9 required books on the subject including anatomy and physiology, so unable to add to the discussion unless you'd like to hear about your sexy psoas!

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,693
    edited March 2018

    image

  • mistyeyes
    mistyeyes Member Posts: 581
    edited March 2018

    ruthbru - So True!!


  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 8,210
    edited March 2018

    Love the cartoon, Ruthbru.

    My Kindle is loaded up again. I downloaded my max 10 books from the public (parish) library and my max from the Amazon catalog for Prime free reads. I also bought a cookbook for air fryer recipes that is on the Kindle and also on a Kindle app on my laptop.

    I stopped reading a book called The Last Policeman (can't recall the author) because it was depressing. A young policeman recently promoted to detective works to solve a crime while the world around him is adjusting to the news that a giant asteroid is headed for Earth. Many people have quit their jobs and are working on bucket lists since life as they know it will end on a specified date. The crime looks like a suicide hanging but he thinks it may be murder.

  • tessu
    tessu Member Posts: 1,294
    edited March 2018

    Halfway through Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman and can’t stop laughing! (One of the gems from the library exchange cart.)

  • m0mmyof3
    m0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,753
    edited March 2018

    Really getting into Roots by Alex Haley.

  • minustwo
    minustwo Member Posts: 13,354
    edited March 2018

    Re-reading A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley.

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited March 2018

    lilac...


    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/12/street-philosophy-garry-winogrand-geoff-dyer-review



    I am reading the book... my brain cells are ricocheting..

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938
    edited March 2018

    Carole, I read all three books in the Last Policeman series! Apocalyptic yes, but intriguing.

    Halfway thru Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology. Lots of short stories so it's a quick read.

    Got a rec for Patrick Rothfuss, anyone know his work?

  • JuliaJazz
    JuliaJazz Member Posts: 175
    edited March 2018

    Love Patrick Rothfuss.  The Name of the Wind is incredible.


  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938
    edited March 2018

    Thanks, Julia! Will check library for The Name of the Wind.

  • jkl2017
    jkl2017 Member Posts: 279
    edited March 2018

    The Name of the Wind & The Wise Man's Fear (the second book in the series) are both terrific. (And we've been waiting too long for the next installment!)

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938
    edited March 2018

    Oh Joy, a new series! Hope not too long for the third book. My library has the first two. :-)

  • Tappermom383
    Tappermom383 Member Posts: 401
    edited March 2018

    I’ll add these books to my list - so many good recommendations here! I just finished Final Girls - I was surprised at the ending! Just started An American Marriage.

    MJ

  • JuliaJazz
    JuliaJazz Member Posts: 175
    edited March 2018

    Just finished The Burgess Boys which is on sale for Amazon right now.  Same author who wrote Olive Kitteridge.  Loved both.

  • minustwo
    minustwo Member Posts: 13,354
    edited March 2018

    I keep getting offers to subscribe to NY Review of Books. This latest offer is $10 for 6 months. Does anyone take or read this? Worth it or not?


  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938
    edited April 2018

    Minus, no rec for book review. Just here quick to say Happy Anniversary to this most excellent thread. Thanks Elizabeth for starting it, we still love and miss you!

    Spent most of today reading The Name of the Wind. OMG what a great book!!

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,693
    edited April 2018

    Happy 7th Anniversary to us! Thinking of you, Elizabeth. Heart

  • pat01
    pat01 Member Posts: 913
    edited April 2018

    Finished Women in the Castle, very good book, yet another angle on WWII, my favorite type of fiction to read. Now reading The Bone Garden, also very good. Both recommendations from this thread, thanks!

  • tessu
    tessu Member Posts: 1,294
    edited April 2018

    Just finished The Dreaming by Barbara Wood, a romance novel set in Australia of the late 1800’s. Unfamiliar author and not my usual type of read, but I enjoyed it. Describes the Australian outback colorfully, and sparked my interest to learn more about the Aboriginal culture. I was lucky to visit Australia a year ago and would love to go back someday...

  • pat01
    pat01 Member Posts: 913
    edited April 2018

    Finished The Bone Garden by Tess Gerrittsen. Really enjoyed this book, and never saw the twist coming at the end. First book I've read in a while that has kept me up reading to see what happens next. Now I think I will continue reading A wrinkle in Time - started it a few weeks ago but life got in the way and had to return it, just came up for me again.

  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 8,210
    edited April 2018

    I enjoyed The Bone Garden, too.

  • m0mmyof3
    m0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,753
    edited April 2018

    Still slogging through “Roots”.

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited April 2018

    The Finest Building in America....all about New York's Crystal Palace...1853-1858. A gem! I can't believe how much info is covered in this tiny book! And the pictures too! Picture after picture from The Met, The New-York Historical Society and The Museum of the City of New York....this book, no larger than six inches long is AMAZING. Just like the book that I recently read, March 1917, it made me wonder what people of the future will say about our present...


    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-finest-building-in-america-9780190681210

  • jelson
    jelson Member Posts: 622
    edited April 2018

    Just finished Peter Carey's A Long Way From Home. set in Australia early 1950's. Irene Bobs, her husband a car salesman, set off on the Redex Trial, a race circumnavigating the continent with their nextdoor neighbor - a quiz show champion and disgraced school teacher. Fascinating descriptions of driving, the mechanics of automobiles, roadless, wild and forbidding terrain as the characters' histories are revealed. Lots about aborigines and their brutal treatment at the time and in the past. Hadn't realized I had read one of Carey's previous books before - Parrot and Olivier in America. He isn't my discovery though, having won the Booker prize twice, for The History of the Kelly Gang and Oscar and Lucinda!!

  • JuliaJazz
    JuliaJazz Member Posts: 175
    edited April 2018

    On sale for kindle today Tg Notaro's book I'm just a person about her year with cancer 1.99. she is a comic. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015MNHTN0?ref=pe_2267260_279761320_g_7_8658&tag=x_gr_e_d_default_control_us-20


  • jkl2017
    jkl2017 Member Posts: 279
    edited April 2018

    Thanks, JuliaJazz, I just ordered it & look forward to reading it! I just finished The Bane Chronicles & am currently reading (& enjoying) Karen Memory. (Both were suggested by readers on this thread.) And TaRenee, I just picked up Serafina and the Black Cloak from the library & hope to finish it before our trip to the Biltmore later this month. All of this reading makes my time on the exercise bike fly by - thanks for all your recommendations!

    Edited to thank TaRenee for her recommendation

  • TaRenee
    TaRenee Member Posts: 406
    edited April 2018

    JKL I know you will love Serafina! The imagery in the book is amazing.

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938
    edited April 2018

    Absolutely loved The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. Looking forward to The Doors of Stone coming ?? but hopefully soon. Just re-read The Handmaid's Tale and may pick up A Wrinkle in Time.

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