New thread, nearly a new month.
I am reading an Oliver norek - breaking point - a french police thriller. He is excellent - perhaps closest to a french Michael Connelly?
I just finished southern man - Greg isles. Just a bit to melodramatic for me but there were some aspects that were interesting.
Currently listening to a beginners guide to breaking and entering and I think the author is in Mick herron territory. Its very “English” and I think very funny.
I finished a couple books recently. More work, travel equals more time to read on planes.
Going gray: What I learned about beauty, sex, work, motherhood, authenticity, and everything else that really matters. I gave it one star. It could’ve been an essay.
A season for that: lost and found in the other southern France. By Steve Hoffman. Loved it! 5 stars. A Minnesota CPA, fixated by France his entire life, including doing a semester in Paris in college, uproots his family (wife and two kids) to go live six months in a small village in Occitaine. It changes all of them.
Currently reading Katie Ledecky‘s book, Just Add Water. A study in perseverance and doing something just because you love to do it and you want to reach your internal goals.
I’d like that - have you read a year in provence or Dirt?
France changed all of them - just ordered your books
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. H Thompson
The terror. Dan Simmons
I loved A Year in Provence. I need to re-read it. I have Dirt on my list to read.
“A Problem from Hell” - America and the Age of Genocide.
It’s a look at the genocides of the last century,
Armenian genocideHolocaustKhmer Rouge in CambodiaThe Kurd genocide in IraqBosniaRwandaKosovo
The main question is why, with all the military power available, nothing was done to stop any of them. In the more recent cases, the UN was there and still, nothing done.
I’ve always argued that building up the strong militaries over the past 60 years or so has done nothing but prolong wars and make the military suppliers rich. When there were these cases where a strong military could have actually done some good, nothing was done.
Finished Under A Rock - Chris Stein’s memoir, adding to some other memoirs and biographies I’ve read from the late 70s/early 80s NYC/Punk/Art/Warhol universe
History of Bones - John Lurie
Widow Basquiat - Jennifer Clement
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Remain In Love - Chris Frantz
Punk Rock Blitzkrieg - Marky Ramone
Please Kill Me - Legs McNeill
I was disappointed in the pacing - it takes half the book to get to “Plastic Letters” then we zip through “Parallel Lines.” “Eat To The Beat” might be half a chapter, along with “Autoamerican” and so on
It’s almost like “we’re running behind - hurry up & play the HITS”
Maybe I need to read Debbie’s book to fill in the gaps?
On the other hand
"Hey, if you’ve picked this up, you might already be a fan; maybe even a SUPER-Fan. Let’s be honest; all our stories have been told, re-told, un-told, and non-told
I’m just adding stuff you might not know; or you do?"
Blondie opened for REO Speedwagon? For Rush? Alice Cooper, I understand LOL; same with Iggy
Tom Petty opened for Blondie?
I liked please kill me a lot
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I like the “oral history” format where you can imagine people just sitting down to chat and “roll tape; we’ll do a transcript later”
This was wonderfully executed in Daisy Jones and The Six
Although it was fiction, Taylor Jenkins Reid knew what she was doing
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I like the “oral history” format where you can imagine people just sitting down to chat and “roll tape; we’ll do a transcript later”
This was wonderfully executed in Daisy Jones and The Six
Although it was fiction, Taylor Jenkins Reid knew what she was doing
Agreed
Saw daisy on prime didn’t read. Will have to check it out. Thanks !
Said it in another post but Barbarian Days is an epic book. Inside to surfing but epic word smithing.
Said it in another post but Barbarian Days is an epic book. Inside to surfing but epic word smithing.
Thank you. Have not looked at before. I will check it out
Edit. Won a Pulitzer. Good stuff
Its one of the best books I’ve read in years
Dirt by Buford being the other
The fact they were colleagues and journalists and wrote about their experiences through their respective passions; surfing and food was fantastic
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Flatline Constructs, Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction by Mark Fisher
In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson
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Its one of the best books I’ve read in years
Dirt by Buford being the other
The fact they were colleagues and journalists and wrote about their experiences through their respective passions; surfing and food was fantastic
Thanks for the feedback
August started with
David Copperfield - Dickens
Midnights Children - Salman Rushdie
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Reading Table for Two by Amor Towles. Fantastic writing. Follows enjoying previous works Rules of Civility and Gentleman in Moscow.
Finished the Katie Ledecky book. Now I’ve started a book about training for shot put, discus and javelin.
Its one of the best books I’ve read in years
Dirt by Buford being the other
The fact they were colleagues and journalists and wrote about their experiences through their respective passions; surfing and food was fantastic
Thanks for reminding me. I am ordering now. I liked Heat so I expect this will be good.
If you like French food books check out Duck Season by David McAninch. The book is OK but if you are into duck fat and Armagnac it is pretty great. It is food porn.
Deer Hunting With Jesus - Dispatches from America’s Class War , Joe Bageant Copyright 2007 We have not evolved very much
Hilarious and frightening
White working poor who hate education and liberalism - MAGA People
The Quantum and The Lotus - Matthieu Ricard & Trish Juan Thuan
Conversation where Science and Buddhism Meet-very interesting concepts
The Lioness-Chris Bohjalian
Rip Roaring Adventure In Africa - Safari
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Oliver Twist Dickens
The Rooster Bar Grisham (“re read” from having listened to on audio a while back).