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Post by tzarine on Aug 3, 2020 21:58:52 GMT 2
has anyone read elsa morante's history?
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Post by tzarine on Jan 2, 2023 2:59:05 GMT 2
any 2023 recs?
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Post by Voy on Jan 2, 2023 3:22:06 GMT 2
I'm plowing thru the 3 volumes of Nella Last's War, and the next two ( she started keeping a diary for a Brit Govt project in the war, and never stopped... so the diaries go on up to the 60s... actually, plowing isn't fair - I'm enjoying them .
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Post by sophie on Jan 2, 2023 7:26:56 GMT 2
Last month I read ‘Girl Woman Other’ …won the Booker a couple of years ago. I really enjoyed it.
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Post by rikita on Jan 8, 2023 0:03:40 GMT 2
still reading "überbitten". started it in the summer, then did not have time to continue, continued during christmas break, and i guess next time i can continue will be during winter break ...
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 8, 2023 0:20:52 GMT 2
I'm reading 2 books. One is le Carré's Agent Running in the Field. It had good reviews but I find it difficult to be enthralled yet. The second book I'm reading (sorry about this) is one of my own: Czechmate. I'll be doing a podcast next Saturday and I find my memory is blank about the books I have written. I don't reread them. So I must do a crash course so I don't seem more stupid than I am.
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Post by wikki on Jan 8, 2023 9:44:03 GMT 2
I'm reading "There, There" written by Tommy Orange
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Post by sophie on Jan 8, 2023 17:50:22 GMT 2
Just finished ‘We measure the earth with our bodies’, a novel about Tibetan refugees and their trauma, connection to their culture, and colonialism. Good novel.
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Post by sophie on Jan 9, 2023 7:39:11 GMT 2
Just started ‘Dead Man Telling Tales’ by Baz.. excellent opening!
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Post by sophie on Jan 12, 2023 3:16:23 GMT 2
Good book.. I don’t usually read this genre, but I enjoyed it very much.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 12, 2023 11:56:07 GMT 2
Good book.. I don’t usually read this genre, but I enjoyed it very much. Glad you enjoyed it, Sophie. A review (it can be brief) on Amazon would help me.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 30, 2023 5:53:35 GMT 2
I'm reading a biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor. What a life he led.
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Post by sophie on Jan 30, 2023 7:25:44 GMT 2
I was just gifted a number of months of recent New Yorker and NY Review of Books. I will be busy reading bits and pieces for the next while.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 30, 2023 21:09:22 GMT 2
i was walking home w tzar & found a copy of the portable karl marx there was a photo inside of two very high people is this a message?
one time i found a book the writings of st augustine inside there was a request that if you read the book, sign your name & leave it somewhere for the next person it was a beautifully written text
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Post by Voy on Jan 30, 2023 23:06:58 GMT 2
When I had to read St A, in the original, I hated him so much ( what a mysogynist !) - I used to go down to the squash courts - alone - and "beat the hell out of him"! Which was how I got to be a really good squash player !
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Post by tzarine on Jan 31, 2023 5:26:52 GMT 2
wow voy the original
beating the hell outta augustine
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 31, 2023 5:32:25 GMT 2
i was walking home w tzar & found a copy of the portable karl marx there was a photo inside of two very high people is this a message? one time i found a book the writings of st augustine inside there was a request that if you read the book, sign your name & leave it somewhere for the next person it was a beautifully written text When I was at university I bought a second hand history book. Much to my surprise when I opened the book up a Times review by my future father-in-law fluttered out.
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Post by Voy on Jan 31, 2023 15:53:48 GMT 2
I'm reading, and very much enjoying, "The Grand Tour, letters and photographs from the British Empire Expedition", by Agatha Christie. Well, it was compiled and edited from her letters by her grandson.
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Post by Scrubb on Feb 1, 2023 8:19:29 GMT 2
I'm reading a biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor. What a life he led. I've read his books about his walk across Europe, and also a collection of letters between him and Deborah Cavendish (the youngest Mitford sister), and enjoyed them. I can imagine his biography would pull together all the different parts of his life, which as you suggest, was a pretty fascinating one.
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 2, 2023 5:29:47 GMT 2
I'm reading a biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor. What a life he led. I've read his books about his walk across Europe, and also a collection of letters between him and Deborah Cavendish (the youngest Mitford sister), and enjoyed them. I can imagine his biography would pull together all the different parts of his life, which as you suggest, was a pretty fascinating one. My feeling is that Leigh Fermor would be a nightmare guest. He'd want to stay up talking until dawn until he had drained all your bottles of booze. Then he'd fall asleep on your sofa with a cigarette between his fingers. I read of one occasion when he broke into his host's bedroom screaming because his cigarette had set fire to the sofa. But he did wonders capturing that German general in Crete during WW2.
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Post by Scrubb on Feb 2, 2023 6:58:08 GMT 2
Ha ha! I think you're probably right, Baz, although I bet the conversation would be great.
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 22, 2023 5:08:02 GMT 2
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
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Post by sophie on Feb 22, 2023 5:16:31 GMT 2
Just finished The Winners by Fredrik Backman. Started slow but I got into it and loved it.
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Post by Scrubb on Feb 22, 2023 6:29:16 GMT 2
I'm reading "The Shadow of the Wind". Lots of people really like it and it's on lists of great books, but a couple people whose tastes I often share thought it was pure crap. Thought I'd see for myself what I think.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 22, 2023 19:16:22 GMT 2
toni morrison's the bluest eye a coming of age tale that is funny & heartbreaking
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Post by rikita on Feb 22, 2023 23:20:49 GMT 2
currently reading the amazing maurice and his educated rodents to a. also, i read a children's book called school of dragons for myself (a. had read it on her own and asked me to read it, too) ...
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Post by tzarine on Mar 6, 2023 6:58:41 GMT 2
the best of american sportswriting
read essays on vanity & death on everest women who served a big football team owner. the women went to jail, the team owner walked concussions among athletes
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Post by tzarine on Mar 9, 2023 19:50:51 GMT 2
under the glacier halldor laxness icelandic fellow sent to a parish supposed to be funny? an exercise to see if you get the humor? masterpiece?
maybe i dont get icelanders?
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Post by Voy on Mar 10, 2023 5:13:53 GMT 2
Just finished re-reading Daddy Longlegs, and then the sequel, Dear Enemy -- they are so good !
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Post by Scrubb on Apr 12, 2023 21:15:50 GMT 2
Just finished re-reading Daddy Longlegs, and then the sequel, Dear Enemy -- they are so good ! I really like Daddy Longlegs, but something about the sequel bothered me. I'm reading "Krakatoa" by Simon Winchester. It's about the volcano, including a bit of geology and some history and politics, etc. So far it's pretty good. The weird thing is that today on Goodreads it gave me a suggestion: "Since you are reading 'Krakatoa', you might also enjoy the Ghostbusters photo novel of the film". Ummm, I don't understand what connection they see between these 2 books!!
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