BOOKS

[OuttaNowhereWregget]

Working my way through My Life With The Pros by Bud Collins. Entertaining read. Burst out loud funny at certain points. Has a real way with and love affair with words and relating memories.

[molo]

After “The Trees” I just needed some more Everett. Started “So Much Blue” tonight with “James” on deck.

[molo]

Now reading part 2 of “James.” If “Moby Dick” is not the great American novel, then I’ll defer to Hemingway, who said “Huckleberry Finn” is the touch stone. Everett relates the events of HF from the standpoint of Jim. I was initially hesitant about a reworking of a masterpiece, but this one is captivating.
High school English teachers don’t teach HF frequently anymore because of a racial epithet in a story of a boy who chooses hell instead of sells out a friend. As usual, Everett deals with race, the single most complicated domestic issue in American history, with precision and complexity.

[Seacoaster(1)]

Recommend “Horse” by Geraldine Brooks. Beautiful stories within a single book.

[Brooklyn]

Recommend “Horse” by Geraldine Brooks. Beautiful stories within a single book.

sounds like you're correct: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/11/11043690 ... oroughbred




As for me, I've decided to re-start Gone With the Wind - will use an audio book to go along with my rather old and dusty copy of that novel. The print is a bit too small for my delicate eyes. Furthermore, 1,000 pages is just too much to read. I'll listen along and hopefully, get a full appreciation of the story.

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.t-5aHyy9l ... ImgDetMain

[molo]

Finished “Dr. No” after “James” and will start “Telephone” tonight.

[Brooklyn]

my current reading with this as the preferred title The Children of the Sea:


http://tiny.cc/k56lyz


Said to be one of the very best Western writings of the century.





For obvious reasons the title has been changed though the book continues to be well regarded.

[molo]

Don’t read “Solenoid.” Reviews sounded promising, but were I not committed to finishing books I start, I would have quit this one.

[molo]

If you’re into Easy Rawlings, don’t miss “Farewell, Amythestine.” It’s now 1970 and Easy is 50, but Moseley still depicts a noirish LA from the perspective of this hard boiled detective.
“Assumption” is Percival Everett’s modern western. A novel, it’s really a trio of of short stories involving the same characters. If you’ve ever questioned your sanity, proceed with caution.

[molo]

If you’re into Easy Rawlings, don’t miss “Farewell, Amythestine.” It’s now 1970 and Easy is 50, but Moseley still depicts a noirish LA from the perspective of this hard boiled detective.
“Assumption” is Percival Everett’s modern western. A novel, it’s really a trio of of short stories involving the same characters. If you’ve ever questioned your sanity, proceed with caution.

[Typical Lax Dad]

If you’re into Easy Rawlings, don’t miss “Farewell, Amythestine.” It’s now 1970 and Easy is 50, but Moseley still depicts a noirish LA from the perspective of this hard boiled detective.
“Assumption” is Percival Everett’s modern western. A novel, it’s really a trio of of short stories involving the same characters. If you’ve ever questioned your sanity, proceed with caution.

I read the first four or five. I should get back to Easy.

[molo]

Don’t waste your time on “Trippy” by Ernesto Londoño. I had some interest in the use of psychedelics in therapy, but this book combines the worst of psychobabble, religion, and confessional pop psychology. I approached it with skepticism and was right.

[Seacoaster(1)]

Have I recommended Geraldine Brooks's recent book, Horse, to folks here? Nice read, very compelling story and storytelling. Highly recommend.

[molo]

About halfway through “Brooklyn” by Colm Toibin. The sequel, “Long Island,” is on deck.

[Seacoaster(1)]

About halfway through “Brooklyn” by Colm Toibin. The sequel, “Long Island,” is on deck.

Let us know what you think of the sequel. I really enjoyed Brooklyn.

[OuttaNowhereWregget]

"Pap warn’t in a good humor—so he was his natural self."

"Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadn’t skipped any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didn’t know the names of, and so called them what’s-his-name when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing."

[molo]

Sequel was great, too. Maybe one more?

[Brooklyn]

The Land of Little Rain
by Mary Hunter Austin


First published in 1903, it contains a series of interrelated lyrical essays about the inhabitants, both human and otherwise, and the arid landscape of the Owens Valley and the Mojave Desert of California.






https://www.gutenberg.org/files/365/365-h/365-h.htm

[Seacoaster(1)]

Sequel was great, too. Maybe one more?

Thanks. On the list.

Just finished one you might enjoy: The Wager, by David Grann (who wrote Killers of the Flower Moon). Not about a bet or gambling. It tells the true story of a Royal Navy shipwreck and stranding of several hundred men in 1741-42, their factions and mutiny, and eventual return to England to face unknown consequences. Astounding.

[molo]

Thanks. I’ll check it out after I finish “The Invention of Paris” by Eric Hazan.