What are you reading?

[Joe Beamish]

Originally Posted by hairpuller

Readers must not get him because the reviews are pretty pedestrian.
scott

I too was interested, and read some reviews in goodreads. I’m never convinced by such reviews, but if there’s enough of them, they give me an idea of what the book is like. This one, Port Mungo, seems well written, although perhaps to the point of being “stodgy”, and is a “page turner” with a “trashy”, “unsympathetic” story.

But I love some of Nabokov’s writerly page turners.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23023.Port_Mungo

[Bob Womack]

Originally Posted by spock

Bob, Very interesting. Thank you for that - I do genuinely appreciate it.

Tim

PS I clicked on your link and looked around your site. Very very cool and a ton of great information there, some of which I actually understood. Ha Ha

Thanks for your kind words!


Bob

[agfsteve]

Originally Posted by DCCougar

Currently reading Angela's Ashes, but I STRONGLY recommend:

All the Light We Cannot See -- Anthony Doer (2014)

The Goldfinch -- Donna Tartt (2013)

Thank you so much for this recommendation! I just finished reading All the Light We Cannot See, and I loved it!

[BrunoBlack]

Double post...

[BrunoBlack]

I’ve got 2 non fiction going that are very interesting.





And starting a new series.

[Bob Womack]

I finished volume II of Churchill's The Second World War (Their Finest Hour) and have move on to volume III (The Grand Alliance).

I'm also in Ted Templeman's autobiography, A Platinum Producer's Life in Music and just finished The Gospel According to Luke by Steve Lukather.


Bob

[HodgdonExtreme]

Two on my nightstand, currently:

[Dru Edwards]

I'll be finishing book 2 of the Dean Koontz Jane Hawk series, The Whispering Room, probably tomorrow and then on to book 3.

[jpd]

Donovan....Hurdy Gurdy Man.

[Everton FC]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - "Gulag Archipelago"
Wes Jackson - "Becoming Native To This Place"
Bible - Acts of the Apostles
Ole Hallesby - "Under His Wings"

[jseth]

"Broken", by Don Winslow... a collection of substantial short stories... It is a great read! Every story is different and quite entertaining.

Winslow is one of my favorite "new" authors to read... it's interesting to watch his style change through the years as he become more and more involved with writing screenplays and scripts for TV and cinema...

He captures the Southern California beach scene really well, and that's where I was raised in the 50's and 60's. I didn't surf much, back in the early 60's when the craze hit, but I've always loved the Ocean and was fanatic free-diver and bodysurfer for a long time. Winslow's books, especially in the middle of his career, are a lot fun to read.

Don Winslow and Kem Nunn are the two authors who's works really embody the spirit of surfing and the Ocean...

[flagstaffcharli]

I’m reading How Music Works by David Byrne. To be honest, I’m a little disappointed. I finished a Jim Henson biography recently that was much more inspirational.

On the fiction side I have been escaping into Kate Milford’s novels for young readers. Great books! For lack of a better comparison, they are in the same territory as the Harry Potter stuff.

I believe another Ivan Doig novel is at the top of my stack.

[Golffishny]

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein. Interesting how the more outside influences apply to a subject, the less specialization helps.

[Don W]

White Lotus - John Hersey

[Don W]

I also just finished "The Passage trilogy" 600-700 each book. Have had plenty of time to read. Retired in semi lockdown. It was an excellent set of books.