A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman - fiction, so good!
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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman - fiction, so good!
Just checked out Tom Hanks' book, "Uncommon Type" and Billy Crystal's "700 Sundays." Looking forward to starting them both this week.
"Happy City" about urban planning by Charles Montgomery. I loved this book!
Also reading some 1950s fiction by Rumer Godden - yummy stuff.
I finally got around to reading Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. It was the only book of his I had not yet read. Loved it! Though it was not as punchy as his later books.
I am just about finished with Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse. Good book -- though sad in many ways.
Next on the docket is either Gertrude by Hermann Hesse or Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke.
Fascinating book - The Ground Beneath Us by Paul Bogard. It tells the history and demise of the soil beneath us all around the world. Interviews archaeologists, historians and scientists. I never thought about how much of our world is paved now and how our tender little tootsies never touch real soil.
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land, set on the Delmarva Peninsula.
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Originally Posted by Yppej
I also think there is a documentary on this topic that came out a few years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
I just finished Rendezvous with Rama. Good novel! Great sci-fi!
I am actually looking for another space adventure novel to read. Suggestions?
At the moment I am reading Sula by Toni Morrison. This is fine literature, it really is. Though it is very dark.
Several of us here saw the film of this book and talked about it on the film board. It was a nice little film.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa