Firestorm by Jacob Soboroff. It's by an NBC LA based reporter who grew up in the area of the Palisades fire. Just a bit in, but very good
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Firestorm by Jacob Soboroff. It's by an NBC LA based reporter who grew up in the area of the Palisades fire. Just a bit in, but very good
I keep buying books, digital ones, and not reading.Ugh. Video scrolling is so… Unsatisfying these days. Empty. I need to get absorbed in a decent novel. I’ve read a little way into A Little Life which is 800 pages and may be absorbing, we shall see.
I just bought Lionel Shriver’s novel about an immigrant that was just released this week. I bought it based on the strength of an interview she did with Douglas Murray for the Manhattan Institute. I love that man. I finally bought his nonfiction book about the death of The West but I may not wade into it because it’s just sad, what we are doing to ourselves.
I just looked up Lionel Shriver because I never heard of her. She seems interesting. Which of her books would you recommend for someone who has never read her? What is the name of the Douglas Murray book?Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Her most well known work is the fictional “We Need to Talk About Kevin” which is arresting and horrifying, and the film of that novel is also stellar. Unforgetable.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
The Shriver book released this week is “A Better Life” about a well meaning woman who has a comfortable life. She opens up her large home to an immigrant.
Shriver is about 70 years old. She writes about cultural and social problems. She’s a speaker in the transgender critical world, and I am anxiously awaiting any novel she does about trans people. She gave a good interview to Douglas Murray, where she said she is increasingly alone in her centrist political views among novelists. She worries about lack of thought diversity of young writers, and she blames the universities that are turning out group think writers.
Douglas Murray is an English political commentator, a fairly young guy who looks older than he is. He’s so elegant. I just love him. His big book is “The War on the West” about loss of Western values and culture.
OK, I'll try one of Shriver's book--probably A Better Life.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
If you are browsing for something to read, "Theo of Golden" by Allen Levy came highly recommended from a trusted reader friend. I just started it so can't comment, but it had high ratings and reviews.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Theo of Golden is very popular with book clubs these days. Coincidentally, a friend loaned me her copy the other day. At first, I thought it was kind of weird/silly but I am growing more interested to find out who Theo really is and what his motivation is for giving away gifts to strangers.
Theo was on my TBR list, but then as I heard more about it, it came off my list. I'll be interested to hear what you folks think about it.
Just started The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. About 3 chapters in and enjoying it so far.
It might be one of the better books I will read this year, but it's definitely on the sappy feel good side of fiction. The place and characters seemed unlikely to exist in the real world, but sort of like a King story, they become believable as things develop and maybe parts of the places and characters are everywhere. The sort of thing book clubs could go on about life lessons and hiden meanings, or just taken as a good story.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
My next up is The Martians:
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Science News, Boston Globe, Library Journal, Reactor, Bookreporter, PopMatters, Colorado Public Radio, and the Chicago Public Library
New York TimesBook Review • Editors' Choice