An autobiographical musing, by Williamsmith.
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An autobiographical musing, by Williamsmith.
A Thousand Day’s by Arthur Schlesinger (Husband and I are reading this aloud to each other 5 pages a day. With the book 1031 pages, you will understand that this is taking a while.)
Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician by Alan Brodsky
Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim (Young woman teaches English to elite North Korean Fascinating.)
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
None of last week's books grabbed me. This week at the library I picked up The Far Away Brothers and 50 States, 5000 Ideas and The World Atlas of Street Fashion.
Funny! I also picked up 50 states, 5,000 ideas this week. Have not opened it yet though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
I have moved on to the topic of dementia.
Nearly finished Susan and John McFadden's Aging Together which gets to grips with how communities abandon people as they "go down the dementia road"... and makes strong recommendations to family/friends and religious congregations.
On deck:
Mace and Robins, The 36-Hour Day
Basting, Forget Memory
Kessler, Dancing with Rose
Did you read "Still Alice?" That was good and the film was good as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by dado potato
iris lilies:
Thanks for the recommendation of "Still Alice"... When I finish with the current 4, look for it I will look for it.
This is a novel and I don't know if you read novels, but this tells the story of a woman with early onset dementia. She is a college professor. It is a very moving book.Quote:
Originally Posted by dado potato
It didn't have many places I had not already heard of that are of interest to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
Total fiction/good read. Diane Chamberlain: Cypress Point.
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.
Tell me just a little more.Quote:
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
I am only about a fifth of the way into the book but it is good so far, written by a reporter. It is about one arsonist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ultralight
I should definitely seek out the movie; thanks for mentioning it.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Buddhism a Beginners Guide
I got the movie and it was subtitled.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
Interested. Who is the author? There are several books with that or similar title. I enjoyed this one:Quote:
Originally Posted by BikingLady
https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Gui.../dp/156455886X
I also like the ones on secular Buddhism by Stephen Batchelor, especially Buddhism Without Beliefs.
https://www.amazon.com/Buddhism-With...ithout+beliefs
Yes. It is a Swedish film.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
I just finished reading Reading With Patrick by Michelle Kuo. I could not put it down. Non fiction memoir/story of a teacher, the Delta, the children, lost in the horror of the South yet surviving.
I just finished listening to another escape from North Korea memoir--In Order to Live, and I'm in the middle of Full Body Burden, also a memoir, but about the infamous Rocky Flats nuclear plant. I'm ready for something uplifting--like a nice bloody mystery.
For about four years in the 1980's I lived just few miles downwind of Rocky Flats. I always had the feeling that by then much of the radioactive emissions were under control by then and maybe the plant was winding down, but now I may have to check the book out to see. I'd not heard of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
I am reading The Lost City of the Monkey God, which is a non-fiction adventure type book about modern archaeologists searching for a legendary lost civilization in the jungles of Honduras. It good.
"Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore" by Matthew Sullivan.
A somewhat literary suspense novel that takes place in Denver in the 1990s. The bookstore is actually The Tattered Cover, thinly disguised. Lots of landmarks for those who know Denver - El Chepultepec (dh played jazz there in the 80s) the gentrification of that area, building the stadium etc.
A little too gory for my taste, but convincing, likable characters, a fast paced plot, and lots of literary references made it hard to put down.
Thanks for the review, Gardenarian. I'm in queue for the ebook at my library. I'm ready for a well-written mystery.
I got a new batch of library books since next weekend is a long one.
More Than Just Making It: Hope for the Heart of the Financially Frustrated should have some frugal tips.
Radio Free Vermont, a novel by Bill McKibbin.
Sherman Alexie's memoir You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Two travelogue books of less interest but I will see if they strike my fancy - White Mountain:
A Cultural Adventure Through the Himalayas and Happiness to Meet You: Foolishly, Blissfully Stranded in Vietnam.
And someone lent me Not Under Forty by Willa Cather.
Masochist that I am, I'm listening to the audible download of Insane Clown President, by Matt Taibbi. It's a collection of his dispatches from the election trenches. It's well written, well narrated, and very, very depressing.
Thunderstruck, by Erik Larsen.
Also listening to the audiobook late at night.
I am reading Gertrude by Hermann Hesse.
Seems like a good book so far. I have become a rather big fan of Hesse over the past year or two.
Thought I'd like to read a sci-fi space adventure next -- something lighter emotionally.
I grew up in city center Denver, so not next door, but close enough that when I was in high school I had friends who went to protest the place. Just checked and the library here has 2 copies, both of which are currently checked out. It's now reserved so I'm looking forward to it. At least as much as one can look forward to such a book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
As for what I've recently finished reading, probably the most interesting was Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. I've long thought I would like to hike the Appalachian Trail from one end to the other. And then I learned that there's a similar trail here on the west coast from the Mexico boarder in California to the Canada border in Washington. It appears to be a much more intense, and less done, trail. Tucked away in my bucket list is hiking it once I retire but before i get too old and decrepit to manage such a challenge.
JP, the book Wild was my first "trail book". It inspired my friend to start doing the Appalachian Trail-she's done all of PA, MD, WV and is trying to figure out how to do VA- which is over 500 miles. I just read the Appalachian Trail books.
"The Best of Us" by Joyce Maynard. She's in her early 60s and had a late in life second marriage. Her husband was diagnosed with cancer about one year into the marriage. I've enjoyed her writing for years (both novels and earlier memoirs) and this is just as thoughtfully written and moving as her other works.
Loved it and saw the movieQuote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa