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Re: What are you reading?
By: Thetis099 Date: October 1, 2025, 1:05 pm
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[quote author=NoLongerAubergine
link=topic=68.msg349987#msg349987 date=1759338914]
[member=117]Wookinpanub[/member] shared a memory tangential to
Pat Conroy. That triggered a memory of my own.
My sister and I were going to a movie, and she really wanted to
see Prince of Tides. I had no interest. Zero. But I conceded.
Turned out that I liked it a lot. Enough, in fact, that I bought
the book. Which, as is often the case, was even better. So now
I'm wondering why I never read another of his.
Conroy wrote a gajillion books. My question is do any of you
have one to recommend?
[/quote]
I loved Prince of Tides. I read it first and then saw the
movie. I liked the book better even though the movie was good
too.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: Aardtacha Date: October 1, 2025, 2:49 pm
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Finally started the latest Bruno, Chief of Police books. An
Enemy in the Village, maybe? I love reading the descriptions of
the area in France and the foods Bruno fixes. The stories are
nice, too, but Martin Walker does spend time letting Bruno just
be doing everyday stuff. It's not all the mystery and being the
chief of police.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: northbayteky Date: October 1, 2025, 3:37 pm
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[quote author=Thetis099 link=topic=68.msg350002#msg350002
date=1759341900]
[quote author=NoLongerAubergine
link=topic=68.msg349987#msg349987 date=1759338914]
[member=117]Wookinpanub[/member] shared a memory tangential to
Pat Conroy. That triggered a memory of my own.
My sister and I were going to a movie, and she really wanted to
see Prince of Tides. I had no interest. Zero. But I conceded.
Turned out that I liked it a lot. Enough, in fact, that I bought
the book. Which, as is often the case, was even better. So now
I'm wondering why I never read another of his.
Conroy wrote a gajillion books. My question is do any of you
have one to recommend?
[/quote]
I loved Prince of Tides. I read it first and then saw the
movie. I liked the book better even though the movie was good
too.
[/quote]
I just put a hold on that from the library.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: Paloma Date: October 1, 2025, 3:47 pm
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Re: Pat Conroy:
The Prince of Tides is perhaps is greatest work. But The Great
Santini, including the film version with Robert Duval, Blythe
Danner and Michael O'Keefe, is a small masterpiece as well.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: NoLongerAubergine Date: October 1, 2025, 4:23 pm
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[quote author=Paloma link=topic=68.msg350053#msg350053
date=1759351626]
Re: Pat Conroy:
The Prince of Tides is perhaps is greatest work. But The Great
Santini, including the film version with Robert Duval, Blythe
Danner and Michael O'Keefe, is a small masterpiece as well.
[/quote]
Thank you!
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Re: What are you reading?
By: Tryp_OR Date: October 20, 2025, 4:12 pm
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Finished another batch of books, this time thrillers/mysteries
Slow Horses by Mick Herron MI5 in action, lots of twists. I
enjoyed it a lot, will be coming back to this series
Cut and Run by Ridley Pearson Witness protection officer trying
to find/save a woman who has left the program. I've read
several books by this author and find them enjoyable, although
this may not have been one of his best. He often sites the
stories in the PNW, usually Seattle
Then I decided to go with a few stories where the detective is
gay. Most of these have won minor awards. For the first three
authors, I'd be willing to read more from their series.
Fadeout by Joseph Hansen An insurance investigator trying to get
to the bottom of a disappearance, possible fraud, in early 70s
California
The Little Death by Michael Nava and Golden Boy by the same
author. California lawyer investigating deaths, sometimes of
clients, set in late 70s, early 80s. The author decided to
rework both these stories after he had polished his technique,
but I haven't seen the updated versions.
Firewatching by Russ Thomas Police inspector looking at a cold
case finds links to a current arson spree in modern Sheffield.
Cut and Run by Abigail Roux (same title as above, totally
different book) Well, they can't all be winners. I finished,
but I felt the writing was very poorly executed. Two bi FBI
agents investigate a serial killer in NYC, romance ensues.
Since I had seen what appeared to be a decent rating on
Goodreads, I went back to see the actual reviews. It was a mix
of 5 star "Oooh I love this series" and 1 star "This is crap",
ticking off all the points that annoyed me so much. I decided
that the positives must have all come from devotees of so-called
slash fan-fiction and the larger universe of related stories.
Next a return to science fiction -- I have already lined up a
trilogy by William Gibson.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: oreally Date: November 3, 2025, 5:30 pm
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I just started a book (finally) that a local middle school
librarian wrote about her experiences after defending our public
libraries against censorship in a library board meeting in the
parish where I was born, raised, and lived most of my adult
life.
What the book doesn't know yet is she just settled her
frustrating defamation case against one defendant for $1 and a
public apology. That's brand new. I'm not sure yet what that
means for the other defendant, "Citizens for a New Louisiana"
(🤮).
She did well with this book; it's changed her life for sure.
She's been traveling the world for her cause. She is a Time100
Next person for 2025 but her flight to the ceremony was delayed
in Syracuse and she missed it. Those are the times we're in with
flights.
The book is [i]That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in
America[/I] by Amanda Jones.
HTML https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318848/amanda-jones/
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Re: What are you reading?
By: kkt Date: December 9, 2025, 11:06 pm
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Katabasis, a novel, by R. F. Kuang. (Harper Collins, 2025)
Magic is real, but not used everywhere as it is by, say, wizards
in Harry Potter. Most spells require drawing pentagrams and
inscriptions very exactly with chalk. There's no innate ability
required, but a lot of academic study. There are academic
departments of magic at the great old universities, include
Cambridge, England, where the characters in this book are from.
The main character is a graduate student at Cambridge, and her
advisor is more than a bit of an asshole. He plays with his
students insecurities and builds up competition between them.
However, he is also at the top of the field of magic and a
favorable reference from him can get his students jobs at any
college they want. The main character goofed in one of the
pentagrams she was drawing for one of his spells. A chalk line
had an accidental break in it or some such. He is, of course,
supposed to check the pentagrams before casting spells, but
didn't... so it blew up causing a large explosion that killed
him instantly. She feels terrible about accidentally causing
his death, and about not being able to get his crucial signature
on her dissertation and letter of reference! So, she uses magic
to go to hell to retrieve him. After all, it has worked before,
sort of: Orpheus and Eurydice, Demeter and Persephone,
Odysseus, Dante. She's a good magician, really, except for that
one mistake. So she packs up some supplies, draws a pentagram,
and sends herself to hell to fetch him. She's exploring and
asking around but at first hardly any of the residents of hell
take any notice of her. Then, a fellow Cambridge magic graduate
student turns up - followed her! He also needs his dissertation
approved and a letter of reference, and they agree to work
together even though they have been in competition for grants
and publications and attention from their advisor. He does have
one thing she doesn't: a spell that will allow him to bring
their advisor back to life. Their adventures teach them about
themselves, that advisor, and each other, and they are not
always happy discoveries. It's part academic comedy. One part
of hell is the land of Diss, mostly a large academic library
where graduate students labor in quest of having their
dissertations approved, even though they rarely see and never
get feedback from their advisors. They can submit a
dissertation for approval, and either it will get approved and
they can move on to the next layer of hell, or more likely they
will hear nothing at all. Enjoyed very much.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: Aardtacha Date: December 10, 2025, 8:18 am
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Started the Murderbot diaries when I couldn't find my copy of
Pride and Prejudice that didn't have zombies involved. Sadly,
DH lent out his books to someone and we didn't get book three
back. So now I'm in limbo until the replacement third book
comes in.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: VanGoghSunflowers Date: December 10, 2025, 3:00 pm
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[quote author=Aardtacha link=topic=68.msg363281#msg363281
date=1765376335]
Started the Murderbot diaries when I couldn't find my copy of
Pride and Prejudice that didn't have zombies involved. Sadly,
DH lent out his books to someone and we didn't get book three
back. So now I'm in limbo until the replacement third book
comes in.
[/quote]
I'm also in Murderbot limbo! I accidentally got book 6 instead
of 5 out of the library, so now I need to find book 5.
But I don't understand what you mean by "my copy of Pride and
Prejudice" - don't we all have a dog-eared copy we bought at 8
years old and have read so many times the binding fell apart, a
Complete Works of Jane Austen book that's really too hefty to
read individual books, a digital Complete Works that's formatted
kind of wonky, a digital just Pride and Prejudice that's
actually readable, an annotated Pride and Prejudice edition, and
a hard cover we bought just because it was pretty?
...no? Is that... not a normal number of copies of Pride and
Prejudice for a person to own? And uh, Aadtacha, would you like
to borrow one?
ETA: Oh, and I also have the one with the zombies some where. I
think digital. I didn't love that one.
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