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Re: What are you reading?
By: kkt Date: October 5, 2021, 9:55 pm
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Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
This short novel is comfort reading for me. It's very funny,
the main character is an ass but also has a good heart, and it
shoots broadsides at academia as seen from the point of view of
the red-headed stepchild arts and humanities side. It's written
in the form of a series of letters of recommendation from the
main character, recommending students, former students, and
colleagues for various jobs, to editors to have their work
published, for promotion, for tenure, for writing workshops.
It's not very demanding of the reader - you do have to pay a
little bit of attention to see how well previous recommendations
panned out but there's not a whole lot of nonchronological story
telling or unreliable narration. Mostly the recommendations are
straightforward but sometimes there are stinkers - she had a lot
of fun with the "recommendation" for a student who was flunked
for plagiarism.
#Post#: 34311--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
By: badpoodle Date: October 28, 2021, 8:01 am
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I finished Homegoing, which was a hard but good read, and moved
on to the Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd. Really enjoyable so
far. It's been nice reading while the World Series is on. :)
The next book I have lined up is Hidden Valley Road, which
chronicles schizophrenia in 6 of the 12 children born to a
family in Colorado. My sister recommended it.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: PalomaBlanca Date: November 1, 2021, 2:00 pm
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I"m so looking forward to this! "The Dawn of Everything", by
Graeber and Wengrow. Out on 9 Nov.
"In a video interview last month, Wengrow, a professor at
University College London, slipped into a mock-grandiose tone to
recite one of Graeber’s favorite catchphrases: “We are going to
change the course of human history — starting with the past.”
More seriously, Wengrow said, “The Dawn of Everything” ...aims
to synthesize new archaeological discoveries of recent decades
that haven’t made it out of specialist journals and into public
consciousness.
“There’s a whole new picture of the human past and human
possibility that seems to be coming into view,” he said. “And it
really doesn’t resemble in the slightest these very entrenched
stories going around and around.”
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/arts/dawn-of-everything-graeber-wengrow.html
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Re: What are you reading?
By: BossaNova Date: November 1, 2021, 7:17 pm
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[quote author=northbayteky link=topic=68.msg25080#msg25080
date=1633384928]
I admit, I'm a lazy reader. If a book doesn't pull me in and
keep me turning pages, any effort on my part makes me return it
to the library. So of course Nicholas Sparks gets read a lot. It
all started a while after I started working at the library and
realized I could read anything I wanted. For. Free! I started
out with murder mysteries, until I ran out of Patricia Cornwell
books. I hadn't read Nicholas Sparks book ever, but I knew that
several of his books were turned into movies. The ones I had
seen, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, all
ended with someone dying, so I was hesitant to pick up one of
his novels. The first couple of books of his I read did not
feature a death in the end, much to my surprise, so I keep
reading his stuff. At one point I signed up for his newsletter.
He had a book tour one year that brought him to the west coast,
so I secured tickets and got to see him talk and get a picture
with him.
So one day last week his newsletter dropped and it said his
latest book was hitting the bookstores today (that day, last
week.) So I looked up the title and to my surprise, copies were
available so I put it on hold. It's called "The Wish." I think
someone is going to die at the end.
I rad all of Clive Cussler's "The Oregon Files" series. My
brother got me in to those. I tried reading one of his other
series books, but I couldn't get into it. He's not as easy to
read as Sparks, but it's a different genre all together. I still
will miss the crew of The Oregon.
[/quote]
I used to be one of those who HAD to finish a book once I
started it. Then, one day I calculated how many books I was
likely to be able to read if I lived to 100 and kept up my
current pace. It was a lot lower than I thought. Especially when
compared to just how many books are in existence and the rate at
which books are published... I've never wasted my time on a book
I didn't enjoy (or wasn't an absolute necessity for work) since
then.
#Post#: 36900--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
By: Lady_Lessa Date: November 3, 2021, 12:09 pm
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May I recommend "Orchestra of Exiles" by Josh Aronson and Denise
George. It is the story of Bronislaw Huberman and how he
managed to save a number of Jewish musicians during and before
WWII. One thing I like about the book is that the chapters are
short, so you can read one or two without feeling guilty. This
is a true story, and is very honest about how Bronislaw's
childhood under a father who pushed him to excellence in the
violin and the pressures of a young boy being the support of his
whole family.
It is also a 2012 movie. I saw the movie first and then got the
book. So far they are very similar, with the differences being
the normal differences between seeing something and reading
about it.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: Chicagogirl22 Date: November 14, 2021, 10:05 pm
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This weekend I read In Five Years by Rebecca Serle.
It is exactly the type of book I like right now, it’s engaging
but not intense. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was picked up by
HBO Max or Netflix.
I’m late to this but I also read The Great Alone by Kristin
Hannah. Her more recent book, the Four Winds, is about the Dust
Bowl. She must be a phenomenal researcher because she publishes
fairly often but her books are always pretty detailed.
#Post#: 41574--------------------------------------------------
Re: What are you reading?
By: Itopian Date: November 15, 2021, 7:10 am
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Just finished Holy Hot Mess by M K Backstrom. An interesting
book for someone struggling with their faith. I'm not the target
market, but it's a good book.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: badpoodle Date: November 16, 2021, 8:17 am
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[quote author=Chicagogirl22 link=topic=68.msg41544#msg41544
date=1636949142]
This weekend I read In Five Years by Rebecca Serle.
It is exactly the type of book I like right now, it’s engaging
but not intense. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was picked up by
HBO Max or Netflix.
I’m late to this but I also read The Great Alone by Kristin
Hannah. Her more recent book, the Four Winds, is about the Dust
Bowl. She must be a phenomenal researcher because she publishes
fairly often but her books are always pretty detailed.
[/quote]
I have read both of those recently! In Five Years would be an
awesome movie. I really enjoyed it. My sister sent The Great
Alone in the box of books she sends me for my birthday each year
and I tore through it. I followed up The Great Alone with
Educated by Tara Westover and it was like reading the
autobiographical answer to The Great Alone.
I just added the Four Winds to my Goodreads list. My sister
enjoyed that one as well.
With the Elizabeth Holmes trial going on (and some good podcasts
covering it) I have been recommending Bad Blood by John
Carreyrou to anyone who will listen.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: LabPartner Date: November 16, 2021, 8:22 am
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Billy Sullivan by Stephen King.
I'm only 2 chapters in. It starts slow, but King often has a
slow-building avalanche.
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Re: What are you reading?
By: Chicagogirl22 Date: November 16, 2021, 8:40 am
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[quote author=badpoodle link=topic=68.msg42056#msg42056
date=1637072237]
[quote author=Chicagogirl22 link=topic=68.msg41544#msg41544
date=1636949142]
This weekend I read In Five Years by Rebecca Serle.
It is exactly the type of book I like right now, it’s engaging
but not intense. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was picked up by
HBO Max or Netflix.
I’m late to this but I also read The Great Alone by Kristin
Hannah. Her more recent book, the Four Winds, is about the Dust
Bowl. She must be a phenomenal researcher because she publishes
fairly often but her books are always pretty detailed.
[/quote]
I have read both of those recently! In Five Years would be an
awesome movie. I really enjoyed it. My sister sent The Great
Alone in the box of books she sends me for my birthday each year
and I tore through it. I followed up The Great Alone with
Educated by Tara Westover and it was like reading the
autobiographical answer to The Great Alone.
I just added the Four Winds to my Goodreads list. My sister
enjoyed that one as well.
With the Elizabeth Holmes trial going on (and some good podcasts
covering it) I have been recommending Bad Blood by John
Carreyrou to anyone who will listen.
[/quote]
Putting that on my library list! Now that it gets dark so early
and there is no baseball I am reading a ton.
Educated and The Great Alone were both heart wrenching. I’ve
said this 1 million times, but I’m getting burned on memoirs.
I am reading All The Ugly And Wonderful Things right now.
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