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Michael Chabon won the Pulitzer for a novel called The Amazing Kavalier and Clay.
I want to read that, and have it on hold for me at my local library.
What got me interested.......I'm reading his newest novel now and liking it so much that I looked up some of his past books and heard about that one. I'm reading Moonglow now.
I know that Chabon is renowned, and I know people who have absolutely loved Kavalier and Clay. That's been on my radar for a while, but I've never pulled the trigger. If I love Moonglow, I'll get Kavalier and some of his others.
I know that Chabon is renowned, and I know people who have absolutely loved Kavalier and Clay. That's been on my radar for a while, but I've never pulled the trigger. If I love Moonglow, I'll get Kavalier and some of his others.
Cool. Let me know how you like Moonglow. (I assume you're either currently reading it or about to?) I love most of it...man, that cat can write. A true prose stylist. There is one sub-plot of the book I don't care for, and wish it comprised a smaller portion of the novel than it does, which is about one-third. I don't want to give a plot spoiler as to what that is, so I will wait and tell you after you finish.
A biography of the writer rosamond Lehmann
The echoing grove by rosamond Lehmann it's about an affair.
Margaret the first (a biographical novel about a real life unconventional duchess)
Heraldry in Historic Houses of Great Britain (self explanatory,I like heraldry)
Carmina Gadelica (this is a collection of old Gaelic poetry,verse etc) I already started reading it and found it too religious and not poetical enough.
Cool. Let me know how you like Moonglow. (I assume you're either currently reading it or about to?) I love most of it...man, that cat can write. A true prose stylist. There is one sub-plot of the book I don't care for, and wish it comprised a smaller portion of the novel than it does, which is about one-third. I don't want to give a plot spoiler as to what that is, so I will wait and tell you after you finish.
I'll check back in. I need to read it by April 5 for a book club. I need to read both The Sympathizer and Moonglow this month, and I'm probably going to read Sympathizer first, because that book club meets a day before the Moonglow one.
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Lilith's Brood - by Octavia E. Butler
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World - by Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu
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Ringworld - by Larry Niven
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I'm, once again, out of control. Just 28 (random number) of them -- technically 31 since there are multiple Philip Roth titles -- from my list in no particular (also random) order:
1. Skylarking
2. See What I Have Done (release date August 1, 2017)
3. Little Fires Everywhere (release date September 12, 2017)
4. Wait Till You See Me Dance (stories)
5. Sometimes I Lie (Alice Feeney—have advance copy)
6. Orphans of the Carnival
7. Our Short History
8. The Woman Destroyed (three stories)
9. Harmless Like You
10. Christodora
11. The Second Mrs. Hockaday
12. Once We Were Sisters
13. Homegoing
14. A Long Way Home
15. The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma
16. The Sky Unwashed (rec. from Netwit)
17. The Woman Next Door (Yewande Omotoso)
18. We Are Okay (rec. from Ketabcha)
19. Marlena (release date April 4)
20. Hourglass (Dani Shapiro memoir) (release date April 11)
21. The Stars Are Fire (Anita Shreve—based on true story of fires in Maine)
22. Anything Is Possible (Elizabeth Strout) (release date April 25) – ?? companion to Lucy Barton, which I didn’t much like
23. Theft by Finding (David Sedaris diaries) (release date May 30)
24. The Portrait (Antoine Laurain) (release date June 27—only in paper???)
25. The Reason You’re Alive (release date July 4)
26. A Book of American Martyrs
27. City on Fire – Marlow said that it’s great
28. Philip Roth: Everyman; Goodbye, Columbus; Letting Go; When She Was Good
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway is something I read in high school, and since I am now 72 that was a long time ago. Back then I didn't know anything about the Spanish Civil War, which is the setting. Now that I've read about that war and also about Hemingway's reporting from there as a war correspondant, I have a strong desire to re-read the novel which resulted from it.
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