Summer Reading
HarveyCanal
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What you been reading lately? For me, it's been these...
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beensittingonmyshelfforever-related.
any good?
cosmo recommended
great read about A&Rs; and label history
"Tishimingo Blues." It's my favorite Leonard novel, and yesterday seemed as good a time as any to revisit it.
Finally got around to reading "The Corner." Almost makes me wish Simon and Burns would've written "The Wire" in the form of a novel rather than a television show.
Another great read recently for me was Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons.
I've recently read Ritual by David Pinner. It was the inspiration for The Wicker Man so it's a murder mystery revolving around pagan worship in a English village. Not a long book and the story moves quickly which I like. Gets pretty trippy towards the end, decide for yourselves what you think of that. Apparently OG copies go for ~??600 these days but Finders Keepers Records just reissued it.
Also The Wasp Factory which I found a bit grisly for my liking but was a roller coaster and also had me turning pages furiously. And a bunch of forgettable James Pattersons (guilty).
Hadn't heard of that before, so I just looked it up and...yeah, that would be something I'd be interested in reading, but more from my New Orleans background where there is a rich history of runaway slaves taking shelter and growing up with the Choctaw Indians.
Thanks! I'mma seek out that David Pinner book, sounds great (enough). I just read Ian Rankin's first Rebus novel, Noughts and Crosses (holiday read) - Cott Tamn that was a shit book!!
I've been reading this whilst listening to The Duke. What a guy.
Also re-reading a David Sedaris book (Dress Your Family...) from a charity shop. Just the mention of The Rooster cracks me up.
Great book, has some crazy stories and anecdotes in it. Lots of shady shit. My copy was an old one, covered till the 80s. Whats the updated version cover?
Been reading this. It's alright. Pretty funny/interesting.
Interesting post.
I don't recommend, unless you are a big fan of the Iliad.
Been catching up on Michael Chabon. I don't generally read a lot of novels but recently finished Mysteries of Pittsburgh and I am reading
I read a lot of children's lit, which this is supposed to be. Different from other kids lit I have read. Loving it.
Great book.
Loaned my copy years ago and never got it back.
This year I almost finished this excellent book which is a history of sectarianism in Iraq from its founding in the 1920s to the present. I'm actually cited in the book, and I'm going to interview the author.
This book was rather uneven. Whole thing was written in present tense which made it difficult to discern what was in the past and present. Also repeated his main points over and over
This is a really short history of Iraq from the ancient times before Iraq existed up to the aftermath of the 2003 invasion
I also read small parts of these
Had the pleasure to interview Ms. Marr as well, probably the most respected Iraq historian out there.
Did a great interview with this author too about the changing face of sectarianism in Iraq since 2003
Waiting to finish an interview with Prof Romero as well
Next up is this. I have an interview lined up with this author when I'm done.
I'm reading the first disc-world novel from Pratchett too, that's easy to read and kinda fun. Just began.
got it because I had read the author's book on the Mexican revolution called "Villa and Zapata," which was great. Thought this would be good too, but it's a little too inside baseball for me. Doesn't have the same amount of contextualization that his book on the Mexican revolution has.
Motown, don't know if this is on your pile of books on Iraq, but I highly recommend it:
That books is based upon a bunch of articles he wrote during and immediately after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. I read all those articles so didn't get that book.