Yes thanks, will do! It's a 1000 pages+ history of the British Isles and just started. So far very interesting and well-written flowing reading.
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On The Laps of Gods
The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice that Remade a Nation
by Robert Whitaker
I started reading this a couple of days ago. It's about the Elaine Massacre in Arkansas. The author pulls no punches. It is difficult to read about what was done to people; it makes me sad, and angry. I'm only just beginning a journey to really understand the history of racism in the United States. I've also recently read
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and The Birth of the FBI
by David Gann
This one is about the period in the early 1920's when murder investigations were taking place in Oklahoma on the Osage reservation. It is a similarly ugly chapter in our history.
I have several more on my reading list...
The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice that Remade a Nation
by Robert Whitaker
I started reading this a couple of days ago. It's about the Elaine Massacre in Arkansas. The author pulls no punches. It is difficult to read about what was done to people; it makes me sad, and angry. I'm only just beginning a journey to really understand the history of racism in the United States. I've also recently read
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and The Birth of the FBI
by David Gann
This one is about the period in the early 1920's when murder investigations were taking place in Oklahoma on the Osage reservation. It is a similarly ugly chapter in our history.
I have several more on my reading list...
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
I saw this book reviewed in the New Yorker and I came across a free copy the other day, so I thought I would start reading. Certainly seems like the kind of thing I would like.
I saw this book reviewed in the New Yorker and I came across a free copy the other day, so I thought I would start reading. Certainly seems like the kind of thing I would like.
OK. This time for reals. I got about 200 pages in a few years ago and stopped but now I'm listening to it while I work. Very fun.
The classic apocalyptic novel, originally published in 1959. I'm reading it for the first time.
Thanks for the recommendation. I haven't read any in that series, but good spy novels are hard to find. I just requested it from my library.
I read and enjoyed the first book, Slow Horses or something? What’s the second book called?
Gone Girl (pretty spicy even though I know what happens), Satellite Love (it was meh), The Forgers Daughter (this book was terrible. Don’t read it), Nick (meh), and a few others I’m forgetting the names of. I used to be a creative writing major, and so I can get a feel for what works in a book, why it works, and how to make it work better, but honestly the haul I’ve had lately has been bleh.
Just finished book 14 "Nine Dragons" in the Bosch series and just picked up book 15, "The Drop"...
I'm reading Tolkien's translation of Beowulf.
This is the third translation for me and the best so far.
This is the third translation for me and the best so far.
I had no idea this even existed! I just added it to my que for reading!
I read Grendel by John Gardner and really enjoyed it!
Apparently this was a long term project of JRRT's. Chris Tolkien polished it up and put it out about a year ago. I read the Burton Raffel version but this is a fuller translation. Enjoy!
For a quick read while waiting for Spook House (recommended by @JamesMike) to come via interlibrary loan, I picked up the e-book of Robert Plant's biography, A Life. No surprises really, and it wasn't well written, but my expectations were low anyway. Good modern musician era bios are seemingly hard to find. The best one I felt was I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons, but that was years ago.
Edited: And I enjoyed Keith Richards' Life.
Edited: And I enjoyed Keith Richards' Life.
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I’m pretty sure my mom has that one kicking around her house. It was really good.
What’s with the plethora of telling and not showing among writers that have written within the last five years in the Adult nonfiction sector? This is getting depressing. It doesn’t have to be /good/, but a compelling childhood story would be pretty good, I guess.
Was required reading in High School for the entire state of Florida when I was in High School I believe. Pat Frank came and talked to an assembly one night and I got my copy autographed, then had to steal the book because he signed the copy the school had issued. $2.95 is the cheapest I have ever got an autographed book for.
-Tig
That is a great story and a great experience for you.
Alas, Babylon is an excellent story, and one of the things I appreciated about it was that there were not extremes of violence among the survivors, it was more subtle and possibly more realistic in what he described happening (but who knows how people would deal with such a catastrophe and I sure hope we never find out). A similar story written today would be heavy on the conflict and violence and brutality that a typical writer would predict in the same circumstance, in my opinion. The writing from that era, a couple of generations of writers ago, is much more to my taste, I guess.
Indeed it is. I've read several. Always fun and a fast read when you need to unplug a little.