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Just found a really great condition nearly 50 year old hardback edition of O'Henry's....titled Tales of O'Henry!

I love the Gift of the Magi esp!

I just started.reading The Revenant by Michael Punke.

Its.the book version of the very excellent Leonardo diCaprio movie.. The book is also excellent and I'm half way through it already

A Naked Singularity (Sergio De LaPava, 2008).

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Casi, an child of Columbian immigrants, lives in Brooklyn and is an brilliant public defender who practices law in Manhattan.

I will be reading this crime novel, when I go over to my BFF's, to house sit the pets and property, while they vacation in Maui.

To learn more about this book, I've included an link to the book from Powell's Books (see link no. 1), and an exceptionally well written review published by The Guardian (see link no. 2).

Link no. 1:
http://www.powells.com/book/a-naked-...226141794/72-1

Link no. 2:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.the...io-pava-review

I didn't know where to put this, so I am choosing here. There is an article in today's NY Times about Stone Butch Blues called "The Best Book for 2018 Is 25 Years Old." https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/2...years-old.html

I should reread it. I follow Minnie-Bruce Pratt on FB. It's worth it. She publishes poems most Thursdays and has a lot of links to working class and union politics.

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Originally Posted by dark_crystal (Post 1214198)

I have now started GNOMON, by Nick Harkaway

To call Gnomon a work of genius is not entirely a compliment. Nick Harkaway’s epic, unwieldy, unpredictable new novel is outwardly brainy and pridefully digressive, and the distance it projects from its reader feels excruciatingly deliberate. Harkaway (Tigerman) wears his deep, fabulous vocabulary on his sleeve, and he’s unafraid to ruminate on the seemingly irrelevant in great detail. The sheer intelligence of the book feels almost beside the point; it’s to be taken as something of a given.

If Gnomon is not exactly a departure from Harkaway’s previous work, it’s at least his rawest effort, a window into his writerly impulses and motivations — into what separates him from the pack. It’s why, at first glance, Gnomon nicely stands out as a dystopian novel that manages to approach the genre uniquely and push it forward. The book arrives stateside after a year in which 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale skyrocketed on best-seller lists and found popular adaptations in theater and television, respectively. More broadly, the genre has felt appropriately ubiquitous in a tumultuous and unsettling political era.

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Originally Posted by Kätzchen (Post 1214201)

Ooooh, I just read a good book review about Gnomon by Mark Harkaway, in The Guardian.

It looks like an good book to read and I hope to find it at Powell's.

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LINK: https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...ment-110011379

I finished GNOMON last night. It was loooooooong and a little confusing and got a little slow toward the end but i enjoyed it. I have read at least one of his other novels that i liked better, though

Now i am reading FORGED IN CRISIS (Nancy Koehn) for book club and FADING DUSK (Melissa Giorgio) for fun.

FORGED IN CRISIS:

This “engaging, unusually rewarding book…[which] will foster a new appreciation for effective leadership and prompt many readers to lament the lack of it in the world today” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), by celebrated Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn, examines five masters of crisis: explorer Ernest Shackleton; Abraham Lincoln; abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and environmental crusader Rachel Carson.

FADING DUSK
In the gritty city of Dusk, seventeen-year-old Irina makes her living as the street magician Bantheir’s assistant. The job isn’t glamorous, but she loves the crowds, the shows, and most of all, the illusion of magic. But Irina’s world is shattered the night she is arrested and charged as Bantheir’s accomplice to murder—murder by magic.

Real magic, the kind that’s been forbidden since the old wars.

Irina finds the idea of flashy showman Bantheir using actual magic to kill someone laughable, but she’s the only one who sees how ridiculous the claim is. But how can she convince everyone Bantheir is innocent when they’ve already made up their minds?

i am reading that second one because the author is a friend of a friend. I like to support indies and that friend has good taste so i bought it.

re-reading My Abandonment..

A father and his 13 year-old daughter are living in a paradisiacal existence in a vast urban park in Portland Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.

Today the movie Leave No Trace opened to rave reviews and it's based on this book...

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Originally Posted by Medusa (Post 1215869)

I just finished "The Outsider" (the new Stephen King) and it was entertaining...Classic King but a good background listen while cleaning the house.

Also just wrapped "Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston. VERY good read.

I just downloaded a new audiobook and one for the Kindle since I have 2 going almost all the time.
The audiobook is "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis"

And one for the Kindle: "Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg"

OMG! "Hillbilly Elegy" was so good!! Highly recommended! Tough to read in some parts but very familiar and on point.

I am making my way through "Notorious RBG" but just started "The Woman in the Window" by AJ Finn and it's very reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock and film noir. Love it!

hands you my Special Education Law books..both federal and state governments...lol

you want hitchcock??? there ya go

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Originally Posted by homoe (Post 1216932)

I don't recall how I had heard of this book ( My Abandonment) originally perhaps someone posted it this thread even, but it's a quick read at only 240 pages and very interesting..:glasses:

The movie is directed by Debra Granik and stars Ben Foster AND Thomasin Harcourt Mckenzie.

Think Differently Live Differently by Bob Hemp

Anything by David Paulides. Also checking out his stuff on YouTube.
I have been very interested about missing people lately ever since a woman that I knew disappeared without a trace a few months back. She had been walking a route she normally took every other evening,this time with a friends dog.She never made it home this time.There was a huge search for her and lots of media attention.The dog came back home a couple days later. The case went cold after a few weeks and now everyone that knew her calls it a tragic mystery because the missing woman was friendly and did lots of charity work in the community and who would want to hurt such a person.Sad when I think about her because I knew her for ten years.No body, no clues, she just vanished off the face of the earth.It disturbs me greatly what happen to her.

Sharp Objects....

because the mini series starts Sunday and most times the book gives more detailed information than the television production! Even tho this book ended up on the New York Times best sellers list, I'm not sure if I'm going to enjoy it or not..time will tell!

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls; Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims while trying to solve a psychological puzzle from her past.

The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai

The novel begins in 1999 and moves backwards through the history of Laurelfield, a large stately home belonging to the Devohrs. The house has morphed over the years from family residence to a beloved art colony and back again. The first and longest section of the novel deals with Laurelfield's most contemporary permutation.

I am about half way in and I'm enjoying this book immensely............:glasses:

The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50

By Jonathan Rauch

https://g.co/kgs/v9F91r

Interesting, but still too early to give it a thorough review.

I started.reading Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman

It's about a man's travels on the Appalachian Trail and his reasons for making the journey.

He's a little preachy and God-dy but I think the story is worth the side bars.

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Mamen Sánchez, author of NYT's bestseller Under The Tuscan Sun, recently had her book The Altogether Unexpected Disappearance Of Atticus Craftsman, translated from Spanish to English, two years ago.

I loved the first book I read, so I picked up TAUDOAC @ Powell's today, for my next summer beach read.

Here's an link to an review of her latest book:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-r...ce-of-atticus/

Title: Lust & Wonder

Author: Augusten Burroughs

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/b...burroughs.html

A great memoir by one of my favorite authors. If you like memoirs, this is a wonderful read.

i'm about to begin "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"

by Rebecca Skloot

With eyes:

THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST, a coming-of-age teen novel by Emily M. Danforth published in 2012. The novel's protagonist is Cameron Post, a 12-year-old Montana girl who is discovering her own homosexuality. After her parents die in a car crash, she is sent to live with her conservative aunt. She develops a relationship with her best friend and is sent to a conversion camp.

According to author Emily Danforth, the novel was influenced by the 2005 Zach Stark controversy, where teenager Zach Stark was sent to a de-gaying camp run by Love In Action after coming out to his parents.

With ears:
WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION is a 2016 American book about the societal impact of algorithms, written by Cathy O'Neil. It explores the how some big data algorithms are increasingly used in ways that reinforces preexisting inequality. It was longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction.