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Bourbon Guy

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Talbot said:
The prequell to Dashiell Hamett's 'The Maltese Falcon'.

Written by Joe Gores - I'm really enjying it.

Talbot

If you like Hamett, try reading Raymond Chandler. Like stepping up from Robert Ludlum to John le Carre. Good stuff.
 

Ephraim Tutt

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Joan Baez autobiography

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John Boyer

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Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska. Kameinska was one of a generation of poets from Poland, born during the 1920s, coming to age during WWII, "learning to write amidst the rat-tat-tat of firing squads and bomb explosions."

Yes
even when I don't believe
there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief
a patch of wild grace
a stubborn preserve
impenetrable
pain untouched sleeping in the body
music that builds its nest in silence
 

Harp

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John Boyer said:
Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska. Kameinska was one of a generation of poets from Poland...

Yes
even when I don't believe
there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief
a patch of wild grace
a stubborn preserve
impenetrable
pain untouched sleeping in the body
music that builds it nest in silence


John,
:)
Quite a contrast to Eliot's more secular efforts read today.
The circle now includes another contemporary of Simone's,
Marguerite Duras; whom had a philosopher's soul and a poet's heart,
and affects me most profoundly. Will forward her WWII memoir. :)
 

Chas

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"Duke Ellington" by Stanley Dance.

Finishing up "The Galloping Ghost", a memoir of Eugene Fluckey. This boy had "muchos heuvos"
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I always have several books on the go. That's why I struggle to finish one.
 

Lady Day

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Food Rules: An eaters manual

'In Defense of Food' was a *fantastic* follow up on 'The Omnivore's Dilemma' (I often listen to the audio book while grocery shopping), but Food Rules is just a cliff notes version of 'Defense', and the latter is a much more satisfying read in that the best rules in 'Food Rules' are actually taken from 'Defense' word for word.

I guess to appeal to the people who are too lazy to read about food history in the US it is a good little coffee table book, but for those that have read Pollan's first two its kinda eh.

LD
 

John Boyer

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Harp said:
John,
:)
Quite a contrast to Eliot's more secular efforts read today.
The circle now includes another contemporary of Simone's,
Marguerite Duras; whom had a philosopher's soul and a poet's heart,
and affects me most profoundly. Will forward her WWII memoir. :)


Harp,

That would be great. I would enjoy exploring Ms. Duras' WWII memoir. I think you would appreciate Astonishments; she has several poems dedicated to both Weil and Stein; part of the circle. John
 

Mysterious Mose

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'Boilerplate, history's mechanical marvel' by Paul Guinan
'The Great Silence, 1918-1920, Living in the shadow of the Great War' by Juliet Nicholson
Mono Workwear no.2 , looking at the pictures.
Good stuff.
 

Harp

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John Boyer said:
I would enjoy exploring Ms. Duras' WWII memoir. I think you would appreciate Astonishments; she has several poems dedicated to both Weil and Stein; part of the circle.


John,

Marguerite is the antithesis of Simone. A fecund intellect whose precocious
innocence melts to reveal an earthy sensuous nature; seemingly devoid of mysticism yet not entirely a temporal.
Similar contradictory personalites.
And Duras survived her youth....doubtful they ever met but de Beauvoir knew both
---and she was Nelson Algren's girl. I knew there was a Chicago connection to all this. ;)
 

K.D. Lightner

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I enjoyed the Elizabeth Kostova novel The Historian and so bought and am reading her second novel, The Swan Thieves.

So far, it is a really good read.

It's nice to have a good book to read when the weather is cold and blizzardy out. I was stranded in the house for the better part of this week.

Don't mind being stranded so much when I have a good book and lots of good food and drink.

karol
 

Hemingway Jones

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K.D. Lightner said:
I enjoyed the Elizabeth Kostova novel The Historian and so bought and am reading her second novel, The Swan Thieves.

So far, it is a really good read.
I really liked The Historian. It was spooky and interesting, yet somehow firmly rooted in reality.
 

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