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Parades End
It's a recent addition to my book queue - what do you think so far?
Parades End
I'm drawing out reading the very last stories of Tove Jansson's The Summer Book, because I don't want the book to end, and going through Heinrich Böll's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum very fast, because it's engulfing and slightly horrifying. Both are very good, and I'm reading both in Swedish, which makes me think of language - Tove Jansson wrote in Swedish, but was Finnish and her Swedish has a distinctly Finnish taste, peculiar and beautiful. Böll is dryly funny, even when the subject matter is not, and I can hear the German words, rhythm and turns of phrases resonate through the translation. I like that.
Ben Tripp's second zombie thriller, Rise Again: Below Zero
Niiiiiiiice.
Have you read it? Both books are a lot more entertaining than I thought they would be.
Agreed. A buddy put me on to them. I had doubts, but was pleasantly surprised. I am sure James has something to say right about now.....
Agreed. A buddy put me on to them. I had doubts, but was pleasantly surprised. I am sure James has something to say right about now.....
An introduction to Bernard Lonergan: Exploring Lonergan's approach to the great philosophical questions by Peter Beer, SJ
Socrates meets Kierkegaard: The father of philosophy meets the father of Christian existentialism by Peter Kreeft
Georges Simenon's, from 1953, Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard. A perfect read for a overcast day.
I've just read George Simenon's 'The Mahe Circle': written in 1944, first English language edition 2014. That's the joy of Simenon, it'll take me the rest of my life to read them all!
"Mover and Shaker: Walter O'Malley, The Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward Expansion"...
A new biography of the man who cut down the tree that grew in Brooklyn...