My wife read it and loved it. I haven’t picked it up yet but we did make the Latvian stew mentioned in the book with the recipe from Book Club Cookbook. Yum!
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Hahahahahaha I’ll have to tell my husband.
I spent last spring reading a Catalan writer: Carlos Ruiz Zafón, who is very prolific. I could still be reading him he’s written so much and still keeps on turning out book after book. He’s really a lot of fun. The best way I can describe his books is Barcelona Gothic.
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‘The Mirror and the Light’ by Hilary Mantel, final volume of the ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy. Thanks for asking, and for all the great ideas.
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Me, too.
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Don’t you love it?
I love her dialogue so much.
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About to re-read Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor. Post-apocalyptic novel …with a soupçon of hope. A great writer who always strove all her life to do her ideas justice in her books. She didn’t always succeed In writing greatness, but she failed admirably.
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Tad Williams" Otherworld is a fantastic series.
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Earth Abides and The Great Influenza.
Yeah, outa left field, I know.
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Thus far:
Love in the Time of Cholera
A Very Stable Genius
Cloud Atlas
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To take your mind off the current situation, even if just a little while, read P.G. Wodehouse. I’d start with the Blandings novels. If you want to double down on the current despair, Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, still sticks with me, even though it’s been years since I read it.
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I’m really excited to see that Celeste Ng has another book out!
I’m finally reading A brief history of seven killings by Marlon James. Don’t tell him I’ve waited so long!
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You know, at the time, it seemed like such a great idea – especially a signed, Crichton first edition…
But in hindsight, The Andromeda Strain was NOT such a great holiday gift.
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About to finish (only ~10 pages) The Nazi Doctors by Robert Lifton. The mind bending engaged in by those doctors, particularly the “doubling”, sheds some light on Republicans. (That is not a throwaway line – it is really true.) The book is a bit turgid in places (which I wouldn’t say about the magisterial KL by Nikolaus Wachsmann), but very insightful. Lifton, a psychiatrist, interviewed many of the protagonists.
But what next? I will think about that tomorrow, or maybe the next day.
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It was a great read. But I have to say, I thought he was confused himself on reactor physics, though I imagine he convinced himself otherwise. Fortunately there is a lot of accessible (in both senses) material available on the interweb.
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Never read Tobin. I wonder if he had Fathers and Children by Turgenev in mind, good Russian lit that doesn’t come in the form of a doorstop.
Wodehouse … I have a deep, lifelong literary affair going with his work.
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Don’t take this the wrong way but … I’m not surprised!
Very joke. Many laughter. Wow!
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I’m just finishing Isabel Allende’s A Long Petal of the Sea, which is some dark and disturbing pop-lit, brimming with war, anguish and lost love. But, I must read Allende when a new one comes out; I think I was bewitched by House of Spirits many years ago and now I’m irretrievably under her spell.
I also just received a few of Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Comics from the annual series. These three complete the set I’ve been collecting for the past year. Tons of comics in there. I’ve also plunged into my two volumes of Little Nemo in Slumberland from Sunday Press. Nothing like page after page of Winsor McKay hallucinations to get one through the Plague Days.
I’m awaiting delivery of James McBride’s Deacon King Kong: A Novel. That should be right on time. I also have copies on the way of Dakota McFadzean’s Don’t Get Eaten by Anything: A Collection of the Dailies as well as Leanne Shapton’s Guestbook: Ghost Stories.
Well … you asked.
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I’m a thread-killer.
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