Hiroshima Boy by Naomi Hirahara. (The last book in her Mas Arai series, she says.) I keep hoping not, but Mas is 84 now. Maybe he'll retire from solving mysteries.
Hiroshima Boy by Naomi Hirahara. (The last book in her Mas Arai series, she says.) I keep hoping not, but Mas is 84 now. Maybe he'll retire from solving mysteries.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey. I've been on a sci-fi kick lately. Really enjoyed this one and already picked up book two of the series from my library.
Lady Onogaro (February 23rd, 2018)
Just started Pynchon's Against The Day. I'll be busy for a while.
Texas, by James Michener (!)
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
SIR (April 23rd, 2018)
I just finished The Darkening Age - The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, by Catherine Nixey. It's not a polemic against Christianity, as one might infer from the title. It just describes the clash between Christian and pre-Christian attitudes and values, and the results.
I'd had this preordered on Kindle since reading a review sometime last year, and it just showed up a few days ago.
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
After Dark by Haruki Murakami. Intricately crafted modern surrealism.
Read The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook. Despite it's being derivative of True Grit (only with a panther), I loved it.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
Joan of Arc by historian Régine Pernoud.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
SIR (April 23rd, 2018)
Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow.
Cob
Vive les chevaliers! A bas les têtes rondes!
Life of Edward Marshall Hall
Before that Elizabeth First, a study in power and intellect.
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey. I first read it in my twenties and I thought it was time to read it again. Glad I did! Wonderful writing and very believable characterisation.
Cob (April 22nd, 2018)
If you fancy challenge, though i don't really recommend it, try reading Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man...
hard work right from the off, disregarding it's many contentious and ill-founded ideas, it suffers horribly from the writer's overly verbose and pretentious style; would no doubt have benefitted from being written in the author's own first language and then translated.
Interestingly though, Marcuse does seem to anticipate the social impact of Facebook...
@SIR: for some reason the phrase "damned by faint praise" comes to mind...
My latest was the Comey book. I'm currently reading the latest book in Baldacci's memory man series. I'm in the middle of several books, as is typical for me...
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azkid (May 1st, 2018)
Venomous by Christie Wilcox. Non-fiction discussion of the fascinating array and effects of venoms and the creatures that wield them.
I found this SO rivetting that, were I decades younger, I'd pursue this as a doctorate topic in my working field of toxicology.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
SIR (May 7th, 2018)
Finished The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce. Read Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. Immediately went back to the library for the other two in the series. Tor has some great science fiction coming out. I also liked Passing Strange by Ellen Klarges and A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark.
Lady Onogaro
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