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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 1/25/2018 8:10:32 AM   
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The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis.

Just finished, but will have to re-read. An intellectual struggle for me. Never read C.S. Lewis before. Makes you think. Now on to a novel to give the gray matter a rest and changeup.


That's some fairly heavy lifting there PinotPhile ;)

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 1/25/2018 8:15:27 AM   
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She's a heady one too. Have you read Left Hand of Darkness? If I can sniff out my copy I might reread in memoriam.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 1/25/2018 11:37:14 AM   
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She's a heady one too. Have you read Left Hand of Darkness? If I can sniff out my copy I might reread in memoriam.


What's wild is I had just been re-reading, for the first time in 40 years. Note the bookmark.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 1/25/2018 12:29:20 PM   
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She's a heady one too. Have you read Left Hand of Darkness? If I can sniff out my copy I might reread in memoriam.


What's wild is I had just been re-reading, for the first time in 40 years. Note the bookmark.



Yeah quite the coincidence. I don't think I've ever been in the midst of reading a book when the author died; must be a bit of a dislocating experience.

Probably butchering these details, but wasn't it that her dad was a scientist and her mom in something like anthropology? Boy doesn't that make the ideal set up for a writer of serious sci-fi ...

Edit: no, dad Anthropologist, mom writer. That and and growing up in Berkeley surrounded by the university community is also a pretty solid nest for fostering sci-fi chops. She was a giant in her genre.


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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 1/25/2018 12:40:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm going to paste in a list of quotes from Le Guin - I remember her mostly for her high-concept allegory, but boy could she turn a pithy phrase. Oddly maybe, her quotable aspects remind me of Henry Miller's (if he dispensed with the throat clearing and got right to it).

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

We read books to find out who we are.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 1/25/2018 1:10:10 PM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 1/25/2018 2:17:10 PM   
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I'm going to paste in a list of quotes from Le Guin - I remember her mostly for her high-concept allegory, but boy could she turn a pithy phrase.


You missed my favorite:

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 1/29/2018 7:52:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		Just finished Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders which won the 2017 Man Booker prize.

Ultimately, I think it fails as a novel simply because it isn't a novel, but more of a stage play marketed as a novel. Saunders has writing talent coming out his ears but the structure of the book took away from my ability to enjoy it. To be clear, I appreciate experimental novels but this experiment failed in my view.

As an aside, it's a 300 page book that reads like a hundred page novella because each page looks like a script. A days worth

Just started 4321 by Paul Auster. This one should take a little longer weighing in at ~850 pages. 50 pages in and it's great so far.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 1/30/2018 8:15:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for the comments. I was really close to putting Lincoln in the Bardo on my To-Read shelf but held off. Think I'll pass. I have a big enough backlog anyway.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 1/30/2018 10:54:16 AM   
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Thanks for the comments. I was really close to putting Lincoln in the Bardo on my To-Read shelf but held off. Think I'll pass. I have a big enough backlog anyway.


I hesitated before adding it to my list. But I really liked Civilwarland in Bad Decline, so added it despite mixed feelings from the reviews. The OCD part of me won't let me take it off the list once it is on.
Currently reading Alistair Horne's Hubris: the Tragedy of War in the 20th Century . Thesis is the great battle victories of the early century led directly to defeats later on - the Japanese destruction of the Russian Fleet at Port Authur led them to employ the same strategy when attacking the US; French success at Verdun led to the construction of and reliance on the Maginot Line.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 1/30/2018 11:00:47 AM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 1/30/2018 1:12:41 PM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 1/30/2018 4:33:22 PM   
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Thanks for the comments. I was really close to putting Lincoln in the Bardo on my To-Read shelf but held off. Think I'll pass. I have a big enough backlog anyway.


I hesitated before adding it to my list. But I really liked Civilwarland in Bad Decline, so added it despite mixed feelings from the reviews. The OCD part of me won't let me take it off the list once it is on.


My wife and I both enjoyed Lincoln in the Bardo (we're fans of multiple Saunders books), but I totally understand how the form could be off-putting. It took me a little while to get into it, and I agree that it definitely reads more like a play or, at times, like a Ken Burns documentary than like a novel.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 2/9/2018 1:53:01 PM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 2/9/2018 2:41:16 PM   
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Today I finished reading my fourth book of 2018. “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson. I’ve read other books by Bill Bryson prior to this and decided recently to go back and read others I haven't as of yet including this one. I found it a pleasurable read, a layman’s explanation of the history of the universe, birth of the Planet Earth, evolution of man, etc… Good story line delivered with Bill Bryson’s characteristic wit. I enjoyed it.


I enjoyed this too, read it as a travel book riding long distance buses around South America. I liked the cosmic scope of it - made strange lands and people seem less foreign via its "we're one in a trillion long shots on a speck of dust" attitude.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 2/12/2018 8:43:16 PM   
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Today I finished reading my fourth book of 2018. “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson. I’ve read other books by Bill Bryson prior to this and decided recently to go back and read others I haven't as of yet including this one. I found it a pleasurable read, a layman’s explanation of the history of the universe, birth of the Planet Earth, evolution of man, etc… Good story line delivered with Bill Bryson’s characteristic wit. I enjoyed it.



Look forward to it, just checked it out of the library.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 2/12/2018 8:51:01 PM   
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"Cork Dork" by Bianca Bosker. I'm about 2/3rds through and it's an enjoyable read no matter what your level of wine experience, education or curiosity. Something for everyone and each chapter could be a new book.



Just finished it. This is the book that I wish would have been made into "Somm".

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 2/22/2018 6:16:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Just finished 4321 by Paul Auster. Great book. This is an "experimental" novel where we see four different permutations of the same young man's life, with the "lifelines" beginning to fork in very early childhood based on the varying choices of those around him.

Rather than telling the story of each lifeline from beginning to end before telling another, he tells the story in blocks of 4'ish years and covers each of the respective permutations in that block before moving to the next one.

Among the top two or three books I've read in the last couple years. It's a long one, but it kept my attention (and delighted me) throughout.

Now onto The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 2/22/2018 1:05:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Today I finished reading my sixth book of 2018. “The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam’s Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda” by Yaroslav Trofimov. Although I had a good basic understanding of most of the history that serves as the story line of this book it was nice to have a simple, easy to read refresher text that also managed to fill in a few details I didn’t recall. A quick and easy read if you’d like to get a handle on some of the history that eventually led to the birth of al-Qaeda, This book is recommended.

Thanks to Hollowine for recommending this book to me.


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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 2/22/2018 5:59:40 PM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 2/28/2018 1:55:16 PM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 2/28/2018 2:33:26 PM   
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I offered him Capo Dei Capi in Italian about Toto Rina who just recently died but he had already read it so I traded him an Italian/Napulitano, Napulitano/Italian Dictionary that I bought when I was in Napoli last time. He was ecstatic to have it as most Naples dialect is spoken and not written. It was fun to watch his face light up reading it and words that he knew but hadn't heard in a long time in Napulitano. I couldn't pronounce the dialect words anyway so it's better for him. I told him that he needs to teach me the dialect sometime.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/1/2018 8:39:54 AM   
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Today I finished reading my second book of 2018. “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak. I’ve been meaning to read this book for years but never got around to it. I finally read it on eBook on loan from the library and made pretty quick work of it finishing it in a little over 5 days. It is easy to read with a good flow and interesting story line. It takes a bit of getting used to up front with the cryptic introduction to each “Part” of the book but after a few sections you’re in flow with the book and onto the story line. Good read. I enjoyed it.


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Today I finished reading my fourth book of 2018. “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson. I’ve read other books by Bill Bryson prior to this and decided recently to go back and read others I haven't as of yet including this one. I found it a pleasurable read, a layman’s explanation of the history of the universe, birth of the Planet Earth, evolution of man, etc… Good story line delivered with Bill Bryson’s characteristic wit. I enjoyed it.


I love both of these books, especially The Book Thief.
Bill Bryson's books are fun, this particular one really helped me to understand just how BIG our solar system is.

So far this year I've read 5 books:
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Bird Box by Josh Malarian
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehouse
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
Paris in Love by Eloisa James

I'm currently reading Hawaii by James Mitchner.


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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/2/2018 10:27:01 AM   
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32 Yolks by Eric Ripert is probably next.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/3/2018 10:32:48 AM   
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So far, a well-done, enjoyable and educational read.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/4/2018 1:09:50 PM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/9/2018 8:30:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		Last night finished “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania” by Erik Larson. I really enjoyed this book. I knew the 30,000 foot overview of the sinking of the Lusitania and that it eventually led up to American joining WWI but this book provided a lot of extra details to the entire voyage I hadn’t know before. It also very much humanized the people aboard giving names and “faces” so to speak to them as opposed to simply passing them by as faceless“souls lost”. It was an easy read, well written and constructed. Recommended.


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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/9/2018 10:48:07 AM   
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This has been superseded, but DH obtained this edition at a secondhand store and so much does not change. Going through it selectively to reacquaint with some of the basics. Much useful info. Learned last night how variation between bottles of the same wine is more likely in high-volume productions. Had an example of that recently in my own experience.

The geeking goes on.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/9/2018 12:50:55 PM   
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Last night finished “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania” by Erik Larson. I really enjoyed this book. I knew the 30,000 foot overview of the sinking of the Lusitania and that it eventually led up to American joining WWI but this book provided a lot of extra details to the entire voyage I hadn’t know before. It also very much humanized the people aboard giving names and “faces” so to speak to them as opposed to simply passing them by as faceless“souls lost”. It was an easy read, well written and constructed. Recommended.



In reading a different book, the sinking of the Lusitania was mentioned. I found it fascinating that so many society figures received "anonymous" telegrams right before sailing that warned them not to travel on board the ship. However, a Vanderbilt went down with the ship. As did many others.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/12/2018 1:30:00 PM   
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