How’sbraggingcampgoing.gif
3 Likes
Mostly I’m just useless….if someone wants to just pick a next book that would work well!!
1 Like
I’m currently reading Horse by Geraldine Brooks. So far it’s really well written and very interesting about a subject I don’t know a lot about (the history of racing and how it is intertwined with slavery, among other things). If we want to choose that, I’m ahead of the game. I suspect @CMick26 has either already read it or has it on his list.
1 Like
All The Light We Cannot See was one of my favorite books last year. I’m so excited to binge this over the weekend.
3 Likes
Since we’re struggling with identifying a next book, this would be one I’m interested in if others are as well!
I’d be down for either @DetroitGolfer19 or @greebs’ suggestion, though I’m adding Greebs’ book to my reading list either way…
Hi all:
Fall semester is almoooooat over and thought I’d share a few titles my History majors enjoyed this fall:
o Grace Elizabeth Hale, Cool Town (@greebs: this one is up your alley, I think—it’s about the alternative music scene in 1980s Athens, Ga)
o Steven Roby, Becoming Jimi Hendrix (for those of you who love Hendrix, this book is a bio of Jimi focused only on the years up to his “discovery”)
o Pamela Des Barres, I’m with the Band (memoir written by the woman who inspired the Penny Lane character in Almost fanous)
Enjoy!
1 Like
Oh snap. That DOES sound good. I just found a book that’s all about Sub Pop, so I might try to read both of them.
1 Like
This is one of the few places I can vent about this but it drives me up the wall that Amazon cares so little about Goodreads that they don’t do the easy things.
If I put a book on a Wishlist on Amazon, why shouldn’t it automatically go to my “Want to Read” pile on Goodreads? The only ‘integration’ they do is a link FROM Goodreads to Amazon to buy the book, which tells you all you need to know.
I interviewed for a bit with Goodreads in San Francisco years ago and it didn’t work out but seeing how disregarded the property is just is so troubling. The WaPo did a good feature on this (I no longer subscribe - because I did so via Amazon, who stopped supporting this even though Bezos owns both of them…)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/01/amazon-goodreads-elizabeth-gilbert/
I know some others here use Goodreads and I still like it, but every time I use it, it makes me sad because it should be so much better.
1 Like
just wanted to run through here and mention i just finished back to back Demon Copperhead and Trust… i was not expecting to love Copperhead as much as i did. both books were great and i understand why they were awarded the Pulitzer
Biography of X is next, will be book 30 for me this year, which is a new best for me. admittedly i read about 8 really short books this year (of note: Small Things Like These, Foster, This Other Eden, At Night All Blood is Black, Elena Knows), but really felt that helped me keep my reading momentum going throughout the year
i use Storygraph, manly cause Goodreads sucks lol
1 Like
what did ya think? loved the book back when i read it. thought the mini series was awful
I’m two episodes in and I actually really like it, but I feel like it’s a lot harder to follow than the book was.
Alright y’all. I’m about to be off work for 2.5 weeks and have high aspirations to plow through a book or two. Since apparently book club is dead (RIP) I’m gonna throw out a few titles I’ve got sitting on my bed side table and if anything tickles your fancy maybe we can raise her from the dead:
- The Tiger by John Valiant
- Blood Meridian by Cormack McCarthy
- Little, Big by John Crowley
- Leviathan Wakes by James A. Corey
If you’re interested in New Years Self Improvement Book Club…
- From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks
Also open to anything anyone else is reading. Just can’t this little corner of the internet rot while I’m actively reading books 3 pages at a time while I’m half asleep at 8:45PM. Ts and Ps for book club are always appreciated.
1 Like
I wouldn’t hate a chance to try this again. I picked it up years ago and couldn’t get through it, but I know at least two people who have this as their favorite book. I’m quite sure it’s not for everyone though.
Sad that Book Club seems to have withered on the vine, but I also believe that things should happen as they do and nobody should force it. Life happens!
1 Like
Highest of recs, have recommended it elsewhere around here. American Wolf is a similar book, telling the history of an area through its apex predator.
Pass. I just read All The Pretty Horses this year and loved loved loved it though.
Also, very on the nose to the above but I recently finished Horse by Geraldine Brooks and it was one of those books that I would pick up every time I had a spare 5 minutes. I feel like I only read a couple that capture me like that each year so that was a treat.
2 Likes
I’m been AWOL from the whole of the Refuge for a while, but it would make me sad to see Book Club die off completely too. Had some bad luck with the Zoom timings for a couple of books, but I’d be game to try and get back on the train for 2024.
Also, I have a strained relationship to Cormac McCarthy. I tried to read something of his–either Blood Meridian or All the Pretty Horses–back when I was in grad school and I couldn’t do it. His prose sounded very tryhard to me. But I loved The Road and taught it multiple times. I’d be willing to give him a go again.
1 Like
I’ve never read Cormac. I feel like people either say he’s their favorite author or they can’t stand his work. For that reason alone I’m intrigued and want to give it a go.
I read this a few months ago. Was really, really good. She’s a fantastic writer of these epic sweeping novels. People of the Book is similarly great.
1 Like
I’m in for a revived book club in 2024, especially as I am in the office today for the last time ever and anticipate a lot more time for reading in the past.
I am the opposite of ProfD in my Cormac appreciation. I liked All The Pretty Horses. I made myself finish The Road, but it just made me want to go crawl into a dark hole and hide.
I started The Horse last night based on the recommendation here and read about a quarter of it. Great so far.
2 Likes
Just finished the Road last week. Was a wonderful read about parenthood and the lengths we go for those we love.
2 Likes