The Reader’s Nook - The N&G Book Thread

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Picked up this for my flight tomorrow…

Same author that wrote From The Streets of Shaolin which I enjoyed a lot.

 

[Mtcvinyl]

Ooo forgot about this thread - I’m re reading all the Stephen king books in order so will post some musings

Have also done this and read new stuff as it comes out.

Check out The Curator by his son Owen King and The Fireman by his other son Joe Hill. Both are pretty great in their own ways

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Canadian version

The Globe 100: The best books of 2024

Our annual guide to the books that entertained, informed and delighted us this year

www.theglobeandmail.com

 

[yukbon]

I dropped this in the Cafe thread, but it might be good here as well?

there's a bluesky feed of Gift News Articles/Links

Bluesky

So you can read news articles without subscriptions or logins.

 

[ranbalam]

I posted this in the 2024 Reading Challenge Thread but figured I'd share it here too.
This is what I read in 2024, ranked in tiers.

Epic
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

Fantastic
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Wager - David Grann
In a Lonely Place - Dorothy B Hughes

Great Reads
Frankenstein: The 1812 Text - Mary Shelley
Winter - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Spring - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Summer - Karl Ove Knausgaard
(I read Autumn in 2023, it's the first of the tetralogy)
33 1/3: J Dilla's Donuts - Jordan Ferguson
Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
Surely You Can't Be Serious - David Zucker
Hitchcock/Truffaut - Francois Truffaut

Readable
World Within a Song - Jeff Tweedy
The Sun Also Rises - Hemmingway
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lost City of Z - David Grann
Stoner - John Williams
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
Chairman at the Board - Bill Schnee

Can't Recommend
Murder Your Employer - Rupert Holmes
Beethoven: The Music and the Life - Lewis Lockwood
Your Song Changed My Life - Bob Boilen

 

[Nee Lewman]

I posted this in the 2024 Reading Challenge Thread but figured I'd share it here too.
This is what I read in 2024, ranked in tiers.

Epic
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

Fantastic
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Wager - David Grann
In a Lonely Place - Dorothy B Hughes

Great Reads
Frankenstein: The 1812 Text - Mary Shelley
Winter - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Spring - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Summer - Karl Ove Knausgaard
(I read Autumn in 2023, it's the first of the tetralogy)
33 1/3: J Dilla's Donuts - Jordan Ferguson
Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
Surely You Can't Be Serious - David Zucker
Hitchcock/Truffaut - Francois Truffaut

Readable
World Within a Song - Jeff Tweedy
The Sun Also Rises - Hemmingway
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lost City of Z - David Grann
Stoner - John Williams
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
Chairman at the Board - Bill Schnee

Can't Recommend
Murder Your Employer - Rupert Holmes
Beethoven: The Music and the Life - Lewis Lockwood
Your Song Changed My Life - Bob Boilen

Man, I really liked Boilen’s book.

 

[ranbalam]

Man, I really liked Boilen’s book.

I almost put it under 'readable,' which it actually was, but I think I had just read too many similar books lately.

 

[yukbon]

I posted this in the 2024 Reading Challenge Thread but figured I'd share it here too.
This is what I read in 2024, ranked in tiers.

Epic
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

Fantastic
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Wager - David Grann
In a Lonely Place - Dorothy B Hughes

Great Reads
Frankenstein: The 1812 Text - Mary Shelley
Winter - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Spring - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Summer - Karl Ove Knausgaard
(I read Autumn in 2023, it's the first of the tetralogy)
33 1/3: J Dilla's Donuts - Jordan Ferguson
Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
Surely You Can't Be Serious - David Zucker
Hitchcock/Truffaut - Francois Truffaut

Readable
World Within a Song - Jeff Tweedy
The Sun Also Rises - Hemmingway
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lost City of Z - David Grann
Stoner - John Williams
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
Chairman at the Board - Bill Schnee

Can't Recommend
Murder Your Employer - Rupert Holmes
Beethoven: The Music and the Life - Lewis Lockwood
Your Song Changed My Life - Bob Boilen

FYI that I have been told by others more familiar that the J Dilla 33 1/3 book has a bunch of errors and the biography "Dillatime" is superior in almost every way possible. I'm only like a chapter or two into it and would tend to agree (and I did love the 33 1/3 book also). I only mention it because if you like one, you might be interested in the other.

 

[Ghost]

I posted this in the 2024 Reading Challenge Thread but figured I'd share it here too.
This is what I read in 2024, ranked in tiers.

Epic
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

Fantastic
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Wager - David Grann
In a Lonely Place - Dorothy B Hughes

Great Reads
Frankenstein: The 1812 Text - Mary Shelley
Winter - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Spring - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Summer - Karl Ove Knausgaard
(I read Autumn in 2023, it's the first of the tetralogy)
33 1/3: J Dilla's Donuts - Jordan Ferguson
Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
Surely You Can't Be Serious - David Zucker
Hitchcock/Truffaut - Francois Truffaut

Readable
World Within a Song - Jeff Tweedy
The Sun Also Rises - Hemmingway
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lost City of Z - David Grann
Stoner - John Williams
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
Chairman at the Board - Bill Schnee

Can't Recommend
Murder Your Employer - Rupert Holmes
Beethoven: The Music and the Life - Lewis Lockwood
Your Song Changed My Life - Bob Boilen

Man I read Bell Jar this year too. I can’t get the imagery of her sanitarium roommate that she may or may not have imagined sitting in her bed in the corner rocking with a thousand yard stare and grin on her face out of my head. The way that Sylvia painted people stunned me, even the imagery of the seedy cowboy gives me the heebies. And man, don’t get me started on the fig tree analogy, I feel like I reference that once a week to friends lol

 

[avecigrec]

Man I read Bell Jar this year too. I can’t get the imagery of her sanitarium roommate that she may or may not have imagined sitting in her bed in the corner rocking with a thousand yard stare and grin on her face out of my head. The way that Sylvia painted people stunned me, even the imagery of the seedy cowboy gives me the heebies. And man, don’t get me started on the fig tree analogy, I feel like I reference that once a week to friends lol

I really ought to get around to reading it.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

I don't do it much anymore, but buy books for the library collection is one of the funner aspects of my job. I was doing some purchasing earlier this week and this book was requested. But not by one person but 2 different people.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I don't do it much anymore, but buy books for the library collection is one of the funner aspects of my job. I was doing some purchasing earlier this week and this book was requested. But not by one person but 2 different people.
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Pickleball originated on Bainbridge Island, WA. So you have us to thank for all the noise pollution and awesome romance novels.

 

[Bull Shannon]

Pickleball originated on Bainbridge Island, WA. So you have us to thank for all the noise pollution and awesome romance novels.

I didn’t even know this factoid and thought this story absolutely fit in with Bainbridge.

 

[ayayrawn]

Got a fresh kindle for my birthday and being reminded of the perks of ebooks. Just got all 4 books in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series for $5 total.