Missing May? Missing June?
In all these years, I have never missed so much time blogging. Nothing to do but jump back in and tell you what I'm reading and not reading currently:
Rules of Civility - Amor Towles. Novel. This book follows the changing fortunes of Katey Kontent during the year of 1938. This is so gorgeous and rich. I'm audiobooking, and can hardly stop listening. One chapter calls for another. Towles is a master of atmosphere. THE master! Christmas is several months away, but I want to go ahead and put in my order for a time machine to take me back to New York in the late 1930s. Meanwhile, I'm happily enjoying Rules of Civility. I could eat it with a spoon; it's that good. Let there be a movie!
Clockers - Richard Price. Novel. I read this book when it was new, but it didn't knock my socks off the way it is now. Alternate chapters explore the lives of drug dealers in (fictional) Dempsey, New Jersey, and the police that are trying to catch them red-handed. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that The Wire owes everything to Clockers.
The DNF files: I recently bailed on The Road to Jonestown, a biography of cult leader Jim Jones by Jeff Guinn. The writing was crisp, the research impeccable, but Jim Jones made my skin crawl. I bet that I would have the same reaction to another book by Guinn about Charles Manson. My failure to engage with The Road to Jonestown led me to start something new in my book journal. I now duly enter the books that made me cry uncle.
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Oops, typo. I meant Marjorie Morningstar. I was so preoccupied with trying to figure out where that book is in my to-read stacks, that I wrote the name wrong! Is it weird that I really want to read Marjorie Mornstar now just to see if I dislike it as much as you did? I think I have it in my to-read stacks somewhere. pretty! I love blank books. I have never had a Moleskin (and was always pronouncing it mole + skin - am I wrong?) perhaps because I am too cheap? Thank you for sharing your article about Blue-Hearted Bookworm. If You interested to know more information please visit http://onedaytop.com/pineapple-juice-helps-get-rid-cough/
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