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Winter Reading
What's everyone planning to read this winter? It's that time of the year when I am stocking my virtual bookshelf. I'd love some recommendations.
At the moment I'm reading...."Letters from Thailand" by Botan. The book is a series of letters written by a Chinese immigrant to Thailand, to his mother in China, beginning in 1945. It was originally published in 1969. I'm not that far into yet, but I'm enjoying the story so far.
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Hi Carl,
Thank you for mentioning Colm Toibin. I've just read an interview, and I think I'll definitely try and read one of his novels this winter.
Nancie
Have all the readers left the room? :)
Nancie
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Thanks for all your recommendations. My apologies that this was a duplicate topic. I didn't see the other one, started a week before.
Nancie
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As a lover of short stories, embarrassed to admit that Tobias Woolf had never been on my radar. Only came across him on the Guardian's "Books that writers read" list. "Bullet to the Brain" is on ever short story curriculum and "Old School" made me cry repeatedly with its great nostalgic gentleness and humanism.
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One of the books I'm currently reading is "Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation" (Charles Glass), which is interesting. In my estimation, though, the best writer of WW II fiction (much of it set in France, but including other countries as well) is Alan Furst. ("Night Soldiers" was the first of his WW II books.)
Interestingly, this was just discussed on "Fresh Air" (with Terry Gross):
http://www.npr.org/search/index.php?searchinput=Mantel
I haven't read any of her books and have no opinion on them.
Karen
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Stuart M. Kaminsky's Inspector Rosnikov detective novels provide a very interesting way of watching the evolution from the USSR to relatively modern day Russia (the list below is from Wikipedia). I thought they were very well written. (The last one was published posthumously.)
Inspector Rostnikov series
1.Rostnikov's Corpse (1981)
(also published as Death of a Dissident)
2.Black Knight in Red Square (1983)
3.Red Chameleon (1985)
4.A Fine Red Rain (1987)
5.A Cold Red Sunrise (1988)
6.The Man Who Walked Like a Bear (1990)
7.Rostnikov's Vacation (1991)
8.Death of a Russian Priest (1992)
9.Hard Currency (1995)
10.Blood and Rubles (1996)
11.Tarnished Icons (1997)
12.The Dog Who Bit a Policeman (1998)
13.Fall of a Cosmonaut (2000)
14.Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express (2001)
15.People Who Walk in Darkness (2008)
16.A Whisper to the Living (2010)
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Jana - Now that you've probably finished "Finding Mr. Flood," what's your opinion of it?
Karen
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Something rather enchanting about it!
I love the era, the clothes, the useless men.
My favorite line:
"All I wish to do is sit in the shade and remember better times and better men".
Cherie
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His book 'The Sea of Poppies' is excellent. I have bought the sequel (it's the first of a trilogy) but haven't got around to reading it yet....I have a very big pile of too read books!
I have just finished 'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry. It's not a genre I would normally read but it was recommended by a book club friend. It won the Pulitzer prize - and deservedly so IMHO.
That should be 'to read' of course!
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@Jana - I really love both these books by Ann Patchett, especially Bel Canto!
One interesting book I recently read was Alexandra Fuller's "Cocktails under the Tree of Forgetfulness." This is her second novel/autobiography/biography set in Africa (Malawi, Rhodesia before it was Zimbabwe, and Zambia); this one deals more with her mother's life, though told through the daughter. Her first book, "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight," is a story of her own childhood in Zambia. Both are very honest and highly interesting stories.
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I just watched a wonderful movie.
I thought so much about couch surfing when I watched it. I felt a lot about my relationship with all of you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKfHMR4mwE
It's SO lovely ;D
Cherie
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I read it a few months ago. It was a light, easy, quick read.
Cherie
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Helga was talking about it:
"Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day: one Man, Eight countries, One Vintage Travel Guide" by Doug Mack.
http://www.amazon.de/Europe-Wrong-Turns-Day-Countries/dp/0399537325/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356839230&sr=8-1
Patty, you really need to see "Enchanted April"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKfHMR4mwE
Cherie
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I love crossing-culture books. One excellent one is Peter Hessler's first book, "River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze" about his experience in Fuling, China in the late 1990s (as a Peace Corps volunteer). Among other things, he studies Chinese in one part of his apartment and does his English-teacherly things in another, marking to some extent what he sees as his Chinese-speaking personality and his English-speaking personality.
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"-- Elementary Particles. Superb writing."
Can I take it home to mother? (casting my eyes down demurely)
After all, it was kind of controversial..
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OUCH!!
I haven't read it- do you have a link? (giggle)
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Cadence
I well remember Edge of Darkness - I think at the time it won loads of awards in the TV industry. Very dark, cast were fantastic. Loved the music too which was very atmospheric - written by Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton. I think I bought my son the soundtrack for Christmas that year.
Anne
(Tearing myself away from goat-watching)
I am reading the funniest book about an unfunny subject/life I have seen in memory. By the Iowa Sea- Joe Blair.
http://joeblairwriter.com/publications.html
And that ain't the half of it.
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