03-22-16, 10:05 AM | |
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: the Sunny South
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My husband sent me this link about James Patterson's plans to publish a series of novella-length books:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/bu...=19918128&_r=0 It was pretty interesting to me, and made me think of a book club that I was in (and quit) that had a 200 page limit because most of the members refused to read anything that was longer. A few nights ago, I finished re-reading "All the King's Men" -- all 661 pages of it -- and it made me long for something much shorter. I read "Everything I Never Told You" (Celeste Ng) in a blink, and I really liked it. I am now reading "The World's Largest Man," a memoir about the author's father and growing up in Mississippi. I had heard the author speak, and I really looked forward to the book. I love funny (oh, do I love funny!), but this book seems almost manic. I know that it took him six years to write, and it almost reads like he spent every single one of those days trying to make each and every sentence a zinger. I don't know why I find it overwhelming and slightly off-putting, but I do. Go figure. AF Check out my blog at www.typeALC.com |
03-22-16, 04:06 PM | |
Join Date: Dec 2002
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West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein. The Daily Telegraph said:
"West of Eden, is an oral history or, more correctly, an oral biography of a place that has been decades in the making. For years she has interviewed people, famous and not Arthur Miller, Lauren Bacall, Gore Vidal, Dennis Hopper, Jane Fonda, Warren Beatty, former secretaries, butlers, security guards. Many are now dead, and Stein has sewn together their testimonies to compose an orchestral account of the magical, hubristic, sparkling and murky place she left long ago. West of Eden could have been an encyclopedia; instead it takes a more nuanced view. Its selective and sly, personal and political and by far one of the best books ever written about Hollywood."
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03-23-16, 09:30 AM | |
Join Date: Dec 2004
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I'm re-reading the Sookie Stackhouse series right now (by Charlaine Harris). I read all of the books when they originally came out. I read a lot of non-fiction last year and started out this year needing something fun to read that I didn't have to invest a lot of time in. I think I'm on the 7th book.
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