James McBride's latest «Deacon King Kong» Raymond Chandler «The Long Goodbye» Haruki Murakami «Wind-up Bird Chronicle» (never read it before even though I'm a big fan) Haruki Murakami's «Killing Commendatore» (not his greatest, imo)
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1. "Rereading a feast for crows, it’s been very enjoyable " In response to Reply # 0
This and a dance of dragons really expanded the GoT world and I was a fan who liked that. I had forgot all about the Greyjoy machinations and the buddy comedy that was brienne and (the much younger than was on the show) podrick Payne
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stand ur ground, believe in urself, believe in love, prepare urself for love, remove the negativity from ur life, and accept the love u kno u deserve
Not bad, but I don’t love it. I’m about halfway through, but reading about super rich people gets a little tiring. Just finished A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson which I really liked.
“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”
6. "Long Goodbye is my favorite Chandler" In response to Reply # 0
I actually go back and forth among his big three for favorite, but right now it's Long Goodbye so praiseworthy choice there.
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"Walleye, a lot of things are going to go wrong in your life that technically aren't your fault. Always remember that this doesn't make you any less of an idiot"
7. "Blumenberg's Legitimacy of the Modern Age" In response to Reply # 0
I read it a long time ago, and didn't really grasp all of what was happening. Now, in a pattern that is very, very familiar to me - I am spiking a smaller, focused bit of research that I'm doing by dialing my scope all the way out into a sweeping multi-century intellectual history that's not going to do me an ounce of good.
But it's an incredibly good book. Also reading Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You" and Petr Celcicky's "On the Spiritual Battle" for the project that Blumenberg's massive book is spiking into theoretical oblivion. It's on Christian anarchism as a kind of perpetually out of date intellectual project. It will never be finished.
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"Walleye, a lot of things are going to go wrong in your life that technically aren't your fault. Always remember that this doesn't make you any less of an idiot"
8. "Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior" In response to Reply # 0
'In a new book, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, out April 7, Kendzior traces the series of events that led to Trump’s candidacy, beginning in the 1980s. “I wanted it to be clear to people that Trump and his cohort did not come out of the blue, that this is not some sort of fluke,” she says. Does she have any predictions for November? “The main thing I’m worried about is election integrity,” she says. “I’m worried about voter suppression, about foreign interference, about unsecure machines.” '
15. "Alain Mabanckou - African Psycho" In response to Reply # 0
Percival Everett - Erasure
My only other new book is Kei Miller's Augustown, but I want to save it for a later date. I'm rereading a Nietzsche book, but I don't think I'm going to finish it tbh.
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