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A book read and not necessarily published in 2018. You can pick both a classic and a contemporary. And graphic novels are very welcome!
Favorite classic book :
https://goo.gl/images/syKQwM
Beautiful and deeply moving long letter of an old man, Emperor Hadrian, in which he recounts important – and less important -- events in his life. And very often, some of his clear and simple thoughts can find a echoe in some of our present lives…
Favorite contemporary book :
https://goo.gl/images/cs1wAC
I already had enjoyed very much the previous book by Le Bris about Martin et Osa Johnson, but this one, featuring more than 900 captivating and exciting pages telling the many stories and adventures lived by Ernest Schoedsack and Merian Cooper, from their very first encounter till the making-of of KING KONG and beyond, is freaking-tastic ! Pity it’s not yet translated into English…
Favorite short novel :
https://goo.gl/images/NAnNiJ
I came across this very touching and bitter novel while reading Jonathan Coe’s NUMBER 11 in which the narrator mentions the H.G.Wells’ short story.
Favorite non-fiction book :
What can i say except thank you very much again for the wonderful-and-beyond-expectations tip! After i ended watching DOCTOR WHO CLASSIC, i begun a delightful cherry-picking affair with those books, and it’s a real treat so far ! (Not sure what Jim Phelps means by “However, author Tat Wood imo flies way off the rails in the second edition of volume three.”)
Incidentally, i begun watching DOCTOR WHO 2005 Season 1 a few days back !
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Jan 22, 2019 - 3:15 PM
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joan hue
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The other book that I would praise here is The Promise by Robert Crais. It starts off as a thriller but ends up being much more.
Ahh, mgh, we are again twinsies. So glad to see that you too love Robert Crais. I've read all of his Elvis Cole novels since his first publication.
I read a lot of good books, but the one that really sticks with me is Beartown by Fredrick Backman. (He wrote A Man Called Ove.) I really liked this novel.
Just finished, in early January, The New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke, so I guess that doesn't count for 2018. In my opinion, he is our greatest living American writer. His themes are deep and profound, and his writing is stunning. Also, all of those great things are couched in interesting, can't-put-down narratives.
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Apr 29, 2020 - 3:55 AM
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Rameau
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Well first up...whatever happened to Anabel Boyer? I haven't seen a post from her for ages.
Anyway, favourite book of this year so far:
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe. It's a bit arty with the timeline all over the place at first, but once you get into it, what a great read. It's to do with the awful & powerful (& wealthy) Winshaw family, old money (slavery) & they're running our lives (banking, politics, media ect.). One of the nicer members (who the rest of the family have locked away in a looney bin in the forties) hires a writer to write a history of the family, poor sod, he doesn't know quite what he's let himself in for. Oh, & he's besotted with the 1961 British comedy film What A Carve Up!
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