Books

[hutch]

here is the picture of the book i just posted about.. even a picture is hard to find!


https://www.google.com/search?q=Un+di+Velt+Hot+Geshvign&biw=1920&bih=945&tbm=isch&imgil=N8h4Ug60Jvtm1M%253A%253BHOtDu4_H4e0weM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.yiddishbookcenter.org%25252Fslideshow%25252Fvoices-from-holocaust&source=iu&pf=m&fir=N8h4Ug60Jvtm1M%253A%252CHOtDu4_H4e0weM%252C_&usg=__RjoH5EDpTNDp5SACu6vuozTqVnE%3D&dpr=1&ved=0ahUKEwivoqi1lpLLAhWFPD4KHSFIA4sQyjcISw&ei=H5DOVu-WNIX5-AGhkI3YCA#imgrc=N8h4Ug60Jvtm1M%3A

[hutch]

hmm.. maybe there is an actual copy here..

http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=1642722

and another

http://www.queenslibrary.org/es/item/un-di-velt-hot-geshvign

maybe i will have to go to queens to make a copy...

[vansmack]

I don't think we've talked about this here.

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/

I had to shut my door when I got to

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/crafts-for-the-retarded/

and

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/satan-for-kids/

[Space Freely]

I'm about 110 pages into Petty, by Warren Zanes, a book my wife got me for Xmas. Tom has just completed the debut album with the Heartbreakers. I now know a whole lot more about Mudcrunch.

[hutch]

I'm about 110 pages into Petty, by Warren Zanes, a book my wife got me for Xmas. Tom has just completed the debut album with the Heartbreakers. I now know a whole lot more about Mudcrunch.

i've been getting psyched for seeing Petty and Mudcrutch at the 930... going to be great!

[Relaxer]

I'm about 110 pages into Petty, by Warren Zanes, a book my wife got me for Xmas. Tom has just completed the debut album with the Heartbreakers. I now know a whole lot more about Mudcrunch.

I read this. I thought it was all right though nothing really stood out about it. Maybe Tom Petty is just kinda boring. But it felt like one of those bios where this happened and then this happened and then this happened and then the end.

[hutch]

yeah I heard the book was a slog so I'm not planning on getting it..

[Relaxer]

You wanna talk slog, how about a 854 page biography on Paul McCartney



That said, I'm liking this quite a bit and will probably finish it this weekend. I've read every book on the Beatles that I can find, so diving into this seemed a little unnecessary, but I have it a shot and it's really pretty good. Having read a bio on Ringo a few months ago, and a Lennon one before that, I like reading about the Beatles era through the perspective of just one of the members rather than a whole-group view.

[Space Freely]

I'm about 110 pages into Petty, by Warren Zanes, a book my wife got me for Xmas. Tom has just completed the debut album with the Heartbreakers. I now know a whole lot more about Mudcrunch.

I read this. I thought it was all right though nothing really stood out about it. Maybe Tom Petty is just kinda boring. But it felt like one of those bios where this happened and then this happened and then this happened and then the end.

Sounds a lot like my life except I'm not in Mudcrunch.

[hutch]

You wanna talk slog, how about a 854 page biography on Paul McCartney



That said, I'm liking this quite a bit and will probably finish it this weekend. I've read every book on the Beatles that I can find, so diving into this seemed a little unnecessary, but I have it a shot and it's really pretty good. Having read a bio on Ringo a few months ago, and a Lennon one before that, I like reading about the Beatles era through the perspective of just one of the members rather than a whole-group view.

yeah but Phillip Norman is like the authority on the Beatles isn't he? I think I read his first one on the Beatles...

[Relaxer]

Yeah, he wrote a big bio on Lennon, which I liked a lot, and he wrote an overall Beatles book called 'Shout' which is funny because the Beatles didn't record that song or even play it very much.

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

Read Zero K by DeLillo which was merely OK. Did not live up to the "his best novel since Underworld" hype that was flying around.

Also read The Secret History after hearing from multiple people that I needed to check out Tartt's two pre-Goldfinch books. It was a solid B+. Would recommend to anyone who liked Goldfinch.

Also read The Plot Against America by Roth which was a lot of fun and wildly timely with Trump being a major party candidate.

Finally got around to reading Interpreter of Maladies recently too (somehow had read all her other stuff sans the thing she actually won a Pulitzer for). So good. One of my favorite authors. She can write things that are nostalgic and sad all at once. Sorry to hear she's stopping writing in English.

About 2/3rds of the way through the new Klosterman. It's an interesting thought experiment. Enjoying it.

Next up is Vol 3 of Danielewski's The Familiar serial. Enjoyed the first two but I'm a sucker for ergodic lit.

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

Anybody read The Sympathizer or All The Light We Cannot See? Trying to figure which to read first.

[Space Freely]

I just read  Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon. Nice job, Kim. Thurston is an idiot.

[bob72]

I just read  Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon. Nice job, Kim. Thurston is an idiot.

I'm in the middle of that one. I never knew she had such ties to Hollywood and the art world even before SY existed. I love that she dated Danny Elfman in high school.

I also read Carrie Brownstein's in one sitting, but I was a bit disappointed with it. I wanted more than just S/K history, would love to know more about the relationship with Fred.