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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir av Frank McCourt
Dreams Of My Russian Summers: A Novel av Andrei Makine
The Sixth Commandment av Lawrence Sanders
The Known World av Edward P. Jones
The Dark Half (Signet) av Stephen King
East of Eden av John Steinbeck
Shadowland av Peter Straub
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FavoritförfattareRussell Banks, Ken Bruen, Charlie Huston, Jon Krakauer, Jhumpa Lahiri, Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, Haruki Murakami, Richard Price, John Steinbeck (Gemensamma favoriter)
Om migI am a married man from the Midwest and I have a passion for reading. My love of books started at an early age. A family friend had handed me "The Light of the Western Stars" by Zane Grey. I was around ten years old and I was hopelessly hooked. This infatuation has continued, unabated, for over 35 years. My only wish, is that I could be a faster reader. It seems like for every book I read, five more sprout up.
Om mitt bibliotekI love all styles & genres of writing. I aim for above-average quality and with this lofty goal I am rarely disappointed ! I especially enjoy crime fiction, literary fiction and non-fiction, particularly Civil War related & presidential bio's. I've read all the books in my library.
*Just finished:
Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
**Currently Reading:
White Sky, Black Ice by Stan Jones
Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
***On Deck:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
Every Last Drop by Charlie Huston
The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
**My favorite books of '09**
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
What's the Matter with Kansas by Thomas Frank
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
***My favorite books of '08
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
March by Geraldine Brooks
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Läser just nuWhite Sky, Black Ice av Stan Jones
Cutting for Stone: A novel av Abraham Verghese
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I will let you know if I am going to list anything interesting on Bookmooch before I list it so I cna reserve it for you if you are interested.
Unfortunately, I have not kept up my threads on LT this year, so there is no point in looking at my 75 Challenge. I think I last posted in May. I "lurk" on a few threads of people who I know have similar reading interests, and occasionally post. I am hoping next year I will have more time to maintain a thread, but will probably do it on Club Read.
I am in Wicker Park--the home of Myopic Books. A very dangerous place, and it is walking distance from my house!
Lisa
inlägg gjort av LisaCurcio vid 9:32 pm (EST) Dec 7, 2009
inlägg gjort av benitastrnad vid 12:36 pm (EST) Dec 7, 2009
Yes, hard-hitting crime is my favorite genre. Have been reading Huston since his first book came out--though I must say am not too fond of Joe Pitt books. As to Coleman (Mo Prager)can't say enough good stuff about it. Mo is one of the most fleshed-out, complex characters out there.
I tend to like books where the main character is one of these: criminals, hitmen, the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time (Huston's Henry Thompson, right?), a complex cop or PI faced with difficult dilemmas (not a wild maverick, rogue cop bucking the system--how cliche)...(But complex like the DEA agent in Winslow's "Power of the Dog"). If the books have dark humor, better yet.
Off the top of my head, here are some of my favorite books, authors, and small presses(where I think some of the best stuff out there can be found):
Author: Victor Gischler, all good stuff; crime ones are:
* Gun Monkeys
* Pistol Poets
* Shotgun Opera
* Suicide Squeeze
* The Deputy (printing in 2010 by Tyrus Books)
Author: Don Winslow; 2 favorites:
* Power of the Dog -- one of my all-time favorites
* The Winter of Fankie Machine -- about a retired hitman
Author: Robert Fate--the Baby Shark Series--currently my favorite series. From Capital Crime Press.
Also from Capital Crime Press that is very good:
* "The 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers" and "The One-Minute Assassin" both by Troy Cook.
If you like, check out my tag "small press"--a lot of good stuff in there.
Could go on like this all night...but for now, good night.
Stay in touch. And thanks for contacting me. This is fun stuff.
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inlägg gjort av magnumpigg vid 7:41 pm (EST) Nov 8, 2009
inlägg gjort av coppers vid 12:18 am (EST) Dec 25, 2008
Thanks for your good wishes. ~Donna~
inlägg gjort av Donna828 vid 7:04 pm (EST) Dec 23, 2008
inlägg gjort av coppers vid 10:37 pm (EST) Aug 3, 2008
And here, as I write this, it's Monday morning, 8:46, cold and clear and as always very very dry :)
Have a nice Sunday!
inlägg gjort av mccardey vid 6:47 pm (EST) Jul 20, 2008