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Today’s question: Today’s topic: Recommendations. Do you use LT’s recommendations feature? Have you found any good books by using it? Do you use the anti-recommendations, or the “special sauce” recommendations? How do you find out about books you want to read? This is the perfect topic for me. I am obsessed with recommendations. Because [...] I pretty much raced through The Ballad of Dingus Magee this weekend, and I’m thrilled that Counterpoint Press has brought out this first of Markson’s pulp novels. I have become a big fan of pulp in the past few years, but even when I read trash (or “trash”) I want to read something by [...] Via my lovely UPS lady: The Ballad of Dingus Magee by David Markson (yay!) Mythologies by Roland Barthes (on a friend’s recommendation) Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff (for actual reference, ha) Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, with Of the Immortality of the Soul, Of Suicide, Of Miracles by David Hume (yes, I have already read [...] Of D.H. Lawrence’s fiction, I’ve only read Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and though it was ages ago now I don’t remember being overly impressed. I think I didn’t care particularly for his style, just as a matter of personal taste. But I’ve been dipping into a compilation of Moby-Dick criticism, and an essay from Lawrence’s [...] I’m sure I will want to more fully blog New York Review Books’ wonderful reprint of George R. Stewart’s Names on the Land, which I so happily received via LibraryThing‘s Early Reviewer program—I have a bit of a mini-review up on LT but definitely want to expand on it—but today I thought I would [...] Via The Guardian, looks like The Master and Margarita is being published as a graphic novel: The book’s artist Andrzej Klimowski and his collaborator Danusia Schejbal will appear at the London Literature Festival on Saturday July 12 to present the book and discuss its visual translation from the original. This could be great. I [...] As a regular reader of Mark Sarvas’s litblog, The Elegant Variation, I snapped up Harry, Revised as soon as it came out but was afraid to let my expectations rise too much. A first novel can be a tricky thing, and reading someone’s voice in fiction for the first time is nothing like reading [...] Via The Elegant Variation, this morning I found out about a new (to me) old David Markson novel, The Ballad of Dingus Magee. This one is all over the Amazon wishlist now. Strike that, it’s in the cart. For those of you unfamiliar with Markson, pick up a copy of Vanishing Point immediately! It’s [...] Today’s question: Book-swapping. Do you do it? What site(s) do you use? How did you find out about them? What do you think of them? Do you use LT’s book-swapping column feature for information on what to swap? Do you participate in any of the LT communities that discuss bookswapping, like the Bookmooch group [...] Charles Holdefer was kind enough to contact me through LibraryThing after reading that I had been reviewing fiction lately, and sent me a copy of his excellent novel The Contractor. At first I had thought this wasn’t the type of thing that usually appealed to me at all—it seemed possibly a little violent, and [...] |
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