Just started reading The Holdout, the new book by Graham Moore. After the The Sherlockian (2010), a modern thriller inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle and the The Last Days Of Night about the current-war, this new book is a legal thriller.
https://www.goodreads.com/nl/book/sh...17-the-holdout
Now reading: Samuel R. Delany, Shoat Rumblin: His Ideas And Sensations. Kind of a gay picaresque, with a lot of sex that is not my cup of tea (not being gay) but incredibly well-written, as with all Delany's work.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
The Invention Of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk
Led Zeppelin III (50 years since its initial release)
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Reading Rob Halford's new autobiography. Really enjoying it so far.
Season of Storms by Andrzej Sapkowski
When She Was Good, the new Michael Robotham. Since his first novel, The Suspect from 2003, Robotham is one of my favorite writers of thrillers.
Just finished Steve Hackett's book. I enjoyed it a lot. Now reading Colin Powel's autobiography.
I finished that Marlon James book....it was....interesting. I'm not put off by graphic violence, depictions of gay sex, vulgarity in general, though those issues are on full display. But I struggled somewhat with his dialect, the way he wrote various patois....and I found the plot line a bit hard to grasp more than once. I'd say it's a good book, but....not a masterpiece by my reckoning.
Now reading David Mitchell's newest novel, as well as Carolyn Forche's latest volume of poems, which is staggeringly great.
"And this is the chorus.....or perhaps it's a bridge...."
^^^ I don't think you're supposed to completely get the plot line. It's apparently the first of a trilogy, in which each book are going to tell "the same" story from different points of view. So no one character has the full picture. Kind of like Rashomon.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
^^^^makes sense.
I will likely read the next two.......
"And this is the chorus.....or perhaps it's a bridge...."
Just finished Dune, again. Now onto Messiah, second book of the series.
The new movie has been pushed back to October 2021.
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Just finished A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno. Wow, if ever there was a book with an ironic title. Honor among thieves, I guess.
Up next is All the Gallant Men by Donald Stratton. It's the memoir of a survivor of the USS Arizona.
I've been reading a lot of non-fiction lately (including advertising booklets, pamphlets, and flyers on Medicare - damn, my head hurts). Will get back to horror and crime fiction soon.
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Looking forward to my day in court.
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
Lord Emsworth and Others by P.G. Wodehouse
The Rise of Magicks, the conclusion to Nora Roberts's epic post-apocalyptic fantasy trilogy. The first two book were pretty good. So far, this one is meh, but I'll finish it and see if it gets any better.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
I'm about to start The Roadie by Kim Payne, one of the roadies to the original Allman Brothers Band.
The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
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