recently finished the autobiography of the great Laurent Fignon who won the Tour de France twice and the Giro di Italia once as well as some other big races like Milan-San Remo, Fleche Wallone when it was a real classic.
It was superb, really it was.
I also finished The Vagrants by Yiyun Li. This focuses on several main characthers in China in the 1960's and revolves around the execution of a 28 year girl for being counter revolutionary. This was an extremely good read.
currently:
Galore - Michael Crummey
Plugged - Eoin Colfer
e. e. cummings is my hero.
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S Hirsch released in 2011. 640 pages long. Show his warts, as we all have. The most unbiased bio on Mays I've ever read.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind. One of the great unknown novels written. Just about finished so I've started the below.
The Blunderer, by Patricia Highsmith. She was so damned talented.
I finshed "Galore" by Michael Crummey. I found it to be a good well written book. I think a goal of the author was to make a book comparative the great One Hundred Year of Solitude by Garcia Marquez (on that note, what happened to Spab? I miss her). He doesn't manage it but then again, no one else has. Overall a good well written book although slightly lacking. It focused on a Canadian fishing community from when a mysterious person who they named Judah was discovered alive in a whale's belly.
"The rider" by Time Krabbé. As you's know, cycling is a passion of mine. As a person that can barely get over 20km/h for a ride, racing isn't something i will experience. This bookm is about a fictional race and the emotions going through the focused competitor during the race. It also catalogues other racing achievement for him.
"Plugged" by Eoin Colfer. I liked it but it did seem slightly contrived but i don't think that should diminish from the overall goal of the book. It was funny. It's about an Irish working security in a seedy club who has worried about hair loss. he then gets caught up in murder and conspiracy.
"Child Wonder" by Roy Jacobsen. This was an excellent read. I got it due to a review in the irish times (i had a previous book of his "burnt out town of miracles" on my amazon wishlist but never got around to getting it). This is about a boy Finn who lives with his mother in Oslo. Money is scarce so the mother decides to rent out Finn's room and Finn would take her room and she'd sleep on the sofa.As well as this, there is a new arrival to the family, a half sister for Finn! This is at times humourous and contemplative. There are sad moments and moments of Love, tenderness between the family unit. Just a superb read and if you are going to read one book by a Norwegian this year, make it this one.
I also don't see why i won't read "burnt out town of miracles" in the near future.
currently
Paul Murray - An evening of Long Goodbyes (i read his second novel "Skippy dies" last year (in fact it was the last book of last year that i read finishing it on 30th December)
Tea Obreacht - The Tigers wife ( i refered to this book in this post
e. e. cummings is my hero.
Just finished reading Trust Me by Brenda Novak
U.S. militaries improvised ordnance instruction guide. Bomb making 101.
I am reading a comic book and the name of this book is superman. It is a very nice comic book to read and the story of this book is interesting to read. I read this book 5 times and i never feel bore when i read this book.
I just finished I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max. Very funny. Next up this week is The Serpent And The Rainbow by Wade Davis.
Currently reading David Limbaugh's "Persecution"
Oh Sweets A GREAT book Google : " Gods Behaving Badly " By Marie Phillips
Hurricane reading:
My Lady De Burgh- Deborah Simmons
Seducing Lord Sinclair -Haley Ann Solomon
The Burning Bride- Margret Lawrence
oops wrong thread
The Sentry by Robert Crais
Just got done with "One Second After", an end of the world story about an EMP attack over the continental US, asia, and eastern europe. See my comments in the off topic section. Started on "Marsbound" by Haldeman.
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"Sexuality is fluid, whether you're gay or you're straight or you're bisexual, you just go with the flow. " -- Shane, on The L Word
Téa Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
The Tiger's wife, set in the disintegrating Yugoslavia, is about a young woman (now a doctor) and her grandfather. Her grandfathers passes recently from an illness he kept from everyone but the grandaughter. The novel includes recollections of events of his life he shared with his grandaughter including the tiger's wife and the deathless man. The sense of magical realism scattered in the book i feel works well.
Obreht has written a really good book and one i really enjoyed which is great for someone so young as she is (as in young. younger then me. that's my definition)
Paul Murray - An Evening of Long Goodbyes
This was the debut book from Paul Murray, before he achieved fame with skippy dies. It isn't as good as skippy dies but it is good. The central characthers are Charles and Bel. Charlie is a layabout and Bel is an actress that doesn't get acting job. Their father has recently died leaving calamitous personal affairs and furniture is going missing, clothes appearing from nowhere and the possibbility f eviction. it's a good book.
currently
paul auster - timbuktu
colum mccann - everything in the country must go
mohsin hamed - moth smoke
e. e. cummings is my hero.
rereading The Anarchists Cookbook
not yet finish with "The Celestine Prophecy"
CANADA's POLICE FORCE: Lies, fabrication, perjur...and much worse? By Terry Mallenby, BA, BSW, MA former federal peace officer, May 3, 2011, and
A Tale of Two Cities (for about the 10th time)
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
Yes, Christopher Moore is outrageous.Originally Posted by Manu
You Suck: A Love Story (vampires) and A Dirty Job: A Novel are also hilarious. I think the latter is his best work. JMHO.
DEATH SENTENCE by Jerry Bledsoe
The true story about Velma Barfield, who was the first woman executed since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977 (she was executed in 1984, in North Carolina).
Leana
yesterday i finished I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan. Lucifer is given an opportunity to seek redemption by living a relatively blame free life taking on the life of a writer who was about to commit suicide before God's Intervention.
Overall, the writing and narrative is just superb. i enjoyed it. i had previously read it in 2006.
my book at work is burnt out town of miracles by roy jacobsen. set in Finland during World War II, the main characther is the only resident to stay in a village as the russian's have invaded it.
last week i also finished the tenderloin by john butler. overall, it was ok. i felt it was lacking. the main characther, Evan and his friend Milo go to California at the time of the dotcom boom.
e. e. cummings is my hero.
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