What are you currently reading?

[vandermolen]

[aligreto]

O'Sullivan: Stories From The Deep





I like drinking water. I also like looking at bodies of it and occasionally being on it. However, I am largely averse to being in it except on a very rare occasion. Ken O'Sullivan, on the other hand, was born and bred near to and in the water near the south west coast of Ireland. He ultimately became a marine film maker.

The book opens with a wonderful statement of place and self; what it is to be a product of one's environment, upbringing and heritage. It then progresses to detail the hardships and the lean years  encountered in his early career. One near death experience stands out.

The book continues with his history of filming sharks, whales and exotic jellyfish off the coast of Ireland and all the way down to the Azores. I found it fascinating that such creatures lived in the waters of our coastline.

The book is eloquently and even poetically written [includes a few poems] in places, particularly on the topics which he is passionate about, most especially at the beginning and at the end of the book. It is an easy and engaging style reminiscent of an old Irish seanachaí [fireside story teller] relating a good story to you, personally.

[LKB]

I'm about a quarter of the way through Ian Toll's Pacific Crucible. I'm pretty impressed, and looking forward to the remaining books in the series.

[Mandryka]

Four months after starting it, I finished it. I can see a bit of Frederic in myself -- that's not good!

[SimonNZ]

Started:

[MN Dave]

Shirley Jackson Dark Tales

[Mandryka]

Errr - this is a bit different from Bovary and L'Education! It reminds me of the movement in modern French literature - which I may explore soon - called post-exoticism.

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-exotisme

[vandermolen]

[Mandryka]

[Spotted Horses]

Shirley Jackson Dark Tales

Good stuff.

[Artem]

Books that I read over the past month. I'd recommend checking out Locos. The book about China was also interesting.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

The Subterraneans, Jack Kerouac.

[vers la flamme]

The Subterraneans, Jack Kerouac.

I wrote a paper about that book freshman year of college  Haven't read it since. You liking it?

[SimonNZ]

I remember The Vanity Of Duluoz being my favorite Kerouac, back when I read near all of them in a binge.

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[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I wrote a paper about that book freshman year of college  Haven't read it since. You liking it?

I used to like the book a lot when I was young, but I have a mixed feeling about it now. The writing is very good. But the story is a little slow, if not boring. Overall, still fun read with many names of Jazz greats like Bird, Stan Kenton, etc.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Thomas Mann: The Clown.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Baudelaire: poems.

[foxandpeng]

Picked up Shostakovich: A Life Remembered by Elizabeth Wilson yesterday for £2.49. Not the next on my list to read, but soon...

[milk]

Four months after starting it, I finished it. I can see a bit of Frederic in myself -- that's not good!

I liked that book. Though I can't remember it.

Started:

I liked that book. Though I can't remember it.

I'm really enjoying this. Hope I remember it!

[SimonNZ]

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