Currently reading (or re-reading) (cursor over for titles):
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Recommendations? Comments on any of the above? I love book talk.
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Travesty by John Hawkes.
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Thanks, DP! I’ll check it out. Hope all is well.
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Hey Sonya,
Kevin Wilson’s “Tunneling to the Center of the Earth”
Donald Ray Pollock’s “Knockemstiff”
Both incredible, both fuel my writing ambitions!
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Thanks, Chris — great titles. Are you at all a Neil Gaiman fan? A few people have mentioned him to me recently.
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Hey Sonya,
I was originally a NG comic fan back in “the day”. Only read a few of his books, ‘Good Omens” that he co-authored with Terry Pratchett. Excellent book- especially if you’re a Douglas Adams fan in need of a fix. Also “Anansi Boys”- which was just OK for me, plot/characters were fairly standard. I hear “The Graveyard Book” and “American Gods” are great though. They are on the short list to read.
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Hello Sonya.
I checked out your website and found that you are currently reading 2666.
I read it a couple of months ago, while taking a Gotham Course.
Roberto Bolaño became a major inspiration for my writing life.
2666 is really his Opus Magnum.
Glad to discuss the book whenever you want.
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Greetings, Jose — thanks for coming by. I thought of you as I read “Last Evenings on Earth,” which was just stunning, I thought. Am not yet halfway through 2666 but will touch base once I’m done.
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[...] keep track of my “to-read” list over at goodreads.com,then transfer titles over to The Reading List page here periodically. I put off the latter for as long as I can, because all those jacket [...]
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[...] her monthly reading list for us. I learned she reads .84 books/week. On her website she posts her monthly reading list which appears not as a list so much as a blanket of jackets representing [...]
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“An Armful of Warm Girl” W.M. Spackman
“Renoir, My Father” Jean Renoir
“Missionary Stew” Ross Thomas
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Maybe this is obvious, but how do you make such elegant grids of the books you’ve read and their Goodreads links? I’d love to do something similar. I know how to link to something in a post, but the cover images are lovely here; how did you do that?