What Are You Reading

[Antje]

Best loved dog stories, by Albert Payson Terhune

 

[Tomasso]

Hi Tomasso, another yachtsman eh

Never seen a Hinckley in the flesh but they look to be beautiful tubs.

Do you have one yourself or do you crew at the local yacht club?

Hey Smithy, yeah I grew up sailing the Great Lakes, out of Chicago. My grandfather hailed from Galway, Ireland and had a serious addiction to boating, both sail and power. Among the twenty odd boats he owned over his time, two were Hinckleys, one of which is still in the family. I'm mostly a power boater these days though I do occasionally join my cousin for as sail off his place in Jamaica. We've been talking about taking an extended rum cruise, visiting the various Caribbean distilleries.

 

[Smithy]

I'm mostly a power boater these days though I do occasionally join my cousin for as sail off his place in Jamaica. We've been talking about taking an extended rum cruise, visiting the various Caribbean distilleries.

Now that's a holiday sail

Last time my brother-in-law was over here and we had a two day sail round the neighbourhood we talked about how nice it would be to do a jaunt round the Caribbean. One of those things you have to do once in your life.

 

[scotrace]

Can't praise it enough.

 

[Touchofevil]

Finishing Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's trilogy with The Night Eternal.

 

[cw3pa]

"Enter the Saint".

 

[Harp]

Holding on Upside Down; The Life and Work of Marianne Moore, Linda Leavell
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revisiting Middlemarch, George Eliot; before Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch

Betwixt and between two lovely roses is a thorn: Robert Kotlowitz and his WWII memoir, Before Their Time.
I prefer to leaven Eliot with another female author such as Jane Austen or one of the Brontes,
but Kotlowitz is a grunt and a soldier's cynicism is tinged with unmistakable moral purpose-causa igitur non bona est writ large.

 

[Widebrim]

Just finished The Stranger, by Albert Camus. Ostensibly the story of a seemingly non-comittal French-Algerian who gets involved in a murder, and comes to terms with the absurdity of his situation, and of life in general. Now reading/viewing Whisper of the Muse: The Overstone Album and Other Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, one of my two favorite 19th century British photographers.

 

[jamespowers]

 

[Tomasso]

 

[Harp]

Just finished The Stranger, by Albert Camus. Ostensibly the story of a seemingly non-comittal French-Algerian who gets involved in a murder, and comes to terms with the absurdity of his situation, and of life in general.

Camus' epistle, The Myth of Sisyphus, read with Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin-was a college favorite;
yet his absurdism failed, never passing either the heart's whisper nor any soul muster.

 

[Touchofevil]

Day Keene's pulp noir, The Big Kiss-Off.

 

[Widebrim]

Camus' epistle, The Myth of Sisyphus, read with Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin-was a college favorite;
yet his absurdism failed, never passing either the heart's whisper nor any soul muster.

After The Fall, I am going to find a copy of The Myth of Sisyphus and give it a shot, none-the-less.

 

[Harp]

I am going to find a copy of The Myth of Sisyphus and give it a shot....

His early work: Sides; Nupitals is worth a shot also; though Camus himself admitted embarassment over these.

 

[cw3pa]

"The Saint in New York".

 

[Hercule]

The Amber Room : the fate of the world's greatest lost treasure / Catherine Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy

 

[Harp]

After The Fall, I am going to find a copy of The Myth of Sisyphus and give it a shot, none-the-less.

Caught a coffeehouse reading of Caligula last nite-followed by the usual cafe crowd existentialist/humanism quandry.
Sisyphus evidenced Camus' sense of futility, yet not the moral alienation of Sartre; whose Promethean humanism was cast
as moral anarchy; whereas Camus attempted to resolve his perception against his innate need for moral direction bereft of God.
Sisyphus, like Caligula finds Camus caught in an insoluble philosophic bind.

 

[Touchofevil]

It has been a while since I have read anything by Chester Himes so it is time for: All Shot Up starring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones!

 

[1mach1]

The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller (1986)

 

[vintage.vendeuse]

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. And luckily, I haven't seen the movie yet so waters haven't been muddied.