Books: Book(s) you are Currently Reading | Part II

[BHD]

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.

 

[Thucydides]

Also will be reading The Little Prince .

 

[GB]

 

[GB]

 

[GB]

 

[Spring in Fialta]

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Oscar Acosta]

Dead Wake - Erik Larson

After Devil in the White City I reckoned I'd give this a go. Admittedly didn't know much about this Lusitania story, it's like a more intense Titanic.

Except, you know it's coming from Chapter one. And like Devil in the White City seems like it's a lot of filler around the actual event. Still not entirely sure where the 4 chapters of Woodrow Wilson's courtship of Edith are going. Or what the hell we need to know the story of a NYC boat inspector who grew up in blah blah that has a twist of Paul Harvey, he would one day be the pilot in WWII of the Argyle or whatever. Then never is mentioned again.

Thing I like about these Larson novels, or non-fiction accounts is that you're interested in what happens and Larson knows you want the goods. Every chapter feels like friggin clickbait though. "A coal worker who didn't go on the Titanic ended up on the Lusitania, and here's a chapter why!"

Tell me the story!

And like Devil in the White City again, I'm sitting here reading page 400 of 650 being like "oh here we go"... If it ends in the same "the ship sunk people died and Germany lost the war, but it was a glorious vessel of 30,000 tonnes of cargo, including an estimated 300 pounds of caviar" I will lose it.

 

[GB]

 

[crump]

Short Science Fiction written in late 90's. Predicted market crash along with other tech inventions. First in a series...looking forward to part two next year apparently.

 

[Winger98]

re-reading this. It was actually my introduction to Murakami when I stumbled upon this in a remainder bin in an old Waldenbooks store in a mall that's also sadly gone now. So many books I would have never read if I hadn't had places like Borders and Waldenbooks to peruse the shelves and impulsively buy from the clearance racks.

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Spring in Fialta]

 

[GB]

 

[Thucydides]

Picked this up today

 

[GB]

 

[GB]

 

[Babe Ruth]

 

[Thucydides]

 

[kihei]

Still plowing through The Brothers Karamazov, about midway through. The book is so Russian that I keep wanting to order borscht and drink copious amounts of vodka.

 

[Thucydides]

Picked up this today. Girl told me they were going to sell out , that was this morning. Loved Woodward’s All the Presidents Men, so looking forward to this later tonight .

 

[Thucydides]

Still plowing through The Brothers Karamazov, about midway through. The book is so Russian that I keep wanting to order borscht and drink copious amounts of vodka.

I’m looking forward to your review on this one.

 

[Papa Francouz]

Have to read this for a short story class I'm taking this fall. I've read a majority of the stories in this collection, but there are a few I haven't gotten around to yet. When I think Stephen King short story, "The Boogeyman" always comes to mind. Luckily, said short story is in this collection, so I'm hoping the rest of the stories are as good as "The Boogeyman."

 

[Spring in Fialta]

I’m looking forward to your review on this one.

I keep putting them off because Russia's literary bricks appear too time-consuming for me to read in a way that would be productive but I really need to read the longer works of writers like Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. I'm obsessed with their shorter pieces.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Still plowing through The Brothers Karamazov, about midway through. The book is so Russian that I keep wanting to order borscht and drink copious amounts of vodka.

What the hell is stopping you? You could also have an extramarital affair with a flawed, inaccessible sultress. That's a Russian cultural staple too.