+ Lucky Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 The book Afterparties, by Anthony Veasna So is being released. It is a collection of short stories by a promising gay author who overdosed after he sold the book. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/books/anthony-veasna-so-afterparties.html Hotmenloved and + Just Sayin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeezifonly Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 On 1/26/2021 at 10:32 PM, CuriousByNature said: How is it, compared to Pillars of the Earth, if you have also read that? I was gifted a copy of Pillars, it took a while to get into, but by p50 I was hooked. Dove directly into the 2nd, World Without End. I was so attuned his prose at that point I was flying through it - save a pause when a printing goof resulted in 100+ missing pages. (I was working backstage on a tour of Dirty Dancing Live, and having Follett between cues saved my brain from atrophy… + poolboy48220 and CuriousByNature 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ pepa_e_mango Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 I recently finished Ishmael by Daniel Quinn and very much enjoyed it. Here's the synopsis that made me want to read it: The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. "You are the teacher?" he asks incredulously. "I am the teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no other human being has ever heard. It is a story that extends backward and forward over the lifespan of the earth from the birth of time to a future there is still time save. Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the lesson easy; he demands the final illumination to come from within ourselves. Is it man's destiny to rule the world? Or is it a higher destiny possible for him-- one more wonderful than he has ever imagined? rn901 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ poolboy48220 Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 I read "Project Hail Mary", the third book by Andy Weir, who wrote "The Martian", earlier this summer, and re-read a bit of it at the end of our camping trip (after I finished "Auntie Mame" and "Around the World with Auntie Mame", both of which had been in my bookcase for years). It's very good; Weir's second book, "Artemis" was a bit flat, but I loved this new one as much, possibly more, than "The Martian" - and that's a high bar. rn901 and Rod Hagen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjmuktop Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Currently listening to 'Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives' by Walt Odets on Audible. rn901 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ BenjaminNicholas Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 Apropos Of Nothing, Woody Allen. Very, very well-written so far. An engaging book. thomas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ E.T.Bass Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 Read Shuggie Bain, 2020 Booker Prize winner, by Douglas Stuart. Started Swimming Pool Library, By Alan Hollinghurst. + WilliamM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 I am currently reading Young Benjamin Franklin by Nick Bunker, an in-depth examination of Franklin's life before he became a world-famous figure. It is a brilliant explanation of the influences that created his character. (As a longtime Philadelphian, I have always been fascinated by Franklin and his place in American history.) + DrownedBoy and rn901 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 The Magician, a novel about Thomas Mann by Colm Toibin Dud Mann really believe being the father of six children proved he was not a homosexual thomas and Rod Hagen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, WilliamM said: The Magician, a novel about Thomas Mann by Colm Toibin Can't wait to read that, I love Colm Toibin. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/books/review-magician-colm-toibin.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/colm-toibin-magician.html How is it so far? Edited September 13, 2021 by Rod Hagen + WilliamM and Becket 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ FrankR Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 Currently reading a gift from my boss - business related. "It's your ship: Management techniques from the best damn ship in the navy". It helps that there is a handsome silver fox on the cover! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 On 9/13/2021 at 1:52 PM, Rod Hagen said: Can't wait to read that, I love Colm Toibin. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/books/review-magician-colm-toibin.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/colm-toibin-magician.html How is it so far? Good, not great. Interesting side story from this week's New Yorker about the author. Some time ago, Colm went to a bar in NYC and fell in love with New York Yankees pitcher Andy Petite'ass on the TV screen! + Just Sayin and Rod Hagen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 On 9/13/2021 at 1:52 PM, Rod Hagen said: Can't wait to read that, I love Colm Toibin. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/books/review-magician-colm-toibin.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/colm-toibin-magician.html How is it so far? Thomas Mann can't stand Agnes Meyer, owner of The Washington Post. She monopolies his time. But he needs her connection to FDR and others to help Germans settle in the United States, especially Mann's older brother and his wife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ poolboy48220 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 I'm just finishing Miss Manners' latest, and I've got Mary Roach's new book "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law" on deck. I love her stuff, I've read them all and went to see her speak a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boruto Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 (edited) newspaper article. I am into preparing to write my second official letter. Its hard a bit to do because I am bad at writing. So I want to use letterhead template here and check needed information. Plus oficial letters mush to have strict design and contaion all required informations Edited September 28, 2021 by boruto + WilliamM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 53 minutes ago, boruto said: newspaper article Welcome to the forums @boruto But, your first post does not interest me! Details? A link? Why are you reading it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 On 9/26/2021 at 8:47 AM, boruto said: newspaper article Interesting because many people get their news from television and/or radio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike carey Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 41 minutes ago, WilliamM said: Interesting because many people get their news from television and/or radio Yes, but this thread is about 'What are you reading', not 'where are you getting your news'. rn901 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Just Sayin Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 On 9/13/2021 at 10:52 AM, Rod Hagen said: Can't wait to read that, I love Colm Toibin. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/books/review-magician-colm-toibin.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/colm-toibin-magician.html How is it so far? and this in the September 20 issue of The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/20/how-colm-toibin-burrowed-inside-thomas-manns-head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Just Sayin Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 I just finished "Real Life" by Brandon Taylor, a young black queer author; it's about a grad student from Alabama figuring out where he should be in life; it was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize; I had read a short story of his in an anthology ("Kink" edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell) and I really enjoyed his writing; I must admit the book did not grab me as much as the short story did. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/flavors-of-freak/ rn901 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rn901 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 A couple books in history, LGBTQ stuff, novels, philosophy, politics and number theory Gay Berlin: A Birthplace of Modern Identity by Robert Beachy Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg The Boys on the Rock by John Fox Kindred by Octavia Butler Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated by Gore Vidal Turning the Tide: US Intervention in Central America by Noam Chomsky A Concise History of Mathematics by Dirk J. Struik Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russel Number Systems and the Foundations of Analysis by Elliott Mendelson Probability: A Concise Course by Y.A. Rozanov Ordinary Differential Equations: An Elementary Textbook for Students of Mathematics, Engineering and the Sciences by Morris Tenenbaum and Henry Pollard (this one will take a couple of months) The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How to Think Like One by David Sklansky + Just Sayin and + WilliamM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rn901 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) On 10/18/2020 at 3:37 PM, Danny-Darko said: 'Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe' By John Boswell. Fascinating to find out that same-sex unions were blessed and performed in the early Christian Church! This evidence is kept hidden in the Vatican Archives and kept from the general public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-Sex_Unions_in_Pre-Modern_Europe Highly recommend Boswell's other book if you haven't read it- Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality. Very ahead of his time and his scholarship was a nightmare for the Christian Right in the 70's and 80's. It drove them crazy because it was so thorough and irrefutable. We got to learn about Boswell in a LGBTQ history course. Great scholar! Great writing! Eloquent. Edited September 28, 2021 by rn901 Danny-Darko and + Just Sayin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny-Darko Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 'Memoirs' - by Tennessee Williams, Introduction by John Waters Rod Hagen, + Just Sayin, rn901 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeezifonly Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 On 1/26/2021 at 10:32 PM, CuriousByNature said: How is it, compared to Pillars of the Earth, if you have also read that? Pillars = Part One. I love getting into Follett’s prose They’re all amazing! (and films will never live up to his skill of telling what’s there, and letting you imagine what’s not) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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