The Reader’s Nook - The N&G Book Thread

Ericj32 said:
Taschen had a 3 for 2 sale this weekend on their more affordable Bibliotheca Universalis photo book series and I thought I'd purchased something but I never got a confirmation e-mail and it looks like I was never charged, but Deep Discount also carries a lot of those books.

Here's one of the books I was planning to buy "Alex Steinweiss: Inventor of the Modern Album Cover" - they have it for only $5: INVENTOR OF THE MODERN ALBUM COVER Collectibles on DeepDiscount

Seems like a good deal for 552 pages haha.

Here's a link to the page on the Taschen site with a peek inside the book: Alex Steinweiss. The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover (Bibliotheca Universalis) - TASCHEN Books.

They have a some other books in the series that are focused on album covers, too: Jazz Covers, 1000 Record Covers, Funk and Soul Covers.
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I have the Taschen release on World Libraries. It is exquisite!

I'll have to pick up some more eventually.
 
ranbalam said:
I'm starting one of these two this week....I just finished My Struggle Book 2 so I think I'll venture into my first Chabon novel
(as recommended by @TenderLovingKiller® ) before getting back to Karl Ove.

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I had a few issues with Kavalier and Klay when I read it a couple years ago, but it's mostly great. Chabon's prose is *chef's kiss*
 
ayayrawn said:
I had a few issues with Kavalier and Klay when I read it a couple years ago, but it's mostly great. Chabon's prose is *chef's kiss*
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I went on a big Chabon tear after reading Kavalier and Clay, and because I *love* the movie adaptation of Wonder Boys.

But I've found a lot of his work after that -- Yiddish Policemen's Union, Telegraph Avenue, Gentlemen of the Road, Star Trek -- to be pretty disappointing. I've had Moonglow on my shelf for a while and will get to it eventually, and maybe low expectations will leave me pleasantly surprised, but I'm not as excited about it as I'd like to be.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
But I've found a lot of his work after that -- Yiddish Policemen's Union, Telegraph Avenue, Gentlemen of the Road, Star Trek -- to be pretty disappointing.
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I agree with you, I think his stuff ranges from excellent to ok. Wonderboys and K & C are my favourites, I thought Summerland was a lot of fun. I'm more mixed on the others but I like his writing so I still like them enough. I haven't read Moonglow.

I just started The City & The City by China Mieville, haven't read his stuff before and I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes.
 
Aelias said:
I agree with you, I think his stuff ranges from excellent to ok. Wonderboys and K & C are my favourites, I thought Summerland was a lot of fun. I'm more mixed on the others but I like his writing so I still like them enough. I haven't read Moonglow.

I just started The City & The City by China Mieville, haven't read his stuff before and I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes.
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Let me know how you get on with The City & The City, it's in my to read pile. There was a BBC mini-series made of it, not sure if it made BBC America/Netflix...
 
So just finished High Fidelity, good read. I’m not sure I would have made it through the book had I not seen the movie. I like Hornby and the record store banter/list stuff is fun but Rob in the book is unpleasantly unlikeable.

anyhow, on to this which made me put Who’s Next on immediately:
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Lee Newman said:
So just finished High Fidelity, good read. I’m not sure I would have made it through the book had I not seen the movie. I like Hornby and the record store banter/list stuff is fun but Rob in the book is unpleasantly unlikeable.

anyhow, on to this which made me put Who’s Next on immediately:
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I am enjoying the hell out of this book. It’s also got me listening to a bit more classic rock than normal. Of course, a Tom Petty boxset and Jethro Tull album as recent acquisitions assisted greatly.
 
I finished The City & The City by China Mieville, it was a solid police mystery. I went in with pretty high expectations because I was really interested in the premise and had heard a lot of good things and it didn’t really meet those. I was picturing a mix of 1984 and Neverwhere but it was more of a straightforward murder mystery. The two cities are used to move the plot along and add some additional conflict but it doesn’t go too much deeper than that. I think if you’re in the mood for a solid murder mystery with a different setting it’s a good read. I want to check out some of his other stuff, I think I’ll add Embassytown to my list.

I read The City in The Middle of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders this week and liked it. I’d say it’s YA but covers some tough themes and does a good job of giving multiple levels of approach and analysis. I think, overall, it’s definitely a positive story but can still be pretty depressing.

Next up is either Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi or Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James.
 
Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood is $2.99 in the Apple Books store today.

I haven’t read it but remember people posting about it in this thread at one point.
 
ayayrawn said:
Decided I'm going to read Moby Dick this month.

Also interspersing the big stuff I read with a Roald Dahl book from this big box set I got of his work.
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All you will ever need to know about sperm whales (and a million times more).
 
ayayrawn said:
It's thr book that got me into Murakami, but it's also ended up my least favorite of every one of his I've read since.
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Something similar for me too (altho maybe I read Hardboiled wonderland first ) Either way IQ84 my fave followed closely behind with Kafka on the Shore.
 
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