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About meI am a retired newspaperperson, who, after 40 years in the business, on Fleet Street, and in Western Canada, decided to hang 'em up, age 56, with a nice buyout on the table. I have been married to a beautiful, much younger wife for almost 25 years and have a son age 17. And they said it wouldn't work!
We moved from the big city to a rural part of Vancouver Island, where I hoped to indulge in the finer things in life, good single malt scotch and par golf. One out of two wasn't bad, but a botched-up hip replacement meant bye to the fairways and bring on the scotch.
Problem was, I was reading all those wonderful books I had always promised myself I would get around to, but come morning hangovers, and I couldn't remember what I had read the night before. So, bye to the scotch. One of the smartest moves I ever made ('cept marrying my wife) because I have so enjoyed the last few years and all the great books I have finally caught up with.
I'm into every genre, you name it - been there, read that! Second smartest thing I ever did was to join LT a week or so ago. Lucked onto the site and have had so much fun already, made a few friends, boggled at people's library lists, and found so much in common with other book people.
I'm also fortunate in having a 17-year-old, who can quickly right things on the computer when I frequently screw up. Remember, when I started out in newspapers we were using pigs blood and cave walls!
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posted by jnwelch at 1:09 pm (EST) on Jul 8, 2009
posted by ShannonMDE at 11:12 am (EST) on Jul 8, 2009
After going all year without abandoning a single book, I've dumped 2 of them in April: Philipp Meyer's American Rust and, as of last night, Moerk's Darling Jim. I found Meyer's book boring as hell and terribly unengaging, while Darling Jim seemed only a cut above a comic, a load of contrived silliness that was very hard to take seriously in any way.
Those 2 turkeys aside, April's been just a stellar reading month, adding both Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned and The Believers to my 'Favorites of the Year' list. I also read the last 2 books in John Updike's Angstrom quartet and was just totally flummoxed by both of them. Rabbit is Rich won the 1980 Pulitzer and Rabbit at Rest got the 1991 Pulitzer, and the impact of reading them nearly back-to-back was close to overwhelming, possibly the 2 best books Updike ever wrote, and I couldn't have loved them more. I also really enjoyed Michael Holroyd's wonderful new dual biography A Strange Eventful History, and though it's probably not a book for everyone, I was mesmerized by the intertwining stories all the way through.
Up next is Paulette Jiles' The Color of Lightning, followed by Arthur Phillips' The Song Is You, and both look like they might be pretty good stuff. All the best!
posted by LouisBranning at 11:08 am (EST) on Apr 28, 2009