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... I was there I read Midnights Children which I loved and Animal Vegetable Miracle which was OK.
I am now finishing up The Tender Bar and just started Malone Dies. And I'm glad to be back. Time to close down the screen and open a book. Still a preferable technology. Am reading The Tender Bar. Sometimes florid but so far, pretty good. Check it out. I am on the same books. Upstairs Midnight's Children, downstairs The Tender Bar # 33. Eat, Pray, Love By, Elizabeth Gilbert 5 stars
# 34. The Tender Bar By, J.R. Moehringer 4 stars
# 35. Stranger in a Strange Land By, Robert Heinlein 3 1/2 stars
# 36. Prey By, Michael Chrichton 4 stars The Tender Bar is a total winner. > libraryrobin- I have not read your upstairs book, I do plan on it but I did read your downstairs book, The Tender Bar and thought it was wonderful! Hope you enjoy it! Upstairs I am reading Midnight's Children, downstairs I am reading The Tender Bar The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer ... famous. (Although I also love political biographies!)
Anyone else interested in the less-than-famous? I'd recommend The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer and Corked by Kathryn Borel.
At the risk of adding substantially to my TBR shelves: any recommendations? ... is another. I am looking forward to book club on Tuesday so that I can hear what my friends have to say. Picked up The Tender Bar last night. ... number of candidates. Personal essay collections included. May end up expanded to include biography.
Possibilities
- The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
- Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
- The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
- My Misspent Youth by Megan Daum
- Wor ... The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer. Read earlier this year. A wonderful story about a boy who came of age in the company of men at the local bar owned by his uncle. Ellie- Have you read The Tender Bar? It is an amazing memoir!
From Bookmooch:
War Trash by Ha Jin This one's been on my radar for awhile!
Whiskey Sour by J.A. Konrath This is the 1st of a Chicago based mystery series, which I've heard good things about. Each book is named after a ... ... I found it a little hard to sleep to last night. Next?? I'm thinking either The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao or Tender Bar >61: jmyers24- I loved The Tender Bar. One of the best memoirs I've ever read.
>64: jbealy- I'm over halfway through "Every Man Dies Alone" and I agree with you, absolutely brilliant! ... Self. Also started Buried Strangers by Leighton Gage which takes place in Brazil.
Still reading & enjoying The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer but bcs. I'm reading a digital edition on the computer it's going more slowly than with a book. Truly enjoyable though whenever I'm ... Just finished The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black. Currently reading memoir The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer in Adobe Digital Editions from Overdrive. I can't help laughing out loud at some of the scenes in "Bar"; truly an enjoyable read so far. Also listening to CD Audio of The Shift ... The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J. R. Moehringer. Read earlier this year -- a great book. I do read a lot of memoirs and/or biographies. One of the best memoirs I've read is The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer. ... ibrary:
Skellig by David Almond. This is a YA novel, that was highly praised by Nick Hornby.
From library sale:
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer. I had to have this book in my collection. It's easily one of the best memoirs I've ever read. The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer is one of the best books I've read in a while. I highly recommend this one. The Tender Bar is one of the best books I've read in a long time.
Now, even though I hated Amsterdam and don't like movies much, I am about to start Atonement by Ian McEwan. > LynnB- I also loved The Tender Bar. It's incredible and I hope you enjoy it too! LynnB, I'm a big fan of The Tender Bar, loved Moehringer's book. I'm reading a memoir: The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer "...a flamingo leading two bears, one Muppet and a panting panther".
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
"How would you feel about moving to Arizona?" ... (about Cicero) and my book club is reading The Ghost -- all by Robert Harris.
I'm reading a memoir called The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer ... Bird by Martin Davies
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley
Orbit by John J. Nance
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind by Diana Preston and Michael Preston
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Time ... I went back through my current book journal that begins in June 2005, and pulled out my memorable reads from then-2007. Here they are in the order in which I read them:
2005:
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
The Africa House by Christina Lamb
Bury Me Standi ... The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer. On the TBR shelves. ... they were beforehand. Pretty dull stuff compared to other father-son stories, but that's what I'm interested in.
I have The Tender Bar but haven't read it yet. Sigh...another book strives toward the top of Mt TBR. Thanks! ... hopefully find one somewhere. Very different, no doubt, but dealing with the theme, touching and affecting is Moehringer's Tender Bar. ... Hogan
Homer’s The Iliad and the Odyssey: a Biography – Manguel
The Curtain – Kundera
Dog Soldiers – Stone
The Tender Bar – Moehringer
Cockroach – Hage
Drown – Diaz
Metamorphosis – Kafka
Cure of Tours – Balzac
Cousin Bette – Balzac
Pere Goriot – Balz ... ... at home 08.09
8. Maisy at the museum 10.09
9. If I had a dragon 11.09
Living Life (and telling the tale)
1. The Tender Bar 2.09
2. The invisible wall 04.09
3. House calls and hitching posts 04.09
4. I love you Miss Huddleston 05.09
5. Undress me in the temple of heaven ... ... Library today:
Gone for the Soldiers by Jeff Shaara
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Messages From My Father by Calvin Trillin
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier ... ... discredited organization that tried to change the world (often inappropriately) without understanding it.
38. The Tender Bar: A Memoir - J.R. Moehringer
39. When The Snow Comes, They Will Take You Away - Eric Newby
40. Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal
... ... by joanne Harris #8 of 50
Secret Lives of Lobsters #9 of 50
My Sister, My Love Joyce Carol Oates #10 of 50
The Tender Bar J.R. Moehringer #11 of 50
Tallgrass Sandra Dallas #12 of 50 ... by Mildred Armstrong Kalish. Other good memoirs from the past couple of years have been Bad Blood by Lorna Sage, The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer, West With the Night by Beryl Markham (a "memoir," but there's some controversy about whether or not Markham actually wrote it), When Al ... ... Street by Naguib Mahfouz
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
The Jew Store by Stella Suberman
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer ... by Elizabeth Crook
10. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I love this one. I found myself holding my breath.
11. The Tender Bar by JR Moehringer.
12. The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw
13. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan. A non-fiction account of the Dust Bowl. ... From Goodwill:
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
Howard's End by E.M. Forster
Last Mountain Dancer by Chuck Kinder
The Innocent by Ian McEwan
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Through a Glass Darkly by Donna Leon
Old School by Tobias Wolff
Semina ... From Goodwill:
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
Howard's End by E.M. Forster
Last Mountain Dancer by Chuck Kinder
The Innocent by Ian McEwan
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Through a Glass Darkly by Donna Leon
Old School by Tobias Wolff
Semina ... Sounds like your son is doing an admirable job picking out books for you! I read The Tender Bar last year and really enjoyed it, and felt the same as you about The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Bill Bryson normally gives me some pretty good laughs. 19. The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer. The third random book. An excellent book. Just reinforces my thought that sometimes there are better role models for young men than their own fathers, even if they are less than perfect people otherwise. Maybe it's the faults that make them such good ... ... Island - Bill Bryson
4. Steve and Me - Terri Irwin
5. The Little Princesses - Marion Crawford
6. The Tender Bar - J.R. Mohringer
7. The Cure For Anything is Salt Water - Mary South
8. Down The Nile -Rosemary Mahoney
Into the Wild has been ... ... Walls
6. The Cure for Anything is Salt Water -Mary South
7. A Year with the Queen - Alan Bennet
8. The Tender Bar - J.R. Moehringer
... – Rosina Lippi -Pen/ Hemingway
6. Prep – Notable book
7. Matrimony –Joshua Henkin –Notable Book
8. The Tender Bar –Notable Book
Published in 2007
1. The Story of Forgetting – Stefan Merrill Block
2. World Without End –Ken Follett
3. Heartsick†... The Tender Bar: A Memoir - J.R. Moehringer
Walking The Bible - Bruce Feller
The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence
Love's Executioner - Irvin Yalom
The Healing Land: The Bushmen And The Kalahari Desert - R. Isaacson ... .
Big disappointments are almost always recent American fiction including: History of Love, Memory Keeper's Daughter, Tender Bar, Truth and Beauty: A Friendship, and Music for Torching.
As far as older books that I've read for the first time and found utterly disappointing: Streetca ... ... by Alan Moore
4. The Emperor's Children, by Claire Messud
3. A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin
2. The Tender Bar, by J.R. Moehringer
1. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini ... by Iris Chang***
Good story of a forgotten and overlooked war crime, gets in the details but doesn't wallow in it
The Tender Bar, A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer **1/2
Totally pointless story of the life of the author. Some of the writing is good.
Faithfull by Marianne Faithfull **
... ... I realize he is not fictional and not really a YA author (but definitely YA appropriate) but I have a crush on him! The Tender Bar was wonderful and I really felt like I got to know him...then I met him. Okay...I should move on.
The high school girls I work with would say ...
Edward ... ... Looking for Alaska, which is a YA novel that I loved. Haven't picked up my next read yet, but I'm sure it will be Tender Bar, which I just picked up from the library. ... much information about the past, the world's fair and life at that time. I read it for a RL book group.
I just finished The Tender Bar a memoir for the same RL book group. It was well written and funny, but it just didn't quite do it for me. A story of a young man with no father whose ... kathydaffy, I too enjoyed both Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle and The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer, the former slightly more than the latter. Other enjoyable memoirs I've read recently include Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. I don't usually ... ... they are just like the books!
A few of my favorites include My Sister's Keeper, The Kite Runner, The Red Tent, The Tender Bar and the Harry Potter series. I feel the narrators on these really add to the story and make it a fun and enjoyable read.
I would recommend picking up a ... ... are multiple characters narrating; My Sister's Keeper, Vanishing Acts or lots of different characters/people in book, The Tender Bar.
What do you think? ... there are multiple characters narrating, My Sister's Keeper, Vanishing Acts or lots of different characters/people, The Tender Bar. ... I only listen to unabridged books, I can't stand the idea that I might be missing something.
I recently finished The Tender Bar, which was wonderful. I can't remember the narrator, but he did a wonderful job. Also, just finished Down the Rabbit Hole a juvenile mystery which won ... I agree. The Tender Bar was very good. Try The Color of Water by James McBride. It is a totally unforgettable story. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller is also excellent. I finished The Tender Bar byJ.R. Moehringer last week on audio. I cannot stop saying good things about this memoir!! Last night, I had the opportunity of seeing J.R. Moehringer starting his paperback book tour in Milwaukee, WI (I drove from La Crosse, WI--more than 3 hours). It was such a ...
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