MemberMarcial87

About My Library

A peripatetic life until about 20 years ago when I finally married and settled down means many of the books I read in high school and as an undergraduate are not in our home library. My books reflect the above mentioned interests as well as history, film, music and fiction. Only a few medicine texts as most of my job related reading is on-line. I don't have the time or energy to catalog my wife's books- she has twice the number of books I have. She has a large cookbook, art and fiction collection.

About Me

Walter Mosley, speaking through Easy Rawlins,(one of my favorite fiction characters- I grew up in So. Central LA and still remember most of the locations mentioned in the novels) noted that folks of modest means don't have the option of being specialists. This along with a lifelong love of learning and reading had something to do with my being a Family Physician. The generalist bent also resulted in my being a woodworker/carpenter, photographer, bicyclist and gym rat as well.

Location

Salem, OR

Homepage

http://smortegav.blogspot.com

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Currently Reading

The Stanley Kubrick Archives by Alison Castle

A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrik Backman

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain

I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist by Kirk Douglas

How to Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Franzen

In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World by Nicholas A. Basbanes

The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

How to be both: A novel by Ali Smith

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury

Going Bovine by Libba Bray

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories by Walter Mosley

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

The Underground Railroad (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead

The Anarchist's Tool Chest by Christopher Schwarz

Out: A Novel by Natsuo Kirino

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

Favorite Authors

Martin Buber, John Irving, Milan Kundera, Walter Mosley, Walker Percy, William Shakespeare, David Foster Wallace

Local Favorites

Bookstores: City Lights Books, Hennessey + Ingalls - Art & Architecture Books, Powell's City of Books (Portland), Shakespeare and Company (Paris), The Book Bin, The Last Bookstore

Member Connections

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