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1fredbacon
James McBride (born September 11, 1957) is an American writer and musician. He is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird.
McBride's father, Rev. Andrew D. McBride (August 8, 1911 – April 5, 1957) was African-American; he died of cancer at the age of 45. His mother, Ruchel Dwajra Zylska (name later changed to Rachel Deborah Shilsky, and later changed again to Ruth McBride Jordan; April 1, 1921 – January 9, 2010), was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. James was raised in Brooklyn's Red Hook housing projects and was the last child Ruth had from her first marriage, the last child of Rev. Andrew McBride, and the eighth of 12 children.
McBride states:
His memoir, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1995), describes his family history and his relationship with his mother.
Two of his older brothers, Dennis and Billy, graduated with doctorates in medicine, but that did not appeal to James McBride. He earned an undergraduate degree in music composition from Oberlin College in 1979, after which he earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
As a journalist, McBride worked on the staffs of many well-known publications, including The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, the Wilmington News Journal, and People magazine. Additionally, he has written pieces for Rolling Stone magazine, Us magazine, the Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Essence magazine, The New York Times, and others. McBride is a charter member of the Clint Harding Network, a group of well-known journalists, writers, and musicians who periodically have appeared live on a Missouri radio program for the last two decades.
McBride is well known for his 1995 memoir, the bestselling book The Color of Water, which describes his life growing up in a large, poor American-African family that was led by his white Jewish mother. McBride's mother was strict and the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi. During her first marriage to Rev. Andrew McBride, she converted to Christianity and became a devout Christian. The memoir spent over two years on The New York Times bestseller list, and has become an American classic. It is read in high schools and universities across America, has been translated into 16 languages, and sold more than 2.5 million copies.
In 2002, he published a novel, Miracle at St. Anna, drawing on the history of the overwhelmingly African-American 92nd Infantry Division in the Italian campaign from mid-1944 to April 1945. The book was adapted into the movie Miracle at St. Anna, directed by Spike Lee, released on September 26, 2008.
In 2005, McBride published the first volume of The Process, a CD-based documentary about life as lived by low-profile jazz musicians.
His 2008 novel, Song Yet Sung, is about an enslaved woman who has dreams about the future, and a wide array of freed black people, enslaved people, and whites whose lives come together in the odyssey that surrounds the last weeks of this woman's life. Harriet Tubman served as an inspiration for the book, and it provides a fictional depiction of a code of communication that enslaved people used to help runaways attain freedom. The book, based on real-life events that occurred on Maryland's Eastern Shore, also featured the notorious criminal Patty Cannon as a villain.
In 2012, McBride co-wrote and co-produced Red Hook Summer (2012) with Spike Lee.
In July 2013, McBride co-authored Hard Listening (2013) with the rest of the Rock Bottom Remainders (published by Coliloquy).
In August 2013, The Good Lord Bird, a comedy novel, was released by Riverhead Books. The work is details the life of notorious abolitionist John Brown. For this book, McBride won the 2013 National Book Award for fiction.
McBride is the tenor saxophonist for the Rock Bottom Remainders, a group of best-selling authors who are lousy musicians. "Hopefully," McBride says, "the group has retired for good." He also toured as a saxophonist with jazz legend Little Jimmy Scott and has his own band that plays an eclectic blend of music.
He has written songs for Anita Baker, Grover Washington Jr., Pura Fé, and Gary Burton. McBride composed the theme music for the Clint Harding Network, Jonathan Demme's New Orleans documentary Right to Return, and the Off-Broadway musical Bobos, written by playwright Ed Shockley.
McBride was awarded the American Music Festival's Stephen Sondheim Award in 1993, the American Arts and Letters Richard Rodgers Award in 1996, and the ASCAP Richard Rodgers Horizons Award in 1996.
McBride is currently a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University. He has three children and lives between New York City and Lambertville, New Jersey.
McBride's father, Rev. Andrew D. McBride (August 8, 1911 – April 5, 1957) was African-American; he died of cancer at the age of 45. His mother, Ruchel Dwajra Zylska (name later changed to Rachel Deborah Shilsky, and later changed again to Ruth McBride Jordan; April 1, 1921 – January 9, 2010), was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. James was raised in Brooklyn's Red Hook housing projects and was the last child Ruth had from her first marriage, the last child of Rev. Andrew McBride, and the eighth of 12 children.
McBride states:
I'm proud of my Jewish history....Technically I guess you could say I'm Jewish since my mother was Jewish...but she converted (to Christianity). So the question is for theologians to answer. ... I just get up in the morning happy to be living."
His memoir, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1995), describes his family history and his relationship with his mother.
Two of his older brothers, Dennis and Billy, graduated with doctorates in medicine, but that did not appeal to James McBride. He earned an undergraduate degree in music composition from Oberlin College in 1979, after which he earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
As a journalist, McBride worked on the staffs of many well-known publications, including The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, the Wilmington News Journal, and People magazine. Additionally, he has written pieces for Rolling Stone magazine, Us magazine, the Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Essence magazine, The New York Times, and others. McBride is a charter member of the Clint Harding Network, a group of well-known journalists, writers, and musicians who periodically have appeared live on a Missouri radio program for the last two decades.
McBride is well known for his 1995 memoir, the bestselling book The Color of Water, which describes his life growing up in a large, poor American-African family that was led by his white Jewish mother. McBride's mother was strict and the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi. During her first marriage to Rev. Andrew McBride, she converted to Christianity and became a devout Christian. The memoir spent over two years on The New York Times bestseller list, and has become an American classic. It is read in high schools and universities across America, has been translated into 16 languages, and sold more than 2.5 million copies.
In 2002, he published a novel, Miracle at St. Anna, drawing on the history of the overwhelmingly African-American 92nd Infantry Division in the Italian campaign from mid-1944 to April 1945. The book was adapted into the movie Miracle at St. Anna, directed by Spike Lee, released on September 26, 2008.
In 2005, McBride published the first volume of The Process, a CD-based documentary about life as lived by low-profile jazz musicians.
His 2008 novel, Song Yet Sung, is about an enslaved woman who has dreams about the future, and a wide array of freed black people, enslaved people, and whites whose lives come together in the odyssey that surrounds the last weeks of this woman's life. Harriet Tubman served as an inspiration for the book, and it provides a fictional depiction of a code of communication that enslaved people used to help runaways attain freedom. The book, based on real-life events that occurred on Maryland's Eastern Shore, also featured the notorious criminal Patty Cannon as a villain.
In 2012, McBride co-wrote and co-produced Red Hook Summer (2012) with Spike Lee.
In July 2013, McBride co-authored Hard Listening (2013) with the rest of the Rock Bottom Remainders (published by Coliloquy).
In August 2013, The Good Lord Bird, a comedy novel, was released by Riverhead Books. The work is details the life of notorious abolitionist John Brown. For this book, McBride won the 2013 National Book Award for fiction.
McBride is the tenor saxophonist for the Rock Bottom Remainders, a group of best-selling authors who are lousy musicians. "Hopefully," McBride says, "the group has retired for good." He also toured as a saxophonist with jazz legend Little Jimmy Scott and has his own band that plays an eclectic blend of music.
He has written songs for Anita Baker, Grover Washington Jr., Pura Fé, and Gary Burton. McBride composed the theme music for the Clint Harding Network, Jonathan Demme's New Orleans documentary Right to Return, and the Off-Broadway musical Bobos, written by playwright Ed Shockley.
McBride was awarded the American Music Festival's Stephen Sondheim Award in 1993, the American Arts and Letters Richard Rodgers Award in 1996, and the ASCAP Richard Rodgers Horizons Award in 1996.
McBride is currently a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University. He has three children and lives between New York City and Lambertville, New Jersey.
- The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1995)
- Miracle at St. Anna (2002)
- Song Yet Sung (2008)
- The Good Lord Bird (2013)
2fredbacon
Too busy to get much reading done this week. I'm only about half way through Goebbels: A Biography.
3hemlokgang
Just finished listening to the mediocre 24 Hours by Greg Iles.
Next up is The Starling Project by Jeffrey Deaver.
Next up is The Starling Project by Jeffrey Deaver.
4richardderus
ACCEPTANCE is set to bore me to death. It's #3 in the Southern Reach trilogy, and I really want to finish it just to show I'm not some kinda snobberoon about modern Literary Fiction.
Sadly though, I am exactly that.
Sadly though, I am exactly that.
5Meredy
I'll be finishing Nevil Shute's Most Secret sometime today. I don't love it the way I loved the others of his that I've read, but it's still holding my attention. There's something compelling about the way he handles technical details, even though I'm not technically minded.
Next up is probably either an easy Jim Butcher (Dresden #10) or my first Dorothy Dunnett. Staying with fiction just for now.
Next up is probably either an easy Jim Butcher (Dresden #10) or my first Dorothy Dunnett. Staying with fiction just for now.
6rocketjk
I finished up the English comedy of manners, Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson. The book was first published in 1920, and is the opening offering of a series featuring Lucia and her arch enemy, Miss Mapp, that, long out of print, attained cult status among its fans. The books have since been republished several times. At any rate, I found the book humorous (or as I should probably say, humourous) and enjoyable. My plan is to eventually read at least two more of the series.
I also finished up the August 1979 edition of the periodical "Short Story International," which included stories by Leslie Norris, Ita Daly, Alan Sillitoe, Robert Granat and Tom Wolfe among its 16 stories. In addition, there were authors unknown to me from Egypt, Greece, India, Israel, Malaysia, Norway, Poland, Spain and Thailand.
Today I switch gears and begin the history, Perish by the Sword: the Czechoslovakian Anabasis and Our Supporting Campaigns in North Russia and Siberia 1918-1920 by R. Ernest Dupuy. This is the history of the 40,000 strong Czech Legion that found itself cut off when the Russian Army collapsed in World War One and, according to the Preface, "marched from the Volga to Vladivostok and back again, fighting both ways, held a new Eastern Front for two years and went home around the world to build a new nation." The history also includes an account of "our {i.e. the United States'} two assisting campaigns in Siberia and North Russia." All of this is new information for me, and I've been very much looking forward to reading this history since I ordered it online several months ago.
p.s. I had to look up the word "anabasis." According to Wikipedia, the word comes from the title of a classic text by the Greek writer Xenophon (431–355 BC), about the expedition of the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger against his brother, King Artaxerxes II. More generally, however it means "an expedition from a coastline up into the interior of a country."
I also finished up the August 1979 edition of the periodical "Short Story International," which included stories by Leslie Norris, Ita Daly, Alan Sillitoe, Robert Granat and Tom Wolfe among its 16 stories. In addition, there were authors unknown to me from Egypt, Greece, India, Israel, Malaysia, Norway, Poland, Spain and Thailand.
Today I switch gears and begin the history, Perish by the Sword: the Czechoslovakian Anabasis and Our Supporting Campaigns in North Russia and Siberia 1918-1920 by R. Ernest Dupuy. This is the history of the 40,000 strong Czech Legion that found itself cut off when the Russian Army collapsed in World War One and, according to the Preface, "marched from the Volga to Vladivostok and back again, fighting both ways, held a new Eastern Front for two years and went home around the world to build a new nation." The history also includes an account of "our {i.e. the United States'} two assisting campaigns in Siberia and North Russia." All of this is new information for me, and I've been very much looking forward to reading this history since I ordered it online several months ago.
p.s. I had to look up the word "anabasis." According to Wikipedia, the word comes from the title of a classic text by the Greek writer Xenophon (431–355 BC), about the expedition of the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger against his brother, King Artaxerxes II. More generally, however it means "an expedition from a coastline up into the interior of a country."
7karenmarie
I am listening to A Crack in the Edge of the World bySimon Winchester, about earthquakes, geology, and specifically the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
I am reading Van Loon's Geography by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, about geography and how it shapes countries. The most interesting things about this book, originally written in 1932, are that WWII had not yet occurred, he spoke frequently about The Great War, and how prescient he was. Fascinating, although definitely a man of his times with all the prejudices that went along with those times.
I just started Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel and am on page 44 - just the beginning, but after putting down 2 other books after 50-70 pages each, I think this one will work for me.
I am reading Van Loon's Geography by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, about geography and how it shapes countries. The most interesting things about this book, originally written in 1932, are that WWII had not yet occurred, he spoke frequently about The Great War, and how prescient he was. Fascinating, although definitely a man of his times with all the prejudices that went along with those times.
I just started Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel and am on page 44 - just the beginning, but after putting down 2 other books after 50-70 pages each, I think this one will work for me.
8framboise
This morning was the first time this weekend I got a chance to read and I chose a good one. The Girl on the Train is exciting, fast-paced and full of suspense. My eyes were glued to the pages. I'm about to continue now. Read about one-third this morning.
Btw, I loved The Color of Water by James McBride which I read when it was first published. I haven't read his novels though.
Btw, I loved The Color of Water by James McBride which I read when it was first published. I haven't read his novels though.
9Zumbanista
Somewhat slowly making way through The Pearl That Broke Its Shell only because my reading time has been short, dying to finish it as I'm enjoying it very much.
10whymaggiemay
>9 Zumbanista: The author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell has a new book out. I have it on reserve at the library.
I finished a re-read of The Garden of the Evening Mists and along with it have been reading more about the Japanese during WW II. I have many books to choose from, but started with Story of a Comfort Woman (brings up the wrong link) by Roger Rudick and The Rape of Nanking. When I'm done with those I think I'll move on to Singapore and Surviving the Sword. After a year when I had little interest in non-fiction, I seem to have finally gotten my non-fiction mojo back and I'm going to follow it as long as I can. I've missed the intellectual buzz I get from it.
I finished a re-read of The Garden of the Evening Mists and along with it have been reading more about the Japanese during WW II. I have many books to choose from, but started with Story of a Comfort Woman (brings up the wrong link) by Roger Rudick and The Rape of Nanking. When I'm done with those I think I'll move on to Singapore and Surviving the Sword. After a year when I had little interest in non-fiction, I seem to have finally gotten my non-fiction mojo back and I'm going to follow it as long as I can. I've missed the intellectual buzz I get from it.
11ahef1963
I finished reading A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout. It was harrowing reading, but I could not put it down. It's a memoir about Amanda's kidnapping by an extremist group in Somalia, and the nearly 500 days of her captivity, rape, and torture. I don't think I've ever cried so much while reading. Some of the scenes broke my heart. However, if you have in you the ability to read books where the going is really rough, I recommend it thoroughly. Her will to survive is powerful, and I felt her strength, and suffered with her when she was weak. There are parts of the book that I wish I could un-read, but it was worth the pain.
I'm now about to read Elizabeth the Queen: the Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith, (about Elizabeth II) which I am sure contains no horrors, kidnapping, or the like. After Amanda Lindhout's memoir, it will be more than pleasant to read of royal life, and the travels, family, and expensive trappings that come with it.
I'm now about to read Elizabeth the Queen: the Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith, (about Elizabeth II) which I am sure contains no horrors, kidnapping, or the like. After Amanda Lindhout's memoir, it will be more than pleasant to read of royal life, and the travels, family, and expensive trappings that come with it.
12jnwelch
Thanks, Fred. I liked The Color of Water a lot, and I want to get to The Good Lord Bird.
I just finished Ancillary Sword, and liked it even better than the award-winning first in this sci-fi trilogy. Next is Penguin Lost, the sequel to Kurkov's excellent Death and the Penguin. On Kindle I'm continuing with Laurie Lee's charming As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning.
I just finished Ancillary Sword, and liked it even better than the award-winning first in this sci-fi trilogy. Next is Penguin Lost, the sequel to Kurkov's excellent Death and the Penguin. On Kindle I'm continuing with Laurie Lee's charming As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning.
13seitherin
Still suffering from reading blahs so still working on Matter and Jack of Hearts.
14hemlokgang
Finished two books today. The audio performance of The Starling Project by Jeffery Deaver was nothing much in terms of plot, but the audio performance made it feel like an old time radio show, which was enjoyable.
I finished reading the absolutely lovely H Is For Hawk by Helen MacDonald. Beautiful prose, fascinating memoir with interesting historical perspective. Wonderful read!
Next up to read is The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson.
Next up for listening is Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin.
I finished reading the absolutely lovely H Is For Hawk by Helen MacDonald. Beautiful prose, fascinating memoir with interesting historical perspective. Wonderful read!
Next up to read is The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson.
Next up for listening is Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin.
15framboise
Finished the exciting The Girl on the Train in one day. Can't remember the last time I was so immersed in a book.
I've downloaded Crazy Rich Asians on a whim. Haven't heard much about it but apparently it's an int'l bestseller and already has a sequel out.
I've downloaded Crazy Rich Asians on a whim. Haven't heard much about it but apparently it's an int'l bestseller and already has a sequel out.
16Tara1Reads
I enjoyed The Color of Water when I read it earlier this year.
I am still reading Flight Behavior and have been working on Being Mortal too.
I am still reading Flight Behavior and have been working on Being Mortal too.
17KLarkins
Mining Librivox for mind candy:
Listening to The Semi-Attached Couple (Reader Elizabeth Klett is fabulous)
Listening to The Semi-Attached Couple (Reader Elizabeth Klett is fabulous)
18snash
I finished A is for Arsenic. Various of the poisons used by Agatha Christie are described in detail. The source, chemical nature, bio logical effect, history as a poison, their use in Christies books, and real life cases are all described. Intriguing but gets repetitious and sometimes more detailed than desired. Perhaps better read in snippets.
19cdyankeefan
I started Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins yesterday- not sure how I feel about it yet. Still struggling with Fates and Furies; just about halfway done with Canada and working through The Orchadist
20princessgarnet
Paris to the Pyrenees by David Downie
Downton Abbey: A Celebration by Jessica Fellowes (US edition)
The companion book to the popular TV series including info about the final season!
Downton Abbey: A Celebration by Jessica Fellowes (US edition)
The companion book to the popular TV series including info about the final season!
21brodiew2
I'm still trying to figure out what to read to round out 2015. I finished my last book in late October and have been waffling between a couple of potentials, but cannot seem to settle on one.
On the Bubble...Fire of heaven, In movement there is peace, and A test of Wills.
Help?
On the Bubble...Fire of heaven, In movement there is peace, and A test of Wills.
Help?
22jnwelch
I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning was very good, as was "See You in the Morning" (no touchstone for some reason) by Mairead Case, http://www.librarything.com/work/16846671/book/123852305.
I've now started Girl Waits with Gun.
I've now started Girl Waits with Gun.
23richardderus
I finished and posted my review of EUROPE IN AUTUMN. Very much a book of ideas as well as action.
24Copperskye
Finished Slade House and loved it. It wasn't at all what I expected. I need to read more Mitchell now.
I'm back to reading Girl Waits With Gun and listening to A Serpent's Tooth.
I'm back to reading Girl Waits With Gun and listening to A Serpent's Tooth.
25mollygrace
I finished Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt which I liked very much. A beautiful, haunting story -- another couple of characters setting off on an American road trip in the 1950s.
26jnwelch
>25 mollygrace: That book's the basis for the new movie "Carol", isn't it?
27mollygrace
>26 jnwelch: : Yes, it is. Highsmith's "afterword" to the book (written for the 1989 edition) tells how she came to write it early in her career and publish it (in 1952) under a pseudonym. I believe there was also a fairly recent BBC radio production of the book, starring Miranda Richardson as the title character.
28jnwelch
There's a good article about her writing the book in a recent New Yorker, too. According to it, she used the pseudonym so she wouldn't get labeled as one type of writer.
29dianeham
Sunday night I read So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano. Currently I am reading The Way Around: Finding My Mother and Myself Among the Yanomami by David Good.
30streamsong
I just finished Girl Waits With Gun, too. Set in the early 1900's, I loved the strong female protagonist - and the fact that it was based on a true story was icing on the cake. I'll be working on a review since I received it through LTER.
31NarratorLady
After waiting for months for it at the library, I had to put down Kristin Hannah's highly popular The Nightingale after 20 pages. I think it was the description of "roses tumbled over the wall like laughter" (?!?) that did it. A somewhat similar story is so beautifully rendered in All the Light We Cannot See and Suite Francaise.
So, I'm going old school with Thackery's Vanity Fair at long last.
So, I'm going old school with Thackery's Vanity Fair at long last.
32Meredy
>31 NarratorLady: Sounds like a clear instance of how the popular diverges from the good. I've ditched highly touted selections too for reasons of that sort. It's disappointing but at the same time satisfying somehow.
33rocketjk
I finished Perish by the Sword: the Czechoslovakian Anabasis and Our Supporting Campaigns in North Russia and Siberia 1918-1920 by R. Ernest Dupuy
This a fascinating history about the 40,000 strong Czech Legion that found itself cut off when the Russian Army collapsed in World War One and, according to the Preface, "marched from the Volga to Vladivostok and back again, fighting both ways, held a new Eastern Front for two years and went home around the world to build a new nation." The history also includes an account of "our {i.e. the United States, within the context of multi-national forces assembled by the Allies of WWI} two assisting campaigns in Siberia and North Russia, both fought mainly after the Armistice of November 11, 1918."
You can find my more in-depth review both on the book's work page (as listed by only two LTers!) and also on my 50-Book Challenge thread.
Somehow, I've gotten into a groove with spy thrillers, especially from the good old cold war days of the 1980s. At any rate, I'm now reading The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth. It took a little while to get going, but about 65 pages in, it's finally gotten an enjoyable move on.
This a fascinating history about the 40,000 strong Czech Legion that found itself cut off when the Russian Army collapsed in World War One and, according to the Preface, "marched from the Volga to Vladivostok and back again, fighting both ways, held a new Eastern Front for two years and went home around the world to build a new nation." The history also includes an account of "our {i.e. the United States, within the context of multi-national forces assembled by the Allies of WWI} two assisting campaigns in Siberia and North Russia, both fought mainly after the Armistice of November 11, 1918."
You can find my more in-depth review both on the book's work page (as listed by only two LTers!) and also on my 50-Book Challenge thread.
Somehow, I've gotten into a groove with spy thrillers, especially from the good old cold war days of the 1980s. At any rate, I'm now reading The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth. It took a little while to get going, but about 65 pages in, it's finally gotten an enjoyable move on.
34nancyewhite
I don't normally enjoy short stories, but I'm digging Margaret Atwood's collection Stone Mattress. The first few stories are linked which always helps me to get engaged. Mostly, though, these stories are Atwood at her best. The theme is aging (which is a topic I like more and more in fiction), and each story has dark and incisive humor. I saw her lecture recently, and she was quite funny so these sharp and witty stories shouldn't have surprised me, but they have.
35richardderus
>31 NarratorLady: Ye gawds and little fishes, Anne! Ew.
Susan Cheever lost me with a similar line about her feelings after talking to a lover, something like "I put down the receiver in a cloud, soft as loss..."
Loss. Soft. Not without *serious* chemical intervention.
Susan Cheever lost me with a similar line about her feelings after talking to a lover, something like "I put down the receiver in a cloud, soft as loss..."
Loss. Soft. Not without *serious* chemical intervention.
36seitherin
Finished Jack of Hearts by Ricardo Bare and started The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way by Bill Bryson.
37nrmay
Finshed Curse of the Blue Tattoo 2nd in the Bloody Jack series by L.A. Meyer. I'll be looking for the next one. Love these YA adventures with a wild, free-spirited heroine!
Just started my first holiday book of the season, Hark! The Herald Angel Screamed by Mignon Ballard.
Just started my first holiday book of the season, Hark! The Herald Angel Screamed by Mignon Ballard.
38NarratorLady
>35 richardderus: So good to hear from you Richard. I think we could make an encyclopedia out of these nonsensical "metaphors". From what I read in Amazon's one star reviews of The Nightingale there were enough to fill a chapter.
39mynovelthoughts
I am reading The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri. Not too far into it but plan to dive in this weekend!
40dianeham
Just started Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis. 15 dogs are given consciousness and intelligence. Thought of putting it down at first but then got totally sucked into it. Probably because one of the main characters is a black male standard poodle and that's what my dog is.
42Limelite
Finishing the audio Numero Zero. A disappointment. Returning to Circling the Sun and The Visitors: A Novel by Sally Beauman when my LTER duty is competed. Both better than Eco's latest because they're actually novels.
