How sweet is that? Thank you so much for the kind words, L & C! This reminds me there are plenty of excellent titles available in the Twenty Seventh Street Book Box. These books are FREE. You can take them home to read, or give… Read More
The cover of my copy of Dave Van Ronk’s memoirs, The Mayor of MacDougal Street, proclaims: “The life story that inspired the Coen Brothers Movie Inside Llewyn Davis”. That wasn’t enough to stop me from reading the book. Sure, Inside Llewyn Davis was an OK… Read More
Next up on my reading list: Scarborough – a novel, by Catherine Hernandez Curry – Eating, Reading, and Race by Naben Ruthnum and… The Mayor of MacDougal Street – A Memoir by the late Dave Van Ronk Are you a reader? What books are you… Read More
How do you choose a novel to read? Sometimes I do it with great purpose. I’m working my way through the works of a particular writer, or somebody I know says hey have you read such and such by so and so and I pick… Read More
A benefactor dropped off a heaping helping of good books for the Twenty Seventh Street Book Box today and there are plenty of new titles to choose from + we have lots of back-ups to keep the box stuffed with good reading. The box is… Read More
I started reading The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen on the plane on the way to Viet Nam and read a couple of the stories in the book while we were traveling. I put it aside when we got back and didn’t do any reading… Read More
Goodreads tells me I read 18 books in 2017. Here they are in no particular order: Eating Vietnam by Graham Holliday – just finished reading this one. A culinary adventure on the streets of Hanoi and Saigon. Delightful. Recommended for foodies out there. The Bird… Read More
Over the weekend, I gobbled up Robin Sloan’s new novel, Sourdough. The narrator is a woman who creates program code for robot arms. She orders soup and sandwiches daily from a restaurant with no address, and when the owners, who come from an exotic and… Read More
I just finished reading Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill. It hardly needs a revue, as it’s this year’s Giller Prize winner. I loved this book. It messes with the reader throughout, but that’s OK. It’s vexing and clever and it’s a page-turner. What is real?… Read More
I just read a book of essays about fly fishing by Thomas McGuane called The Longest Silence – a book given to me by a friend. There was a time I fly fished fairly seriously. I drove insane distances in pursuit of trout on a… Read More
