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With my students, I'm reading Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist for the third time. On my own, reading Eugenides's The Marriage Plot and a book on late-70s and early-80s America called Decade if Nightmares. Also, I might finally have a bead on a dissertation proposal.
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About 10 pages to go in Swann's Way. Very tedious at times, but I'm glad I got through it. It'll be a while before I go back to Proust, though.

Anyone read this? Image

I think that's what I'll start reading next.
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Started The Damned trilogy. So far it's alright but the subtext is what's keeping me going.
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The Mothman Prophecies

What a strange puzzle. It's based on a true story of John Keel's investigation, but man some of those stories are truly out there. I haven't seen the movie with Richard Gere, but I can tell they butchered the hell out of the book.
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Harry Lime wrote:The Mothman Prophecies

What a strange puzzle. It's based on a true story of John Keel's investigation, but man some of those stories are truly out there. I haven't seen the movie with Richard Gere, but I can tell they butchered the hell out of the book.
I do not understand a world in which anybody has not seen every Richard Gere film.
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Harry Lime wrote:The Mothman Prophecies

What a strange puzzle. It's based on a true story of John Keel's investigation, but man some of those stories are truly out there. I haven't seen the movie with Richard Gere, but I can tell they butchered the hell out of the book.
I do not understand a world in which anybody has not seen every Richard Gere film.
I'm with you on that, len.
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Rivers of London by Ben Arrinovitch.

Haven't been able to put it down. It's really good
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And I just realised it a series:)
Even better:)
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These books are great.
Thanks Sarah for the recommendation!!
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Re-reading Personal Days by Ed Park, as I'm doing it with my students this week. Highly recommended.
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I've just finished the whole Rivers of London series.
Excellent books!! Heartily recommend them.
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Bob Loblaw wrote:About 10 pages to go in Swann's Way. Very tedious at times, but I'm glad I got through it. It'll be a while before I go back to Proust, though.

Anyone read this? Image

I think that's what I'll start reading next.
i did. i'm pretty lukewarm on it.
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Malloy wrote:
Bob Loblaw wrote:About 10 pages to go in Swann's Way. Very tedious at times, but I'm glad I got through it. It'll be a while before I go back to Proust, though.

Anyone read this? Image

I think that's what I'll start reading next.
i did. i'm pretty lukewarm on it.
Some of the stories are awesome, about half are ok, the rest are pretty meh.

Anyway, I started Los Enamoramientos, by Javier Marias.
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Bob Loblaw wrote:
Malloy wrote:
Bob Loblaw wrote:About 10 pages to go in Swann's Way. Very tedious at times, but I'm glad I got through it. It'll be a while before I go back to Proust, though.

Anyone read this? Image

I think that's what I'll start reading next.
i did. i'm pretty lukewarm on it.
Some of the stories are awesome, about half are ok, the rest are pretty meh.

Anyway, I started Los Enamoramientos, by Javier Marias.
nice. you need to tell me about living in montreal sometime. depending on how things shake out, i'm thinking of moving there in 18 months
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Malloy wrote:
Bob Loblaw wrote:
Malloy wrote:
Bob Loblaw wrote:About 10 pages to go in Swann's Way. Very tedious at times, but I'm glad I got through it. It'll be a while before I go back to Proust, though.

Anyone read this? Image

I think that's what I'll start reading next.
i did. i'm pretty lukewarm on it.
Some of the stories are awesome, about half are ok, the rest are pretty meh.

Anyway, I started Los Enamoramientos, by Javier Marias.
nice. you need to tell me about living in montreal sometime. depending on how things shake out, i'm thinking of moving there in 18 months
translation: can i convince A in a year an a half to let me sublet that extra room in nashville
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Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. Been meaning to read it for years, finally started earlier this week.
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so finally we've arrived at the nadir of 'What are you currently reading?' shea gets as good as he gave
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This is available online in those ebook libraries for free and so far I heartily recommend it.
If only for the fact that people including members of his family, maintain Tesla was left on earth by an alien ship, as a child and was meant to make things better for us.
It's written by his grand-nephew and really moves at a fair clip. And the guy was genius beyond telling. Give it a go
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Halfway through "Brothers Karamazov". Trying to make up for the fact that I'll probably never finish "Infinite Jest" because I just don't want to.

Anyway, I love Dostoyevsky. He just gets it.
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