BOOKS THREAD

I really enjoyed Hornby for a while.

 

Fever Pitch and High Fidelity are a hard act to follow.

 

Quit buying so many socks.

 

Willie Nelson's new memoir is a fun, breezy read. Not as good as Joe Nick Patoski's bio from a few years back, but it has some great stories.

 

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.
This is one of the better books I've ever read.
It's a speculative fiction work that takes place before, during and after a pandemic that kills 99 percent of the population.
It's beautifully written. And I promise my opinion is not at all skewed by how profoundly refreshing it is to read an apocalyptic novel that isn't about zombies.

 

Now I want to read it again. I thought it was beautiful and haunting all of which was enhanced by the story opening here in Toronto which made it feel somehow even more familiar and plausible.

 

HC, this is the kind of book you can read again, like watching a favorite movie more than once.
I am a Black Death freak, own more than 20 books on the subject, so this is up my alley.
Feeds my reptile brain's fears about pandemic.

I have noted a surge in science fiction novels about robots.
This is a story about something that is real and scary.
We are so used to a world with immediate answers.

 

Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones by Paul Trynka (whose Bowie bio is very good) is a fine read about the founder of the Stones. No shortage of rips at Mick and Keith for their behaviour towards Jones in life and death.

How Music Got Free by Stephen Wit is a fascinating - and entertaining - look at the creation of the mp3 and the rise of digital piracy. Highly recommended.

 

Happy to read this recommendation. I've been thinking about pulling the trigger on this for a month.

 

I concur. Excellent book. And a quick read.