BOOKS THREAD

I can also understand it with Orr because, you're right, he has been a very private person. But I have to wonder now if this is some kind of Brunt trend, like a "Roger and Me" type of thing, minus the actual attempts to actually meet/speak with the subject of your work.

I didn't actually get the Canada Cup book, Huggy. I was flipping through it with the intent of getting it, and then I saw the first Brampton reference. Then I saw another one. At that point it was clear to me that I would be fuming about every error I found from that point on (and I would be seeking them out). I put the book back on the shelf and walked away.

For $5, you might find it a good read. Me, I wouldn't it borrow it from the public library for free. And that sucks, because I wanted to like it; I thought it would be a great story. And maybe it is, but I'm unable to get past the Brampton references. If a person writing about Wayne Gretzky and hockey can't even get Gretzky's hometown right, on multiple occasions, I won't be able to trust anything else that person writes.

 

Just finished the latest edition of the BASW and as always I enjoyed it. The diversity of the stories always makes it interesting. I'm not sure I'd read any other book if they had several different editions every year.

Right now, I'm previewing/pre-reading "Pay It Forward" for an 8th grade English class (that I teach, thankfully I passed it the first time) and am speeding through it. It's a breezy read and told in multiple perspectives to keep it interesting. Unfortunately, I think some of the content is too risque for 8th graders, but I'm thinking of using some excerpts, especially because of the uplifting ideas.

Up next is Krakauer's Tillman book, then I'm looking forward to Love is a Mix-Tape or something like that, by Rob Sheffield, a bargain book from B&N. Anyone read that?

 

OUTING ALERT! Huggy is Bernie Nicholls.

 

I'm about halfway through Stephen Hunter's latest Bob Lee Swagger book. At least he's not becoming a ninja in this one.

Still, the series has become tired and is getting close to self-parody. Hunter's a really good action writer, I wish he would do more of the atmospheric stuff like Hot Springs, or even the big WWII novel he's talked about.

 

I'm about to start Heart of Darkness. 99 cents on Kindle.

 

Top five best books I have read in fiction. Enjoy


I just finished Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick

http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Envy-Ordinary-Lives-North/dp/0385523904/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266190322&sr=8-1


It was the best non-fiction book I have read all year and will be for each of you if you get around to reading it as well.

 

thanks for the heads up, jh. Just put in a request at the library.

 

'Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)' by Bart Ehrman

Well done, altough I don't know how 'hidden' the contradictions are.
I read Ehrman's 'Lost Christianities' several years ago. I highly reccommend it.

 

I read his "Misquoting Jesus". Great book with lots of food for thought.

 

I haven't read that one, although I think it has been his most successful.
I read 'Lost Christianities' a while ago and loved it. Recommended it to several people, in fact I think the last person who borrwed still has it, and that's got to be four years ago.
This latest, 'Jesus, Interrupted,' was something the GF saw and thought I would like, so she picked it up.

I'll look into 'Misquoting Jesus' also.

I've got a powerful hankering for that 'Phantoms in the Brain,' too.

 

"Misquoting Jesus" is the first real book for the layman about how Biblical scholarship works. It also gives you some of Ehrman's background. Highly recommended.

 

That sounds like a Chuck Klosterman knock off.