BOOKS THREAD

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My books since the New Year

Jew(ish) by Matt Greene
One of Them by Musa Okwonga
The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski
Blood in the Garden by Chris Herring
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (never read it)
Battle for the Soul by Edward-Isaac Dovere

Each book was great. The Chris Herring book was absolutely fantastic as a big Knicks fan.

 

I'm sure it's fine.

Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S.

 

Looking for suggestions. My brother has a birthday coming up and I want to send him a book. He has a real love of the sea and spends as much time as he can on his boat which gives him great relief from his chronic anxiety and I'd like something maritime related.

Any ideas?

 

Paging @doctorquant

Off the top of my head:

Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (the first of a super popular 20-book series that people swear by).

Sir Francis Chichester, Gipsy Moth Circles the World

Nordhoff/Hall, The Bounty Trilogy

Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast

Alfred Lansing, Endurance (the Ernest Shackleton story)

Thor Heyerdahl, Kon Tiki

Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea (his greatest)

Homer, The Odyssey

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

Tracy Edwards and Tim Madge, Maiden

 

Jon Almberg, An Unlikely Voyage

Don Casey & Lew Hackler, Sensible Cruising: The Thoreau Approach

 

uh oh

Book banning in Texas schools: Titles are pulled off library shelves in record numbers

 

By the time he died in 2019, Harold Bloom had written a short series of little books about Shakespeare's Personalities.

Five in all: Iago and MacBeth and Cleopatra, Falstaff and Lear. Why are they as they are? Why do they do as they do?

I ordered a used Lear last month online. It arrived this morning.

In a clear plastic library jacket, in very good condition, it was stamped as follows:


Helen Hall Library

City of League City

100 West Walker

League City, TX 77573


Looks like a nice place on Google Maps.

I look forward to visiting one day, so I can wish them well.

I wish us all well.

 

Just finished “The Every” by Dave Eggers. That’s just about the scariest fucking book I’ve ever read. (And I spent most of my teenagerhood reading Stephen King.)

 

Just finished "The Cold Cold Ground" by Adrian McKinty, a police procedural set in Northern Ireland during the worst of The Troubles. I've already put in a request for the sequels at the library. Big thanks to @Huggy for the recommendation.