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Post by Marxo Grouch on Nov 14, 2022 5:54:14 GMT -5
Jeez, I thought it was late when I posted my 2020 book list in August of 2021, but this is just absurd. And 2021's list was kind of paltry, too. (2022's looks to be somewhat better, but nowhere near the heights of 2020.) Also, the first year in a while in which I didn't read a book by Zola. Oh, well.
The Magic Cottage by James Herbert Mind’s Eye by Håkan Nesser Dark Star by Alan Furst In Foreign Lands: The Migration of Scientists for Political or Economic Reasons, essay collection edited by Maria Teresa Borgato and Christine Phili Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Perspective by Peter Kappeler Saving the Starry Sky by Patrizia Caraveo Four Great Plays, works by Henrik Ibsen The Dean’s Watch by Elizabeth Goudge The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings, short fiction and poetry by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson The Call of the Cranes by Bernhard Wessling The Estuary Pilgrim by Douglas Skeggs Cane by Jean Toomer
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 15, 2022 12:33:18 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Dec 5, 2022 16:09:51 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Dec 5, 2022 16:11:38 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Dec 5, 2022 16:13:21 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Dec 5, 2022 16:15:07 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Dec 12, 2022 21:39:50 GMT -5
This just came in the mail!!! ![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41NfjeGQCML._SL350_.jpg)
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Dec 12, 2022 22:18:29 GMT -5
Arrived today from the Whitney Museum. Minor but real feels since I'm pretty sure I won't see NYC again. Also because I like Hopper's paintings rather a lot.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 4, 2023 19:30:12 GMT -5
I think I need to read this
https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/10344oo/about_to_tuck_into_this_for_a_bit_other_than/
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 4, 2023 19:31:49 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 5, 2023 11:00:22 GMT -5
![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31e19U8LAnL._SL350_.jpg) Got this one for Squidmas!
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Post by Mayzshon on Jan 13, 2023 15:53:57 GMT -5
Just read the novelization of 1980's Flash Gordon movie. It's been a while since I've seen the movie, but I don't remember this much sex (or at least talking about sex)
When Dale meets Flash she talks about her recent break-up: "it was just that after I just couldn't function sexually in all those exotic bars around all those people, doing all those strange and wonderful things with all sorts of people who were perfect strangers"
When Zarkov is being brainwashed: An especially enticing scene from his point if view- involving black stockinged, a whip, transvestiism, half a lid of marijauna, VOLUNTEERS by Jefferson Airplane, and a rocking horse- was revealed to his torturers
And my favorite, Ming is talking to Aura (his DAUGHTER) "Yes, I freely admit I have missed the close between us as well. When I am through with this Dale Arden- I do not believe it will take very long- we shall strip down to our essences an I will tie you to my royal bed and I shall flog you senseless, until the blood flows from the wounds on your pert buttocks, just as we did during happier, more innocent days "
I'm not complaining, mind you, but I was 10 when the movie came out and I figure that was about the average age of whoever bought this book. I like to think that it got sold at elementary school book fairs across the country.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jan 16, 2023 6:12:07 GMT -5
Thought I'd buck the tradition of the past two years and post my 2022 book list now, instead of at freakin' Christmas. Did better last year than '21, but I could still do better if I applied myself. Returned to Zola, a good one too, and I read a full third of it during jury duty.
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin The Financier by Theodore Dreiser Maigret by Georges Simenon Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation, edited by Joachim von Braun et al. The Secrets of Russian Cosmonauts by Maria Rosa Menzio I Married a Communist by Philip Roth Sky and Earth: Traveling with Dante Alighieri and Marco Polo by Giuseppe Mussardo and Gaspare Polizzi Rabbit, Run by John Updike Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter The Unknown Masterpiece/Gambara, a short story and a novella by Honoré de Balzac Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow The Third Man by Graham Greene Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live by Douglas Hill and Jeff Weingrad Nana by Emile Zola Genius: Theory, History and Technique by Roberto Manzocco Nightmare in Pink by John D. MacDonald Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Moving Target by Ross MacDonald
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 30, 2023 16:10:28 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 5, 2023 22:24:46 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 6, 2023 11:06:08 GMT -5
Any reason why that year in particular? I'm assuming they have a new volume every year?
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 6, 2023 11:30:54 GMT -5
Any reason why that year in particular? I'm assuming they have a new volume every year? I've read a couple of the others. This was a cheap copy of a year I hadn't read yet, is all. I was intrigued to see that this edition's editor was Linda Fairstein, who prosecuted the Preppy Murderer...
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 26, 2023 9:18:41 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 27, 2023 11:24:45 GMT -5
Any reason why that year in particular? I'm assuming they have a new volume every year? I've read a couple of the others. This was a cheap copy of a year I hadn't read yet, is all. I was intrigued to see that this edition's editor was Linda Fairstein, who prosecuted the Preppy Murderer... Is he the asshole who got off on the "affluenza" plea?
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 28, 2023 17:43:56 GMT -5
I've read a couple of the others. This was a cheap copy of a year I hadn't read yet, is all. I was intrigued to see that this edition's editor was Linda Fairstein, who prosecuted the Preppy Murderer... Is he the asshole who got off on the "affluenza" plea? Oh, no, he went to prison for strangling Jennifer Levin back in the 1980s. Astoundingly, he was eventually paroled when IMHO he should have gone up for life. Never fear-- he went back to the slammer quickly for cola possession but I think he is back out again now.
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