What BOOK are you reading right now?

I'm busy in the kitchen, so for now I'll just say I've been rereading my Gianrico Carafiglio books, all set in the Bari area, some with Rome as one of the places where situations happen.

I like some of the books better than others; will report but not this evening. Oh, and I read them in the english translation as my italian is beginning to fade pretty fast, not being that great in the first place.

Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor, a popcorn memoir by Bruce Campbell

Adds, I've never read a Naipaul book. Possibly I've read an article by him, not sure. If I remember, he had some kind of spat going on with, I think, a Brit, whose name I almost do remember - I just wasn't that interested, at least at the time.

I just skimmed an article in The New Republic by Isaac Chotiner, Dec. 6, 2012. Um, I'm still not very interested re all of it.

Ack, I missed adding the Chotiner title:

V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, and the Books He Will Never Write
By Isaac Chotiner
December 6, 2012

She remembered! The guy he spatted with was Paul Theroux, who wrote Riding the Iron Rooster: The Great Railway Bazaar, among other books.
I was wrong, he's an american travel and fiction writer.

I guess I should try another book by Naipaul before dropping him altogethet, but life is short.

Hmm, if William Finnegan is who I think he is, I'd like the book (good writer). I'm sure I've read him at length in the New Yorker. Surfing is not my thing (laughs) but I've lived around it for decades.

A year or two or three ago, I put down an Orhan Pamuk book that I even liked so I could get to a stack of some police or legal procedural books that I had bought. Shallow idiot, I say to myself! Pamuk is, to me, a mix of serious writer and a good read. The book was Snow.

I started it again last night, kicking myself for ever putting it down.

Surfing was never my thing as well. Read the book because of the accolades it got as well as it was on sale at Audible. Well written with mostly good parts but not necessarily connected with me as a whole.

I'm still into Orhan Pamuk's Snow. I did have to skip over one set of seven? pages of someone ranting, but that's me, and I could surmise. I'm learning a lot, as is usual for me with Pamuk.

Reading "The Principled Politian" about the 29th gov of Colorado. It was a time when most white Americans didn't want Asians in this country, but Ralph Carr was a Constitunalist who believed all Americans were equal. Before and after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the west coast states were anti-Japanese even when 2/3rds were American born. Gov Carr invited the Japanese Americans to come to his state, and many moved to Colorado.
Will continue tomorrow.

Quantum Reality. I get into all sorts of deep stuff that I can learn from. I'm always looking for Book recommendations though I tend to go through 2 or 3 a week.

Sounds interesting I may just have to pick up a copy. My Grandmother moved here from Japan not too long after Pearl Harbor.

I think of Snow as Pamuk's best book by far. Well worth the occasional frustration with how oddly the story unfolds.

Currently reading the graphic memoir, Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey by Ozge Samanci.

The World Walker, by Ian Sainsbury

I might like that one..

Returning another finished graphic novel to the library. It's an experimental work.


Here by Richard McGuire

Even to Turkey a couple of times, so I may have interest in the book you're reading. Do you recommend it?

Also, the writer I mentioned just before that, Orhan Pamuk, is from Turkey as well.

Nobel prize winner...

I presently can't get Wiki to "paste";
so I'll try to type it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk

Looks interesting. I might try and get it.

I'm also reading a "comic book": a graphic version of the Iliad called the Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower. Very detailed and faithful to Homer. He's even adding narratives not found in Homer, eg from playright Euripide... so it's a very thick comic book. The author has completed three tomes and 4 more are to come.

The graphic style is okay to me but not particularly original (see below the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia). What's really interesting is the effort to stick to historical sources and knowledge (eg in the arms, the clothes, the architecture etc.).

I'm reading them in Italian. They are the first Italian books I manage to finish... :-) Of course it's much easier to read than a 'real' book.