tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post5868045213846305330..comments2024-03-29T07:00:46.755-04:00Comments on Patricia Abbott (pattinase): September 2020 Readspattinase (abbott)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-4040305354699658462020-10-04T13:38:16.008-04:002020-10-04T13:38:16.008-04:00I had a good reading month. I did a group read for...I had a good reading month. I did a group read for a Gladys Mitchell novel and read it over about three weeks, and wrote up notes for myself as I read. I new experience, I normally prefer to plow through a book. So I did that with other books I read this month. Still not sure which reading style works best or how to have a balance between the two.TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-19845422291577004652020-10-02T11:34:03.545-04:002020-10-02T11:34:03.545-04:00How was the See? I've been meaning to read mor...How was the See? I've been meaning to read more of hers.<br /><br />Mari Kondo perhaps takes the limited space of most Japanese habitations into account too much...certainly too much for book people, in the land of cheap forgotten and less forgotten books...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-53272556910252591932020-10-02T08:17:03.537-04:002020-10-02T08:17:03.537-04:00Yes, just holding it would be tiring. Yes, just holding it would be tiring. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-46978550542149640012020-10-01T21:34:02.386-04:002020-10-01T21:34:02.386-04:00My reading has been sporadic this month. Some days...My reading has been sporadic this month. Some days my vision gets blurry and I can't read. The last few days has been pretty good. This month I have read the new James Lee Burke. Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. Shadows by Alex North. Half Moon Bay by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman. No Room at the Morgue by Jean Patrick Manchette.The Plague by Albert Camus. A number of short fiction most recently ones by Angela Slatter. Right now I am enjoy Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby. I'm thinking of rereading Neuromancer by William Gibson next depending upon what comes in from the library. Thought about the new Robert Galbraith whose previous novels I have liked but it is over 900 pages. way too long for a crime novel. Steve Oerkfitznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-25533925307998104162020-10-01T19:20:24.923-04:002020-10-01T19:20:24.923-04:00Wow. Love Colwin. Well, all of them really!Wow. Love Colwin. Well, all of them really!pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-62888050944127212972020-10-01T18:17:51.275-04:002020-10-01T18:17:51.275-04:00Actually, it was a much better month for me than o...Actually, it was a much better month for me than other months this year have been. Four books of short stories (Jhumpa Lahiri, 2 Laurie Colwins, Joe Hill), which have been the most "mainstream" of my recent reading, only one non fiction (CITY OF NETS), mysteries by Peter Robinson, William Shaw, Jean-Patrick Manchette (2), Steven F. Havill, Carl Hiaasen, Peter Turnbull, Spencer Kope and Val McDermid.<br /><br />14 is more than I've read in a month in quite a while.Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-25729621389183217622020-10-01T15:34:52.405-04:002020-10-01T15:34:52.405-04:00These Sept. books were all sort of comfort books. ...These Sept. books were all sort of comfort books. Sometimes crime books carry a greater anxiety than mainstream novels. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-15420368896561414362020-10-01T14:50:37.657-04:002020-10-01T14:50:37.657-04:00Comfort reading only for me: three by Joe R. Lans...Comfort reading only for me: three by Joe R. Lansdale, one by Max Alan Collins, the latest Jesse Stone (this time by Mike Lupica), Four or five The Shadow adventures by "Maxwell Grant", an equal number of Doc Savage adventures, a couple of pulp adventures of The Spider two Roger West mysteries by John Creasy, a fantasy/satire by John Aylesworth, and a gazillion short stories -- science fiction and mystery, mainly from the 50s and 60s. I also read four Rube Goldberg-type stories in a series by "Henry Hugh Simmons" in AMAZING STORIES from 1927-1928. Currently reading Robert Lewis Taylor's ADRIFT IN A BONEYARD (1947).<br /><br />I take my happiness wherever I can get it.Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-35966870795331321692020-10-01T12:50:24.269-04:002020-10-01T12:50:24.269-04:00Is the Grant his memoir or a biography?
I should r...Is the Grant his memoir or a biography?<br />I should read more poetry. I used to read quite a bit. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-19409918341886022102020-10-01T11:53:31.595-04:002020-10-01T11:53:31.595-04:00I read some old standards: MONTE WALSH, THE MAN FR...I read some old standards: MONTE WALSH, THE MAN FROM TWO RIVERS, lots of books of poetry, and one from our friend Scott D. Parker called EMPTY COFFINS.David Cranmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04749857752139212888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-46374021815452630962020-10-01T11:42:10.322-04:002020-10-01T11:42:10.322-04:00Not many, but I've been slogging on with GRANT...Not many, but I've been slogging on with GRANT and at over 1,100 pages, it's taking a long time. Other than that, short stories, both in a Holmes collection and elsewhere.<br /><br />Where does Kondo come up with her numbers...30 books is ridiculous. Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.com