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| Author: | Canaan [ Fri Nov 06, 2020 7:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Book Club |
Okay, let's see how far this new topic goes - although I've never made it up to Calavera, I've seen references online to real world book club occurrences there, so I thought I'd give this a shot. What are you Big Brains currently reading? Do you have a favorite quote? I'll start it off with this.... "I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good." ~Douglas Adams (from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) |
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| Author: | Kimba [ Fri Nov 06, 2020 8:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.” ― Gabriel García Márquez, quote from One Hundred Years of Solitude |
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| Author: | Canaan [ Fri Nov 06, 2020 9:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
^^^ That book nearly broke my brain. Time for a re-read, I think. |
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| Author: | avidtest [ Sat Nov 07, 2020 8:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
“you should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you).” ― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos ^^^That is probably the most insightful book I've read, and I refer to it regularly. In the meantime however, I've have been enjoying Joe R. Lansdale's South East Texas depression era fiction. Good stuff - much of it reminiscent of Mark Twain's work. |
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| Author: | k2rider [ Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
I don't have the patience to sit down and read much anymore. It's much easier for me to browse the world wide web and bounce around. Most recently, I've been spending alt of time reading from a BBC website page called WW2 People's War, an archive of World War two memories from every angle imaginable. If you're into WWII history, it's fascinating stuff. But my favorite quote is "Get busy living or get busy dying" from Andy Dufresne in the Shawshank Redemption. |
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| Author: | Ld00d [ Sat Nov 07, 2020 11:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
I'm mostly reading the periodicals these days. I need to get back to more leisurely stuff. A favorite quote from a favorite book by a favorite author: "Fucking was how babies were made." -- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions |
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| Author: | OldDogDan [ Sat Nov 07, 2020 11:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
I’ve got to second anything by Marquez, and I enjoy rereading him, along with a few other favorite authors. In fact I recently searched my bookcases for Love in the Time of Cholera, but might have loaned it out. Seemed appropriate for these times. I usually have two or three books in progress, at varying rates of being read, much slower nowadays due to digital distraction — it can take me many months to finish a book. Often one is fiction, and one is non-fiction — natural history or science being frequent choices. However, the question was what are you currently reading, and my answer is local history. It’s called Old Time Cattlemen and Other Pioneers of the Anza-Borrego Area, by Lester Reed, 1963. Interesting in a folksy and anecdotal way. I just bought a more factual, footnoted book on the same topic to complement it. |
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| Author: | Canaan [ Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
Ld00d wrote: I'm mostly reading the periodicals these days. I used to read periodicals, too...just for the articles. |
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| Author: | Dirt Pedaller [ Mon Nov 09, 2020 3:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
"Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" by Atul Gawande A hopeful book about end of life issues. My little brother sent it to me after our father passed. I wish that I had read it before he passed. Many of our decisions would have been better informed. If you are dealing with elderly parents or anyone else in your life is dealing with end of life issues, I highly recommend it. |
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| Author: | Canaan [ Mon Nov 09, 2020 6:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
Dirt Pedaller wrote: "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" by Atul Gawande A hopeful book about end of life issues. My little brother sent it to me after our father passed. I wish that I had read it before he passed. Many of our decisions would have been better informed. If you are dealing with elderly parents or anyone else in your life is dealing with end of life issues, I highly recommend it. I read this book at the beginning of the year and agree with your assessment. Excellent, excellent read. We faced a lot the same issues with my mom's treatment after she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. As hard as it is to think about a parent's mortality, this book is a must-read for anyone lucky enough to have a parent who is still alive. |
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| Author: | Inconceivable [ Thu Nov 12, 2020 10:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
Canaan wrote: Dirt Pedaller wrote: "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" by Atul Gawande A hopeful book about end of life issues. My little brother sent it to me after our father passed. I wish that I had read it before he passed. Many of our decisions would have been better informed. If you are dealing with elderly parents or anyone else in your life is dealing with end of life issues, I highly recommend it. I read this book at the beginning of the year and agree with your assessment. Excellent, excellent read. We faced a lot the same issues with my mom's treatment after she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. As hard as it is to think about a parent's mortality, this book is a must-read for anyone lucky enough to have a parent who is still alive. Another rec' for this book. My parents are still alive, but they're getting to the point where thinking about them being isn't so crazy. A co-worker of mine recommended it to me and all the siblings in her family read it before her father passed away. She said the book gave them a common perspective (i.e. what's important? what should I expect will happen?) and language which made it possible to have very emotional conversations in a constructive manner. |
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| Author: | Dirtrider [ Thu Nov 12, 2020 11:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
I ordered it last night myself. My father is 96 and living by himself and I am the only caregiver available to him. We have already had the most blunt talks about his life now and when he passes. It's that undetermined time frame between that remains somewhat unanswered for us. Can't wait to give it a read. |
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| Author: | avidtest [ Sat Nov 28, 2020 4:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
^^I'm reading it now (thank you!). It's tough stuff in some regards, but at only 20% done, I will already recommend it. If you're not a sociopath, you probably need to read this. |
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| Author: | avidtest [ Fri Jan 01, 2021 9:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
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| Author: | OldDogDan [ Fri Jan 01, 2021 10:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Book Club |
Last night I watched Werner Herzog’s most recent film, Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin. His first book In Patagonia is one of my favorites, so this morning I ordered a used paperback copy of Songlines, which is the most famous and only one of his five books I haven’t read.* “I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones”. *Derek Trucks has a great album of the same name. |
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