04-18-21, 05:12 PM | ||
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Boston, MA
|
Quote:
__________________
Tracy Cellulite is not a character defect. |
|
04-18-21, 05:20 PM | |
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Boston, MA
|
I finished the audio version of Nomadland. It’s an interesting but depressing book. It’s being made into a movie starring Francis McDormand.
Here’s a description from the library: From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads. On frequently traveled routes between seasonal jobs, Jessica Bruder meets people from all walks of life: a former professor, a McDonald's vice president, a minister, a college administrator, and a motorcycle cop, among many others—including her irrepressible protagonist, a onetime cocktail waitress, Home Depot clerk, and general contractor named Linda May.
__________________
Tracy Cellulite is not a character defect. |
04-18-21, 07:36 PM | ||
VF Supporter
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: USA
|
Quote:
I’m half way through Stephen King’s new book “Later” which I’m liking....so far.
__________________
Completed Races: (4) 50 milers (2) 42 milers (1) 50k (10) Marathons (2) 20 milers (3) 25k’s (16) Half Marathons (1) 20k (6) 10 milers (1) 15k |
|
04-19-21, 10:44 AM | |
VF Supporter
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Northern Calif
|
I finished Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia on audio over the weekend and it was a very dark but entertaining "haunted house" book with a flawed but headstrong heroine.
My hold on Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, came in just as I was finishing the above so have started listening to that. I read the New Yorker article a few years back and was reminded that I wanted to read the book after hearing the author talk about his most recent book on Fresh Air last week.
__________________
Kate ~~~Inaugural Star Wars Half Marathon, Jan 2015~~~ "Work your own shovel" - John "The Penguin" Bingham |
04-20-21, 04:25 AM | ||
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Boston, MA
|
Quote:
__________________
Tracy Cellulite is not a character defect. |
|
04-20-21, 09:10 AM | |
Join Date: Nov 2008
|
Currently listening to The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope.
I'm not much into actual reading these days, but am really enjoying this on cd. Put a disc in my bedside player and doze off listening. When I wake up at 3 I figure out where I dozed off and play it again.
__________________
Anna |
04-26-21, 07:57 PM | |
Join Date: Nov 2001
|
I just finished The Book of Joy. Beth/Toaster recommended it to me a while ago and I put off reading it because I didn't think it would be my kind of book but I was wrong. It was a wonderful book and gave me a lot to think about. I borrow all of my books from the library but I am considering buying this one just so I can highlight quotes from the book that I want to consider regularly.
A big THANK YOU to beth/toaster! Started The Choice: Embrace the Possible and it looks really good. One of my sons recently read it and then someone else recommended it to me. Erica |
Tags |
audiobooks, books, kindle, reading, spring reading |
|
|