Jon's comments
(member since May 15, 2008)
Jon's comments from the Books on the Nightstand group.
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Just read David Benioff's CITY OF THIEVES. The best book I've read in a couple of years. It's what Michael Chabon should have written after KAVALIER & CLAY set his personal bar so high...
Almost finished with "All Shall Be Well and All Shall Be Well and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well," the slightly overtitled debut by Tod Wodicka. It's touching and funny at the same time, and it takes a few unexpected turns as well.
Tell us more about MY NAME IS RED, Susanne. My daughter read it for a book group, and she wasn't crazy about it. Don't know why, though.
Hey, Michael -- don't give it a second thought. I unnerve people all the time. Plus, I surely appreciate your good words.And for the record, although I haven't done a ton of reading in the last six months (shame on me; too busy writing), my favorites were...
A reread of Tony Earley's JIM THE BOY
Hampton Sides' BLOOD AND THUNDER
Ron Carlson's A KIND OF FLYING
James Ellroy's THE COLD SIX THOUSAND
Awww.
I kind of like the list from the podcast, Ann...
40, if I can count half of Gulliver's Travels and half of The Magic Mountain.
And hey, if Florida's and Michigan's delegates can get half-votes, then I can, too.
-- Jon
Cool. And incidentally, Steve, I'm like you in feeling that life is just too short to waste a moment of it on a lousy book. I arrived at some threshold a while ago -- maybe it was my fiftieth birthday -- past which it suddenly got very easy to close the cover on an unfinished book and move on...
Go for it. Mister Pip was one of the best books I read last year, for sure.
