Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande.
OldFish wrote:
Quite new to the running and have read a bit recently.
Chi Running A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running - crap, tossed away few chapters in
Thanks for the confirmation. Right now a running buddy of mine is reading it.
I told him that the Chi running is rubbish. 8 years ago I read into Chi Marathon running, it was the worst book I ever had in my hand. It was not even structured properly.
So I just finished Low Bird, by David L. Robbins; a very literary book about Viet Nam war and the "PJ's" who drop out of the Huey's to rescue downed jet fighters. I wasn't sure I'd like but it was intense and really liked it. Need to find something else before my wife gives me one of her book club books.
Some of you may have seen my new novel, Racing Shadows advertised on Let'sRun. Sales have been steady and the reviews good. If you want a running based novel, Racing Shadows is about two Olympic marathon runners rorm different eras seeking a second chance. My goal was to write something that would be in the same class as OAR (love or hate). Enjoy!
I'm reading this thread.
No one cares about your dumb thread.
Of course I’ve been promoting “In Search of Al Howie” by Jared Beasley, seems like people enjoy it.
Murakami - Killing Commandatore.
Always love his books, and interesting that he's a runner too.
Thank you for my service. Matt Best. Makes me want to re-enlist and shoot bad guys again
Started reading Luster by Raven Leilani. It's the first book by this author I read, and for now, it's hard to say whether I like it. I need to read a little bit more to understand. Last year I read a lot of books, and here is a list of my recommendations in case someone is looking for a book to read:
- Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon - science fiction
- Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark - horror fiction
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - historical fiction
- The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk - mystery
- Shrines of Gaity by Kate Atkinson - historical fiction
- Storm Watch by CJ Box - mystery
- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai - mystery
- Babel by RF Kuang - fantasy fiction
The genres are different, but I liked each of the books.
Aliana wrote:
Started reading Luster by Raven Leilani. It's the first book by this author I read, and for now, it's hard to say whether I like it. I need to read a little bit more to understand. Last year I read a lot of books, and here is a list of my recommendations in case someone is looking for a book to read:
- Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon - science fiction
- Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark - horror fiction
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - historical fiction
- The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk - mystery
- Shrines of Gaity by Kate Atkinson - historical fiction
- Storm Watch by CJ Box - mystery
- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai - mystery
- Babel by RF Kuang - fantasy fiction
The genres are different, but I liked each of the books. And as a bonus, I can also recommend one short story - The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. I read it two days ago because I needed it for my university assignment, and I really loved it. And also, I needed to write a paper on it, and here https://graduateway.com/essay-examples/the-black-cat/ I also read examples on that story, which helped me to understand everything better. You may think that it's something for kids and not that good to read, but believe me, it's worth it.
Wow, that's a nice list. I read Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon, and I really liked that book. And now, I'm reading The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, and I can say that the novel is very interesting. It's a historical novel, which is not my fav genre, but that book is just fantastic.
I'm reading a few books, going back and forth, starting with a Dashiell Hammett collection of novels. The first one was quite good, Red Harvest, a noir detective story about an operative cleaning up a mining town in the west that they call Poisonville, a possible basis for Yojimbo, influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and Blood Simple. The Dain Curse was a shaggy dog story, various murders and a cult in San Francisco and the California coast, going from one place to another in theme and location without much coherence. Then I started The Maltese Falcon, which is very good.
I finished James Salter, The Hunters, about a champion acrobatic fighter pilot who is starting to age a bit and goes to serve in Korea during the war. This is just incredibly well-written, stylistically, with great descriptions of the terrain and the motivations of fighter pilots. It was Salter's first novel, which he wrote a few years after serving as a fighter pilot in Korea. The battle scenes are great as well.
Recently I read Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, which is really good and will change how some people live. It shows that he recognized how hard it was to live up to stoic tenets, as the book involves his own injunctions to himself to do better.
I just started Paul Auster's 1-2-3-4, which is really big and I don't know if I'll get too far in it because its brief stories of immigrants in New York at the beginning are not that original and don't seem to be leading to much, whereas his works like The Book of Illusion and City of Glass, you can't put down and are original and fascinating.
What else? The Gregory script. I can't put it down. I can't wait for the TV release either.
Any book banded in Florida is probably a must read.
Currently on the third book of The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin. Amazing series. It's a post apocalyptic series about vampires.
A couple other good ones I'd recommend: The Light Between Oceans, and Testament of Youth.
Distinguished Writer in The Won Ton House wrote:
What else? The Gregory script. I can't put it down. I can't wait for the TV release either.
God are you there its me TMADDDHASFNE, Chef Gordon Ramzi, Film Rep, Tugboat Timmy, Mario Lopez (and other romancing names I like to use) I am so in love with Runner Greg help me I create whole threads to talk about him even if it means talking to myself alone. I am banned from Mooseland but Greg is all I can think about help me I am obsessed omg I have to have him but I am a neo Luddite so we cannot Bumble help me I am burning with passion now so much I want to run naked with Greg omg