Turbine Freight Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 Agatha Christie - Evil Under the Sun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyta Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Re-listening to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I have gone through them all this year as an escape, I love Jim Dale's narration. I am amazed at how different it is from how I remember it. Guess since I only have read it twice before I forgot a lot and the movie version is on the tv all the time so it has clouded my recollection of it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Trying out a free Kindle month just for this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjbear05 Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture, by Chris Thomas King.An informative history from the mind of O Brother Where Art Thou's Tommy Johnson. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamas Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Trying out a free Kindle month just for this. We don't have to know or like the bands and the players, but can certainly appreciate what they experienced?It has been very interesting to read about the whole pandemic interruption for different people in the music business.Perspective... I will check it out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyta Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 (edited) Finished the Deathly Hallows. Decided to re-listen to A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg. It is a sweet story and it makes me happy and sad at the same time, my Mom loved redbirds (cardinals) and she read it the same year I as did. Hard to believe she has been gone 5 years now. I should finish it tonight so then I am going to listen to A Christmas Carol narrated by Patrick Stewart. It is fantastic as he does all voices just like he did in his one man show in the early 2000's. I bought the cassettes at his show and listen to it every year. Fabulous. Edited December 22, 2021 by Rhyta 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjbear05 Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 Re-reading The Teeth Of The Tiger, by Tom Clancy. Contains my all time favorite Clancy quote: "If you want to kick a tiger in the ass, you better have a plan for dealing with its teeth." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbine Freight Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 Oscar Wilde - De Profundis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyta Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Finished A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve, also listened to the Santa Land Diaries by David Sedaris so funny. Started Stargazer by Anne Hillerman, a mystery series set in the Navajo Nation. She is carrying on her father's series and is doing a good job with it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Carmina Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 From the podcast of the same name. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken hawk Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun & Moon Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 From the podcast of the same name.How is the book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Carmina Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 From the podcast of the same name.How is the book? It's good -- its main strength just lies in the stories of artists working with each other, the connections, the cross-pollinations, the coincidences. I'm not musician enough to really appreciate a lot of the musical theory, but there isn't a whole lot of that, if that's something you'd like. I'd recommend it, and the ebook is cheap enough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun & Moon Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 From the podcast of the same name.How is the book? It's good -- its main strength just lies in the stories of artists working with each other, the connections, the cross-pollinations, the coincidences. I'm not musician enough to really appreciate a lot of the musical theory, but there isn't a whole lot of that, if that's something you'd like. I'd recommend it, and the ebook is cheap enough.Sounds good. I might check out the podcast since stories in audio format are more accessible to me compared to print. I suppose that the basic idea or structure in the podcast episodes and the chapters of the book are quite similar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Carmina Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Sounds good. I might check out the podcast since stories in audio format are more accessible to me compared to print. I suppose that the basic idea or structure in the podcast episodes and the chapters of the book are quite similar? Yes, very similar; sometimes I recognize in print the phrasing I remember from the podcast (I have only listened to select episodes, but I'm reading the whole book). Each song/chapter is basically the podcast without the music. I'm enjoying the podcast, but just as fair warning, Hickey has extreme podcast voice (slow and overarticulated) and his Mancunian accent takes some getting used to! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamas Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Looks interesting, can you offer a brief bit why you like it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun & Moon Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Sounds good. I might check out the podcast since stories in audio format are more accessible to me compared to print. I suppose that the basic idea or structure in the podcast episodes and the chapters of the book are quite similar? Yes, very similar; sometimes I recognize in print the phrasing I remember from the podcast (I have only listened to select episodes, but I'm reading the whole book). Each song/chapter is basically the podcast without the music. I'm enjoying the podcast, but just as fair warning, Hickey has extreme podcast voice (slow and overarticulated) and his Mancunian accent takes some getting used to!Thank you! And as long as it is not ASMR I can take it. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken hawk Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Looks interesting, can you offer a brief bit why you like it? Its like there is more to coincidence than meets the eye. How the Power of coincidence guides your life. If you're having a tough time and feel like you need something to help inspire you that it will all be ok, this book is for you! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Stephen King - Cell 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 (edited) Trying out a free Kindle month just for this. We don't have to know or like the bands and the players, but can certainly appreciate what they experienced?It has been very interesting to read about the whole pandemic interruption for different people in the music business.Perspective... I will check it out. World In My Eyes is also worth checking out by Richard. I listen to his Magnificent 7 Mondays program every week on Sirius XM 1st Wave/Classic Alternative where he plays the 7 biggest hits of the genre of a year during the week on the British charts. I listed to his Flashback Lunch program a lot on KROQ during my high school lunch breaks and college when I started getting into the new wave, post punk and dark wave music since what they played at the time was toxic Bizkit and their awful butt rock clones. Always love hearing his accent. He even does DJ gigs for 80s parties in SoCal every so often. Edited December 30, 2021 by invisible airwave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyta Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Looks intriguing, just reserved at the library. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyta Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Finished Stargazer, had me guessing between two suspects. Really enjoy the descriptions of the scenery and the Dine tribe's approach to life. Now listening to the Storyteller by David Grohl. I have not followed the group so this is all new to me. Enjoying his narration, it's been a pleasant surprise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamas Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 The Story of Yiddish, Neal Karlen.As one can imagine, it's interesting, funny, confrontational (Why I oughta - Ah, you have a toothache, good enough!) and well written. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyta Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 The Story of Yiddish, Neal Karlen.As one can imagine, it's interesting, funny, confrontational (Why I oughta - Ah, you have a toothache, good enough!) and well written.Bet Geddy would find it funny too. Share some other quotes if you get the chance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamas Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 I don't want to get in trouble with publishing rights and such.But, Okay. Maybe I could find some more. If it's not too much trouble for you to read? (I'm being in character). "Still, would it hurt like a hole in the head - one of the hundreds of Yiddish phrases translated and transfused into English since the 1880s - to know that the following sayings come from the mamme-loshn? (mother-tongue)."Get lost; You should live so long; My son, the physicist; Who needs it? So why do you? All right already; From that he makes a living?" It is more of a history of Yiddish and Yiddishkeit (a way of life, I think?). The author claims two people of influence on his understanding of Yiddish, a rabbi, Manis Friedman and Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider) the comedian who really did understand and know Yiddish. Lots of history and scholarly interpretations, it is interesting to read. One more quote, "As Yiddish journalist Charles Rappaport said over a generation ago: "I speak ten languages, all of them Yiddish". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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