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Pulitzer 2022 Reading Update!
I am still reading lots of books trying to guess who might win this year’s Pulitzer. My list so far: 1. The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade – The Pulitzer has never gone to a Latina, will this be … Continue reading
Fino’s 2020 Pulitzer Prediction
I have been working my way backward through winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and have read back to 1980 (Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer). For 202o, I have read the 15 books that pprize.com predicted would be considered … Continue reading
My first book! The Gramble Chronicles I: Sophie’s Playlist
Yes, I have been away from WordPress for too long, but I was productive. In 2016, I read 218 books totally 73000 pages – spanning the work of Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon among many, many others. … Continue reading
Mad Men S07 Part 2 (2015) – The end of an era and Don 2.0
[CAVEAT EMPTOR: SPOILERS AHEAD] Well, that happened. After 7 seasons over 9 years and 92 episodes, Mad Men took a bow and vanished into TV history on Sunday night. I thought that this last season was very strong and in … Continue reading
Book Review: Reading Jazz edited by Robert Gottlieb (1999) – Worthwhile anthology of Jazz
After year’s of receiving their accusing stares from my bookshelf, I committed to myself that I would finish both Visions of Jazz by Gary Giddens and Reading Jazz. The latter is an anthology of Autobiography, Reporting, and Criticism from the major … Continue reading
The Leopard by Tomasi di Lampedusa – a true 20th C masterpiece both of literature and cinema
This summer I actually got some good reading done. I had been plagued with seeing The Leopard by Lampedusa in various bookstores in Italy, but did not really know what it was about aside from the reunification of Italy in … Continue reading
Miles of Miles
I finished both the autobiography of Miles Davis as well as Ian Carr’s excellent biography a few weeks back. Both were exhilarating reading to be honest. As for the autobiography I love Miles’ style injected with loads of vernacular and … Continue reading
Reading about Jazz: Giddins, Trane, Pepper and Miles – oh and Dylan too
I have been on a jazz kick for nearly a month. Well, for years actually but recently, more obsessed tha n usual. I had a copy of Gary Giddins’ Visions of Jazz staring at me accusingly from my bookshelf for … Continue reading
Book Reviews: George R.R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons: The Wait for Winds of Winter Begins…
I have mentioned before that I had made several attempts at reading the GoT series of books after having become addicted to the HBO show based on them. I felt that the first two books – A Game of Thrones … Continue reading
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