Favorite read of the summer

[joosttx]

Summer is over. I am sure that some of you read some good books. I have to share one that I finished recently which I think was one of the best I read in a long time...

"Just Kids" by Patti Smith

A memoir of her days with Robert Maplethroupe as they found their art in NYC in the 60's and 70's. Breath taking. It's one of those books that makes you want to go back in time to experience the scene.

[Roman]

"Let the great world spin"

Colum McCann

[Matthew J]

Just finished the new translation of 'In Times of Fading Light' by Eugene Ruge. Highly recommended. If your German is good, I understand the original is yards better.

[holliscx]

<snip>A memoir of her days with Robert Maplethroupe as they found their art in NYC in the 60's and 70's. Breath taking. It's one of those books that makes you want to go back in time to experience the scene.

Exactly how I felt after watching the Bones Brigade documentary. Don't know if you ever ollied a Powell-Peralta deck back in the day but Bones Brigade which I heard about here at the Salon is highly recommended.

[RickM]

Primo Levi all Summer. "If This Is A Man", "The Drowned And The Saved", and "The Periodic Table".

[joosttx]

Exactly how I felt after watching the Bones Brigade documentary. Don't know if you ever ollied a Powell-Peralta deck back in the day but Bones Brigade which I heard about here at the Salon is highly recommended.

I actually watched it about a month ago. It was awesome. I never knew Rodney Mullen was like that. What a crazy genius.

[pajotfix]

Re-read The Rider by Tim Krabbé. Besides some untranslated Flemish novels I just finished The Inland Sea by Donald Richie. Really enjoyed that.

[xjoex]

I listen to audiobooks on my solo morning rides, and my commute to work. I think my favorite book of the summer is The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Great story.

-Joe

[ericpmoss]

Flour Water Salt Yeast

I love this bread book, even though I haven't baked anything from it (yet). There's very little romantic fluff about it, and a lot of tremendously useful guidelines and explanations.

[C D]

"Forgotten War" By Henry Reynolds, which reframes the colonial settlement of Australia as a land war against the Australian Aboriginals.
"Truimph of the Nomads: A history of ancient Australia" By Geoffrey Blainey, an excellent summary of the pre-settlement history of Australia.
"A History of South Africa" By Frank Welsh, which is excellent and interesting, but I think he might let the genocidal Afrikaners of the hook a bit too much.
"Cry, the Beloved Country" By Alan Paton, which my South African friend recommended to me.
"Dante: The Poet, The Thinker, The Man" By Barbara Reynolds. If you read this you will learn a lot.

[zetroc]

Calvin Trillin, "The Tummy Trilogy"

[liv2bike]

wild by Cheryl Strayed. Fantastic read.

Cycling Home from Siberia by Rob Lilwall.

Just started Road to Valor.

[BrandonC]

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. About the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in Paris where French police arrested French Jews during WWII. Victims were confined in a Parisian velodrome before being sent to the camps.

I could not put this book down.

[mainemike]

I am currently Reading One More Kilometer and We're in the Showers by Tim Hilton. easily of the best cycling books i've ever read i love it!

[RickM]

Now winding down Summer and heading into Fall re-reading all of the better LeCarre'/George Smiley books...but not in order.

At bat; A Perfect Spy. No Smiley, but terrific. If you had even a remotely complicated relationship with your Dad...a must read.

On deck; The Honourable Schoolboy. Warming up in the bullpen; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Player to be named later; The Secret Pilgrim

[cash]

"Never Go Back" by Lee Child. The newest and next in the Jack Reacher series. Pure entertainment. The Jack Reacher series is the best thing going.

[72gmc]

"One of Ours"--my first Willa Cather
"Around the Bend" and "An Old Captivity"--I've read a lot of Nevil Shute
"A Sport and a Pastime"--my first James Salter

"One of Ours" was my favorite. This fall I would like to read Salter's "Burning the Days."

[alexstar]

Dorothy Parker's collected short stories.

[Bud_E]

The Broken Shore. Every Peter Temple book I've read is great.

[Tom]

"The Map of My Dead Pilots" an account of flying in Alaska by someone that worked in operations for one outfit. Amusing stuff, some of it actually is relevant in other pursuits.