28 January 2010
dickj43@yahoo.com
7120 Hawthorn Avenue, NE
797-4530
Go East on Alameda 0.7 miles. Turn left (North) at the 4-way stop at Louisiana. Go 0.5 miles (3rd street) to Florence. Turn right. Go 0.1 mile to Palm Yucca. Turn right. Go 0.1 mile. Palm Yucca dead ends at Hawthorn. Turn right. 7120 is the 4th house on the left.
Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell: Five copies in the Library -
Wall Street Journal blog here and Wikipedia article here.
Henning Mankell website
Henning Mankell is a Swedish author who gained bestseller stardom with his series of crime novels featuring inspector Kurt Wallander (recently featured as a series on PBS). He was born in Stockholm in 1948.
25 February 2010
Tom
Genoni
(292-4985)
1616
Catron SE
(Take
The Road into
4-Hills, turn right on Stagecoach, left at the 4-way stop sign onto
Cuatro Cerros, 2nd right onto Bernalillo, then 1st left onto
Catron. About half-way down Catron, 1616 house is on the right.)
Cormac McCarthy Society Web Site
Oprah's Reader's Guide and Interview
Cormac McCarthy bio (Wikipedia)
New York Times: Review
Thursday
25 March 2010
Ron Bousek
(262-0207)
701 Loma
Linda
Pl SE
from
Lead/Coal;
between
Carlisle and Washington, take
Montclaire
south which will dead-end almost into Ron's front yard.
40 copies in the Library system; 6 were available in January.
Greg Mortenson Web Site; Book; bio (Wikipedia)
Extra credit: the sequel: Stones into Schools
29 April 2010
Ken Gillen
(797-8956)
331 White Oaks Dr. NE
(From Tramway and Live Oak Rd [one block N. of Paseo del Norte], go EAST 0.6 mi on Live Oak, then SOUTH 0.3 mi on White Oaks Dr. to last house on right. Intersection of WhiteOaks and Paintbrush. Pay no attention to most of the house numbers.)
Ten copies in our Library system. Order a used book now from DealOz.com at a bargain price!
Ken's list of the main characters in Part 1:
(as MS Word document) (as PDF format)
Thursday
27 May 2010
11921 Caribou Ave., NE
(299-6928)
From Academy and Tramway,
go WEST on Academy for 3 blocks,
then take a RIGHT (North) onto Antelope Run which deadends into Caribou.
House is in front of you,
a little to the left.
rwoods@asme.org
Pompeii (published 2003, 346 pages) is a blend of fictional characters with the real-life eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79 that overwhelmed Pompeii and its surrounding towns. Pompeii is especially notable for the author's references to various aspects of vulcanology and use of the Roman calendar.
Check for copies in the Library - the book is available in paperback and also available through Amazon.com. Try DealOz.com!
24 June 2010
Jack Ferrell
17 Sunset Blvd
Placitas, NM
I-25 Exit 242
East on NM 165.
HARD right onto Sunset Blvd17 Sunset Blvd is the third drive/house on the left. The 17 is in small gold numbers near the ground, near road.
(100 yards)
The Land of Green Plums is the story of a group of young people in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania.
Herta Mũller was selected in 2009 for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Perhaps you are not surprised to learn she is a German (who grew up in Rumania).
29 July 2010
Joel Nash
884-5064
7508 Dellwood
Road NE
Between Candelaria
and Comanche
go West off
Pennsylvania;
2nd house from
Pennsylvania,
south side.
My
first LTBC meeting featured
Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon".
I have been waiting several years for the other shoe to drop. Here it
is, folks.Set in 1930's California, this time in the LA area, by the other master of the genre, Raymond Chandler, with the period lurid dialogue and convoluted plot, it was Chandler's first work, and extremely popular as a film as well (much of the screenplay done by William Faulkner).
You've seen it on TCM with Bogart and Bacall (or what's a TV for?) so comparing the movie and the book is instructive.
The book is a good summer read: short, full of death and local color, and readily available.
Disclaimer: I have probably seen the film 30 or 40 times silnce 1957, and consider it time well wasted.
26 August 2010
Ed
Duff
(823-1872)
Tanoan
area:
9709 Pebble Beach NE
(Enter Tanoan onto
Tanoan Drive,
north off Academy, between Eubank and
Ventura. Take 3rd left onto Pebble Beach Drive.
2nd
house
on right.)
“Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing”
by Marcus Luttrell, with Patrick Robinson
30 September 2010
(cell: 250-0991)
913 Parkland Circle SE
From Wyoming, go West on
Zuni to Carlisle;
Go South on Carlisle until
the median disappears;
(or changes drastically);
Go East;
Keith is on this street,
on the North side.
Thursday
28 October 2010
Charlie Palmer (243-4962)
1506 Park SW
From
I-25, go West on Central or
Lomas; then South
on 14th St.
Cross Central, continue 2 or
3 blocks,
then turn right onto Park (1st stop sign).
1966, 288 pages.In The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry introduced characters who would show up again in later novels, Texasville and Duane's Depressed. This first volume of the trilogy drops the reader into the one-stoplight town of Thalia, Texas, where Duane Moore, his buddy Sonny, and his girlfriend Jacy are all stumbling along the rocky road to adulthood.
Bio of Larry McMurtry (Wikipedia) - born June 3, 1936
Study Guide
The 1971 B&W movie based on the novel is IMHO one of the best American movies ever (Jeff Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd). Might be interesting to see the movie as well as read the novel; it's available on Netflix (DVD or see-it-now streaming) and from many other sources, I suspect. No compulsion to see the movie (it's a book club, after all), but I think the movie would certainly spice up the discussion.
18 November 2010
[Thursday before Thanksgiving]
East Mountains: 51 Avenida del Sol,
Cedar Crest, NM 87008
Take N14 4.5 mi. N of I-40
(exit 175, Cedar Crest).
Turn Left into Ventana del Sol subdivision.
Follow
keypad instructions.
Ward Just bio.
Review in the Washington Post.
According to Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley, Just's three finest novels are A Family Trust, An Unfinished Season and Exiles In The Garden. 288 pages. Published 2009, ten copies in our Library system. Also available through DealOz.com or Amazon.com.
14 December 2010
[a special Tuesday meeting before Christmas Week]
Mike Blackledge (294-6030)
14321 Stalgren Ct NE
(from
Tramway & Copper, go East 5 blocks [counting on right],
then right on Parkside,
immediate left onto Stalgren Ct.)
Hitch-22
by Christopher Hitchens [2010]
Eleven copies in our library system; 13 holds on first return as of 7 November 2010.
The Christopher Hitchens Web maintains links to all things Hitchens: reviews, interviews, works and articles.
recent [Oct 2010] Video Interviews: with The Atlantic with Anderson Cooper
