30 January 2014
dickj43@yahoo.com
7120 Hawthorn Avenue, NE
797-4530
From
I-25 & Alameda:
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.
From Tramway: Go West on Paseo, then North on Wyoming. Look for Blue Cypress about 1 mile north of Alameda (it is called Glendale to the right, Blue Cypress and the entrance to the housing development to the left.)
Take an immediate left onto Automn which curves around to the East and becomes Hawthorn. A mile or so gets you to 7120.
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.
From Tramway: Go West on Paseo, then North on Wyoming. Look for Blue Cypress about 1 mile north of Alameda (it is called Glendale to the right, Blue Cypress and the entrance to the housing development to the left.)
Take an immediate left onto Automn which curves around to the East and becomes Hawthorn. A mile or so gets you to 7120.
January's book will be The Yellow
Birds by
Kevin Powers. It's the story of a soldier who fought in Iraq and
the consequences of his actions during the war. It's 241 pages
long. There are 13 copies in the library.A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive."The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss
27 February 2014
(262-0207)
701 Loma
Linda
Pl SE
Lead/Coal;
between
Carlisle and Washington, take
Montclaire
south
Thursday
27 March 2014
27 March 2014
Bob Woods
Academy
at Tramway
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.
woodsR@asme.org
ABC Library has 4 copies of Lot 49. Other options are here. Harold Bloom lists Pynchon as one of the four greatest living American authors. We have read the other three.
Most of the references in Lot 49 are explained at this web site.
24 April 2014
Jack Ferrell
17 Sunset Blvd
Placitas, NM
I-25 Exit 242
East on NM 165.
Right
at the 5-mile
marker onto
Tunnel
Springs Road.
Right
onto Quail
Meadow Road
(first
street on right - 0.2 mile)
Right
onto Leah Lane
(first
street
on right-0.4 mile)
HARD right onto Sunset Blvd17 Sunset Blvd is the second drive/house on the left after the
(100 yards)
"Private Drive--No Turn Around" sign (approximately 200 yards).
From Publishers Weekly:
"Ralph Bascombe, the brooding antihero here, is not a Walter Matthaustyle, cigar-smoking sportswriter. Rather he resembles John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom (sans cynicism). Bascombe has decided in his "mid-life crisis" years to write heartwarming articles for a glossy sports magazine, and in the literal world of sportswriting, he has found a way to avoid life's "searing regret" without sacrificing its mysteries. In fact, Ralph is comfortable all around, living an ordinary, invisible existence in the "muted and adaptable" landscape of a New Jersey suburb. He has two lovely children, buddies in the Divorced Men's Club and occasional romps in the sack with a buxom nurse. Then comes a crisis, with a narrative that becomes an odyssey through an extraordinary Easter week of death and renewal that brutally challenges Ralph's fragile optimism. This painfully funny addition to Ford's two other masterful novels (A Piece of My Heart and The Ultimate Good Luck) establishes the author among the best realist American writers today."
Thursday
29 May 2014
29 May 2014
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.)
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Hardback is 473 pages but actual text
is "only" 380 pages without the 18 page Epilogue. 380 pages for a 5-week month - not too bad given my reputation. The library has 36 copies - short wait.
Read Laura Hillenbrand's account of her struggle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
26 June 2014
1616 Catron SE
(Take The Road into 4-Hills, turn right at the Y onto 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.)
Our ABC Library System has but one copy of this book, plus one e-book edition. Try DealOz.com
31 July 2014
Rob Easterling (286-8796)
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.
Rob has chosen:The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux,
My Ultimate African Safari.
This may be the last word on Africa, at least for the LTBC
28 August 2014
Charlie Palmer
(cell: 263-4586)
1506 Park Ave 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).
(265-8122) or (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.
30 October 2014
| Dick Arms (293-4438) 800 Stagecoach SE Four Hills (Take The Road into 4-Hills, turn right at the Y onto Stagecoach. Follow Stagecoach until the first stop sign. A hill is beyond the stop sign, and Dick's house is at the top of that hill, the intersection of Stagecoach and Toro.) |
20 November 2014
[Thursday before Thanksgiving]
Bob
Simon
1415
Park Ave SW (246-8136)
Cross Central, continue 2 or 3 blocks, then turn onto Park (1st stop sign)
Get
a collection of Saki's short stories and read the following six
stories, The "Open Window", "The Unrest Cure", "Shredni Vashtar",
"Tobermory", "the Schartz-Metterklume Method", and "The Jesting of
Arlington Stringham". For extra credit, read "The Elk"
plus and any other stories you select. The Clovis and Reginald
series are really funny.
I hope you will find Saki's turn of the century wit as captivating as I
did in my ironic youth. Here is an Amazon preview:
"Saki's
(a.k.a Hector Hugh Munro) unique brand of humor has resonated with
readers for over a century. Both macabre and also at times
vicious, his writing nonetheless manages to perfectly capture the
trivial absurdities of the Edwardian era in England.
His subjects are almost always louche members of the upper classes - in particular his perfectly observed anti-heroes such as Clovis and Reginald - who wouldn't feel out of place in the world of P.G Wodehouse's 'Bertie Wooster'.
The fatal flaw of hypocrisy receives particular attention in Saki's world, with vengeful justice often meted out in the most unlikely and unexpected fashion by birds, beasts and children alike."
His subjects are almost always louche members of the upper classes - in particular his perfectly observed anti-heroes such as Clovis and Reginald - who wouldn't feel out of place in the world of P.G Wodehouse's 'Bertie Wooster'.
The fatal flaw of hypocrisy receives particular attention in Saki's world, with vengeful justice often meted out in the most unlikely and unexpected fashion by birds, beasts and children alike."
If you like P.G. Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh, I think you will like Saki.
Our ABC Library has a collection of Saki's , plus an e-book, an e-audio book, and a book on CD. You can obtain the Kindle Saki collection from Amazon.com for 99 cents.
[3rd] Thursday
18 December 2014
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.)
The LTBC has read one other Saul Bellow novel, but none of his many prize winners. Humbolt's Gift (512 pages) won the Pulitzer. In addition to the Pulitzer, Saul Bellow is the only author to win three National Book Awards: The Adventures of Augie March (608 pages), Herzog (400 pages) and Mr. Sammler's Planet (288 pages) all are National Book Award winners. Mr. Sammler's Planet features a 70 year old protagonist and reads today like it was written in late 1960s which it was. I have chosen Humbolt's Gift. Hey, we will discuss!
