Enjoyed getting a look into your reading year. Definitely going to add some of these to my 2024 reading list. As for music selections, I have two on the docket: Sonic Life -- Thurston Moore and Dayglow -- the Poly Styrene Story.
Best wishes in the new year and definitely thankful for your continued Substack posts.
Sadly my "to read" pile is outpacing my reading. I am finishing up Joel Selvin's Oral history of Sly and the Family Stone and will follow it this year with a run at Sly Stone's autobiography. I also want to pick up Stuart Braithwaite's Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth.
If you want a great book with pictures/horror combo look into Emily Carroll's A Guest in the House. You can check out her website https://www.emcarroll.com/ to get a sense of what you'd be in for. She does a brilliant job using the web to enhance the comics posted on it (some of which are featured in her first great short comic collection, Through the Woods). Try "When the Darkness Presses" or "His Face All Red" for good examples.
Finally, I have to say Nobody Runs Forever is one of my favorite Parker books I've read (even if I'm only supposed to reserve that kind of statement for Westlake/Stark's earlier books in the series).
Very cool! I will check out Emily's book. I thought Nobody Runs Forever was pretty good, good enough to order two more late period Parkers that I haven't read. So it goes...
"It’s such a passive way to be stimulated..." - YES!
"I’m trying to become someone who carries a book of poems around with me so that when the urge comes to pick up the phone, I read a poem instead." - Love this
I have a lot of music-related books on my list for this year. One that may be of interest to you if you haven't read it is Penny Rimbaud's Shibboleth. I found an mp3 of him reading an hour of it years ago and was very intrigued. This year I've decided I'm finally going to fork out the $45 for it.
Our Share Of Night has been on my list since you mentioned it recently
Did you get the copy of The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass that I sent you?
I don't know Penny Rimbaud but I'll check it out. I did receive The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass--thank you--and it figuratively sits on my massive TBR pile!
Thank you, Travis! Sonic Life is on my list as well.
Enjoyed getting a look into your reading year. Definitely going to add some of these to my 2024 reading list. As for music selections, I have two on the docket: Sonic Life -- Thurston Moore and Dayglow -- the Poly Styrene Story.
Best wishes in the new year and definitely thankful for your continued Substack posts.
Sadly my "to read" pile is outpacing my reading. I am finishing up Joel Selvin's Oral history of Sly and the Family Stone and will follow it this year with a run at Sly Stone's autobiography. I also want to pick up Stuart Braithwaite's Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth.
If you want a great book with pictures/horror combo look into Emily Carroll's A Guest in the House. You can check out her website https://www.emcarroll.com/ to get a sense of what you'd be in for. She does a brilliant job using the web to enhance the comics posted on it (some of which are featured in her first great short comic collection, Through the Woods). Try "When the Darkness Presses" or "His Face All Red" for good examples.
Finally, I have to say Nobody Runs Forever is one of my favorite Parker books I've read (even if I'm only supposed to reserve that kind of statement for Westlake/Stark's earlier books in the series).
Very cool! I will check out Emily's book. I thought Nobody Runs Forever was pretty good, good enough to order two more late period Parkers that I haven't read. So it goes...
I think you'll be pleased with Emily's book.
I'm assuming you got Ask the Parrot and Dirty Money. If so, I'd be curious to hear what you thought of them and her book if you get it.
That sounds right!
Good stuff, Jim!
"It’s such a passive way to be stimulated..." - YES!
"I’m trying to become someone who carries a book of poems around with me so that when the urge comes to pick up the phone, I read a poem instead." - Love this
I have a lot of music-related books on my list for this year. One that may be of interest to you if you haven't read it is Penny Rimbaud's Shibboleth. I found an mp3 of him reading an hour of it years ago and was very intrigued. This year I've decided I'm finally going to fork out the $45 for it.
Our Share Of Night has been on my list since you mentioned it recently
Did you get the copy of The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass that I sent you?
I don't know Penny Rimbaud but I'll check it out. I did receive The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass--thank you--and it figuratively sits on my massive TBR pile!