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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Nightlife / Books And You? What Are You Going to Be Reading at the Silent-Reading Party Tonight?

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM

What some of us will be reading tonight. To ourselves. While you read whatever you want to yourself.

What some of us will be reading tonight. To ourselves. While you read whatever you want to yourself.

This is your friendly programming reminder that the silent-reading party starts up again in three hours. For the people who keep asking: the silent-reading party is the first Wednesday of the month, October thru May, at the Sorrento's Fireside Room. Starts at 6 pm. What's it like? It's like this. Plus, $4 Manhattans, on special. Plus, tonight, live cello by Samuel Anderson of the band Hey Marseilles.

Having trouble deciding what to read? Want ideas? Our special guests tonight (they just sit there and read to themselves like everyone else) are the artists D.K. Pan and Ryan Mitchell. Pan says he will be reading Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin (a novel about that French guy who tightroped between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in the '70s). Mitchell says, "I will be finishing up Funeral Rites by Genet."

I'm gonna read Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch.

And you? What are you gonna read?

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Let the Great World Spin is beautiful and expansive. A great book.

Posted by Irving on October 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM

@1 -- I tried to read it when I was working on my 9/11 piece and just couldn't get into it for some reason.

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on October 5, 2011 at 2:53 PM

Seeing how it's Read A RPG Book In Public Week, I'd like to think several nerds will be showing up with GURPS, Rifts, and AD&D books.

*pushes up his glasses*

Posted by stealingzen on October 5, 2011 at 2:59 PM

"Fallingwater Rising" by Franklin Toker. Until I get drunk, and then I'll break furniture and fall into the cellist. See you there, darling!!!

Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball on October 5, 2011 at 3:05 PM

The Unconsoled by Ishiguro.

Posted by sikandro on October 5, 2011 at 3:25 PM

"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson. I think it was recommended to me here in the Slog comments, after Obama was spotted with it. After that, "Black in Latin America" by Henry Louis Gates, which looks interesting, as he examines the fate of the 95% of stolen Africans who were taken to other countries besides what became the USA (11 million landed, 500,000 here).

But I won't be able to be there tonight, despite the temptation of the opportunity to be the one to hurl Jubilation into the cellist as the culmination of a possibly terrific drunken argument.

Posted by Fnarf

on October 5, 2011 at 3:41 PM

A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons, brief being a relative term. and passing notes to jubilation.

Posted by scary tyler moore

on October 5, 2011 at 3:42 PM

Doctor Zhivago. At home.

Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on October 5, 2011 at 4:26 PM

I really wish "Flannery" had a cover blurb "by the author of Finding the Boyfriend Within" (true fact; a gay self-help guide). I like to think it would appeal to her sense of humor.

I hope you've already read "The Habit of Being" (O'Connor's letters). "Flannery" is nice, but largely superfluous in terms of insight and biographical data to "Habit", which is also funnier and more readable.

Posted by Misfit on October 5, 2011 at 4:29 PM

Just 150pgs into Reamde and absolutely loving it. Most engrossing novel I've read since Brothers K. Wish I was in town for the silent reading party - great idea!

Posted by DawginExile on October 6, 2011 at 12:51 PM