I just read through the discussion of the film, "No Country For Old Men"--actually as both curiosity and an attempt to figure out why the film has lingered with me over the past two months. As my friends and I exited the theater after viewing the film a couple months ago, my friends respon...

Hi Kenneth, I just read your post and thought perhaps we might read some of the same sort of books? Or at least show interest in reading along adjacent paths. I, too, am retired--from a thrity year career as a high school teacher--and I, too, have developed a second interest in the arts--only metal ...

Hello everyone, I seem to be alone out here in this current spat of fiction books that I am reading and find very captivating and worthwhile. Is there anyone out there reading or about to read "His Illegal Self"? Part mystery, part character study, and part social commentary, the setting i...

Hi jales4, Although I haven't checked out the controversy yet, I just want to say memoir writing is subject to controversy. If writing is based on memory, it sometimes includes conjecture and "the way it should have been or must have been"--that is a touch of imagination. This happens beca...

Hi Ophelia, Interesting comments on the Fonda memoirs. I've always been interested in Jane Fonda, but never read her memoir. I did used to love her films, though. What other Hollywood star memoirs have you read? I tend to read memoirs about the common man--not exclusively because I did read Katherin...

Hello, I'm relatively new here and after looking around the nonfiction forums, I have made a couple observations. One--there seems to be several fiction books suggested or commented about on these nonfiction forums. And two, the Memoir genre is mostly lacking. Isn't anyone reading memoir? Over the y...

Just curious. Recently, I've read "Out Stealing Horses" by Per Petterson, "The Gathering" by Ann Enright (Man Booker Prize winner for 2007) and "The Reserve" by Russell Banks. This morning I began "His Illegal Self" by Peter Carey. Is there anyone out there wh...

Hi again, I'm back from vacation so thought I'd give this another whirl even though I don't really know my way around yet. I just completed reading "The Reserve" by Russell Banks. Anyone out there read this book? I seem to read books no one else is reading and many of the books under discu...

Thanks, Chris, for all the support and pep talks. I'm leaving for vacation for a week, and when I return, I plan to spend some concentrated time looking around this site--and hopefully, joining a conversation or two. I have read both the books, "Thousand Splendid Suns" and "Heart of D...

I'm still looking for a reader who has read "Out Stealing Horses". It is the best book I've read in years--quiet, understated, compact and packs a wallop.