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delalluvia:
I read constantly. Just finished re-reading a book on General Armstrong Custer's last stand (forgot the name/author of the book) that I consider a very excellent and interesting read and have picked up again Crack in the World about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
injest:
I like memoirs and stories of real events...
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: southendmd on July 15, 2007, 10:40:32 am ---Here's some great summer reading: Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin.
It's sort of an epilogue to the six, very popular Tales of the City books that he wrote in the 70s and 80s. (The first three were turned into TV miniseries with Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney.) The original stories were written in old-fashioned serial form in the San Francisco Chronicle, one little chapter a day, later compiled into books. I have a beat-up legal file full of clippings that would become Further Tales of the City.
I was fortunate to meet him at Harvard in the 80s and he signed my book "to Paul love, Armistead". :)
The story picks up almost twenty years since the last one, Sure of You. Michael is 55, has found new love with a younger man. Maupin works in all the other characters to a greater or lesser extent. Michael is dealing with the older and younger generations in his life. Hilarious and moving. I don't want it to end, because I fear it's necessarily the last one.
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Oh I love the Tales of the City books, I read them all in one month I think but it was years and years ago! It was then that I also saw the series and before that I met Marcus D'Amico who played Mouse on the tube in London! :D
michaelflanagansf:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on July 15, 2007, 10:54:16 am ---I read constantly. Just finished re-reading a book on General Armstrong Custer's last stand (forgot the name/author fo the book) that I consider a very excellent and interesting read and have picked up again Crack in the World about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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Being a librarian in the Bay Area I'm aware of a whole plethora of books that came out last year for the 100 year anniversary of the quake - one (which I haven't read) is '1906' by James Dalessandro.
One of my favorite books that takes place in this era in San Francisco is 'The Barbary plague : the Black Death in Victorian San Francisco' by Marilyn Chase. It's about the politics surrounding Bubonic Plague in San Francisco at the turn of the century - particularly regarding the racism towards the Chinese here. And there is a whole world of information about how San Francisco changed due to the plague - there was originally a poultry industry in the South of Market neighborhood that moved north. I was also interested that the endemic plague that exists in the Southwest originally came from this infestation in San Francisco.
michaelflanagansf:
--- Quote from: Lynne on July 15, 2007, 09:14:25 am ---Hey there, Michael!
If I were you, I'd start with LA Requiem or The Two Minute Rule. Crais has matured with age! I'll make a note of the others to add to my list...
-Lynne
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Hi Lynne! Welcome to the Bay Area and thanks for the recommendation!
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