What are you reading?

[dolmansaxlil]

@AdagioM said in What are you reading?:

@Steve-Miller I love Samin Nosrat. I gave kiddo2 Salt Fat Acid Heat for Christmas, and I received her Good Things from Mr. AM.

Have you listened to her podcast, Home Cooking, with Hrishikesh Hirway? It started at the beginning of the pandemic, and it’s funny and enlightening.

+1 to all of this!!

[RealPlayer]

@AndyD Your picture of The Pianist’s Mentor reminded me that there are a number of books on pianism by famous teachers (Neuhaus, Whiteside et al.) and I haven’t read any of them. The ones I’ve glanced at seem kind of dry, and it must be hard to describe fine muscle movements in lively prose. One study, The Great Pianists and Their Technique, does have comments by pupils of Liszt, Chopin and others which are interesting.

[Daniel]

@andyd My mom had Danielle Steel's "The Other Side of Midnight" on a shelf. I read it. I brought the book up with my mom. She was annoyed. She said she didn't want to hear it. Lol!

Edit-- AI tells me it wasn't Danielle Steel. It was Sidney Sheldon.

[Daniel]

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[ShiroKuro]

I just started reading this book that I bought while we were in Japan last summer: Yakuza Sometimes Piano

It’s about a writer whose main reporting area is yakuza (i.e., he primarily writes about the yakuza underworld), and he (the writer, a man in his 50s) starts learning piano.

I literally bought it because the cover caught my eye. It would probably be more interesting if the person learning the piano were actually a yakuza, instead of someone who writes about yakuza... But it’s interesting enough so far. I’m not very far along, so we’ll see.

[CHAS]

@Steve-Miller Thank you. You inspired me. Got samples of that book and the Food Lab samples from Amazon. My cooking can only improve.

[jon-nyc]

My current bedtime/sofa/airplane read (a third reading for me):

My current audiobook:

I’m a glutton for punishment. After the endurance test of Twain I pick up two 1000+ page reads.

[AndyD]

@RealPlayer said in What are you reading?:

@AndyD Your picture of The Pianist’s Mentor reminded me that there are a number of books on pianism by famous teachers (Neuhaus, Whiteside et al.) and I haven’t read any of them. The ones I’ve glanced at seem kind of dry, and it must be hard to describe fine muscle movements in lively prose. One study, The Great Pianists and Their Technique, does have comments by pupils of Liszt, Chopin and others which are interesting.

In my teens I read one and picked out the essence. This is my youthful writing at the back of an address book (in which I listed all the songs I liked A-Z)

[AndyD]

So I was browsing the charity shops of Durham City, and found that one is moving. Selling off stock, 10 books/cds for a pound, to eliminate moving costs. 10p a book!
This is the most lovely gardening book, though for the larger English garden, I guess it can be applied anywhere.
MrsA is our gardener, I prune the trees, hedge, lawn. This is an inspirational book however, beautifully painted plans to go with photos...

[BeeLady]

Reading a hyper local book, beautifully written touching on many aspects of life here. The farm she writes of goes on, run by the 4th generation.