Recent Reads end of February

[@bluewordsme2]

loved Motherless Brooklyn...btw, Dean Street is a critical street in Brooklyn that represents much of the gentrification of the borough, to the North, poverty and crime, to the south, white affluence, which changed both the African-American neighborhoods and the Jewish neighborhoods....Dean St goes through some seminal and profoundly changing neighborhoods: Brooklyn Heights to Carrol Gardens to Clinton Hill, Bed-Sty to Brownsville, Crown heights to slope park, Dean street divides the impoverished, difficult, crime ridden north neighborhoods to the rich south....excited to read it now.....excited about Everett's new novel James about Jim from Huck Finn, can't wait!!! ...thrilled you loved antunes and THANK YOU for reviewing--means more of your watchers will read his work...agree with everything you said Marc! ....great about Platonov, which will creep up on you...and while i really liked it, his 2 extraordinary masterpieces are Soul, or Dzhan (!!!), and Chevengur, which has finally been updated and published in full (i read the first translation) and it is on my tbr for summer...his stories are gorgeous and heartbreaking....i think if you read Soul, you'll see how accomplished his writing is....and agree about Kennefick....read egg/shell on the plane home from london...and her first book that you gifted me!! im so grateful for it and to discover her work...thank you marc, very grateful! ...and great vid as always....now, GET YOUR MANUSCRIPT into shape for NDP! :) ...have a great weekend!

[@TKTalksBooks]

Always something here to learn! Thanks, Marc 😊

[@MarcNash]

Thank you! 😃

[@user-vg3mk1xf7d]

António Lobo Antunes is one of my favorite european writers.

[@MarcNash]

We need to get him more widely read!

[@Godovgrind]

Great reads.

[@MarcNash]

Thank you😃

[@MarilynMayaMendoza]

I lived in a rooming house on Dean Street in 1967 when I first got married. When I learned, I had to share a bathroom with guys. I moved back to Williamsburg, which wasn’t gentrified either, but felt safer. Dean st was near downtown Brooklyn with stores on Fulton Street. I remember. My mother and I shopped at all the stores like gimbals Mays and A&S, maybe that area was safe in the 50s because we were always around there. Don’t know if I want to read this book only because I lived it. My mother got mugged in the 60s and it also got violent where there were push-in people opening. Their doors 12:53 were pushed in mugged and sometimes killed.

[@MarcNash]

Ha, I don't blame you for moving out of the rooming house Marilyn! 😃

[@MarilynMayaMendoza]

@@MarcNash but then I did meet my first husband on Dean Street when I was 16 in an apartment building where his aunt lived. I remember it was on the top floor. Most of the people who live there with Puerto Ricans like us. I can see why it was gentrified because a lot of the buildings, not that one, were brownstones like in Brownsville Brooklyn. I was brought up in the area of “a tree grows in Brooklyn“ but my mother grew up in South Brooklyn in what was then a Jewish neighborhood. Then it also became Puerto Rican in the 60s. But there is a large Hasidic Jewish community still there. I think there have been some tensions between locals there and that very strict sect of Hasidic Jews. Aloha.

[@MarcNash]

@@MarilynMayaMendoza I know you don't fancy the book, but that is what a lot of it is about

[@MarilynMayaMendoza]

@@MarcNash Hi Marc, I heard of the author, so maybe I will look it up. Thank you for your excellent video. Aloha.

[@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711]

I'm yet to try Lethem or Everett but you are making me feel I should

[@MarcNash]

I think you'd get a lot out of Everett's "The Trees" Ros

[@josmith5992]

Really like the sound of The Natural Order of Things so thanks for the recommendation Marc. Amazed at how much you are reading considering you are also writing or have you finished with the new book?

[@MarcNash]

Hi Jo, I'm not currently writing as I'm waiting for annual leave in March and then Easter to have a block of time to focus in. Many thanks. Bests.