The 12 Hour Deathless Thread

Eliahad · Post by **Eliahad** » Fri May 06, 2022 7:14 pm

Kyle wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 2:45 pmSave point.

Oh thank god, now we can let the thread die and we'll just start back here. Good thinking, Kyle!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Sat May 07, 2022 4:00 am

NYT's 10 best books for 2014:
Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation
Roz Chast, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Lily King, Euphoria
Phil Klay, Redeployment
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Hermione Lee, Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
Akhil Sharma, Family Life
Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Sat May 07, 2022 5:16 am

Eliahad wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 7:14 pm
Kyle wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 2:45 pmSave point.
Oh thank god, now we can let the thread die and we'll just start back here. Good thinking, Kyle!

Right? Why didn't we think of this years ago?

Post by **Mike** » Sat May 07, 2022 4:49 pm

Okay. That's long enough.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Sat May 07, 2022 7:55 pm

Post by **Mike** » Sat May 07, 2022 8:23 pm

Humpty Bump.

Eliahad · Post by **Eliahad** » Sun May 08, 2022 12:46 am

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Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Sun May 08, 2022 3:20 am

NYT's 10 best books for 2015:
Paul Beatty, The Sellout
Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Rachel Cusk, Outline
Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child: Book 4, The Neapolitan Novels: “Maturity, Old Age”
Helen Macdonald, H Is for Hawk
Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
Magda Szabó, The Door
Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Sun May 08, 2022 5:11 am

NewGame+

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Sun May 08, 2022 8:58 am

TNC book has been on my imaginary read list

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Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Sun May 08, 2022 10:34 am

NYT's 10 best books for 2016:
Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom
Stefan Hertmans, War and Turpentine
Han Kang, The Vegetarian
Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Ian McGuire, The North Water
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

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Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Sun May 08, 2022 1:26 pm

Wait. What?

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Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Sun May 08, 2022 2:13 pm

Okay, but.. Hold on.

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Eliahad · Post by **Eliahad** » Sun May 08, 2022 4:12 pm

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Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Sun May 08, 2022 8:32 pm

Shut the fuck up! I'm waiting for the 2017 books! YOU'RE RUINING IT!

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Phoebe · Post by **Phoebe** » Sun May 08, 2022 10:21 pm

Trees, ranked. 31. Wisteria

Just look at the darn thing:

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Mon May 09, 2022 4:00 am

NYT's 10 best books for 2017:
Naomi Alderman, The Power
Ron Chernow, Grant
James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy: A Memoir
Richard Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us
Ali Smith, Autumn
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

Phoebe · Post by **Phoebe** » Mon May 09, 2022 4:35 am

Trees, ranked. 30. Redbud

A different showy purple look: distinctive tiny purple blossoms married with a dark, gnarled, and usually twisting bark. An interesting and beautiful staple of spring.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Mon May 09, 2022 5:33 am

Hells to the yeah! 2017 books!

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Mon May 09, 2022 9:49 am

we're getting to the good trees

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Mon May 09, 2022 11:55 am

Agreed. BUT WHERE'S MY 2018 BOOKS Y'ALL?!?!?!!?

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Mon May 09, 2022 12:29 pm

Phoebe wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 3:29 pm Trees, ranked. 37. Weeping Willow, Salix babylonica

I struggled with the ranking for this tree because so many people complain about it and the complaints got into my head a little. However, behold its magnificence! It's an amazing, unforgettable tree! Kids are drawn to them - you want to grab on and swing from the branches that seem to be reaching down like hands and arms. They are especially good when planted near water, where they thrive, like this one pictured below. Sometimes if you are out canoeing you will see a place where such a tree is reaching down into the water and it's really cool. The color of the leaf is also a little silvery and the sound they make in the wind is so soft and whispery. A wonderful tree that enriches the world:

My #1. Great review.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Mon May 09, 2022 12:32 pm

Yeah, those are pretty dope. But there are better.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Mon May 09, 2022 4:20 pm

NYT's 10 best books for 2018:
Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Small Fry
David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry
Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
Tommy Orange, There There
Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Leïla Slimani, Lullaby
Tara Westover, Educated

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Mon May 09, 2022 4:28 pm

Oh.

Well.

That's disappointing.

LET'S GO 2019!

Phoebe · Post by **Phoebe** » Tue May 10, 2022 1:58 am

Trees, ranked. 29. Beech

This is an entire genus of trees. Complaints include that the branching structure and thus shade is very dense, and it produces a type of nut, but it's an interesting triangularish/conic shape in this unusual fuzzy blossom. The tree is generally just round and sturdy and lovely, however, with attractive leaves.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue May 10, 2022 3:34 am

NYT's 10 best books for 2019:
Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
Leo Damrosch, The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Ted Chiang, Exhalation: Stories
Adam Higginbotham, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Ben Lerner, The Topeka School
Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth
Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue May 10, 2022 6:04 am

Oh yeah! That'd what I'm talking about!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue May 10, 2022 11:38 am

NYT's 10 best books for 2020:

Fiction:
Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
James McBride, Deacon King Kong
Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

Nonfiction:
Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road
Barack Obama, A Promised Land
James Shapiro, Shakespeare in a Divided America
Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
Margaret MacMillan, War: How Conflict Shaped Us

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue May 10, 2022 11:42 am

Heh heh. Wiener.

Post by **Mike** » Tue May 10, 2022 11:44 am

Last night, I made wiener schnitzel for supper. It was really good.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue May 10, 2022 11:56 am

Heh heh. Supper. I just met her. Heh.

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Tue May 10, 2022 3:44 pm

Speaking of Hamnet just watched Hamlet for the first time. Goodness, that's full of famous lines. I wonder if there's a pieces of of the culture puzzle out there that match it for me going 'oh that's where that's from!' I get so little of this anymore, like I get jealous of people who see Citizen Kane, 2001, or Casablanca for the first time. What am I missing? Like I haven't seen Breaking Bad, but has references to it permeated the culture like those, or like Hamlet?

What's the referenced in culture top 100, and what am I missing from it? Moby Dick, probably.

Also, I watched Hamlet with subtitles on, does that count as reading the play?

Kyle, I said Moby Dick.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue May 10, 2022 3:47 pm

Heh heh. Hamlet? I just met let. Heh.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Tue May 10, 2022 4:31 pm

NYT's 10 best books for 2021:

Fiction:
Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

Nonfiction:
Tove Ditlevsen, The Copenhagen Trilogy
Clint Smith, How the Word is Passed
Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City
Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Post by **Mike** » Tue May 10, 2022 6:30 pm

Copenhagen? I barely knowpenhagen!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed May 11, 2022 3:57 am

Good morning.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed May 11, 2022 5:16 am

My man! Good morning!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed May 11, 2022 8:21 am

Good mid-morning!

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed May 11, 2022 10:36 am

Heck to the yes! Good mid-morning to you!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed May 11, 2022 10:44 am

Good late-morning!