Let the Great World Spin: A Novel | 
I‘ve been waiting excitedly for Spin Day!!!! #bookspin sent me running to my Living Room Bookshelves to find a new title and I decided on Frida‘s Bed, and #doublespin is something from an ongoing series and it‘s been way too many months since I picked up a Miss Marple. Happy reading everyone, thanks @TheAromaofBooks !!!
Good morning, everyone! The moment you have all been waiting for!! Our official #BookSpin number is EIGHTEEN! Our official #DoubleSpin number is FOUR!! I have thoroughly enjoyed looking at everyone‘s lists & am really looking forward to seeing your reviews!!
My next post will be the #BookSpinBingo card. I am NOT tagging anyone on that post!! If you want to bingo, please just check my profile for the card. This saves me having to double tag ⬇
so-soMi ricordo poco anche questo libro. C‘erano alcune cose che mi avevano infastidito e lasciato l‘amaro in bocca ma ricordo una bella lettura. Innovativa
pickMcCann has a talent for deep character development and connecting disparate characters across space & time for sure. But, I loved Apeirogon, whereas I just liked this novel.
pickThis book describes the pain and promises of New York, a city “without history, that starts afresh every day”. On this particular day in 1974 when a man high-wire walks between the Twin Towers. Watched by thousands of people all over the city, from the Bronx to the Upper East Side whose lives will collide on this day and in the time to come. It‘s a fabulous pre 9/11 novel and I am so glad I finally read it.
(Photo: Zakynthos, Greece)
30 Book Recommendations in 30 Days —Day 17 “Let the Great World Spin,” by Colum McCann.
Um, OMG! This is a LOT of chocolate!!! Thank you @quietjenn for the book and the goodies.
🥰🎄💚❤️💚🎅📚 Happy #jokabokaflodswap !
pickReread this recently and defo got a whole different experience. One of the genius modern day writers that‘s for sure. Anyone else with me on the reread? Or just the first read?
pickI‘ve had this for years but finally read it with the #roll100 challenge. Told from the perspectives of a cast of characters, this book took me awhile to get into and I almost felt like bailing. I‘m glad that I persevered as the book really took shape once I started making connections between the characters and events. This book is an homage to NYC, the Twin Towers and obliquely to the events of 9/11. I can see why it won the National Book Award.
#BookCoverChallenge
Day 100.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.
#BookSpin and #DoubleSpin? Be gentle with me; it has taken me months to find @TheAromaofBooks explanation of all this. I “get” the spin concept but don‘t quite yet understand the #BookSpinBingo component and I am totally ready to embrace the idea that I have made it waaaaaay too complicated.
The books above are books I want to read SOON plus books that are for my #ClassicsClub50. 👇🏼
I have about another 150 pages left in the tagged book, which is also my #bookspin sooo, I‘d say this is my final July bingo card!
2 Bingos
14 books read
4 non-fictions!
What a great month! Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks I can‘t wait to see what my August picks are!
#doublespin
#bookspinbingo
Better late than never...cracking open my July #bookspin pick! This has been on my TBR for YEARS! Excited to check it off!
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July‘s #bookspin and #doublespin picks! Both were put on the list as prompts for challenges. Let The Great World Spin has been on my TBR for years, so I‘m excited to finally read it. And Cemetery Lake is the first in a mystery series set in New Zealand. If I love it, there‘s three more already waiting. Yay! 📚
Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks
pickWhile the characters are not original (sex workers are smart with a heart of gold! The priest who gives and gives and then breaks his vow).And there maybe too many of them. McCann has a talent for giving each character a distinct voice and does a remarkable job of weaving many stories together.
A good easy read.
June #Bookspin tomorrow, and I just completed bingo three!
Things worked out pretty well in May for my Bingo card!
Thanks @thearomaofbooks excited to tackle even more for June.
Morning reading for book club. Didn‘t leave myself a lot of time to read it but we‘ll see how far I get.
“the comfort he got from the hard, cold truth - the filth, the war, the poverty - was that life could be capable of small beauties.... Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.”
I started this a couple of days ago. So far I‘m finding it a bit of a struggle. I can‘t connect with the characters and it‘s maybe grittier than I can handle just now. The question is, do I push through. Is it worth persevering with? Has anyone here read this?
“Good days, they come around the oddest corners.”
#3Books ...#SetInNY
I LOVED the tagged book, other two not as much. They were both bookclub reads that did produce great discussion. And the NY setting was very much another character.
Today is always a somber day #WeRemember #911
Day 4 #7days7books that left an impression on me.
pickThe writing here was great and the author did a wonderful job of creating distinct voices for each of the characters. It also presents a picture of NYC in the early 1970s, shortly after Vietnam and when crime and poverty were high in the city. I did not, however, like the story structure which centered around Petit‘s walk between the twin towers. It didn‘t seem necessary and I‘m not sure what it added to the story. 3.5⭐️
So February‘s #bookspin was a fail for me, but I am not a quitter. (Okay, yes, I was technically a quitter in Feb. 🤪) Come at me, March!
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Baked my own snacks...cinnamon roll muffins #mrbook1inamillion #readathon #snacks
Some replacements for the #HighSchool and #College Lit Display! 😁
Have you read any of these?!
#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksDisplays
#LilithJuly #FeelSoHigh
Two ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reads for me, both with a link to the World Trade Center....
In McCann‘s story, it‘s August 1974 NYC and Philippe Petit‘s astounding tightrope walk between the towers is the backdrop to a beautiful portrait of the people and city below...
In Foer‘s novel, 9 year old Oskar has an adventure through 5 boroughs, as he comes to terms with the death of his father on 9/11....
I loved both of these so much.... 💕📚
pickThis is the second book by McCann I've read now, and it confirms for me how great he is at mixing fact and fiction in heartbreaking and inspiring ways (the first book was TransAtlantic, another great book). An incredibly well-written book that proves MCann's literary range.
The curtains are dark blue!
About 4, sleeping pattern is not good.
Don‘t really have one. Small amounts of dark.
4-5 weeks
Yes I would recommend
# humpdaypost
pickSomewhere between a pick and a so-so.
Loved New York setting, so brilliantly conveyed here, the writing was beautiful and on several occasions I did just stop to admire it.
Didn‘t like the POV changes - they were that long and then made to feel like short stories instead of part of the same story.
I would definitely read more of the author- but maybe a traditional novel not short stories.
pickA novel that reads like a collection of short stories. Set in NYC in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers, McCann delves into the lives of several people in the city below.
#tarottakeover This book is one of my favorites set in NYC in the 70s , about people struggling to make their way in the world.A balance element weaves its way through as a real world event Philippe Petits tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers is a time stamp touchstone in the story.1974 was the year of that event.Highly recommended.
📚 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
🖋 Ming Jin Lee or Ruth Emmie Lang (I‘ve only read one book by each, but I‘d definitely read more of their works)
🎥 Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels
🍽 Lemons 🍋
#manicmonday #letterl
I have been so out of the loop lately but I made to our biannual book sale last night. Not the biggest haul ever, but I think it was high in quality! New York was an accidental duplicate but for about 50 cents, I‘m not sweating it. And now I have the whole Neapolitan series!
My favorite book of 2009, the magic, the hardship , the confusion of New York in the 70s comes alive in this book & I #feelitstill .As a tightrope walker balances between the twin towers , the city dwellers of all types try to make sense of their lives .In a city like New York, you are often one chance encounter away from life changing experiences. #aprella
pick#freakyfriday book 15 from @zeljka and my final one for this awesome book recommendation challenge! Also book 6 for #readathon (my last for that as well, I'm going to bed!).
Really enjoyed this Columbia McCann series of interlocking stories centered around the 1974 World Trade Center tightrope walk by Philippe Petit. Highly recommend.
Thank you so much to @zeljka for the awesome recs and to @monalyisha @Clwojick for putting this together!! ❤️❤️
At my parent's house today which means I get to flip through some of my favorite books. Happy Easter!
"The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough"
#FierceFeb One of my favorite books about NYC set in the 1970s. We have a large cast of characters whose lives seem so distant, yet all will converge. An Irish monk, a Park Ave couple mourning their son who died in Vietnam, a grandmother who turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, a desperate artist and one tightrope walker balancing on a thin wire between the Twin Towers. #SheWorksHardForTheMoney
Braved snow over my knees to take a peek inside this Little Free Library! I didn't have a book to leave today, but my husband drives by it to go to work, so I will send him back with some to add 😁 #littlefreelibrary
#uncannyoctober #faceyourfears I‘m so afraid of heights, but I love this beautifully written National Book award winning novel about NYC and the people that live there....
It‘s set on the day in August 1974, that Philippe Petit walked between the twin towers on a tightrope 😱😱😱... it makes a great #bookpairing with the documentary movie ‘Man on Wire‘ about the same event. Both are brilliant...but the idea of that walk scares the heck out of me!
Some great books that take place (at least partially) in NYC.
#NeverForget @RealLifeReading
Day 9 #AugustGrrrl The inspiration for Summer to write the song #BadGirls came after one of her assistants was mistaken for a street prostitute by a police officer. This song was an ode to those who "work hard for the money" ?McCann's novel is set in 1970's NYC, where the lives of street walkers, priests, junkies, grieving mothers from the Upper East side, Queens & the Bronx unite one summer. Excellent novel ?#AllTimeFavorite ~ possibly?!?
#splashintosummerreads #setinthesummer
Set in the summer of 1974.
On the morning of August 7, 1974, a French high-wire artist named Philippe Petit completed eight tightrope walks between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. This event is what connects every character in this book as they wander through a broken-down New York City during the last summer of the Vietnam War. My husband and I both loved this!!
#cruelsummer
#junetunz
One of my favorite books ever, this story features Philippe Petit's walk between the WTC towers, a quintessential #newyorkminute #rockinmay
