On the night table: Ryan Boldt

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Ryan Boldt

Singer/guitarist, The Deep Dark Woods

What I’m reading right now is a very depressing novel called Babi Yar, by A. (Anatoly) Kuznetzov, the story of the massacre in Ukraine in 1941, when the Germans came into what was then the Soviet Union. It’s really good, but very insane.

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Ryan Boldt

I read a lot of classics. I just finished Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. The dialogue is a little weird, but then it gets so good. The ending is just … wow. I read a lot of history, or historical novels — war novels, that sort of thing. Lots of travel writing, too. Eric Newby was a travel writer from the 1940s and ’50s; I’ve been reading a lot of his stuff. He did books on climbing the mountains of Afghanistan, he fought in the war for the British in Italy … His books are amazing. Or people like Bill Bryson, I love all that stuff — every now and then I have to go away from the war stuff to a funny book.

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Singer/guitarist, The Deep Dark Woods

What I’m reading right now is a very depressing novel called Babi Yar, by A. (Anatoly) Kuznetzov, the story of the massacre in Ukraine in 1941, when the Germans came into what was then the Soviet Union. It’s really good, but very insane.

I read a lot of classics. I just finished Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. The dialogue is a little weird, but then it gets so good. The ending is just … wow. I read a lot of history, or historical novels — war novels, that sort of thing. Lots of travel writing, too. Eric Newby was a travel writer from the 1940s and ’50s; I’ve been reading a lot of his stuff. He did books on climbing the mountains of Afghanistan, he fought in the war for the British in Italy … His books are amazing. Or people like Bill Bryson, I love all that stuff — every now and then I have to go away from the war stuff to a funny book.

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