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Minor Deity |
Anything to recommend? Apart from Mary Anna’s excellent work, which goes without saying everyone should read. I am just finishing The Overstory, which I find original and amazing.  https://images-na.ssl-images-a...BO1,204,203,200_.jpg Jf
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Aw, thanks. That's really sweet!
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| Minor Deity |
Just packed up my complete collection of your work to send to my sister, who loved Artifacts, which I gave her for Christmas. Jf
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana  |
I just finished the second book of the "Old Filth" trilogy by Jane Gardham. I highly recommend the first book. The second wasn't quite as breathtakingly good as the first, but still really satisfying. I'm now on the first page of "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov. I started it when I had pneumonia a couple of years ago but it is a really long book and i had to return it to the library before I got very far. This time I bought my own copy. Alongside that I'm reading "Dressage Formula" by Erik Herberman, who is my teacher's teacher. I had tried to read it 3 years ago and couldn't make heads or tails of it. Now, every sentence is like an arrow in my heart.
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The Kingdom-Jo Nesbo
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Minor Deity |
Just finished "Voyage of Mercy" by Stephen Puleo about the first American humanitarian aid mission that sent a war ship filled with food to aid Ireland during the potato famine. One of those lost stories of history.  Interestingly, the politics of the time were interesting. I felt I could just plug in modern day names and the story would be oh so similar to today. 
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I’m on my third book by Bill Bryson and I’ve enjoyed every one.
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
Reading "the Guns of August," something I never read before. Amazing writing. | |||
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I have a funny story about that book. I read it in the late 90s. At one point I was in O’Hare heading back to NYC standing in the United Airlines checkin line. I’m holding the book. The woman in front of me is also holding the book, same edition with a relatively bright cover. What are the odds? It’s not like this was the latest bestselling paperback or something.
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I’m reading Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. A re-read from the the early 90s. It is fascinating and detailed. Even more than I remember.
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Thank you all. Got Kindle samples of the books you are reading. Trying to buy books I will finish.
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I need to be honest, I thought that book was overrated. I think Churchill does a much better job describing the events leading up to the war in the opening chapters of his WWI memoir, even the one volume abridged version. I also think her personal distaste for Germans comes out in a rather unprofessional way. I did like her book 'The Zimmerman Telegram' from the same era. It's about German efforts to get Mexico to try to win back the territory taken by us in the 19th century, essentially to keep us out of the European war.
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Foregoing Vacation to Post |
Read “The Wanting Seed” by Anthony Burgess, the same author of “A Clockwork Orange”. It's a fictional novel with a disturbing story. It’s a look at a future dystopian world in which world overpopulation causes famine, artificial food, and wars without enemies. I don’t want to say too much and be a spoiler. The book was easy to pick up and hard to put down. Don't read it if you're squeamish. | |||
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I'm currently reading "The Summer of 1787" by David O. Stewart about the writing of the US Constitution. It's chattier than I expected - lots of personal details about the founders and their interactions. I recently finished "Angel in the Whirlwind" ("The Triumph of the American Revolution"), which was ok, and planning to read next "Ratification" by Pauline Maier alongside "The Federalist Papers." This is all part of my "retirement plan" to learn things I should have learned in high school and college. | |||
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana |
So what did you think of the book?
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