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11-18-2012, 09:00 PM | #14658 | ||
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Anyway - pulp western over. Next up is a novella for my review blog. This one is called The Speed of Winter by B. Morris Allen. Any story that starts with the following lines is going to grab my attention: Quote:
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11-18-2012, 09:03 PM | #14659 | |
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11-19-2012, 06:23 AM | #14660 | |
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Actually I really enjoyed it as a novella. It was well written and - well - it crushed all hope you could possibly have. People who only like happy endings need not apply. My next read is an anthology by Robert Dunbar called Martyrs & Monsters. This author seems to be part of a sub-genre of horror called "literary horror" and I've been meaning to try me some. I love horror and I quite often like literary - so what could be better than joining the two? |
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11-19-2012, 10:01 AM | #14661 |
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Finished The Camel Club series by David Baldacci and started on The Last Man by Vince Flynn
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11-19-2012, 10:34 PM | #14662 |
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The other day whilst in my local library I just happened to pick up a display book in the history section, and now I've started a mini project which I'll intersperse with fiction books if I feel like something lighter.
The book, Mirage, Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt, Burleigh Nina is, as the title suggests, about Napoleon's adventures/occupation of Egypt from 1798, and is supposed to focus on the Savants who accompanied Napoleon for the purpose of documenting Egypt from the scientific viewpoint. I don't recommend this book - it doesn't meet it's expectations, doesn't particularly focus on the work of the Scientists, and at times appears to report gossip as opposed to fact. However - it's started me off on a mini reading project of Napoleon's trip. To that end I've now acquired: Bonapart in Egypt, J Christopher Herald (first published 1962) At Aboukir and Acre, GA Henty (1899) Napoleon's Egypt, Juan Cole (2007) And am still sussing out Al-Jabarti's Chronicle of the French Occupation 1798. Al-Jabarti was an eye witness and his account will provide the Cairene's perspective. So .... as I was saying I just happened to be walking past the history section of my local library when ......... |
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Dreams thank you for those links!!
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11-20-2012, 07:03 AM | #14665 | |
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11-20-2012, 02:29 PM | #14666 | |
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11-20-2012, 02:54 PM | #14667 |
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My reading glasses were broken and I'm using some cheap ones from the drug store that allow me to physically read but not that comfortably, so stuff is on hold. But I am going to start Second Shift by Hugh Howey when my new glasses come in! (Maybe tomorrow but they said the holiday might delay things.)
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Miles, especially the early Miles, is such a wonderful, raving, hyper-active lunatic that you can't possibly not laugh out loud at him. And cry with him too. |
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11-20-2012, 04:23 PM | #14670 | |
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Edit: And that was quick...finished on the way home from work. Now for something completely different, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, compiled by Nate the great. Last edited by Dazrin; 11-20-2012 at 09:33 PM. |
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