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I've started Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire. It's the 3rd book in the Wayward Children series. Quote:
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08-26-2023, 02:21 AM | #31472 |
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Not mentioned in this long thread is The Fantastic Adventures of Lefty Feep, by Robert Bloch. The author of Psycho might not be remembered for his humor. Lefty is a con artist and irreverent character. The book sells for under $2 on Kobo.com and is worth buying just to convert to AZW to read on a Kindle device. In the synopsis of the book on Kobo, Lefty is compared to an adult version of Bart Simpson. Of course, Bart never aged two decades in one day, or did all the shady things that Lefty has concocted.
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08-26-2023, 03:55 AM | #31473 | |
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Next I read the first two of Simon Brett's Mrs Pargeter series. Fun. And now the first volume of Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy. |
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08-26-2023, 07:03 PM | #31474 |
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I have read trash for the past three months. I need a major reset come Labor Day.
Junk reading in the summer is typical for me, but it's never persisted so long and with so little to counterbalance it. I'm hopeful I can retrieve those marbles that are skittering all over! Topic: I'm listening to the longest of all Trollope novels, The Way We Live Now, my 22nd Trollope novel. Also reading They Were Divided by Miklós Bánffy, the last of his Transylvania Trilogy. Not vampires. |
08-26-2023, 08:36 PM | #31475 | |
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I have just started Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer winner Olive Kitteridge. I have some priorities for the fall, very little of which is junk. |
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08-26-2023, 09:00 PM | #31476 | ||
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08-27-2023, 12:04 PM | #31477 |
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Amar
Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, its beyond golden man!! Each and every syllable echoes of love and the grief of separation.
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08-28-2023, 02:59 AM | #31478 |
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Am currently reading The House of Door by Tan Twan Eng, really good so far.
Recent reads include the disappointing The Post Office Girl by Stephen Zweig, the wonderful Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto and the rather poignant Dalva By Jim Harrison |
08-28-2023, 07:17 AM | #31479 | |
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If you're really interested in Clarissa, I'll set up a buddy read on StoryGraph The end of summer here makes me deliriously happy. I feel like I can settle back in with the students and get some real intellectual work done. It helps that this year I have been tasked with supervising an entirely new to me area of law, so I am doing a lot of self-study. Gets me in the mindset, as it were. |
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08-28-2023, 10:13 AM | #31480 |
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08-28-2023, 12:12 PM | #31481 |
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It's very similar to a thread here except that it blocks comments that from people further ahead than you to prevent spoilers. I'm also happy just to open a thread here though.
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08-29-2023, 11:16 AM | #31482 |
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08-29-2023, 09:10 PM | #31483 |
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08-30-2023, 06:23 AM | #31484 |
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I just finished Geraldine Brooks’ book ‘Horse’. A marvelous historical fiction novel about a Kentucky thoroughbred named Lexington (1850s-70s) and the slave boy who pretty much raised him and cared for him his whole life. It’s also a story of slavery and modern racism. The book jumps to present time with the story of a Nigerian art history grad student at Georgetown who is researching a painting of Lexington found in a trash pile. A meticulously researched book. Many of the characters and Lexington were real. Lexington may have been the greatest ever, who eventually sired many champions as well. It was a wonderful book.
I need a gap filler. Ken Follet’s 5th Kingsbridge novel comes out in about 1 month. Horse was one of those novels that make you go wow and I find it hard to decide what to read after that. I’m still slowly reading ‘The Road to Reality, A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe’ by Roger Penrose. I may just pick up the pace with that vs start something else right now. |
08-30-2023, 11:29 AM | #31485 | |
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I'm looking forward to this; I think it's the kick in the ass nudge I needed to tackle the book. Back in my salad days, those who read it read an abridged version and that's against my religion. |
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