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Originally Posted by issybird
I’ve got the Chen novel and the Harrison book on tap, both in text. That’s it from my libraries and I’m not going to give Twain another try. If I’m still interested when done, I’ll go on to Marina Warner’s Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism. I’ve had this on my TBR in paper for years and years, but I’ll treat myself to the ebook if I get this far.
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The Warner book looks interesting, but none of my libraries has it, and I've sworn off Joan for a while anyway.
Now I'm on a true crime/fictionalized true crime kick, starting with Leopold and Loeb. I listened to Meyer Levin's novel
Compulsion, which I read many years ago--the audiobook is a mess, with lines repeated all through it, enough so that I complained to Audible (it's an Audible exclusive). Then I watched the film, which I hadn't seen in ages. I followed that with Simon Baatz's
For the Thrill of It (nonfiction), which is good but overlong, bogging down with some of the scientific/medical data. Now I'm listening to the new account by Greg King and Penny Wilson,
Nothing but the Night, which reinterprets some of the standard beliefs about the crime.
Then I'm planning to listen to
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (fiction) and
Closing Time (nonfiction); and
Lolita (fiction) and
The Real Lolita (nonfiction).