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Join Date: Jun 2010
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My next read will be a Star Trek. My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane. |
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ottawa Canada
Device: Sony PRS-T3, Galaxy (Aldiko, Kobo app)
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Sunshine Coast, BC
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Finished Mouse and Dragon, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. This is the direct sequel to Scout's Progress in the Liaden Universe. Next up, Conflict of Honors. |
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Location: South Africa
Device: Kobo Aura HD, Aura ONE
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Right now, I am reading Bom Boy by Yewande Omotoso.
Loving it so far. It is a beautifully crafted story told in three time periods, roughly ten years apart each, about a young man living in Cape Town - it is told from his perspective, and that of his biological parents, and adoptive parents. The multiple narrators has an interesting effect in that the main character, Leke, feels distant from the reader, which is exactly how he feels from everyone else around him - distant, isolated and lonely. Highly recommended. |
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Norfolk, England
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Next: from one of my newest purchases to my oldest unread, bought in October 2004, The Cybernetic Brains by Raymond F. Jones. |
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Location: Near Cacti, NM
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I finished reading Four: The Traitor: A Divergent Story and now I'm going to watch the film Divergent!
I might read the series again, now that I have more insight as to what's going on. I think Veronica Roth, the author, was writing about current political events and events that might occur in the future... Writers often do so. *pensive* Anyway, that's my take on the series. 'Hope everyone's enjoying the written word! ![]() |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: UK
Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6
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Just finished "At Bertram's Hotel", by Agatha Christie, which was originally published in 1965.
Jane Marple, the elderly amateur sleuth, takes a holiday at London's Bertram's Hotel, a place of which she has fond memories from her youth. The establishment has retained a mixed Edwardian and Victorian atmosphere, from its prim staff to its elderly patrons. In its tearoom Miss Marple encounters a wartime friend, Lady Selena Hazy, who reveals that she frequently thinks that she recognises people in the hotel only for them to turn out to be complete strangers. Miss Marple is intrigued by her fellow guests, who include the famous adventuress Bess Sedgwick, 20-year-old Elvira Blake and her legal guardian Colonel Luscombe, and a forgetful clergyman, Canon Pennyfather. Miss Marple's curiosity about the hotel is interspersed with a back-story about a Scotland Yard investigation into a series of daring robberies from banks, mail trains, etc. (and naturally the two turn out to be connected!) An excellent book: one of the best of the later Christies, to my mind. Interesting to note that Christie was 75 when she completed this book: the same age as Miss Marple herself is depicted in the book. Bertram's hotel is based (not the criminal elements of it, obviously!) on the real "Brown's" hotel in London. Very highly recommended. |
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Location: Mauritius
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I just finished reading and reviewing Dead Witch Walking and I liked it a lot, and it would have got 5 stars with a better conclusion.
Now I'm going to read, starting tomorrow, the classic that Little Women is. I've never read it so far, as I don't know if an abridged version half read while I was a toddler counts. I seem to remember that there was a lot of sadness in the book. I'm quite eager to read it, as there are no book like it nowadays. If there are, then I'd like to get examples. |
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Location: UK
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For the last 18 months or so I've been reading all Christie's (non-Romance) books in publication order (interspersed with other reading, of course). It's been interesting to see how her writing changed over the course of the decades. Approaching the end of the road, now: 67 books read, 14 to go.
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Location: UK
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Location: UK
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The 14 to go doesn't include either the autobiography or "Come, Tell Me How You Live", her diary of her travels with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan. I'm particularly looking forward to reading that, having a great interest in that field myself. |
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Canada
Device: Kobo Clara BW, Kindle Paperwhite (11th Gen)
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I finished The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison. I thought it was excellent! I will get to The Witch With No Name at some point to finish the series.
I'm now reading Mercy by B.J. Daniels. It is a western romantic suspense novel published by Harlequin. I got into these books after I read a freebie and have now read 2 of her series. They are good books! Nice hunky cowboys on the covers too! ![]() Last edited by PurpleStar; 09-25-2014 at 04:30 PM. |
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