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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: South Georgia
Device: Surface Pro 6 / Galaxy Tab A 8"
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I am reading The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It is one of the best Biographies I have read.
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Treachery of images ...
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Australia
Device: Sony 650, Kobo Glo, H2O, Aura One, Forma, Libra 2, Libra Colour
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Maisie is a PI and psychologist in 1930's London. Most enjoyable series - well written and sufficiently complex to immerse oneself. |
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#13398 |
Treachery of images ...
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Karma: 93720365
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Australia
Device: Sony 650, Kobo Glo, H2O, Aura One, Forma, Libra 2, Libra Colour
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Currently reading Madam Bovary, Gustave Flaubert.
The penmanship really is timeless. Free Kobo eread. |
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#13399 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Device: none
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I finished up Pervasive Information Architecture by by Andrea Resmini. A wonderful read in the subject area.
Now it's off to R. K. Narayan's The Guide. |
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Comic book artist
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Karma: 1760679
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Detroit
Device: Nook Glowlight, iPad, iPhone
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Currently Reading:
- Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins (42%) - Professor Moriarty: the Hound of the D'urbervilles by Kim Newman (38%) - 212 by Alafair Burke (33%) - The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (0%) - Moby-Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville (28%) [on hold] The Name of the Wind just arrived in my inbox from the library. |
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#13401 |
The Black-Hearted
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Latin America
Device: Nook Simple Touch
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Just started reading Empress, by Karen Miller. If the wonderfully divided opinions regarding the book are anything to go by, it'll be quite an interesting experience.
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#13402 |
whimsical
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: in darkness
Device: current: PPW 4. brick: K3 & Voyage.
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#13403 |
David
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Norway
Device: Kindle, E.Edge (sold), Irex Iliad (retired)
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#13404 |
Bah, humbug!
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA
Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.
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I'll finish it today and see the film of that play tomorrow night with my wife. We'll be seeing the original cast version—the film showing the play with reverse casting is Thursday night, but I can't see watching it twice just to see the actors playing Frankenstein and the monster reverse roles, although it could be interesting. Maybe if it ever returns I'll be ready for it.
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#13405 |
Bah, humbug!
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA
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Warrior Princess
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Device: PRS-505; PRS-350, PRS-T1, iPad, Aura HD
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I am reading something that I picked up on a whim and really isn't the sort of thing that I usually read. I am pleased to find that I am really enjoying it. It is a YA novel called "The List" about a bunch of high school girls and their experiences after being rated most beautiful or most ugly girl of their class. I should be done tonight. I am also reading "The House of Storms" by Ian MacLeod. He is a fantastic writer, I'm really surprised that he has not received more recognition. I warmly recommend his Light Ages series (of two books). I will definitely be reading more of his books. Next on my TBR list is Tea Obreht's "The Tiger's Wife". It is set in a imaginary and unspecified part of the Balkans, which is coincidentally the same sort of setting that I have written for the novel that I am working on. I'm really curious to see how the setting is handled in her book. I am really excited to read it. I hope that I haven't set my expectations too high. |
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#13407 |
Indie Advocate
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Device: Kindle
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I have two copies of the first book on my bookshelf. Thought it was great. However, I never got around to reading the second book.
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#13408 |
Indie Advocate
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Device: Kindle
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I finished Symphony of Blood by independent author Adam Pepper for my review site. Not bad.
I'm now reading The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. This was one of his lesser known works and quite a bit smaller at about 170 pages. Less than a third through and I'm finding it easy to read, but it's still a set up phase at the moment and I'm waiting for it to develop a bit further. |
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Lunatic
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Land of the Loonie
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#13410 |
Bah, humbug!
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA
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I just finished reading Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley. I thought I had read this story years ago, as I was familiar with its basic outline, but I don't recall the depth of the two central characters in her story. I must have heard an radio adaptation, or read the Classics Illustrated version, but had I read this, I would not have forgotten it. This is a marvelous exploration of human psychology.
Frankenstein did create a monster, but not in his laboratory. He created a monster when he turned his back upon his creation. The creature was the ultimate abandoned child, judged by all humanity solely upon his ghastly appearance. He could have been a poet and a benefactor to humanity, but the abuse he suffered at the hands of all he encountered sealed his fate. |
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