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Nothing But Blue Skies by Tom Holt | 9 | 47.37% | |
Fadeout by Joseph Hansen | 5 | 26.32% | |
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith | 8 | 42.11% | |
Passing by Nella Larsen | 11 | 57.89% | |
Rainbows End: A Novel with One Foot in the Future by Vernor Vinge | 7 | 36.84% | |
The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes | 4 | 21.05% | |
The Color Purple by Alice Walker | 4 | 21.05% | |
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiesen | 6 | 31.58% | |
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton | 6 | 31.58% | |
The Crimson Chalice by Victor Canning | 2 | 10.53% | |
Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan | 5 | 26.32% | |
Colours (Earth Incorporated #1) by Adrian J. Walker | 3 | 15.79% | |
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01-09-2018, 06:23 AM | #16 | |
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And in regard to book clubs, a good discussion is a pleasure in addition to that of reading and can redeem an otherwise bad experience, as with Sylvie and Bruno. So the combination of a good book and a good discussion is a joy. But as to the books for this month which I've read, I've read it too recently, don't think it has as much heft for a good discussion as other choices, didn't like it enough, or some combination. And it serves to make an easy cut! |
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01-09-2018, 06:52 AM | #17 |
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Super excited to see The Price of Salt in the running! I know it may be really far afield for some of our readers, but I am glad to see some folks willing to give it a shot.
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"Expecting Someone Taller" is one of my favourite books. I read it when it first came out and it's always a guaranteed comfort read for me. That said I lost track of his books after the first 3 or 4 and came back to them a few years ago. Seeing he'd been very prolific in the mean time I jumped in again more or less at random ("Falling Sideways") and was disappointed. I've since read "Blonde Bombshell" and enjoyed it, re-read "Flying Dutch" and it was also fun. So I'm left with a feeling that Tom Holt books may be good or may be terrible and hence if someone else is proposing one then I'm hopeful it's one of the better ones. If that makes sense. Quote:
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01-09-2018, 04:13 PM | #19 |
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I’m delighted to see that Passing is doing so well. I had to pass on some books where they aren’t available from the library and my book budget doesn’t stretch to purchasing them.
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Columbo has a wife. He's not gay.
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I was hoping that Father Brown would do better. But as it is I don't think it will win. Rainbow's End should also be doing better as it's a really good book.
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Aside from chuckling to myself as I added Columbo to the list (and refraining from adding Macmillan or his wife), my point really was that many book detectives have been essentially asexual. So having a book blurb state that the detective is homosexual or heterosexual seemed to imply that the detective's sexuality was relevant to the story. If Dave Brandstetter had been described as flamboyantly homosexual, and given the book is set in the 70s, then that might have given the impression of Boy George playing PI. But the Amazon blurb describes him as "contentedly gay", which leaves me at a bit of a loss.
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Well, I just bought Passing from AmazonUK, and got the WhisperSync version from Audible. Just in time for a long road trip to visit my wife's elderly aunt. A good time to get a head start on reading next month's book.
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