06-21-2020, 03:43 PM | #28951 | |
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It's just historical fiction, set in ancient Egypt, around the time of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. But it doesn't grab my interest enough. And it isn't accurate enough (which is understandable, as the evidence is poor, but it gets some things wrong which are now know). [EDIT: I skimmed the rest of the story. I shouldn't have bothered. It's actually a fairly plain retelling of the exodus, with the author's own take on the history of some of the characters.] Next up: The Trials of Rumpole by John Mortimer. The second book of stories. Last edited by pdurrant; 06-23-2020 at 06:23 AM. |
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06-21-2020, 05:02 PM | #28952 |
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I just finished The Library Book by Susan Orlean, which I thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend.
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06-22-2020, 04:49 AM | #28953 |
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I was reading that too and love it, but The Great Influenza by John M. Barry came in on my NYPL hold, so I am reading that now. I will get back to Susan Orlean afterwards.
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06-22-2020, 02:04 PM | #28954 | |
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06-23-2020, 12:35 AM | #28955 |
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06-23-2020, 06:21 PM | #28956 |
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06-24-2020, 03:28 AM | #28957 | |
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Next up: another random choice: Fantasy Magazine #3. Part of a bundle of the magazine issue bought in June 2015. (Random choice was actually a later issue, but in the case of series, I'm always going to drop back to the next unread one.) |
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06-24-2020, 06:49 AM | #28958 |
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I am listening to the incomparable Jesse L. Martin read James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time.
I am reading the next Alan Hunter Gently novel on my Kobo - Gently Continental. I am about to start Henry James' The Turn of the Screw for A Public Space's continued reading club. We read War and Peace during the pandemic and the experience was amazing, so I am looking forward to carrying on with this. I cannot get the New Leaf book club selection (Percy Jackson) anywhere and I have bought too many books this month to justify shelling out for a book I don't really have any interest in. I'm a little allergic to YA and I have a lot of other things on my plate for July. |
06-24-2020, 07:05 AM | #28959 |
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A few recent reads for me.
The last in Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe series, Sharpe’s Devil, ended on a sour note. Sharpe must be in his dotage as he’s oblivious to clunky plot twists and Harper’s even worse off, an obese buffoon who serves only to interject “God save Ireland” and cross himself at intervals. Sharpe also falls into the trap of, “Yeah, a monster, but great guy on a personal level.” Better to have left it at Waterloo. That said, while I found the books in the series to be inconsistent, I did get a lot of entertainment overall from it. On the other hand, I tore through two excellent memoirs: Growing Seasons by Samuel D. Haynes, an account of his depression boyhood in the Midwest and, even better, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson and her emotionally and financially impoverished upbringing in the Midlands. Both coincidentally dealt with the absence of the birth mother and a stepmother/adoptive mother who did not fill the void. Books would save them both. Last edited by issybird; 06-24-2020 at 10:07 AM. |
06-24-2020, 08:02 AM | #28960 | |
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06-24-2020, 09:08 AM | #28961 |
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06-24-2020, 11:02 AM | #28962 |
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I've been reading out of my typical zone a bit lately. I read Glendon Swarthout's They Came to Cordura, and Hombre by Elmore Leonard. And by "out of my typical zone", I mean things I would normally watch but probably not read.
I preferred Swarthout's book over Leonard's, but the reverse would be true for the respective movies. |
06-24-2020, 01:36 PM | #28963 |
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My review of The One (#Selection 3), by Kiera Cass:-
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06-26-2020, 10:37 AM | #28964 |
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Reading Nightscape by Stephen R. George. Best 80p I ever spent.
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06-26-2020, 11:50 AM | #28965 |
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Just finished reading The Shooting at Chateau Rock, the latest Bruno, Chief of Police novel from Martin Walker. Delightful, as always. And the audio version, narrated by Robert Ian MacKenzie, was also superb.
Now, back to Tales of the City, by Armistead Maupin, which I am quite enjoying. |
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