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08-10-2020, 11:26 AM | #29072 | |
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Next up, another random book choice, Carnivores of Light and Darkness by Alan Dean Foster. Bought way back in December 2009 as part of an omnibus. (I'm expanding my omnibuses back into their individual volumes for reading.) |
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08-12-2020, 12:14 PM | #29073 |
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My 5 star review of Written in Blood (Robert Hunter, #11), by Chris Carter:-
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08-13-2020, 12:58 AM | #29074 | |
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Next up: Cabal by Michael Dibden. The third in his Aurelio Zen series. The first was OK, the second was better. Hopefully this one will be better still. (Yes, another random pick from my unread pile, thanks to calibre.) |
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08-13-2020, 04:59 AM | #29075 |
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Nearly halfway through Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson, an interesting look at Polynesia and its peoples.
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08-13-2020, 08:28 AM | #29076 |
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Just started 'The Bitch," by Gil Brewer.
Right up my alley: Hard-boiled and 'noir-ish'. Last edited by Dr. Drib; 08-13-2020 at 08:43 AM. |
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An interesting quirk from Sea People - the author consistently refers to her husband as "Seven", a rather exotic name in English. Given that he's Māori and two of their three kids have very Māori names, it seems likely she's "exoticized" his name by translating "Whitu", which NZ friends tell me is quite common as a personal name.
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08-13-2020, 11:22 AM | #29078 | |
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Earlier this year, I read Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers about the AIDS epidemic in the 80s. Through a secondary plot, she drew a great parallel to the men that were lost in the AIDS crisis to the men lost in World War I. That, coupled with the current pandemic had me returning to stories of World War I. As such, I am currently immersed in Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth.
As college students flood back into my town, I cannot help but see the first lines of Brittain's book ringing true again to a generation of young people having their lives interrupted by a global health crisis: Quote:
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08-14-2020, 01:11 AM | #29079 |
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I finished The End of October by Lawrence Wright early this morning before I went to sleep. It's about a fictitious pandemic. The author did his research and some of what he wrote I recognized from having read The Great Influenza by John M. Barry. Lawrence Wright is known for his non-fiction. I'd read The Looming Tower many years back.
I think I'm going to read next The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson that I've had since the year it came out (2010, I think). She has a new book that looks very good, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. I heard two good interviews with her today on podcast with Preet Bahrara and on TV tonight with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC. |
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Now reading Overkill by Vanda Symon, the first of three in the series, and the first of two crime series set in NZ - this one in the 21st century, next up one set in the 19th. I think so far the only NZ fiction I've read is Ngaio Marsh, who barely mentioned her homeland.
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08-15-2020, 10:35 AM | #29081 | |
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08-15-2020, 10:46 AM | #29083 |
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I find myself drawn more and more to The Witcher. I tend to wait until new stuff settles down before I catch up with it.
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08-16-2020, 01:16 AM | #29084 | |
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Next up: Another random pick: Essays in Humanism by Albert Einstein. |
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08-18-2020, 03:54 AM | #29085 | |
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Next up: Redemolished by Alfred Bester. Part of a Humble Bundle I bought way back in April 2014. |
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