09-09-2017, 11:37 PM | #601 |
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I ultimately went with Happy Dreams. I would have picked Mad City, but saw the reviews mentioning how badly written it was. I looked at a sample, and wow, they aren't kidding. There's run-on sentences galore, as well as lots of extraneous words. It's painful to read even a couple of paragraphs. Happy Dreams will at least be interesting for a view of what life is like in China and won't cause headaches from the prose.
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09-30-2017, 12:44 AM | #602 |
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Just a reminder that this will probably be the last day to pick up one of this month's selections, if you haven't already.
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10-04-2017, 12:01 PM | #603 |
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This month's Kindle First selections are out, they are:
A Tangled Mercy: A Novel by Joy Jordan-Lake [Genre: Book Club Fiction] Quote:
The Extraditionist (A Benn Bluestone Thriller Book 1) by Todd Merer [Genre: Legal Thriller] Quote:
The Unremembered Girl: A Novel by Eliza Maxwell [Genre: Suspense] Quote:
Mark of Fire (The Endarian Prophecy Book 1) by Richard Phillips [Genre: Fantasy] Quote:
The Honest Spy by Andreas Kollender (Author), Steve Anderson (Translator) [Genre: Historical Fiction] Quote:
The House by the River by Lena Manta (Author), Gail Holst-Warhaft (Translator) [Genre: Family Drama] Quote:
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10-06-2017, 05:38 AM | #605 |
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Please post links for Amazon in AU, CA, & UK. They all deserve to have links to Kindle first.
P.S. If I've missed any other Amazon links that should be there, please add them too. |
10-06-2017, 07:27 AM | #606 | |
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10-06-2017, 07:40 AM | #607 |
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Not sure which one I will go for this month. Based on what has been posted I'm not particularly attracted to any of them at this stage. I'll have to take a closer look.
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10-06-2017, 10:07 AM | #608 |
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My problem is, I'm attracted to all of them! I selected "The Honest Spy", since I like fictionalized true stories, and stories about WWII, of which I am particularly vulnerable to these days.
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10-06-2017, 10:11 AM | #609 | |
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The reverse is true for posters from other countries as well. As far as I'm concerned, please feel free to post your local links only, I'm a big boy now, and I can find the book if it sounds interesting. |
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10-06-2017, 11:23 AM | #610 |
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My problem is, I'm NOT attracted to ANY of them! But I'm likewise leaning toward The Honest Spy, as I also favor WWII fiction.
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10-06-2017, 03:21 PM | #611 |
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Thanks Manabi !
I also went with the WW2 The Honest Spy. |
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I went with The Honest Spy myself. I thought about Mark of Fire, but it sounded like a fairly generic fantasy/hero's journey story, and I really didn't want to bother with that across multiple books. The Honest Spy sounds quite interesting, I'd never heard of Fritz Kolbe before!
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I've chosen The Unremembered Girl.
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10-12-2017, 09:58 PM | #615 |
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