06-26-2020, 11:50 AM | #28966 |
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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. |
06-26-2020, 12:06 PM | #28967 |
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I'm currently reading Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan for the New Leaf book club.
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06-26-2020, 01:21 PM | #28968 | |
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06-26-2020, 02:46 PM | #28969 | |
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Later this summer, I'll likely read the eBook. |
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06-26-2020, 02:56 PM | #28970 |
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Yes I meant Bruno. We are going to listen to the Audible version in August when my wife is in the hospital recovering from a scheduled surgery.
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06-26-2020, 08:07 PM | #28971 |
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I just finished Dr. Bonnie Henry's Soap and Water & Common Sense. Superb. Easily understood, scientifically rigorous, and written by someone who has been involved in the fight against Ebola, SARS and Polio. Highly recommended.
While this book was written before the current pandemic, Dr. Henry, as the B.C. Provincial Health Officer, has been leading the fight here in British Columbia against Covid-19. And we are very, very, very fortunate that she has, and that the Provincial government has let her. If you read this book, I promise you will wash your hands more often, and more thoroughly. And you could well save your life and the lives of those close to you. |
06-27-2020, 02:55 PM | #28972 |
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My review of By Your Side, by Kasie West:-
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06-27-2020, 04:35 PM | #28973 | |
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"Black Eyed Moon" by Darby Harn was good but sad "Salt Wine" by Peter S. Beagle was brilliant (but a bit sad) "Watch Dog" by Hannah Wolf Brown was OK but sad "Susano's Comb" by Jeannette Westwood was OK but sad. "The Dawn Walker" by Marly Youmans I didn't really get, but sad. "Boy On A Bicycle" by M. Thomas was just sad. "There is no Rice Pudding In the Sea" by Anna Tambour was quite weird but quite good. "The Green House" by Sandra McDonald was OK. And with a hopeful ending. "Trees, Like Candles, Dripping Wax" by Resa Nelson was good. And not sad. "Fortunate Brave" by Leslie Claire Walker was weird and too short to make sense. "Hungry Ghosts" by M. E. Palmer I didn't like, and was too long, and sad. The ratio of stories I enjoyed to one I didn't enjoy or actively disliked wasn't really high enough. 3/5 overall at best. It may be some time before I read #4. I see I rated #1 and #2 as 3/5 as well. If the next is just so-so, I think I might abandon the whole lot. Next up: another random choice: The Prince Commands: Being Sundry Adventures of Michael Karl, Sometime Crown Prince & Pretender to the Thrown of Morvania by Andre Norton. |
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06-28-2020, 02:29 PM | #28974 |
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"Murderbot" series by Martha Wells - reads like a storyboard for a film, but such good fun!
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06-29-2020, 06:03 AM | #28975 | |
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Next up: Rumpole's Return by John Mortimer. The third book in "The First Rumpole Omnibus" |
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06-29-2020, 02:37 PM | #28976 |
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Murder with Reservations (Dead-End Job Mystery, #6) by Elaine Viets:-
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06-29-2020, 06:32 PM | #28977 | |
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Partly due to encountering the author on Facebook, I’ve pulled Camille Bacon-Smith’s Daemon Eyes and A Legacy of Daemons (the complete series) off of my stack and started in on the first one. The three main characters (two demons and one’s half-human son) are alien enough that I’m having trouble sinking my teeth into the book for a good chew, but the short chapters mean that I can at least make progress with just a few minutes here and there. After that, I’ve lined Tom Holt’s Only Human up for a reread, because his considerably more recent The Management Style of the Supreme Beings also features Kevin Christ, Dad, Jay, and Uncle Ghost, and that’s next on the list. Following those… hard to say. I finally got a deal on two “K.J. Parker” Holt books, as well as the second of Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy, and of course there’s the reconstructed “new” Heinlein book… |
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06-30-2020, 02:37 AM | #28978 | |
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Next up: Another random pick, Baen Free Stories 2011. A collection of short stories and srticles that appeared on Baen's web site in 2011. |
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06-30-2020, 07:35 PM | #28979 | |
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As June was almost entirely given over to completing Nalini Singh's Guild Hunter series, my last book read for the month was Angels' Flight, a collection of 4 novellas in that world of angels, vampires, and mortals. I enjoyed all of them to varying degrees, and I'm now all set for the next book coming out later this year. My next nonfiction lined up is Deep Work (by Cal Newport); my friend and I committed to reading this ages ago and she finally read it recently so I'm now due. Next fiction is Tonight You're Dead (by Viveca Sten); I liked the series (Sandhamn Murders) but stopped it a while back to read other stuff, and I'm now ready to revisit. |
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07-01-2020, 10:18 AM | #28980 | |
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I started Rebecca Makai's The Great Believers, a fictional account of the AIDS epidemic in Chicago in the 1980s. I don't know anyone my age or older who is a member of the LGBT community and not in some way touched by AIDS. Even now, I cannot give blood due to some of the relief work I have done. I have had this on the back burner of my TBR since it came out, and pride month seemed a good time to read it. I have not been disappointed. I will still be starting Henry James' The Turn of the Screw for A Public Space's continued reading club on July 9th. At 15ish pages a day, I plan to make that my coffee reading in the mornings so that I can participate in the discussions all day long. |
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