DID comic book accounts?
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DID comic book accounts?
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Daredevil, The Phantom and Batman Yeah!
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
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Just finished The Trail by Ray Anderson, a novel about the Appalachian Trail. The trail is being terrorized by a serial killer. A vet have difficulty with his past is walking the trail to put his life in order. He confronts the killer how his confrontation with the killer heals his past.
InCoWri 2018, Letter Writers Alliance Member, Postable link: www.postable.com/bradharris, postcrossing
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As You like It - Shakespeare
Reading this in preparation (again) for watching the BBC tele version, as part of their "Shakespeare Plays", produced in the early 70's/80's. It can be very difficult for this non-British speaker to decipher some of the traditionally fast cadenced Elizabethan dialogue as used in these plays. This one btw, features a young Hellen Mirren as Orlando.
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The Life of Mohammed--The Sira by Bill Warner. Really, the best place to start, as opposed to the Koran, if you want to understand Islam. Well articulated and the author goes to great lengths to make himself understood by the general reader.
bluesea (April 17th, 2016)
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I love the BBC series The Hollow Crown, but made sure to read the plays first the better to follow them.Originally Posted by bluesea
bluesea (April 17th, 2016)
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I just finished The House at Sea's End by Elly Griffiths (I have really come to like this mystery series). I also just finished this evening Keep Moving by Dick van Dyke and Todd Gold.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
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I just finished On Immunity by by Eula Biss. Decently written, but I've been reading way too many "thoughts and worries of privileged white women books" (Yes Please!, Eat Pray Love & On Immunity) -- time to diversify some!
Pens and Perspective for all hands, great and small (including pen reviews by the small handed!)
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Just began Robert Greene's The 33 Strategies of War. Commentaries based on fairly extensive bits of first hand accounts from both better and lesser known historical battles.
Hoping to find my personal favorite battle, The Fall of Acre, in it.
Is it weird to have a favorite battle?
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
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I've read a couple of books by Jim Thompson (Pop. 1280 and Bad Boy and a few by Charlie Huston (Caught Stealing, A Dangerous Man, Already Dead) -- books that I checked out from the library. Before those were a couple by Brad Warner (Hardcore Zen and Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate), also from the library. Those were fast reads and fun -- and, you know, enlightening, a couple of them, in a way. My Kindle spontaneously broke itself sometime last year, and I haven't replaced it yet.
One book that'd been in my collection for ten years that I kept the last time I moved and finally read was Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. Incredible novel -- layers upon layers, more of an experience, a journey, than simple reading (such as with Charlie Huston's novels). (Speaking of Huston, I didn't realize that Caught Stealing was the first of a trilogy, Already Dead the third. So I haven't read the second, Six Bad Things.)
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I enjoy the "Jack Reacher" books. A few years ago, I probably romanticized the idea of someone who could travel so lightly and so often -- he doesn't stay in one place for longer than three days (I think the last one I read mentioned that detail) -- and now that sounds exhausting. Haha. Still... fascinating.
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I've been on a Stephen King kick lately. I recently completed "11/22/63" and am currently reading "The Green Mile". Both excellent reads.
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I love what King did with 11/22/63. Of course, being the conspiracy nut that I am, that "Lone Gunman Theory" has to go !
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
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I also loved 11/22/63. It was one of those rare books that my entire book club enjoyed. I especially loved the tie-in to "It."
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Moby Dick, Melville.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
The Alexandria Affair by Ashley Gardner
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
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I just finished "Fortune's Favourites" - book 3 in the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough. I have devoured the first three books and will begin the next after a brief respite. If you are a fan of things Roman I highly recommend these books.
Lady Onogaro (June 24th, 2016), VertOlive (July 9th, 2016)
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I like Lindsay Davis' Flavia Albia series. I'm looking forward to the newest one.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
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The Mathematician's Shiva by S. Rojstaczer. A National Jewish Book Award for debut novel.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
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