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    Hiroshima Boy by Naomi Hirahara. (The last book in her Mas Arai series, she says.) I keep hoping not, but Mas is 84 now. Maybe he'll retire from solving mysteries.
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    Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey. I've been on a sci-fi kick lately. Really enjoyed this one and already picked up book two of the series from my library.

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    Just started Pynchon's Against The Day. I'll be busy for a while.

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    Texas, by James Michener (!)
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    I just finished The Darkening Age - The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, by Catherine Nixey. It's not a polemic against Christianity, as one might infer from the title. It just describes the clash between Christian and pre-Christian attitudes and values, and the results.

    I'd had this preordered on Kindle since reading a review sometime last year, and it just showed up a few days ago.
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    After Dark by Haruki Murakami. Intricately crafted modern surrealism.
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    Read The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook. Despite it's being derivative of True Grit (only with a panther), I loved it.
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    Joan of Arc by historian Régine Pernoud.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sgtstretch View Post
    Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey. I've been on a sci-fi kick lately. Really enjoyed this one and already picked up book two of the series from my library.
    That's my most recent too. A friend recommended both the TV series and book. I'm on the fence about #2 and reading other stuff in the meantime.

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    Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow.

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    Life of Edward Marshall Hall

    Before that Elizabeth First, a study in power and intellect.

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    Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey. I first read it in my twenties and I thought it was time to read it again. Glad I did! Wonderful writing and very believable characterisation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deb View Post
    Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey. I first read it in my twenties and I thought it was time to read it again. Glad I did! Wonderful writing and very believable characterisation.
    Yes time I read it again; it was my constant companion in France - together with Evelyn Waugh's short stories.

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    If you fancy challenge, though i don't really recommend it, try reading Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man...

    hard work right from the off, disregarding it's many contentious and ill-founded ideas, it suffers horribly from the writer's overly verbose and pretentious style; would no doubt have benefitted from being written in the author's own first language and then translated.

    Interestingly though, Marcuse does seem to anticipate the social impact of Facebook...

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    @SIR: for some reason the phrase "damned by faint praise" comes to mind...

    My latest was the Comey book. I'm currently reading the latest book in Baldacci's memory man series. I'm in the middle of several books, as is typical for me...

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    Quote Originally Posted by azkid View Post
    the phrase "damned by faint praise" comes to mind...
    Considered essential reading by the 'New Left', it was very well recieved in it's time, but is now regarded as well below par - to the point of being one of the most significant falls from significance in the modern era, if not ever.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sgtstretch View Post
    Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey. I've been on a sci-fi kick lately. Really enjoyed this one and already picked up book two of the series from my library.
    I just pulled a Kindle free sample of this. Doesn't the writer have something to do with George RR Martin? I hope the plot doesn't unravel before the series ends!!
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    Venomous by Christie Wilcox. Non-fiction discussion of the fascinating array and effects of venoms and the creatures that wield them.

    I found this SO rivetting that, were I decades younger, I'd pursue this as a doctorate topic in my working field of toxicology.
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    Finished The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce. Read Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. Immediately went back to the library for the other two in the series. Tor has some great science fiction coming out. I also liked Passing Strange by Ellen Klarges and A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sgtstretch View Post
    Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey. I've been on a sci-fi kick lately. Really enjoyed this one and already picked up book two of the series from my library.
    Thanks, Phil. After buying it yesterday I'm mostly through it now. It's been a fun read!
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