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    Book one of the Livia Lone trilogy, eponomously named Livia Lone by Barry Eisler.

    A Thai girl who escaped the sex trafficking trade grows up to be a Detective who is driven to avenge and rescue the children entangled in that world as she wrestles with her own demons.
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    Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within by Taylor Marshall.
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    Truman by David McCullough

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    The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester on the first compilation of the English Oxford Dictionary.

    Fascinating!
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    *The Book of Gomorrah* - very fine translation and bio of St. Peter Damian by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman.

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    Finished Grey Sister this afternoon, written by Mark Lawrence. Stopped by our small brick and mortar bookstore in town and placed an order for Holy Sister, which is Book 3 of the Trilogy.
    Bucket list - walk the Camino de Santiago again

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    Finished Tana French's The Witch Elm.
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    Robert Jackson Bennett - American Elsewhere

    He's one of the authors I'll get everything by. I got halfway through this and had no idea of what was going to happen in the rest of the book (minus one very high-level theme, but y'know, no details). His series (The Divine Cities, The Founders) get a lot of attention and are great, but I've also been really enjoying his standalone novels, like this and The Troupe.

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    Just started The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish. So far, it's difficult to put down.
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    Quote Originally Posted by VertOlive View Post
    The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester on the first compilation of the English Oxford Dictionary.

    Fascinating!
    I loved that one. In fact, I have read a few books by Winchester and liked them very much.
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    Quote Originally Posted by VertOlive View Post
    Just started The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish. So far, it's difficult to put down.
    Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by VertOlive View Post
    Just started The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish. So far, it's difficult to put down.
    Most memorable line from this book:

    "Never underestimate the passion of a lonely mind."
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    Hemingway's Guns: The Sporting Arms of Ernest Hemingway
    by Silvio Calabi, Steve Helsley, et al.

    Very good resource for those who enjoy Hemingway history and just sporting firearms in general.

    The only work of Hemingway's that I ever really enjoyed immensely is A Movable Feast. But that is just me.

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    Jeannette Ng - Under the Pendulum Sun

    The main character and her brother have the backgrounds of very fictionalised versions of Charlotte and Branwell Brontë (and you can tell that from the first page if you're familiar). Christian missionaries in Faerie/Arcadia trying to work out how it fits in, and on top of that most of the book is a gothic house mystery.

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    Just finished "The Threat" How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump.....By Andrew McCabe...

    In some places it went fast and was interesting and some places were a bit slow especially when he went into minute detail on some subjects. All in all, they do an admirable job except when the current president starts fu**ing around and sticks his nose in and should mind his own business.

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    I just finished two books: The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths (her "detective" is an expert in bones), and Akhenaten: Seeker of Truth by Naguib Mahfouz (the construction of this book is interesting with a young historian going around to all the people who knew Akhenaten and hearing their views about his rule, his religion, his relationships, etc.)
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    Adrian Tchaikovsky - The Expert System's Brother
    A bildungsroman. Also about society and survival on another planet, and technological vestiges.

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    M Train, by Patti Smith. There is some fp content (i think) : the author mentions her white Montblanc at several points in the book. I assume it was a fountain pen because she mentioned having bottles of ink around her place. Not sure what MBs are white.

    As for the rest of it, it reads like aging rocker meets WG Sebald -- which works better than you might think.

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    Becoming Dr. Seuss.

    Oh how it made my heart rejoice!

    The doctor's first publisher sued to publish James Joyce!
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