A Taste of Honey by H.F. Heard
The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle
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A Taste of Honey by H.F. Heard
The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
fountainpagan (April 18th, 2020)
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currently reading:
The Fifth Witness (Mickey Haller #4), Michael Connelly 2011
recently finished:
The Reversal (Mickey Haller #3), Michael Connelly 2010
The Brass Verdict (Mickey Haller #2), Michael Connelly 2008
The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller #1), Michael Connelly 2005
Michael Connelly's Jack McEvoy series,
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The Little Flowers of St. Francis
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The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
fountainpagan (April 18th, 2020)
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I just finished The Dwarf, by Pär Lagerkvist. A thoughtful and rather disturbing book about evil and (as I interpret it) its inability to understand good.
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
fountainpagan (April 18th, 2020)
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Just finished the Kingsley Amis book The Alteration. It was an interesting alternative universe.
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"The monk who sold his Ferrari" re-reading it again.
Great book!
I like to read this kind of literature it helps me grow as a person and improve myself. The book is brilliant, it reminds me how important to develop spiritually and how is the financial situation connected with the spiritual state. How are they interconnected and that separately don't work as well as together. Therefore, it's so important to keep a balance within yourself and strives not only for monetary wealth, but also for spiritual development, and then everything will be in abundance. I wrote a work on the topic of self-improvement and took this book as a basis, I also turned to this service for help https://edubirdie.com/annotated-bibl...riting-service I wanted to know the opinion of other people on this topic and can say that many people already think more globally and develop spiritually.
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BlkWhiteFilmPix (May 22nd, 2020)
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Just finished the first book in The American Experience: The Vineyard of Liberty by James MacGregor Burns. Starts at the end of The Revolutionary War as the republic is formed and goes partially into Lincoln's presidency and of course the Civil War. Quite a read and keep your dictionary handy. The last two books of the trilogy are The Workshop Of Democracy and The Crosswinds Of Freedom. If you want to get caught up on the history and making of The United States Of America this a great go to.
VertOlive (May 20th, 2020)
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Letters of Note, a compilation of remarkable letters written by the great and the ordinary, the good and the bad. From Elvis writing to the President offering advice, from a boy writing to Frank Lloyd Wright asking him to design a kennel, Annie Oakley offering her sharp shooting team to the President, from the Queen to her sister suggesting that she takes it easy, aletter if it can be called a letter, from an insane inmate who writes 'Come back to me' thousands of times on a page in a letter to her missing husband, an amazing letter written in the Ming Dynasty being from a man writing to his family telling them why he cannot go on.
A great book to dip into with the benefit, knowledge and the ability to judge from a different era.
https://lettersofnote.com/books/letters-of-note/
The website itself is quite interesting, take a look at the letterheads.
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BlkWhiteFilmPix (May 2nd, 2020)
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*The Burning Edge: Travels Through Irradiated Belarus* by Arthur Chichester (2018). An interesting, if somewhat rambling, account of the author's visit to areas of Belarus affected by the Chernobyl disaster. My paternal grandfather emigrated from Belarus to Texas in the 2nd decade of the 20th century, and I was curious to learn more about the land of his birth. Reading this book prompted me to purchase a couple of other titles that delve into the history of Belarus.
VertOlive (May 7th, 2020)
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Another book by Agatha Christie, one of my favourite aurhors. I guess she is one of the best detective writers ever.
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I agree. Christie is absolutely unparalleled as a mystery writer, in my reading experience.
I just finished Dark Horse (one of the Longmire books) by Craig Johnson.
I like the flavor of the American West imbued within. I was born and raised and lived my whole live in Arizona and Colorado. Small towns and lonely roads have a smallness and weathered fragility that contrasts with the massive skies and wide, open lands and the towering mountains.
These books bring back my visits to Tombstone, Silver City, Taos, Leadville, Chugwater, and so many other places. The main characters are interesting, the mysteries engaging and challenging. The stories have a tempo like the West too, slow, calm, occasionally punctuated by a whirlwind of exciting action.
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham. Great book about an accident that never should have happened.
VertOlive (May 20th, 2020)
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Currently: The Fifth Season, the first book in a Hugo Award winning Sci-Fi trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. Life and Culture on a world in which the single supercontinent undergoes catastrophic surface destruction every few hundred years.
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"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
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The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
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Just finished C.J. Box's Wolf Pack, last year's installment in his Joe Pickett series.
After completing my French final yesterday, I started C. J. Box's Long Range, the latest in the Joe Pickett series.
Ongoing: The Heart of the Photograph by David duChemin. #BooksNotGear
On the table: Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Steve Berry's Warsaw Protocol, the latest in his Cotton Malone series. One of the characters sports a Montblanc Edgar Allan Poe writer's edition pen in his shirt pocket.
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The Good Shepherd by CS Forester. This covers about 48 hours of a newly minted sea captain’s experience as he escorts a civilian fleet across the North Atlantic while being hunted by a wolf pack of German submarines. Told entirely from his point of view, it’s a fascinating character study, even more so than the battle action taking place.
Very interested to see how Tom Hanks portrays the captain in the upcoming movie called The Greyhound.
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"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
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I'm currently branching out to different genres to those I normally read. I'm half way through the Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers having finished the Fellowship of the Ring. I have bought the Return of the King and The Hobbit, so will be OK for a while.
I must admit I didn't think I would like that "old English" writing style but quickly got used to it. Some parts (songs, poems) I speed read through, but I'm surprised how much I'm enjoying reading these books.
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How to Be Both by Ali Smith. I so loved it!
A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn. Meh.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
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I read this last summer. I still don't know what to make of it. So different. Imaginative genius, for sure.Originally Posted by VertOlive
Have you read The Sparrow,by Mary Doria Russell. As imaginatively wild as Jemisin's book, but better (in my estimation). Not for the faint of heart, though (quite brutal at times).
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