Reading Barbara Cleverly's first book, The Last Kashmira Rose, a great mystery set in India in the 1920's. First Commander Joe Sandilands book, great atmospheric book, first of a series.
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Reading Barbara Cleverly's first book, The Last Kashmira Rose, a great mystery set in India in the 1920's. First Commander Joe Sandilands book, great atmospheric book, first of a series.
Lady Onogaro (June 3rd, 2020)
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You're absolutely right and I'm enjoying it very much. I will feel quite bereft when I've finished all 4 of these books.Originally Posted by Deb
The writing style is a little different in The Hobbit, written with children in mind more than The Lord of the Rings. A great yarn. I'm sure you will enjoy it.I've just finished all three of The Lord of the Rings books. Next I'll read The Hobbit and I know it's out of order but I didn't have that book when I started The Fellowship of the Ring.
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VertOlive (June 3rd, 2020)
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Time to start over again!You're absolutely right and I'm enjoying it very much. I will feel quite bereft when I've finished all 4 of these books.The writing style is a little different in The Hobbit, written with children in mind more than The Lord of the Rings. A great yarn. I'm sure you will enjoy it.I've just finished all three of The Lord of the Rings books. Next I'll read The Hobbit and I know it's out of order but I didn't have that book when I started The Fellowship of the Ring.
Chrissy (June 3rd, 2020)
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Peace, a collection of the late photographer Jim Marshall's photos of the peace symbol. The book includes essays by artist Shephard Fairey, and an afterword by Joan Baez.
Bob
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I love this series!
Lady Onogaro
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Finishing up the book, Hedy's Folly : The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World. I have been a big fan of Hedy for a long time. Everyone in this forum owes something to Hedy as her hopping frequency invention is the basis for a lot of what we use each and every day. Wicked smart, beautiful and not a bad actress.
azkid (June 5th, 2020)
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Just started Scott Turow's The Last Trial.
Kindle County lawyer Sandy Stern takes on one last case.
On the table: the untethered soul - the journey beyond yourself, by Michael A. Singer. Hat tip to the late Dr. Wayne Dyer for mentioning this in his audiobook Divine Love.
Bob
Making the world a more peaceful place, one fine art print and one handwritten letter at a time.
“If ‘To hold a pen is to be at war’ as Voltaire said, Montblanc suggests you show up in full dress uniform, ready to go down like an officer and a gentleman among the Bic-wielding hordes.” - Chris Wright
Paper cuts through the noise – Richard Moross, MOO CEO
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Tara Westover: Educated. A life so different from my own that it would be beyond my understanding were it not so well written.
ThriveToScribe (June 19th, 2020)
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Sigh. So disappointed in the mini-series of Tana French’s Dublin Murder Club. But isn’t that always the way of it?
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Lady Onogaro (June 6th, 2020)
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Finished all 6 books in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series. Now on a stand-alone called The Witch Elm.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Lady Onogaro (June 18th, 2020)
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*Executioner: Pierrepoint* (Kindle version) - autobiography of Albert Pierrepoint, the man who became Britain's "Number One" hangman. His father and uncle were also in the trade, and the family's involvement as hangmen spanned a bit more than 50 years during the 20th century. As grisly a topic as this may seem, the book is very well written and quite fascinating.
One caveat - this Kindle edition contains literally 1000's of mispellngs: OCR gone badly awry. One egregious example - the word "the" appears more often than not as "die".
VertOlive (June 28th, 2020)
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Looking forward to hearing what you thought of it. I liked the Dublin Murder Squad series (those I have so far "read" --on audio) to that one.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
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Just finished Simone St. James's The Sun Down Motel. Murder mystery/ghost story. Not for everyone, but I enjoyed it.
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
VertOlive (June 19th, 2020)
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I’ve always been such a fan of hers! Long ago in school one of my classmates was names “Hedy” because her father REALLY liked Hedy Lamar. I didn’t know who she was until I was much older and thought she was very beautiful without any indication that she knew this was true! Fascinating person.
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David Brook's Second Mountain. John Bolton's book pre-ordered from Amazon.
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Opened The Little Friend by a favorite author Donna Tartt
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
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On to a non-fiction now: Pontius Pilate by Ann Wroe. A well-woven compilation of all scholars know of this fascinating figure.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Zhivago (June 28th, 2020)
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Kindle edition of *Where Away: A Modern Odyssey* (1944) by George Sessions Perry and Isabel Leighton. Very fine account of the travails of the light cruiser USS Marblehead and its crew, who were bombed by Japanese forces and almost sunk in one of the first Pacific naval battles of WWII. Over the course of several months, the crew were able to sail the severely damaged vessel to New York, via (among other stops) Ceylon, South Africa and Brazil - - a journey of about 16,000 miles.
BlkWhiteFilmPix (July 9th, 2020), VertOlive (June 30th, 2020)
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I just read this to my husband; he dashed away to hunt for it online. Thanks for the tip.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
BlkWhiteFilmPix (July 9th, 2020), Robert (June 29th, 2020)
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Thanks for the mention; just ordered it online.
Bob
Making the world a more peaceful place, one fine art print and one handwritten letter at a time.
“If ‘To hold a pen is to be at war’ as Voltaire said, Montblanc suggests you show up in full dress uniform, ready to go down like an officer and a gentleman among the Bic-wielding hordes.” - Chris Wright
Paper cuts through the noise – Richard Moross, MOO CEO
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