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    The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy
    All written with a dip pen and ink.
    What a lovely book. I'm so pleased I bought it and would recommend it to everyone. I also added it to my best friends birthday present list. She loved it too.
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    The Furious Sky: The Five Hundred Year History of America’s Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin, a favorite natural history/history writer on my shelf.
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    Just finished Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust.... by Richard Reeves (of the Brookings Institution). Short, succinct, powerful.

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    Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer

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    See Delphi and Die by Lyndsey Davis.
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    I've just finished A Place of Execution by Val McDermid.
    The first time I've read a book by this author, and I only picked it up because it was a cheap offer on Amazon Kindle.
    It was a very good read for a bargain price.
    One I couldn't easily put down and go to sleep.
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    Quote Originally Posted by VertOlive View Post
    The Furious Sky: The Five Hundred Year History of America’s Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin, a favorite natural history/history writer on my shelf.
    I’ll have to look for this one, having grown up in a city which expects them annually and lived through one in the Sixties which has now been surpassed by Katrina—-New Orleans, LA.

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    Ongoing: A Paris Year, by Janice McLeod.

    A day-by-day reprise of some of her Paris letters. It includes photos of old postcards, as well as her wonderful watercolors of Paris.
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    I just finished Cochrane, the Real Master and Commander, by David Cordingly, a biography of Thomas Cochrane a British sea captain who distinguished himself in the Napoleonic wars, was dismissed from the navy due to a financial scandal, and then played a major role in the independence struggles of Chile, Peru and Brazil.

    The "real" master and commander reference is to Jack Aubrey, Patrick O'Brian's fictional captain, for whom Cochrane was an inspiration.

    I started reading this in April, absolutely could not get into it, and set it aside. Picked it up again three days ago, and went right through it. As always with historical books I was reminded of how much history I don't know. In this case, it was those South American wars of independence on which I drew the biggest blank, not uncommon for a North American, no doubt, but an area in which I'll have to do some more reading. Political reform in early 19th century Britain was a bit more familiar, but my knowledge was quite sketchy, and still is. Cochrane was involved in the radical politics of his time, and was a friend of William Cobbett, a name which I can't quite persuade myself I knew before.

    Anyway, not a great book, but I think it turned out to have been a worthwhile read.
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    Current read: Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light, by David Burke.

    Meanders through the neighborhoods of Paris, with fascinating trivia about the writers who lived in that neighborhood as well as how the neighborhoods got their names.
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    Thanks.

    It's now on the list of books to order.

    So many books, so little time.
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    Just in: Love Letters from Montmartre, by Nicolas Barreau.

    A widowed author living in Paris, who signed his book contract using the publisher's Montblanc pen, keeps a promise to his late wife.

    The author writes letters with a fountain pen.
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    The Politics of Truth, a Diplomat's Memoir, by the late Joseph Wilson.

    More than just the facts that surrounded the revealing of Valerie Plame's top-secret work. The book follows the start of his career with the State Department in Africa, providing glimpses of his time driving around Tennessee with Al Gore during the senator's first term, and an insider's observations about Bill Clinton
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    Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison.
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    I like John Grisham as an author so I just read The Chamber. It is a tough read due to it's subject matter but nevertheless I rated it as a good book. Almost back to Grisham's best writing days. It was a book that wasn't easy for me to put down at night and go to sleep.
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    Is anyone else having difficulty reading a book? I have a bunch -- more than a bunch -- that are all appealing to me, that I want to read, but when I pick up the book (or the Kindle, depending)... I can't. Maybe if I stopped checking the news....
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    Quote Originally Posted by ethernautrix View Post
    Is anyone else having difficulty reading a book? I have a bunch -- more than a bunch -- that are all appealing to me, that I want to read, but when I pick up the book (or the Kindle, depending)... I can't. Maybe if I stopped checking the news....
    I feel that. Having a hard time getting motivated in any hobby right now or even watching a movie.

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    The African Queen by CS Forester.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ethernautrix View Post
    Is anyone else having difficulty reading a book? I have a bunch -- more than a bunch -- that are all appealing to me, that I want to read, but when I pick up the book (or the Kindle, depending)... I can't. Maybe if I stopped checking the news....
    I've had that happening. I started getting some books as audiobooks, which I have enjoyed.

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