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"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
So I assume that you read the sequel, "Children of God"? I was speechless when I finished each of them. Hard to talk about, really. I teach literature, but some books effect me so profoundly that I can barely talk about them. These two are in that category.
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Lady Onogaro (May 21st, 2020)
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
TSherbs (May 21st, 2020)
Clancy: Red Storm Rising... starts out with a sophisticated Russian disinformation campaign, but that’s fictional, I’m sure.
VertOlive (May 24th, 2020)
"The Crucible" By Arthur Miller. The play describes a partially fictional version of the Salem witch trials during 1692-1693, however, it was also written as an allegory for the practice of making accusations of treason or subversion without proper supporting evidence. Such methods were frequently employed by the US government during the Cold War, especially by the infamous Committee on Un-American Activities, when they accused people of being communists and persecuted them.
VertOlive (May 24th, 2020)
Finished The Last Passenger, a mystery by Charles Finch.
Now starting Network Effect by Martha Wells (Murderbot series)
Lady Onogaro
"Be yourself--everybody else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde
Discovered Tana French’s series The Dublin Murder Squad and am hooked on the second book The Likeness. One of the most unusual premises for a crime novel I’ve ever seen.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Regards, Chrissy | My Review Blog: inkyfountainpens
VertOlive (May 25th, 2020)
Wuthering Heights.
I wanted something to read in the garden and just took a small and cheap edition from my office thinking that I would only read 10 pages and then put it back. Loved the book as much for the complex use of mid Victorian English as the storyline.
Embarassed to say that I havent read the book in 50 years.
Just finished The Pathfinder. Cooper's flowery "romantic" style of language is tough to plow through.*
No-No Boy by John Okada
Fred
But the Emperor has nothing on at all! cried a little child.....
The Emperor's New Clothes
Hans Christian Andersen 1805-1875
Always reminds me of Mark Twain's on Cooper's books, "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses". https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/proje...o/offense.html
Just finished Redemption by David Baldacci. This is a mystery/thriller in a series about a detective with perfect memory.
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Delia Owens: Where the Crawdads Sing. A good story well told.
VertOlive (May 31st, 2020)
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.
Regards, Chrissy | My Review Blog: inkyfountainpens
VertOlive (May 31st, 2020)
Chrissy (May 31st, 2020)
On a Tana French streak now. In the Woods. Now I can watch the series.
"Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine
Lady Onogaro (June 3rd, 2020)
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