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Yeah, I was a latecomer to this, having heard all the buzz about it and still not feeling compelled. But I've been in a reading frenzy of late, and something finally triggered my interest. This second book in the "Millennium" series, as it's called, happened to be sitting on the library bookshelf all by its lonesome, and since the waiting lists for these things are weeks and months long, I grabbed it. Raw it is, and maybe the plotline is a 6 or 7 out of 10, but the characterizations and just plain good writing bring it up to a 10/10.
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In 1982 I started reading Life After Life by Raymond Moody. I found it very interesting, but half way through it I moved from Pittsburgh to York, and the book was lost in the move.
I recently picked up a copy, and I've started it tonight. I'm looking forward to reading the whole thing now.
I recently picked up a copy, and I've started it tonight. I'm looking forward to reading the whole thing now.
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I've learned about a website readers here might find interesting called Goodreads.
It lets you create a database of the books you are reading, have read, and plan to read. If you are so inclined, you can befriend others with similar tastes and discuss books with them.
Here's my book list: http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4689852
It lets you create a database of the books you are reading, have read, and plan to read. If you are so inclined, you can befriend others with similar tastes and discuss books with them.
Here's my book list: http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4689852
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I'm glad you're enjoying it, Wendell. I started the book some time ago, but have put it aside, as I can't get into it. The first chapter left me cold and possibly poisoned the chalis for me. I haven't given up, however, and will delve into it again later this month. Meantime I've started Hugh Trevor-Roper's "The Last Days of Hitler"; a good read so far. Once I've finished that book I'm back to my childhood with Kipling's "Kim"; one of my all time favourite books.jww wrote:Just started A Journey: My Political Life. 6 chapters in -- and I am quite enjoying it.
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This week I read The Highly Effective Detective by Richard Yancey. It was very light with a lot of laughs.
I had never heard of it before a couple of months ago. The Mystery Guild and its sister book clubs are offering two Highly Effective Detective novels in one book as an anthology. I figured that the books were probably pretty good for them to do that, so I gave it a flyer. Glad I did.
I had never heard of it before a couple of months ago. The Mystery Guild and its sister book clubs are offering two Highly Effective Detective novels in one book as an anthology. I figured that the books were probably pretty good for them to do that, so I gave it a flyer. Glad I did.
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Halfway through Swann's Way, with the rest of the series to follow. I'm not finding Proust an attractive writer, but I am determined to finish them. Then I have a couple more novels from Balzac's Comedie Humaine. I'm saving the half dozen of Trollope's 47 novels that I haven't read and will ration them gradually to myself. Light relief is gazing at Jim Marshall's Trust - a book of rock and roll photographs taken in the late sixties. Imagine shooting Janis and Grace (Joplin and Slick, that is) together! Lucky dog.
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On deck:
52 Loaves, by William Alexander, the story of a man attempting to bake the perfect loaf of au levain. So far entertaining in a light and frothy kind of way.
The Right to the City, by Don Mitchell. The obverse of the above.
Just finished: Medium Raw, by Anthony Bourdain. Wonderfully snarky.
52 Loaves, by William Alexander, the story of a man attempting to bake the perfect loaf of au levain. So far entertaining in a light and frothy kind of way.
The Right to the City, by Don Mitchell. The obverse of the above.
Just finished: Medium Raw, by Anthony Bourdain. Wonderfully snarky.
Best,
Chris
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“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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