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Old 07-22-2021, 01:51 PM
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A little anthropology refresher for me:

Great book, all the latest info on our closest hominid cousins. She strikes a nice balance between science and narrative.
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Fantastic book!
It made my top five list a few years back.
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Currently reading All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren.
You won’t regret this.
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In my quest to read all the classics that I missed in my youth, I have now landed on Melville's Moby Dick. I am enjoying it a lot more than I expected and truly appreciate his descriptive genius.
Got to be one of the best books on whaling ever written. I had it on my list for my doctoral exam and remember the joy of rereading it.
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Read “all the light we cannot see” a couple of months ago
. Currently reading “Last night I dreamed of peace-the diary of Dang Thuy Tram” . A young female Doctors account of her war service in Vietnam in 1968-1969, unfortunately she was killed in 1970.
After that I’ll start “the amateur marriage “ by Anne Tyler.

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Fascinating tale of real life obsession. Including the famous buying duel between Nic Cage and Leonardo DiCaprio for a T-rex skull.
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I'm usually reading 2-3 books at a time, alternating between them. My latest add Is Scotty Moore's That's Alright Elvis.
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Just finished Carrie Brownstein's Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl - her memoir about her Sleater-Kinney years. It was OK, like most "rock bio" books it eventually slides into that repetitive "we made an album and then we did a tour" thing. Not much new there if you've already read other books like this. I did learn one thing: Carrie's definitely not a Pet Person!
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I was mildly tempted to read this because I'm a sucker for all the Olympia stories, but your review is what I expected and doesn't really make me want to pick it up. I was a huge S-K fan during their first 4 albums or so, but really haven't been into their last two or three albums, and haven't been a fan at all of Brownstein's non-music work, including "Portlandia".
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Now that you mention it — during the pandemic I collected ( all hardcover) and read the complete works of Jack London. I wasn’t a strong reader in my younger days so, now I’m making up for it at 68 and reading the classics. Working on Moby Dick now . Read Asimov, R.L. Stevenson, Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, etc. I’ve read more books this last year than my entire life. Yikes.
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I'm waiting for the UPS man to bring me Daniel Silva's newest, "The Cellist." Should be here any minute.

I'll start it as soon as I finish Leon Uris's final book, "O'Hara's Choice." He died just as he finished that one. Pretty good.
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I'm reading some of Adam Gross light novels.

Just finished "15 seconds"-very good except the the ending was a bit disappointing.

He writes well, with good characterizations and plots.

Susan Sloan is the tops with this genre IMO
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Now that you mention it — during the pandemic I collected ( all hardcover) and read the complete works of Jack London. I wasn’t a strong reader in my younger days so, now I’m making up for it at 68 and reading the classics. Working on Moby Dick now . Read Asimov, R.L. Stevenson, Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, etc. I’ve read more books this last year than my entire life. Yikes.
For the "avant garde" try books by Gunther Grass ("the Tin Drum" is his best) and author Heinrich Boll.
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Currently reading All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren.
Outstanding-it is very appropriate today!
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So apparently there's a law that requires every non-fiction book published in the 21st century to use the exact same title formula:


[PHRASE THAT MAKES NO SENSE ON ITS OWN]

[number] [noun], [number] [noun], and
the [struggle to/event that] [shaped/caused/changed/saved, etc.] [something important] forever*

*the "forever" is optional, but preferred.
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