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A DC Smith Investigation, by Peter Grainger, a great British mystery series that happens to be on Kindle Unlimited and so is free if you subscribe.
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The day before I heard of John Prine's hospitalization I finished my second reading of "Facing the Music", Clay Eals' bio of Steve Goodman...before that "Spoon River Anthology" and "Chicago Poems"...
Thinking about getting a Mark Twain collection next...or maybe a Shel Silverstein collection |
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The stay at home mandate has me finally digging into the many stacks of books I've been wanting to read. Just recently finished:
Grace Like A River - Christopher Parkening The "Mr Mercedes" trilogy by Stephen King |
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Thanks for the reminder - I started that a while back and never finished!
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Just finishing Requiem for a Wren by Nevil Shute. It’s not his strongest novel, but almost anything by Shute is a worthwhile read.
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I typically read a lot of nonfiction and biographies, and the occasional "great book" or classic literature.
But a while back I got hooked on the "Irish Country Doctor" series by Patrick Taylor. I think of them as being the equivalent of romance novels, but for aging males Sometimes you need meat and potatoes, sometimes cotton candy!
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"Moonraker" got pretty cheesy, so I skimmed the last 30 pages.
Grant's personal memoirs next. |
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I got to hang around with Chris on the the tour behind this book.
I just finished: On the Record by Al Schmitt. An autobiography of a man wth a charmed life in recording Never Call Me A Hero by Jack Dusty Kleiss. The story of the only pilot in the Battle of Midway to score hits on three ships Reading: Their Finest Hour, volume two of the six-volume World War Two set by Winston Churchill The Birth of Loud by Ian S. Port The Point of It All by Charles Krauthammer The Wartime Journals by Charles A. Lindbergh. Still picking my way through Bob
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Stories by German author and Nobel prize winner Heinrich Boll.
Now that I have more time ,I can devote time to this high level literature . Next on my list "Wolf Willow" by Wallace Stegner. |
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'Trustee from the toolroom" is my favorite book by Shute.
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I'm reading the Sword of Honor trilogy by Evelyn Waugh, Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis, and The Day is Now Far Spent by Cardinal Sarah.
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What book are you on? |
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. I actually just finished this novel. It is exceptionally good. It's the kind of book where I would stop reading just to savor the words I'd just read. I'm in the middle of his first novel, Rules of Civility. This one is very good, but doesn't reach the heights of the former.
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I listened to “ celebrations for a grey day” earlier today so decided to reread positively 4th street by David Hajdu just finished reading “ where my heart used to beat” by Sebastian Faulks
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